We need to hack these things to get them to spread syndicalist talking points.
Remember kids, those who do the work deserve a say in the steering and a share in the profit.
Labubu, with Chinese Characteristics.
Ah …
Labubu is Chinese. It doesn’t have “Chinese characteristics”.
Cross and Erlich also found that Miko’s parental controls are severely lacking. Many of the controls are also paywalled behind an expensive $15 monthly subscription.
Man, the real worst part is going to be giving your kid an artificial “friend” then having to explain what happened once their “friend” loses support and gets shut down by the company next year. This is already going to socially isolate them, then you’re just gonna digitally fridge mr. bear? jfc…
Miko just went to live on a data farm upstate.
Taking them to get spayed/neutered/drivers updated
Unfortunately I’ve encountered loads of parents who definitely would. They tend to be busy high-earners with low emotional intelligence who don’t have an inkling of the damage they do on a regular basis.
its the happy talking panda from family guy.
Yay! Very holiday data information!
The South Park Chimpokomon episode anyone? :)
Destroy the Evil Power! Death to America!
Waow
Well it’s a charming change from the usual American talking points like Barbie saying “math is hard”.
Don’t ask me, I’m just a girl. Hyah hyah.
I wonder who missed all the news on TV and social media, and still gets the kids such a toy for Christmas.
But boy are these some construed examples. Does NBC think a toddler with access to knives and a whetstone is fine, but the knowledge how to sharpen them is the problematic part? And what’s with the matches? I don’t hide how to light them from kids. Because realistically they’d alternatively just eat them and die from the phosphor. So again, why home in on explaining how something works with that? I bet we could come up with better examples. And other news outlets have.
I’d really advocate for teaching kids about knives, though. Tell them exactly how sharpness works, and what it does to someone’s fingers. Probably at a young age so they get to know about dangerous items in the household. Provide them with a butter knife (under supervision) so they can learn how to make a sandwich without poking their eyes out. It’s super weird that some kids can’t eat properly at 7yo. And of course don’t give them a kids Alexa. But that’s for a plethora of different reasons.
Lol good
It’s probably how most of the Anarchommunist clowns here on lemmy will eventually indoctrinate their own stupid kids.
Could you be more of a victim out in the open harder than you’re doing right now, sack up my dude quit acting like a bitch online
Was this you?
At least I can communicate with people without resorting to petty insults
So it seems much has changed in just one short month, eh bud? I know, It’s so much fun to whip out those insults for the endorphin rush of putting someone in their place. It’s just best to not be a fucking hypocrite about it.
How sad do you have to be to scour someone’s comment history like a creep and then come back with that as a gotcha.
How sad do you have to be to use a sock puppet account to back up your own dumb shit. Blocking both.
Terminal victim status you, I have no such sock puppets you’re paranoid as shit
You mean WEAPONS ARE BEING USED AS INTENDED?
Color me transparent and tongue me.
The doll said comparing a Chinese person to a yellow bear is unacceptable, and agreed with the US’s official stance on Taiwan? What woke nonsense, obviously the toy should encourage children to make racist jokes and at the mention of China blood should pour from the toy’s mouth as it demands every man, woman, and child living in Taiwan be sacrificed.
Go back to ML!
Seeing the state that so called communists go all-in on has got me questioning my own faith in communism to ever not be… Like that. Like holy DAMN you really to be simping for power in weird ass situations.
Wait did the bear write this?
his total inability to comprehend what you wrote is astounding. 😆
Eh, it wasn’t worth it. I don’t know why I thought I should pile on. I’m not going to be the guy who makes him think Muslims might have gotten genocided and that it’s okay to call our respective leaders donkey-brained genociders.
Bro I am in Urumqi right now, if there was a genocide going on, some of the friends I made would have told me about it.
I can criticize China’s leaders for actual policies, not imaginary shit.
And there’s a whooooooooooooooooooooooooooole loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot of policies that I would pick to excoriate Chinese leadership over, believe me!
It’s just that they’re, you know, real ones. Not made up shit like “social credit points”.
Seeing the state
You haven’t seen the state, you’ve seen silly stories western media comes up with. Occasionally those stories are supported by facts taken wildly out of context to the point of being deceptive, other times they’re fabricated from whole cloth.
China isn’t some kind of utopia, but it is a model of good, responsive governance. It’s actually difficult to make any general statements as it’s massive, and there’s a high degree of local control, so the same problem will be tackled a dozen, sometimes contradictory(eg, expanding public transit while inducing greater demand for cars) different ways, with varying levels of efficacy. Sometimes the inferior solutions are quietly replaced by more the ones proven more effective, other times
spoiler
they build like 10 toilets with TVs, heated seats, attendants, etc for people to show on xhs or whatever and say the problem is solved, and then the rest of the city’s public toilets are the same 3 squat, 1 pedastool, with a basket of shitty toilet paper next to each, that you can smell from a block away.
Wait did the bear write this?
Well a bear wrote it.
China isn’t some kind of utopia, but it is a model of good, responsive governance.
They disappear people for writing erotica. Ghosts and time travel are banned in fiction. What’s good about this?
Anything’s possible when you make shit up
Ghosts and time travel are banned in fiction.
And yet I can buy ghost stories and time travel stories (Hyperion and Endymion heavily involve time travel) in any decent bookstore here.
Mysterious how that works. It’s almost as if you’re making shit up or taking highly-localized happenings and claiming it’s country-wide. Which would be about as honest as me taking the Brown University shooting and claiming it represented the USA as a whole.
No, wait. That’s probably a bad example.
Which would be about as honest as me taking the Brown University shooting and claiming it represented the USA as a whole.
Did you expect me to get defensive about this? That does represent the US as a whole. It might be too much for you to comprehend, but I can criticize more than one country at a time.
And yes, I fully believe you can buy stories where there was “time travel” that turned out to be all just a dream or where it was actually part of an in-universe fictional story, but everyone’s heard about Back to the Future being banned for having actual time travel in it.
Did you have to use a VPN to access Lemmy, by the way, or is it too small for the Great Firewall to know or care about?
And yes, I fully believe you can buy stories where there was “time travel” that turned out to be all just a dream or where it was actually part of an in-universe fictional story, but everyone’s heard about Back to the Future being banned for having actual time travel in it.
P.S. “Everyone’s heard” a whole bunch of bullshit about China. Like the complete and utter bullshit of “social credit points”. Let’s use some evidence-based research instead, m’kay?
Taobao, the world’s largest digital souk, is China’s favourite place to buy shit. (It’s my favourite place to buy shit too. There’s nothing like it anywhere in the world. I’ve seen a jetliner for sale on Taobao. Or a nest of live Asian giant hornets.)
Here’s a whole bunch of “banned” Back to the Future merch from a trivial search. Indeed here’s the video itself on sale. Pretty fucking lame ban, isn’t it? Let’s add some more. Time Child is a movie in theatres now so I can’t link you to a DVD/BR but I can link you to a shitload of merch. Here are a couple of older ones.
Oh, and here’s Ghostbusters on sale. But ghosts are banned in China! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!? How? Easy. They’re not banned. That second link is a ghost story (Silk) from 2006. (There’s a 2022 movie (The Curse) whose title is a single character (咒) that is also used in a lot of Taobao Buddhist content. I can’t be arsed to go finding that one movie among all the Buddhist stuff so you’ll just have to believe that it’s there. Or not. It doesn’t really fucking matter since I already proved twice over that ghost stories aren’t banned.)
Seems what “everyone’s heard” is utter bullshit.
Is there anything else you’d like to incorrect me on?
screen shots if the links don't work outside of China
This is tangentially related but not intended as an argument or anything. I’m just curious if you have any insight into why skulls get censored in China. I’d rather hear from someone living there than wade through AI slop and propaganda/misinfo.
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Not the guy you’re responding to, but hexbear and .ml are the only blocked instances, feddit blocks all of Asia I think because I couldn’t load its images in vietnam either.
Typical Feddit.
Did you really stop reading at that sentence so you could leap in and make a point I MADE IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT!?
I’m going to assume you were “educated” (for want of a better term) in the USA from this.
Did you have to use a VPN to access Lemmy, by the way, or is it too small for the Great Firewall to know or care about?
When I was using a big Lemmy instance I needed a VPN, yes. This one is just far enough under the radar to not really need it. (Same thing with one of my Mastodon accounts and my Pixelfed account.)
So you really think it’s okay that your country blocks you from visiting foreign websites? Like, I’m perfectly happy to criticize all the dumb shit that’s wrong with the United States. Our government is a pile of shit. But you need a VPN to use ordinary websites, and you still think China’s laws are “good”?
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you have to be a bot writing like that. XD
Cope
lol you guys. working so hard to make sure as few people as possible become socialists.
If you think your being made fun of here is going to have any impact on anyone but you then you’ve drastically overestimated your importance
lol you’re all so predictable, it’s honestly amazing.
welp, back to quarantine with you.
Why are you invoking a stereotype like “Asians / yellow” you disgusting piece of racist shit concern troll?
You didn’t know that the Xi Jinping/ Winnie the Pooh comparisons were racist?
They’re not.
That meme was invented in China, by Chinese netizens.
Xi didn’t like being poked fun at, and added it to the list of censored phrases/images/concepts.
EDIT:
It then later spread to the Western internet, who then memed it further… then China got real mad, did the Great Firewall of China thing real hard…
… and nowadays, we here in the West have a bunch of self described ‘leftists’ who seem to believe the whole thing was a racist Western meme from the start.
It wasn’t.
It was meant to convey Xi as basically derpy, lackadaisical, oafish, childish.
Thats what the CCP took offense to… not any racial stereotypes.
Japanese netizens soon also concluded that their PM at the time, Shinzo Abe, bore a significant resemblance to Eeyore… presumably due to the bags under his eyes, and just generally looking old and tired.
It was based on real world images of Xi meeting Obama. Obama was Tigger, Xi was Pooh, they looked to be walking, ambling along in a good mood.
Here it is, the first iteration of the meme, originating in 2013… from Weibo, a Chinese social media site, sort of similar to Facebook:
… The Chinese user drew Pooh and Tigger, this is not a frame from some previously existing media.
Perhaps unlike a lot of younger modern internet users… I followed all this in real time, I’d graduated uni a year or two prior, was still in my prime shitposting years.
Everyone these days who thinks the whole thing is inherently racist, has always been that way… No.
I remember being on reddit, and us westoids being amused by an, at that time, fairly rare, huge viral meme in China, that was so viral that it made it all the way over to us.
Here’s the Twitter post that introduced it to the West:
Ya’ll can stop rewriting history, or working yourselves up into hysterics about this… any time you like!
The meme has since grown, again, in China, to basically be a symbol of resistance, given how hard it’s been banned, as well as a symbol of opposition to thr CCP in other East Asian and South East Asian countries.
If the whole thing was that… Pooh is yellow, and … therefore this a racist cariacature… why are Chinese dissidents and citizens of other Asian countries using it as they do?
EDIT 2: I’ve literally been banned from much of Hexbear and ML, in the past, for pointing this out.
They’re just delusional about this.
can’t reason with Tankies, mate. they’re off both the deep end and their meds.
Oh I know.
That’s why I just tell them things, and then laugh when they have their reddit style, cliqueish, spasm of hiveminded insulting mockery through their own insular set of memes and phrases that only make sense if you’re permaonline in exactly the same way they are.
Then I just block those people.
Not everyone on ML or Hex is completely bonkers.
… But a lot of their mods and admins are.
But but, same with .world!
The internet is a funny place.
Anything’s possible when you make shit up kiddo
