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| Topic | Blizzard on the Hong Kong/Hearthstone situation: 'As always, we will defend the |
| pls 10/09/19 7:15:45 PM #10 | |
| Topic | Will the Admins ban obvious China shill accounts? |
| pls 10/09/19 7:14:39 PM #1 | I've been saying it for a while, but there are definitely a lot of fucking comrades on CE. Even more these days. Some are blatantly shilling for China, esp since this entire censorship scandal started with Blizzard and the NBA and etc. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Wikipedia, etc, have all publicly posted about the giant amount of propaganda they've seen and the hundreds of thousands of accounts they have banned. https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-bans-936-accounts-managed-by-the-chinese-state-aimed-at-hong-kong-protests/ https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/twitter-suspends-suspected-china-sponsored-accounts-targeting-hong-kong-protests-facebook.html https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/china-twitter-facebook-remove-accounts-china-hong-kong https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49921173 When will Gamefaqs do the right thing and start blocking IP addresses and accounts of blatant China shills / aggressors? They do not allow free discourse to flow through their channels, so don't let them pollute ours with misinformation and lies. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | I'm about an hour into TLoU and it's good but like I don't get the hype. |
| pls 10/09/19 6:32:24 PM #41 | Doom_Art posted... pls posted...Nice. Are you playing on regular difficulty?Yea boi Should've played on Hard imo, really makes you feel like a badass when you survive crazy stuff. And makes the game a lot scarier and intense. Makes the crafting / scavenging even more satisfying. But good work, keep it up. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | If u support Blitzchung on free speech grounds, then must also support Kaepernic |
| pls 10/09/19 6:31:34 PM #2 | I mean...yeah, that's fair. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | I'm about an hour into TLoU and it's good but like I don't get the hype. |
| pls 10/09/19 6:17:44 PM #34 | Doom_Art posted... Just Nice. Are you playing on regular difficulty? --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Criticize China, topic gets flooded with alts criticizing the US and Europe |
| pls 10/09/19 6:05:48 PM #52 | ThyCorndog posted... I also like how they deflect by saying "but america killed people in the middle east" to defend their forced and violent assimilation of xinjiang, when plenty of americans (like myself) criticize american war efforts in the middle east but i've yet to see ONE (1) chinese nationalist criticize their government They might want to but can't because they'll just be sent to the work camp or the organ harvesting camp. Literally why we have the 2nd amendment btw. They don't have that luxury against tyrants. For all its shortcomings, we can still say God bless America and God fuck America in the same breath. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Criticize China, topic gets flooded with alts criticizing the US and Europe |
| pls 10/09/19 6:00:22 PM #47 | DarkRoast posted...
They deflect because they agree with China --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Criticize China, topic gets flooded with alts criticizing the US and Europe |
| pls 10/09/19 5:58:29 PM #45 | ThyCorndog posted... fuck the chinese government, fuck the 50 cent army, and fuck xinnie the pooh Amen. Fucking communists. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Is China evil? |
| pls 10/09/19 5:49:54 PM #93 | DarkRoast posted... Country whose government literally harvests organs from its minority citizens, forces abortions at 9 months, refuses to let kids go to school if they were unfortunate enough to be the second child, was directly responsible for killing babies with milk tainted with fake protein, destroys houses and lies about giving the occupants a 1 month warning, supports human trafficking, etc... @TrowaBarton7 --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Criticize China, topic gets flooded with alts criticizing the US and Europe |
| pls 10/09/19 5:13:26 PM #30 | DarthAragorn posted... Oh here's one now This fuckin comrade wasn't even really around until a few days ago, either. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Criticize China, topic gets flooded with alts criticizing the US and Europe |
| pls 10/09/19 5:12:51 PM #28 | @TrowaBarton7 what is your main account, buddy? Haven't seen you around before the last couple of days --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Is China evil? |
| pls 10/09/19 5:12:07 PM #90 | So many fucking comrades --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Criticize China, topic gets flooded with alts criticizing the US and Europe |
| pls 10/09/19 5:06:41 PM #24 | EverDownward posted... pls posted...I've literally been pointing out CE's comrade infestation for like a year or two now. There have been literal Mao / Stalin apologists here for a long fucking time tho. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Criticize China, topic gets flooded with alts criticizing the US and Europe |
| pls 10/09/19 5:00:36 PM #19 | I've literally been pointing out CE's comrade infestation for like a year or two now. The water has been hearing up to a boil rather slowly and only now beginning to boil. Glad more people are noticing, even if it's sorta too late to clean up easily. They're all over Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook as well. Just Google to see how many hundreds of thousands of shill accounts had to be banned by Twitter recently. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Is China evil? |
| pls 10/09/19 4:54:32 PM #66 | Glad to see Chinese shills are now leveraging the leftist propaganda CE borrowed from Twitter and Reddit. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Economy Keeps Growing, but Americans Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, Energy |
| pls 10/09/19 4:49:43 PM #9 | So instead of taking the L you double down with another bad post. Yikes. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Is China evil? |
| pls 10/09/19 4:40:36 PM #49 | QueenCarly posted... No Yeah this basically cements that you are either a troll poster or an extremely bad person. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Economy Keeps Growing, but Americans Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, Energy |
| pls 10/09/19 4:39:48 PM #6 | @SquantoZ Are you illiterate? It's about how economic growth and resource consumption are decoupled in mature economies. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Economy Keeps Growing, but Americans Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, Energy |
| pls 10/09/19 4:16:08 PM #1 | 80/80 https://reason.com/2019/10/09/the-economy-keeps-growing-but-americans-are-using-less-steel-paper-fertilizer-and-energy/ Environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel remembers the moment his research trajectory changed. Over dinner one night in 1987, his friend and colleague Robert Herman, a physicist with a wide range of interests, wondered aloud, "Are buildings getting lighter?" That apparently simple question inspired the pair to begin looking into the "material intensity" of the modern world. In 2015, Ausubel published an essay titled "The Return of Nature: How Technology Liberates the Environment." He had found substantial evidence not only that Americans were consuming fewer resources per capita but also that they were consuming less in total of some of the most important building blocks of an economy: things such as steel, copper, fertilizer, timber, and paper. Total annual U.S. consumption of all of these had been increasing rapidly prior to 1970. But since then, consumption had reached a peak and then declined. This was unexpected, to put it mildly. "The reversal in use of some of the materials so surprised me that [a few colleagues] and I undertook a detailed study of the use of 100 commodities in the United States from 1900 to 2010," Ausubel wrote. "We found that 36 have peaked in absolute useAnother 53 commodities have peaked relative to the size of the economy, though not yet absolutely. Most of them now seem poised to fall." A few years earlier, a writer and researcher named Chris Goodall had noticed something similar in the United Kingdom's Material Flow Accounts, "a set of dry and largely ignored data published annually by the Office for National Statistics," as the Guardian put it. He summarized his findings in a 2011 paper titled "'Peak Stuff ': Did the UK Reach a Maximum Use of Material Resources in the Early Part of the Last Decade?" Goodall's answer to his own question was, essentially, yes: "Evidence presented in this paper supports a hypothesis that the United Kingdom began to reduce its consumption of physical resources in the early years of the last decade, well before the economic slowdown that started in 2008. This conclusion applies to a wide variety of different physical goods, for example water, building materials and paper and includes the impact of items imported from overseas. Both the weight of goods entering the economy and the amounts finally ending up as waste probably began to fall from sometime between 2001 and 2003." Goodall was eloquent about the significance of dematerialization: "If correct, this finding is important. It suggests that economic growth in a mature economy does not necessarily increase the pressure on the world's reserves of natural resources and on its physical environment. An advanced country may be able to decouple economic growth and increasing volumes of material goods consumed. A sustainable economy does not necessarily have to be a no-growth economy." Pinging Economics peeps: @s0nicfan @Sackgurl @The_Admiral @SK8T3R215 @Balrog0 @Antifar @Godnorgosh --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Is China evil? |
| pls 10/09/19 4:09:53 PM #12 | They are literally slaughtering millions of people to harvest organs. And confining more to work camps. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Turkish Forces Launch Military Attack Against Kurds At Syrian Border |
| pls 10/09/19 2:55:08 PM #19 | Solar_Crimson posted... pls posted...Let's not blame America for Turkey being fucked up. How long do you want America to stay in Syria and be the world police? Weren't you guys previously saying we need less of that? Should we go back and go to war against Turkey? --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | China will financially support Blizzard for any lost subscribers |
| pls 10/09/19 1:14:32 PM #14 | FursonaNonGrata posted... TC I thought u loved the free market This is not free market comrade --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Turkish Forces Launch Military Attack Against Kurds At Syrian Border |
| pls 10/09/19 12:18:10 PM #11 | Let's not blame America for Turkey being fucked up. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Classrooms in China equipped with AI cameras and brain-wave trackers. |
| pls 10/09/19 12:17:24 PM #22 | Godnorgosh posted... these tools have some beneficial effects YIKES --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Classrooms in China equipped with AI cameras and brain-wave trackers. |
| pls 10/09/19 11:16:36 AM #13 | Highwind07 posted... Doe posted...What the hell is a brainwave tracker? That's science fiction shit, is this fake news Nah fuck that noise and anyone advocating it in the west. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Classrooms in China equipped with AI cameras and brain-wave trackers. |
| pls 10/09/19 11:15:50 AM #11 | Machete posted... pls posted...PizzaPatty posted...Just imagine if we did this in America only it would notify us of students who think conservative thoughts. Thank you. As Marx said, from each according to his ability and to each according to his need. Others can seize the means of production and you will still benefit from it, comrade. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Classrooms in China equipped with AI cameras and brain-wave trackers. |
| pls 10/09/19 11:12:42 AM #9 | Doe posted... What the hell is a brainwave tracker? That's science fiction shit, is this fake news In this particular use case it is not science fiction. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Classrooms in China equipped with AI cameras and brain-wave trackers. |
| pls 10/09/19 11:09:03 AM #3 | PizzaPatty posted... Just imagine if we did this in America only it would notify us of students who think conservative thoughts. What are your thoughts on seizing the means of production, comrade? --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Classrooms in China equipped with AI cameras and brain-wave trackers. |
| pls 10/09/19 11:04:53 AM #1 | https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1177357178975457285 There's a video of it there. Just imagine how excited China is for a near future when they can punish people for thinking bad thoughts about the Communist party. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Bye guys. |
| pls 10/09/19 10:54:29 AM #21 | I don't like you at all but I still wish you well and hope you come back healthy. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | China and Taiwan fighting over Wikipedia edits. |
| pls 10/09/19 10:48:20 AM #6 | Paragon21XX posted... Time to start protecting certain Wiki articles from unapproved edits. And we need to evaluate all edits that came out of China to see if they were injecting biases into information. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | China and Taiwan fighting over Wikipedia edits. |
| pls 10/09/19 10:46:08 AM #4 | Bump --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | lol at how mainland China is trying to spin the extradition bill |
| pls 10/09/19 10:30:31 AM #6 | I just made a topic about this. China is paying people to edit Wikipedia with socialist propaganda. Which usually mains anti-Taiwan and anti-Hong Kong propaganda. Source from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49921173 --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | I'm loving this pro-communism gimmick |
| pls 10/09/19 10:24:44 AM #15 | spudger posted... pls posted...spudger posted...pls posted...Finally TC is starting to notice all the comrades I've been mentioning for a year or two now. whoa comrade that's the wrong take the right take is fuck communism --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | I'm loving this pro-communism gimmick |
| pls 10/09/19 10:20:54 AM #13 | spudger posted... pls posted...Finally TC is starting to notice all the comrades I've been mentioning for a year or two now. Good work comrade. Finally opening your eyes. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Adobe is cutting off users in Venezuela due to US sanctions |
| pls 10/09/19 10:19:03 AM #13 | The sanctions are pointless at this point, but I guess they're still trying to get the illegitimate dictator to step down and allow fair elections. Venezuela's people have already been fucked by their own elected officials since their country has been collapsing for years at this point. Millions have already left. LOL at anyone concern trolling about Adobe licenses but never having called out Maduro. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | China and Taiwan fighting over Wikipedia edits. |
| pls 10/09/19 10:17:50 AM #2 | bump --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | So wait if you want socialism |
| pls 10/09/19 10:15:25 AM #12 | Goats posted... pls posted...Right but instead of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" we have markets that are much more humane and fair and sustainable. Is farming a more state-controlled industry right now in the form of subsidies and the like, or more a market? --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | I'm loving this pro-communism gimmick |
| pls 10/09/19 10:14:01 AM #11 | Finally TC is starting to notice all the comrades I've been mentioning for a year or two now. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | China will financially support Blizzard for any lost subscribers |
| pls 10/09/19 10:11:56 AM #5 | kirbymuncher posted... you shouldn't have written the topic title as though it was something they'd already claimed to do / were doing >_> I mean there's no capital letters in the title so it's not like it's an article title or something. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Who are the commies on CE that proudclad keeps talking about? |
| pls 10/09/19 10:09:53 AM #117 | Malfunction posted... Anybody with even mildly left leaning views is a communist to proudclad @Malfunction https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78074058 Why are you disputing that markets are more humane and fair and sustainable than "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need?" And now some serious damage control for China. https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/78074147/928541390 --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | So wait if you want socialism |
| pls 10/09/19 10:08:33 AM #9 | Oatcakes posted... Malfunction posted...pls posted...markets that are much more humane and fair It's great if you have good insurance, and mostly bad if you don't. But even then in most cases there are state programs or hospital programs for steep discounts for self-pay patients and payment plans and the like. Not saying it can't be improved or that the government can't pay for it, but it's not so black and white as you see on Reddit. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | China will financially support Blizzard for any lost subscribers |
| pls 10/09/19 10:05:17 AM #3 | bump --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | So wait if you want socialism |
| pls 10/09/19 10:04:56 AM #5 | RescueBC posted... vigorm0rtis posted...Grew up on a farm. Farming's been socialized for a century. Right but instead of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" we have markets that are much more humane and fair and sustainable. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | China and Taiwan fighting over Wikipedia edits. |
| pls 10/09/19 10:03:24 AM #1 | https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49921173 Ask Google or Siri: "What is Taiwan?" "A state", they will answer, "in East Asia". But earlier in September, it would have been a "province in the People's Republic of China". For questions of fact, many search engines, digital assistants and phones all point to one place: Wikipedia. And Wikipedia had suddenly changed. The edit was reversed, but soon made again. And again. It became an editorial tug of war that - as far as the encyclopedia was concerned - caused the state of Taiwan to constantly blink in and out of existence over the course of a single day. "This year is a very crazy year," sighed Jamie Lin, a board member of Wikimedia Taiwan. "A lot of Taiwanese Wikipedians have been attacked." Wikipedia is a movement as much as a website. Anyone can write or edit entries on Wikipedia, and in almost every country on Earth, communities of "Wikipedians" exist to protect and contribute to it. The largest collection of human knowledge ever amassed, available to everyone online for free, it is arguably the greatest achievement of the digital age. But in the eyes of Lin and her colleagues, it is now under attack. The edit war over Taiwan was only one of a number that had broken out across Wikipedia's vast, multi-lingual expanse of entries. The Hong Kong protests page had seen 65 changes in the space of a day - largely over questions of language. Were they protesters? Or rioters? The English entry for the Senkaku islands said they were "islands in East Asia", but earlier this year the Mandarin equivalent had been changed to add "China's inherent territory". The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were changed in Mandarin to describe them as "the June 4th incident" to "quell the counter-revolutionary riots". On the English version, the Dalai Lama is a Tibetan refugee. In Mandarin, he is a Chinese exile. Angry differences of opinion happen all the time on Wikipedia. But to Ms Lin, this was different. "It's control by the [Chinese] Government" she continued. "That's very terrible." BBC Click's investigation has found almost 1,600 tendentious edits across 22 politically sensitive articles. We cannot verify who made each of these edits, why, or whether they reflect a more widespread practice. However, there are indications that they are not all necessarily organic, nor random. Both an official and academics from within China have begun to call for both their government and citizens to systematically correct what they argue are serious anti-Chinese biases endemic across Wikipedia. One paper is called Opportunities And Challenges Of China's Foreign Communication in the Wikipedia, and was published in the Journal of Social Sciences this year. In it, the academics Li-hao Gan and Bin-Ting Weng argue that "due to the influence by foreign media, Wikipedia entries have a large number of prejudiced words against the Chinese government". They continue: "We must develop a targeted external communication strategy, which includes not only rebuilding a set of external communication discourse systems, but also cultivating influential editors on the wiki platform." They end with a call to action. "China urgently needs to encourage and train Chinese netizens to become Wikipedia platform opinion leaders and administrators [who] can adhere to socialist values and form some core editorial teams." Yikes --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | China will financially support Blizzard for any lost subscribers |
| pls 10/09/19 9:43:47 AM #1 | We all know it will happen. China wants to control everything. They don't want Blizzard to back off and do the right thing. So they will give Blizzard money in the same way they pick and choose who should win in China. We need to act quickly and boycott Blizzard quickly. That is the only way to hurt them enough to make them reconsider. Otherwise China can trickle $$$ their way as compensation for the blatant and offensive censorship. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | Oh right. I've been a mod for over a decade now. |
| pls 10/09/19 9:31:37 AM #26 | Thank you for participating in the community for so long! That longevity has contributed a lot to what has been a fun part of my childhood and adulthood. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | PS5 looks _________. |
| pls 10/09/19 9:27:41 AM #2 | PS5 looks _________. --- Do good. Eat communists. |
| Topic | US billionaires paid lower tax rate than working class last year |
| pls 10/09/19 9:25:40 AM #76 | A higher tax on billionaires and inheritance over $500 million or w/e would be good, but let's not be overzealous wrt how much more tax revenue we would get. Spoiler alert: not that much more, esp not considering the extra spending some candidates want. The left should not be dishonest in pointing to how the middle class now pays more taxes compared to the top tenth of 1% if it just wants to increase the burden across the board. The more honest argument would be "see how everyone is paying less than 50%? We need to change that." --- Do good. Eat communists. |
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