It was posted in the world news community yesterday. Here’s the mirror from that post: https://archive.is/c4JHd

Yes, and it’s the sort of mumbo jumbo that got 150 schoolgirls killed. Don’t get me wrong, normally I’m all for freedom of religion, but if the US ever looks funny at your country, YOU HAVE TO DROP EVERYTHING ELSE AND GET THE NUKE. Sadly, it’s the only language they understand.

With actual medicines, or horse dewormer?

You know, the communist nations, whatever their faults, have moved more people out of poverty than the rest of the world combined, helped many colonies achieve independence, and sent the first man and woman to space.

Whereas anarchist nations have- oh wait they don’t even exist.

Maybe they should have read them books.

Lemmy is older than the Reddit exodus, and historically had stricter moderation. When the exodus happened, the OG lemmy users saw the newcomers as rude at best, and various forms of bigots at worst. So ‘go back to Reddit’ is short-hand for ‘such talk is not welcome here’.

you know like a few weeks ago the iranian regime killed upwards of 30,000 people?

Isn’t this something CIA / Mossad made up to justify attacking Iran? It hasn’t been independently verified as far as I know.

Verified deaths are about a thousand ‘protestors’, and about two thousand police and civilians.

Motorola is notorious for not providing updates. Which is sad, because their phones have decent hardware, almost-vanilla Android and allow bootloader unlocking.

Also many models still have headphone port and expandeable storage.

It doesn’t matter how private and secure the messaging app is if the OS / keyboard / some random Google slopware with notifications access / physical device is compromised.

But for 99% of people, Signal, Telegram or even WhatsApp is good enough.

‘Allahu Akbar’ means ‘God is great’. It has nothing to do with battle.

The real problem with socialism is that it offends the CIA, and bad things happen to people who offend the CIA.

The United States is a strange country. Murder, terrorism and genocide are perfectly normal, but someone who is disgusted by these and refuses to play along is somehow considered weird.

This is so stupid. Of all the possible options, why are we buying the one that we know won’t work against Pakistan? Entire contract should have been cancelled.

Iraq Iran has WMDs anti-ship missiles.

Good. Now make it replaceable.

I believe countries in neither red nor green also have 3G. For example, India, where I live, still has 3G (and 2G). By the way, vehicles here don’t get SIM cards as far as I know.

Ah, that makes sense.

the number of publications the primary evaluation criterion

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Sadly, such measures, though far from perfect, are the best criteria we have for now, unless we want to go back to ‘connections’ and ‘recommendations’.

However, the rest of this opinion piece is missing the point. China is now the frontrunner in most fields of research, not only in quantity but also in quality. This is due to a combination of high and consistent funding in education and research, and having a long-term vision and detailed policy to execute it. Whether Zhengzhou or Oxford University is ranked higher today is irrelevant, because Zhengzhou, merely by virtue of being in China, will get the best educated students in the world in the decades to come.

The fierce, unhealthy competition the article observes is a result of having too many candidates, and cannot be fixed by changing the criterion of evaluation. No amount of corruption crackdowns can solve this supply-demand mismatch. The only solution is to create more positions in research institutions and higher education, but this will take time.

Some sections are pure drivel. Take this:-

Chinese researchers, moreover, have seen the share of American co-authors in their international collaborations plummet from nearly 50% in 2018 to less than 30% in 2023 – a trend that worries Nature, which describes this as “bad news for everyone.”

It takes one minute of thought to figure out why this is happening. Why are journalists so stupid?

Do 1 get 1 free?

absolutely perfect choice for the movie it’s in.

I’m aware of the meaning, but I actually found it strange that they put a song about cheating in a film aimed at children.

I think it’s less ‘fix’ and more ‘make irrelevant’.

In a society that doesn’t care too much about gender, crossdressing stops being anything of note.

Similarly, if you think about a cyberpunk society through a Marxist lens (or use a bit of common sense), you quickly see the flaw in the premise.

Several Japanese songs, such as Summer of Goodbye, Message in Rouge and Contrails

Garland of a Hundred Flowers - My neighbours’ national anthem can’t be this cute! (Nepali)

Halls of Hueyteotl and Baba Yetu (both Swahili, both from video games)