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The US claims that China is shipping "fentanyl precursors", like ingredients to make fentanyl. The US basically says that China is selling kits to make fentanyl. I saw one US politician compare fentanyl precursors to cake mix.

Starting about 5 hours ago, Grok started saying that mentions of "white genocide" and "kill the boer" was due to a glitch.

The thing that China is upset about is being blamed for the US Fentanyl problem and the additional 20% tariff. "Despite the goodwill China has shown, the U.S. wrongly slapped tariffs on Chinese imports by citing the issue of fentanyl." "The move has dealt a heavy blow to China-U.S. dialogue and cooperation on counternarcotics, and gravely hurt China’s interests."

I changed my post title to match the articles from China as to not editorialize. I still think the post is important.

I'm trying to make sense of the articles. I originally watched the press conference livestreamed this morning.

If I am interpreting it correctly, China thought both side had agreed to 10% tariffs at the Geneva talks. The US had originally imposed the 20% Fentanyl tariff on February 1. "Lin made the remarks in an answer to a question about the U.S. imposing 20 percent tariffs on China under the pretext of the fentanyl issue after the Geneva talks." The way that it is worded in the CGTN article and in the tweet seems as if China had not expected the US to continue imposing the Fentanyl tariff after the Geneva talks.

The tweet and the articles say that "countermeasures remain in effect". This statement contradicts what is written in the US-China Joint statement on May 12, which says China will "remove the non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since April 2, 2025". It seems as though China has now decided to keep countermeasures in effect because of the 20% Fentanyl tariff. I am not sure what the countermeasures are.

Linux in popular culture? Stallman invented the culture. He created the system which runs most web servers in the world. Stallman created GPL, which is arguably the most influential software license in history. Stallman invented "open source" 13 years before open source was even a term. Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985, Open Source Initiative was not founded until 1998.

The license that Stallman created is what forces companies to release the source code of their products. You ever seen the "open source" page on the Apple website? That's because Stallman's GPL requires them to release the code of the GPL softwares that they use.

The reason that Stallman's vision of software freedom has been suppressed is because it hurts company profits. Capitalists suppressed the GNU ideology because they wanted to make GNU/Linux into a profitable concept. Capitalists don't want you to have freedom over your computer software.

Stallman is very upset the he doesn't get enough credit for creating GNU. Most "Linux" desktops use GNU as the base system. Linux is the kernel. Stallman created GNU in the 1980s with the express intention of creating an Operating System which gave users total control over the computer. He was radicalized by printer drivers. Stallman's philosophy emphasizes have freedom over technology.

In the 1990s, Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel. Linus doesn't necessarily care about freedom, he stated that the purpose of Linux was to have a OS which doesn't cost money. At the start of the 1990s, Linux was a kernel without an OS and GNU was a OS without a kernel. People started to combine the 2 together, which was illegal to distribute at the time because the GNU license says that it's only allowed to be distributed with other software under a FOSS license. It wasn't until 1993 that Linus Torvalds applied the GNU license to the Linux kernel, allowing the GNU system and the Linux kernel to be distributed together for the first time.

Slackware is the oldest distro and refers to itself as a "Linux" despite using the GNU system. Debian is also among the first distros and refers to itself as "GNU/Linux". Android phone OS is an example of a system that uses the Linux kernel without the GNU system.

Stallman is really obnoxious about emphasizing that people should care about freedom. I think that's why he tries to insert the word GNU into everything.

Richard Stallman was ahead of the times, although sometimes problematic.

Who is The Originator? New Character? New boss? or an old character. The Originator is capitalized mid sentence, which means that it is a proper noun instead of a noun.

@[email protected] What does it mean? Are we getting a new endgame? Will Zana return? Who wrote the letter?

https://hexbear.net/comment/5630534 This is what CARCOSA said when the comms were launched

Where am I supposed to post...?

Slop is for what the old dredge_tank was like. Roast anonymous reactionaries to your heart's content!

Gossip for an informal discussion regarding people with power / notable / tools of power

Counterprop for a formalized discussion regarding reactionary people no matter how powerful/notable.

My interpretation is that slop is for bad things said or done by nonfamous people, gossip is for bad things said by a famous person such as a celebrity or politician. If a government enacts a reactionary policy or law, I put that in news. When a government does anything, it's news comm, because it's material action that impacts people's lives. If a politician does something reactionary, it could be news or could be gossip or even politics comm, depending on the material impact of the action or thing said.

My philosophy is that the comm should be chosen by the amount of material impact behind the subject. It annoys me a lot when an impactful news story gets posted in the slop comm.

Half the site should not be posted into the slop comm. People are posting things into the comm which don't belong in this comm. Report posts in the slop comm which aren't slop. The sidebar says that this comm is for "anonymous reactionary bullshit". If it's a public figure such as a celebrity or politician then it's not slop. Slop is when a non-famous person says or does something which is ignorant, problematic, or bigoted.

It's always the ones you most suspect.