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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Me neither.

  • Browser: Zen (mod of Firefox)
  • Extension: LibRedirect (pre-installed in Zen IIRC)
  • App: FreeTube

I click on a YouTube link and it opens in FreeTube, no ads.

Every now and then, videos won't play because of some change by Google, usually it's just a day or so until FreeTube releases an update that works again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Truly groundbreaking.

Let the songs begin!

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL 1973 LIVE -4K- REMASTERED.(STEREO.) (19 minute set) https://youtu.be/UpUCJWlN0sE

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

My school (UK, 1980s) offered Mandarin as an extracurricular course. I signed up, showed up... and was the only student. One-on-one classes the rest of the year :)

(Just don't try grilling me in Mandarin now, though.)

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

There was also the flag of the defunct Republic of VIetnam

https://vietnguyen.info/2021/theres-a-reason-the-south-vietnamese-flag-flew-during-the-capitol-riot

The depth of anti-communist feeling in the Vietnamese community, which includes many military veterans and former government officials, meant that it has always leaned strongly Republican. While Asian Americans as a whole voted 2 to 1 for Joe Biden over Trump, Vietnamese Americans supported Trump over Biden, 57 percent to 41 percent. A deep animus toward China, amplified by misinformation in Vietnamese-language media, bolsters the support for a president they see as tougher on foreign policy. This dovetailed with their anticommunism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

How did they feel about the constable being a changeling?

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... Bajorans.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 days ago (3 children)

“While I stand by my support for him, I will call out harmful actions when necessary,” she said. “And finally, this isn’t about regrets; I have none.

Well...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Personally:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Madonna mia! Er Bimbo d'Oro!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

because he “fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE,”

Heartening to know ICE are going around arresting people based on general descriptions, not even specific ones.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

I'm fairly sure this is less "pro-Russia" and more "anti-large-new-devastated-member-causing-Poland-to-get-a-far-smaller-slice-of-the-EU-funds-pie".

While Law & Justice's [sic] tendencies overlap with Putin's a lot, IIRC they've been consistently anti-Russia, especially as it's a personal beef now since the party boss's brother was killed in the Smolensk air disaster, which he seems to blame on Putin.

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Out of five critical tech sectors, “China has the most immediate opportunity to overtake the United States in biotechnology,” the Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs said Thursday in its release of a “Critical and Emerging Technologies Index,” covering AI, biotech, semiconductors, space and quantum.

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Online culture and censorship have broken the ties that once spurred protesters.

Today, June 4, marks the 36th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—a moment of both tragedy and hope. It was the bloody end to a nationwide democracy movement that brought together workers and students, the most promising push for political reform in the history of the People’s Republic of China. But despite the courage of many individual Chinese who fought for democracy and the solidarity of their international supporters, there has not been a comparable movement since—and it’s hard to imagine one arising anytime soon.

It wasn't paywalled on my phone, but apparently it is when viewed elsewhere.

One of the key factors mentioned in the article: the erosion of the "the middle ring" from many societies (not just China): "close-ish" but not intimate/familial face-to-face relationships (neighbours, coworkers etc.) that are key to growing a social movement with real world activity.

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