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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Actually planning for the future if something the US can't even fathom doing. Remember this fearmongering article from the daily mail about a "ghost" subway station in Chongqing?

Here it is now:

Western countries look at China building a city where no people are, and project waste, when in reality its just the PRC properly planning and building cities, anticipating housing and infrastructure, before they need them.

Meanwhile the US doesn't do anything beforehand and cities become a sprawling suburb, car-centered wasteland. They let private capital seeking short-term profits build their cities, and turn the country into a wal-mart parking lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You should let them know, they might need your expertise.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yes, this is a map of what was completed in 2018. China isn't the US, they don't give billions of dollars of public funds to grifters like Elon Musk, they actually build things.

As an example, China used more concrete for building projects from the years 2011-2013, than the US used in the entire 20th century.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is completely false. If you're uninsured, a visit is less than ~5 USD per doctors visit, and about ~20 USD for a specialist visit.. If you're insured, as 95% of the population in China is, then visits are free. It also has a very low cost per capita, since public health is socialized, not privatized.

Primary school is completely free, and college has tuition fees just like any other country.

Got any more of "I heard it from a friend?", that people can upvote to affirm their racist biases?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wrong, and it's clear you read none of the links above. Especially this one: https://archive.ph/DwD1n

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Okay so basic western supremacy, gotcha.

Redditors going from zero to rudyard kipling in 5 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

They're on the fediverse to Correct The Record ^TM^

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

The white mans burden lies heavy on the redditors.

 

It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it's users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

 

Lemmy is planning on having its 0.18.0 release tomorrow, and this adds compatibility for it.

 

Now I only have to answer ~300 replies and private messages until I can get back to coding!

 

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