NIH scholar Wang Leyao returns to China following U.S. research funding cuts
NIH scholar Wang Leyao returns to China following U.S. research funding cuts
Epidemiologist and human microbiome scientist Wang Leyao has returned to China, joining the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation (Smart) as a senior research fellow at the Institute of Human Immunology.Dimsumdaily Hong Kong (Dimsum Daily)
Germany blocks EU push to sanction 'Israel' over war on Gaza
Germany has moved to block a European Commission proposal that would have suspended "Israel's" access to certain EU research funds, underscoring deep divisions within the bloc over how to respond to the war on Gaza.
The Commission's plan centered on Horizon Europe, the EU's flagship research program. Brussels sought to exclude "Israel" from startup-oriented funding streams tied to drones, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, technologies that could bolster military capabilities.
The proposal was designed as leverage to pressure Tel Aviv into easing restrictions on humanitarian aid deliveries.
Germany blocks EU push to sanction 'Israel' over war on Gaza
Germany has blocked an EU proposal to suspend "Israel's" access to Horizon Europe funding, exposing sharp divisions within the bloc as humanitarian concerns in Gaza mount and countries like France, the UK, and Canada prepare to recognize Palestinian …Al Mayadeen English (Germany blocks EU push to sanction 'Israel' over war on Gaza)
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lemmy.ml was the first Lemmy instance, and c/memes was the 14th community created here:
$ curl -s https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/community?name=memes \
| jq -r '.community_view.community.id'
14
$
Lemmy - ProleWiki
Lemmy is a self-hosted, federated, free and open source social link aggregation and discussion platform. It was named after the lead singer from Motörhead, the old...ProleWiki
What is lemmy.ml?
Recently there seems to be some of misunderstanding what the lemmy.ml instance is about, especially from newer users.Lemmy.ml has always been a niche site, and it will most likely stay this way. We don't have any intentions to turn it into a mainstream instance, or set a goal of getting as many users as possible. Our goal is simple: make an instance that people like to use. I would say that we have been successful in this, but obviously it is impossible to satisfy everyone.
The reason for this is that @[url=https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] and I are paid to develop Lemmy, while donations from lemmy.ml users only make up a negligible part of our income. Besides, having more users would force us to spend more time moderating, and less time for development. Lemmy works quite differently from big tech sites like Reddit in this regard: while they get more money with each extra user through advertising, for us it is the opposite. So we would much rather have a smaller, non-toxic, and friendly userbase, than a large one.
Part of the problem might be that lemmy.ml is described as "flagship instance", which can certainly be interpreted to mean "mainstream" or "general purpose". I struggle to come up with a better, more accurate description. If you can think of one, please comment here.
If you dont like the way lemmy.ml works, thats okay. Federation exists exactly to solve that problem, let different groups have their own instances, with their own rules and political views. You can see the list of existing instances, and instructions for setting up a new one on join-lemmy.org.
In particular, I would like to see someone (or a group of people) create a mainstream, or liberal instance. That should help to avoid further drama, and avoid attempts to turn lemmy.ml into something that it is not. @[url=https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] and I would certainly be willing to help with any technical problems that such an instance runs into, and include it on join-lemmy.org (just like any other instance that meets the code of conduct).
U.S. suspends visas for Palestinian passport holders, officials say.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35497898
August 31, 2025 ~4:20pm
The Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to American officials.The new policy goes beyond the restrictions announced by U.S. officials recently on visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza. Last week, the State Department also said it would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York next month.
U.S. suspends visas for Palestinian passport holders, officials say.
August 31, 2025 ~4:20pmThe Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to American officials.The new policy goes beyond the restrictions announced by U.S. officials recently on visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza. Last week, the State Department also said it would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York next month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/world/middleeast/us-palestinian-visa-suspensions.html
U.S. suspends visas for Palestinian passport holders, officials say.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35497898
August 31, 2025 ~4:20pm
The Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to American officials.The new policy goes beyond the restrictions announced by U.S. officials recently on visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza. Last week, the State Department also said it would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York next month.
U.S. suspends visas for Palestinian passport holders, officials say.
August 31, 2025 ~4:20pmThe Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to American officials.The new policy goes beyond the restrictions announced by U.S. officials recently on visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza. Last week, the State Department also said it would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York next month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/world/middleeast/us-palestinian-visa-suspensions.html
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
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Opinion - Guest Essay
Aug. 30, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign.Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, over and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again. That’s a great slogan. I agree with it. The problem is that since coming into office President Trump and Mr. Kennedy have done exactly the opposite.
Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Must Resign
Opinion - Guest Essay
Aug. 30, 2025Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign.Mr. Kennedy and the rest of the Trump administration tell us, over and over, that they want to Make America Healthy Again. That’s a great slogan. I agree with it. The problem is that since coming into office President Trump and Mr. Kennedy have done exactly the opposite.
Company behind Jack Daniel's says boycott is 'significant' as sales to Canada fall 62%
The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to Canada dropped 62 per cent during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ago, as American alcohol remains off the shelves in many provinces.
After U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian goods in early March, a number of provinces retaliated, pulling American alcohol from store shelves. Alberta and Saskatchewan have since lifted the ban.
During a conference call with investors Thursday, officials with Brown-Forman — the parent company of brands such as Jack Daniel's and Woodford Reserve — noted other pressures, but said the boycott is causing a "significant impact."
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Company behind Jack Daniel's says boycott is 'significant' as sales to Canada fall 62%
The parent company of American alcohol producers such as Jack Daniel's whisky and Woodford Reserve bourbon says sales to Canada dropped 62 per cent during the latest fiscal quarter compared to a year ago, as American alcohol remains off the shelves in many provinces.
After U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian goods in early March, a number of provinces retaliated, pulling American alcohol from store shelves. Alberta and Saskatchewan have since lifted the ban.
During a conference call with investors Thursday, officials with Brown-Forman — the parent company of brands such as Jack Daniel's and Woodford Reserve — noted other pressures, but said the boycott is causing a "significant impact."
'Starvation is everywhere': Virtual tours of Gaza clinics expose the scale of the horror
We held a virtual encounter with Al-Farra and his patients this past Monday via a video call. In the past few weeks, we've sought to document what starvation looks like in Gaza, to witness the gravity of the situation with our own eyes. Israel doesn't allow journalists into the Strip, but via video we've been able to conduct real-time, online tours of hospitals and clinics.
For this article we conducted four such tours, in different places, and conducted separate conversations with another 12 doctors, 10 of them volunteers from the United States and Britain, who are currently in the Gaza Strip or were there recently. What we saw there left no room for doubt about the scale of the horror.
'Starvation is everywhere': Virtual tours of Gaza clinics expose the scale of the horror
In recent weeks we spoke by video with doctors around the Gaza Strip. Through virtual tours of medical facilities, we sought to document the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition.Yarden Michaeli (Haaretz)
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Imagine how this whole thing eventually becomes history. 30 years into the future all current elder leaders of the US are pretty much dead or nearing death. All named I'm history books as asshole Nazis resulting in worse death counts than the original Holocaust. I'm pointing this out because I just gotta try. Literally I could be murdered to shut me up but the result won't change. What's done is done. Orange turd is going to get whatever the opposite of a world peace price is.
The only effect is ruining all our futures. Another bump in the road. No one ever remembers kings or Queens. Anyone remember what tlalalook or ketzahuatlmok price of the great Aztec whatever? Nah. No names. But 100 years from now there won't be a single descendant of the current leadership due to natural selection. Women just don't want to have sex with asshole racists. All their racism will have been for nothing. Everyone knows that the world's population will be older and decreasing and we'll just be more diversity in actual births.
It would be nice if they all ate a peanut and choked but there's no god doing anything about this. So it won't happen. Its more likely that they come out as full nazi and televise our visit to the incinerators. We non pure racists will be burnt alive in American concentration camps. That's our depressive future. But what comes next after liberation is a new wave of human freedom. For now I'm just going to try to enjoy my remaining freedoms until the day I get to scratch my name on the incinerator wall.
'Starvation is everywhere': Virtual tours of Gaza clinics expose the scale of the horror
We held a virtual encounter with Al-Farra and his patients this past Monday via a video call. In the past few weeks, we've sought to document what starvation looks like in Gaza, to witness the gravity of the situation with our own eyes. Israel doesn't allow journalists into the Strip, but via video we've been able to conduct real-time, online tours of hospitals and clinics.
For this article we conducted four such tours, in different places, and conducted separate conversations with another 12 doctors, 10 of them volunteers from the United States and Britain, who are currently in the Gaza Strip or were there recently. What we saw there left no room for doubt about the scale of the horror.
'Starvation is everywhere': Virtual tours of Gaza clinics expose the scale of the horror
In recent weeks we spoke by video with doctors around the Gaza Strip. Through virtual tours of medical facilities, we sought to document the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition.Yarden Michaeli (Haaretz)
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This article is ANTI SEMETIC! It's JEWISH CULTURE to Starve Children to Death and ANYBODY Against it is AGAINST JEWS!
-World Governments Apparently!
Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines
A top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself that were published by a physician and writer who has been critical of medical misinformation and public health officials in the Trump administration, according to a YouTube notice that was seen by the Guardian.
Jonathan Howard, a neurologist and psychiatrist in New York City, received an email from YouTube on Friday night, which stated that Vinay Prasad, who is the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, had demanded the removal of six videos of himself from Howard’s YouTube channel.
Howard’s entire channel has now been deleted by YouTube, which cited copyright infringement.
Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines
Channel was an attempt to ‘preserve’ what Trump officials in current Trump administration said during the pandemicStephanie Kirchgaessner (The Guardian)
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35494320
President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.By Mujib MashalTyler Pager and Anupreeta Das
Mujib Mashal and Anupreeta Das reported from New Delhi, and Tyler Pager from Washington.
Aug. 30, 2025
During a phone call on June 17, Mr. Trump brought it up again, saying how proud he was of ending the military escalation. He mentioned that Pakistan was going to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor for which he had been openly campaigning. The not-so-subtle implication, according to people familiar with the call, was that Mr. Modi should do the same.The Indian leader bristled. He told Mr. Trump that U.S. involvement had nothing to do with the recent cease-fire. It had been settled directly between India and Pakistan.
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled
President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.By Mujib MashalTyler Pager and Anupreeta Das
Mujib Mashal and Anupreeta Das reported from New Delhi, and Tyler Pager from Washington.
Aug. 30, 2025During a phone call on June 17, Mr. Trump brought it up again, saying how proud he was of ending the military escalation. He mentioned that Pakistan was going to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor for which he had been openly campaigning. The not-so-subtle implication, according to people familiar with the call, was that Mr. Modi should do the same.The Indian leader bristled. He told Mr. Trump that U.S. involvement had nothing to do with the recent cease-fire. It had been settled directly between India and Pakistan.
Trump 🤝 Putin
Turning yesterday's friends into today's rivals.
Pooty now has soured previously cordial relations with Azerbaijan like that, and Armenia began to distance itself from Russia too.
Orange has that with... well... almost everyone.
Orange has that with… well… almost everyone.
That's why he was put into power, because everything Trump touches turns to shit.
The Nobel Prize and a Testy Phone Call: How the Trump-Modi Relationship Unraveled
President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.
By Mujib MashalTyler Pager and Anupreeta Das
Mujib Mashal and Anupreeta Das reported from New Delhi, and Tyler Pager from Washington.
Aug. 30, 2025
During a phone call on June 17, Mr. Trump brought it up again, saying how proud he was of ending the military escalation. He mentioned that Pakistan was going to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor for which he had been openly campaigning. The not-so-subtle implication, according to people familiar with the call, was that Mr. Modi should do the same.The Indian leader bristled. He told Mr. Trump that U.S. involvement had nothing to do with the recent cease-fire. It had been settled directly between India and Pakistan.
US poll finds 60 percent of Gen Z voters back Hamas over Israel in Gaza war
A new survey has revealed a sharp generational split in United States attitudes towards Israel’s war on Gaza, with younger voters showing unprecedented support for Hamas as Israel carries out a genocide.
The poll, conducted by The Harris Poll and HarrisX between 20 and 21 August among 2,025 registered voters, asked respondents: “In the Israel-Hamas conflict, do you support more Israel or more Hamas?”
Sixty percent of voters aged 18–24 expressed greater support for Hamas, in stark contrast to older demographics, where backing for Israel rose steadily: 65 percent among ages 25–34, 70 percent among ages 35–44, 74 percent among ages 45–54, 84 percent among those aged 55–64, and 89 percent of voters over 65.
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But why do you continue to support Hamas? Isn't violence bad?
Parliamentary question | Persecution of homosexuals in the Palestinian autonomous areas | E-1346/2003 | European Parliament
Question for written answer E-1346/03 by Ilka Schröder to the Councilwww.europarl.europa.eu
US poll finds 60 percent of Gen Z voters back Hamas over Israel in Gaza war
A new survey has revealed a sharp generational split in United States attitudes towards Israel’s war on Gaza, with younger voters showing unprecedented support for Hamas as Israel carries out a genocide.
The poll, conducted by The Harris Poll and HarrisX between 20 and 21 August among 2,025 registered voters, asked respondents: “In the Israel-Hamas conflict, do you support more Israel or more Hamas?”
Sixty percent of voters aged 18–24 expressed greater support for Hamas, in stark contrast to older demographics, where backing for Israel rose steadily: 65 percent among ages 25–34, 70 percent among ages 35–44, 74 percent among ages 45–54, 84 percent among those aged 55–64, and 89 percent of voters over 65.
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Voting for Team BLU or Team RED will not save you (and your fortress, too)
Parliamentarism/electoralism will not save you, it only serves to extend the misery on the Global South. I hope this meme is palatable enough to show you why.
May the Global South be liberated from the US empire and Western Imperialism.
sidenote: took me a fucking while to color-correct Heavy's shirt and banner, if looks too pink for you, you can blame it on my skill issue. lol.
FreeBSD offers a 32 bit variant still via their i386 image.
Expect a small learning curve if you've never used UNIX, but most things are similar enough that you'll be fine. If you're ok picking up the FreeBSD handbook.
Let's be honest.... GrapheneOS sucks the big one
I'm sorry but it's true. Graphene OS sucks the big one.... It's absolutely janky when it comes to its Android app support, it's UI is absolutely atrocious, and all around. It's simply a wonky operating system.
Not only that but the whole premise of of making an operating system built only for Google pixel hardware on top of Android Open source project is just silly when it comes to the idea of "privacy". That would be like trying to open up a gay nightclub in Qatar. Google could snap its fingers tomorrow and lock down the ability to unlock bootloaders.
What do you think? Am I wrong here guys?
The UI is just AOSP android, simple and ugly (imo) as always. It's not unique in that either, most OEMs have a skin based on AOSP in some way.
As for the app support, I have had very little issues over the past year on GrapheneOS. Aside from some apps being exclusive to the play store (ie they don't host them elsewhere and Aurora doesn't have a copy), I have a pretty seamless experience. And yes, including banking apps.
Tap to pay doesn't work (they're upfront about that) but NFC is still fully features in my experience.
Linux Tablet?
Hi Linux nerds,
I've started up classes recently, and with being a recent convert and all, was a little curious to hear if anyone had any recommendations for a tablet capable of handling the workload of a student and that runs linux. I'm a bit of a neophyte when it comes to hardware (especially tablets, I've never had one in my life), though I've got enough experience to run Fedora on my PC.
My needs are pretty simple, I just need to be able to run libreoffice and take notes on the machine during lectures. Any insights as to where I should be looking?
while it's a bit more than a tablet, I scooped up a gen 3 yoga x1 thinkpad off ebay for somewhere around $300 USD. i'm running bluefin on it and it works great for most of my general computing tasks. the screen folds back into a tablet mode and the keys recess when it does. that functionality "just works" on a fresh bluefin install for me.
the stylus that sits inside the body of the laptop doesn't function and i suspect that it is a (non-replaceable) battery issue. i bought a larger lenovo stylus for the device after some research and it works great (plus i can replace the battery). it's a CCAI21LP1520T4 model. i think it was about $35 USD.
the only downside is it's a bit heavier than a tablet and it can get kind of warm over time but i'm doing development on it and have several docker containers running for that purpose. that might be a me problem.
i like that it has a headphone jack and an sd card slot. there's also a sim card slot but i doubt that's usable with linux.
Similar expierience, got an Inspiron x360 for $150 - works great and its capable of doing so much more than a usual tablet since I have the same Debian Stable install as on my Desktop and work Laptop.
And everything worked out of the box, which kinda baffled me to be honest.
What you're looking for is PostmarketOS. On their website you can also see what tablet devices it runs on more or less perfectly and on which ones some of the features are missing.
I think their website answers all of your questions.
postmarketOS // real Linux distribution for phones
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
Proud Boys members call for Pam Bondi's resignation for seeking to dismiss their $100 million lawsuit
Proud Boys members call for Pam Bondi's resignation for seeking to dismiss their $100 million lawsuit
The far-right Proud Boys are calling for Pam Bondi's resignation, after the Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss their lawsuit.Scott MacFarlane (CBS News)
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It's not the Wunderwaffe anymore: in Kiev, they complain that the F-16 is "too old" for Russian "dryers"
It's not the Wunderwaffe anymore: in Kiev, they complain that the F-16 is "too old" for Russian "dryers"
It's not the Wunderwaffe anymore: in Kiev, they complain that the F-16 is "too old" for Russian "dryers". The American F-16 fighters, promoted by Ukrainian propaganda, turned out to be too outdated to seriously resist...Pravda USA
Libs are so fucking funny. Y'all every bit as delusional as QAnon crackpots who think everyone in government is a Jewish lizard communist, except y'all think everyone who provides evidence against the current narrative or just doesn't uncritically swallow the State Department line is being paid by China or Russia.
Get a grip fr.
Exactly. Even if someone were to post a thousand "pro-Russian" articles (aka articles not blindly parroting western propaganda narratives) a month, it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the firehose volume of propaganda that western and western-aligned (& funded) outlets put out every day. If people are genuine and honest about wanting a "fair and balanced" coverage of the news, then we still have a very long way to go until we can balance the scales against the enormous and ubiquitous western propaganda machine.
But the West is too scared to even allow one single channel that challenges their narrative, hence why they banned RT. It was not enough for them that they had a hundred channels all parroting the western line and Russia had only one. Just that small amount of coverage of the other side's point of view was considered an existential threat by the ruling class. Not one dissenting voice can be tolerated. They must immediately be demonized.
Also there are a hundred subs on Reddit that all exclusively allow only anti-Russia content. If that is the kind of platform some people prefer, they can go there. What is so threatening about one poster on a news com of such an obscure platform like Lemmy posting content that contradicts the hegemonic narrative? Maybe, if you are so afraid that one single voice might be more convincing than a hundred voices saying the opposite, then perhaps that's because that one voice is telling the truth and the others are all lying...
NATO Should Have Dissolved in 1990 - Jeffrey Sachs
NATO Should Have Dissolved in 1990 - Sachs
NATO should have been dissolved back in 1990 as the alliance had fulfilled its mission of confronting the Soviet Union, renowned US economist and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs said.Sputnik International
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US Push to Split Russia, India and China Backfires — Driving Them Closer
US Push to Split Russia, India and China Backfires — Driving Them Closer
The Global South could benefit from cooperation between Russia, India and China, China Forum expert and economics Professor John Gong from the University of International Business and Economics tells Sputnik.Sputnik International
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~~While many European countries were heavily into colonizing, I don't think the Nordic countries were that excessive into the practice. At least, not to have an empire to extract resources like Britain, France, Spain, etc did.~~
It would appear I was wrong on this take.
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It's less obvious but can see how the Nordic countries fall in line with imperialist structures. I'll expound a bit but it is not in any way in disagreement.
The nordic countries lend weight to unequal IP restrictions and dollarization and the IMF, they never do anything material against imperialist wars (they actually want a piece of the pie by providing arms), and now that they are accepting their role as NATO pawns they are increasing their military budgets, cutting the welfare state, and allowing their fascistic political foemations to thrive while suppressing the left. They all openly tolerate "Israeli" genocidal fascism and even carry water for their project against domestic dissidents. Nordic countries are deeply embedded in global capital monopoly, the engine of imperialism, whether it is Norway as a petrostate or shipping logistics like in Sweden and Denmark. And they do not do this reluctantly and with policy against imperialist aims. Internally, they are fanning the flames against POC immigrants as the big scapegoat for why their lives are materially deteriorating - not their own state's willing deindustrialization or cuts to services.
To put it simply, they are liberals. They briefly were the selective snapshot of "successful" liberalism if you didn't peek behind the curtain of global exploitation (who grew that "luxurious" pineapple and what were they paid!?). The global financial system propped up states in their region as a means by which to oppose communists, as if communists were there to steal your children or do the genocides that imperialists constantly engaged in. That system is no longer intentionally doing this, it is neoliberal and there is no communist current in Europe. We now watch it decay into the hallmarks of fascism. The empire is pulling back its subsidies, reversing them, and all of "Europe" is collaborating for how to react to this in the worst possible way.
Julan Du and Chenggang Xu analyzed the Chinese model in a 2005 paper to assess whether it represents a type of market socialism or capitalism. They concluded that China's contemporary economic system represents a form of capitalism rather than market socialism because: (1) financial markets exist which permit private share ownership—a feature absent in the economic literature on market socialism; and (2) state profits are retained by enterprises rather than being distributed among the population in a social dividend or similar scheme, which are central features in most models of market socialism. Du and Xu concluded that China is not a market socialist economy, but an unstable form of capitalism.
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Great, plenty of other economists have concluded the opposite. Here are a few books you can read to educate yourself.
The East is Still Red – Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
China provides a powerful example of what socialism can achieve. Not only is the Communist Party of China committed to Marxism, but it is a leading force for the development of Marxism.PRAXIS PRESS
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There’s four stages, they’ve been in the first for seventy-six years.
Doing the math it seems they’ll need another two hundred and twenty-six years to reach the final stage if they got to the second stage tomorrow.
I’m not sure if I have impossibly high standards or thinking it’s reasonable to wait another nearly quarter of a millennium might be incredibly low standards.
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Why on Earth would you imagine each stage lasts a specific number of years? Why on Earth do you think thr timer should only start at the founding of the PRC? Why on Earth are you framing it as every stage up until communism is a sacrifice as compared to capitalism, and not as a system gradually and rapidly improving further and further?
This is incredibly incoherent on your part, and thoroughly liberal.
Should I base it on the founding of the CCP in 1921 instead?
That’s a hundred and four years ago so the math would be closer to three hundred and twelve for the final stage.
China was a largely feudal county working its way out of brutal colonial exploitation - for which the exploiters have never paid reparations and still held on to Hong Kong for decades.
How long does it take to build productive forces and modernize while still subject to unequal exchange and general imperialism? That is a social and political question, so you tell me about where China was and what its path has been. How many other imoerialized countries jave eliminated absolute poverty, by the way? Not just taking decades to do it, but accomplish it at all.
Blah blah blah [points to China] “is this Ronald Reagan? “
Cite whatever paper you like this is dumbest take possible…
"Two Chinese said it. What, that isn't enough for you tankies!?"
- A definitely-not-racist liberal.
No, you are arrogant and this leads you to false confidence that you can correct people who know more than you by hastily googling, "studies that say China is capitalist" and quoting the first result, patting yourself on the back, and thinking, "you did well, kid".
Get your racist shit out of here.
Lemmy.world tolerates racism, same as what it wants to be, Reddit. And likely so does the society you live in.
Like I said, sort yourself out.
You didn't lay out any facts. Did you forget what I'm criticizing you for already?
I don't hear any sorting! Just whining to justify yourself. Get to it!
I’m just trying to understand your point.
Should I be insulting you by calling you an illiterate racist instead?
I already explained and you avoided it and started doing this pitiful little song and dance. Maybe you can pay someone to take you seriously, because I don't think anyone is going to do it for free.
Goodbye, chump
If I made a comment like this directed to you I would definitely get a rule one removal.
But I wouldn’t do that because I think it’s rude anyways.
Wikipedia has a list of Chinese billionaires. Software Developer salaries in China are similar to salaries in the west. Laborers appear to make far less than owners. I do not know why an individual needs billions. Seems to violate, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs".
Maybe the billionaires do not own the capital their laborers use. Maybe the relationship between Chinese billionaire and worker is not exploitative as per the meme. Do the workers control their labor?
China Has Billionaires
US Presidents historically reach their highest approval ratings due to war. George W. Bush reached an all-time-high of 90% in 2001 as the wrathful nation geared up to invade Afghanistan, and his father George H. W.redsails.org
as i mentioned, china is a transitioning socialist economy. this is important to understanding it. here:
currently, a minority of chinese companies are private, and have been declining. they represent a very small minority of total revenue. a capitalist country will never be capable of distributing such enterprises to local jurisdictions like china is, or even almost eradicating poverty over these last few decades.
they are still using free markets for a minority of their economy, which does concentrate wealth. they are not numerous in relation to the size of their economy (or per capita), and some of the examples made of them when they step out of line really puts things into perspective.
Developer salaries in China are similar to salaries in the west
so... kinda high? i wish i was getting paid as much as a western dev, with the comparatively lower cost of living of a country like china. or mine.
The End of NATO and Zelensky's puppet regime?
The End of NATO and Zelensky's puppet regime?
The Putin-Trump Summit at Alaska, US, in August 2025 was a landmark event that will redefine the global security architecture, especially in Europe.Саймон Вествуд (New Eastern Outlook)
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I Miss Obama clearly stating that Russia is a regional threat who can only be dangerous for neighbours, it’s been 3 years of war? They got a bit more than half neighbouring territories, that is the end of nato? Russia already collapsed twice for the inability to understand they can’t win war, I’m just waiting for them to do the same thing they did with Afghanistan, go on until they collapse so that we can not hear from them for another 20 years, the propaganda there must be very strong, they couldn’t even keep Syria anymore; couldn’t even protect Iran, not sure where the hell is this global superpower, must be brain damage
The most useless and annoying micropower of history that could just have kept exporting gas and be happy, who is so narcissistic that thinks anyone wants to attack them
Thunderbird Shares New Details on Upcoming Pro Features (Thundermail's servers to be located in Germany! 🇩🇪)
FWIW:
The servers hosting Thundermail will initially be located in Germany with more countries to follow in the future.
Thunderbird Pro Features Detailed in New Update
Thunderbird Pro will offer Thundermail email service, appointment scheduling, file sharing, and maybe even AI features. Email will be hosted on German servers.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
The architect of the Holodomor is the good guy here, huh?
Low effort ragebait.
.world libs on the debunked hOlODoMor yet again
en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Holodomo…
Holodomor - ProleWiki
This article is about the claim that the Soviet government deliberately starved Ukrainians. For the description of events, see Soviet famine of 1931–1933. The Holodomor...ProleWiki
The 1930s famine was a combination of drought, flooding, and mismanagement. Further, the Kulaks, wealthy bourgeois farmers, magnified matters by killing their own crops in the midst of a famine rather than letting the Red Army collectivize them. The Politburo was also kept in the dark about how bad the famine was getting:
From: Archive of the President of the Russian Federation. Fond 3, Record Series 40, File 80, Page 58.
Excerpt from the protocol number of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist party (Bolsheviks) “Regarding Measures to Prevent Failure to Sow in Ukraine, March 16th, 1932.
The Political Bureau believes that shortage of seed grain in Ukraine is many times worse than what was described in comrade Kosior’s telegram; therefore, the Political Bureau recommends the Central Committee of the Communist party of Ukraine to take all measures within its reach to prevent the threat of failing to sow [field crops] in Ukraine.Signed: Secretary of the Central Committee – J. STALIN
Letter to Joseph Stalin from Stanislaw Kosior, 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine regarding the course and the perspectives of the sowing campaign in Ukraine, April 26th, 1932.
There are also isolated cases of starvation, and even whole villages [starving]; however, this is only the result of bungling on the local level, deviations [from the party line], especially in regard of kolkhozes. All rumours about “famine” in Ukraine must be unconditionally rejected. The crucial help that was provided for Ukraine will give us the opportunity to eradicate all such outbreaks [of starvation].
Letter from Joseph Stalin to Stanislaw Kosior, 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, April 26th, 1932.
Comrade Kosior!You must read attached summaries. Judging by this information, it looks like the Soviet authority has ceased to exist in some areas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Can this be true? Is the situation invillages in Ukraine this bad? Where are the operatives of the OGPU [Joint Main Political Directorate], what are they doing?
Could you verify this information and inform the Central Committee of
the All-Union Communist party about taken measures.Sincerely, J. Stalin
Völkischer Beobachter, a Nazi news outlet, reported on it as intentional, and then spread the story around. All evidence post-opening of the soviet archives points to it not being intentional. Stalin was no "architect" of the 1930s famine, neither was the Politburo in general.
::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- J. V. Stalin
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
[8 min]
- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
[6 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat
[30 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
[16 min]
[42 min]
[38 min]
[9 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
[5 hr 51 min]
- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
[5 hr 25 min]
- Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
:::
::: spoiler Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
- Che Guevara
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- History of the CPSU (B)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Marxism and the National Question
:::
Read Marxism and the National Question(Joseph Stalin, 1913) on ProleWiki
The period of counter-revolution in Russia brought not only "thunder and lightning" in its train, but also disillusionment in the movement and lack of faith in common...ProleWiki
The dark secret of Zelensky’s Ukraine behind the assassination of one of its founders
The dark secret of Zelensky’s Ukraine behind the assassination of one of its founders
Kiev will blame Russia for the murder of Maidan commandant Andrey Parubiy – but everyone knows the killers are much closer to homeRT
ML posts a source bucking western "media".world lib looks inside
"OmG MuSt Be TrOLl! No way our precious New York Lies would outright lie to usss!!"
Your inability to read.
The US murdered people en masse in japan during WW2, are they off the hook because nazi's were part of the axis powers and the US wasnt,
Dont be obtuse.More than one group can be bad at once. Ukraine having nazi's doesn't make Russia anyone to be supported. You can hate them both and you dont have to pick a side.
ffmpeg from apt or flatpak, do I need both? debian 13.0
flatpak should be newer than apt, correct if wrong.
I first installed FFmpeg extension with extra codecs from flatpak, executed a ffmpeg command that returned: command not found.
I then thought the flatpak package, as the name states, is an extension that needs the apt version to be installed to work, so I executed sudo apt install ffmpeg and after downloading, the command worked.
Should I get rid of flatpak's ffmpeg? Am I gaining functions with this package?
ffmpeg -version returnsffmpeg version 7.1.1-1+b1 Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 14 (Debian 14.2.0-19)
like this
The ffmpeg from Flathub is a "runtime" package, intended to be used by other flatpak apps. It's not meant for CLI use.
Flatpak apps are not added to your $PATH. They're run with flatpak run appID. Though again, ffmpeg is not an app so it cannot be run this way. Though technically you could use it for CLI use by doing something like flatpak run --command=sh org.mozilla.firefox. This will open a shell inside the flatpak environment, which can use the ffmpeg flatpak runtime.
Though now that I think about it, it would be fun to create my own flatpak package for ffmpeg for CLI use. Should be pretty simple, it would just be a mostly empty package that relies on the ffmpeg-full flatpak runtime. Edit: and I did
The manifest is simply
id: my.custom.ffmpeg
runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform
runtime-version: '24.08'
sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk
add-extensions:
org.freedesktop.Platform.ffmpeg-full:
directory: lib/ffmpeg
version: '24.08'
add-ld-path: .
command: ffmpeg
modules:
- name: ffmpeg-wrapper
buildsystem: simple
build-commands:
- mkdir -p /app/lib/ffmpeg
- install -Dm755 ffmpeg.sh /app/bin/ffmpeg
sources:
- type: script
dest-filename: ffmpeg.sh
commands:
- /usr/bin/ffmpeg "$@"
finish-args:
- --filesystem=host
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35481475
[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a second time, killing first responders and journalists…www.nytimes.com
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35481475
[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a second time, killing first responders and journalists…www.nytimes.com
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
[not a gift article, but the link can be shared]
By Christoph Koettl, Sanjana Varghese, Natalie Reneau and Aric Toler
August 31, 2025
[has new video footage and clear evidence that it was a classic Israeli double-tap strike. And in classic NYT "neutral" fashion, the narrator refers to the IDF rationale with no context, as if there is no previous pattern of murder and lies by #Israel. But the headline and text do point the finger at Israel.]
Video: Videos Contradict Israel’s Rationale for Deadly Hospital Attack
The strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 20 people. A Times visual analysis calls into question what the Israeli military was initially targeting there, and why its troops attacked a second time, killing first responders and journalists…www.nytimes.com
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •If it's just Germany doing this, maybe it is high time to dump it out of the union?
Perhaps protesting this would hit a little close to home and actually cause change.