Those prices must be very enticing for devs. Hopefully we get competition in the space and devs can get a larger % of their game sales.

Also these platforms are pissing me off when they say the games cross platform but they just mean steam and epic. Thats not cross platform you oafs!

Feels like it should be illegal to mislead people like that.

Oh of course brainwashing is just something made up by the us to make tankies look bad. Of course how could I have missed that.

Thanks for reeducating me. I’ll forget everything i know about propaganda and environmental influences. Those can’t have influenced peoples thoughts that would be so crazy.

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No, you can’t just rewrite the definition of democracy and take out all the key parts just so you can apply it to China and try and washing over all their flaws.

Didnt the CCP weld people into their homes during covid. People have no human rights to the CCP. They are just tools to be used to further the parties goals.

Fine I’ll ask myself “why do Chinese citizens overwhelmingly approve of their government, and feel that they have genuine democratic input despite having a different democratic model than my own?”

Probably because their government dominates every part of their life. Constantly propagandises them and viciously cracks down on any dissent. They also have been having a ton of economic growth which usually results in favour for the party in power.

They think they have democracy because they have been mislead to what democracy is and theyve been told they have it “its not authoritarianism its just democracy with Chinese characteristics” and those characteristics are stripping all rights and power from the populous.

Yeah I was wrong on that. The article framed it weird by talking about the 95% rate then saying local government was considerably less favourable.

It is obvious to anyone that people living under and authoritarian regime are not able to freely express themselves and that was not accounted for in the paper you linked. The paper even confirms people are heavily propagandised and is more highlighting the trends match economic growth.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/do-chinese-citizens-conceal-opposition-to-the-ccp-in-surveys-evidence-from-two-experiments/12A2440F948D016E8D845C492F7D0CFE

This paper suggests its off by about 28 points due to peoples fear of expressing anti government beliefs.

None of that is democracy. Perceiving democracy based off a few unrelated vauge measurements is not democracy. Thats such a weak citation.

I haven’t read the cowbee comment yet but I have absolutely no faith that they have any point.

So you think 95.5% is accurate and there is no brainwashing going on. People must just love authoritarian regimes because they always report near perfect satisfaction polling results.

I’m not sure that link helps you at all. It doesnt mention anything about china being a democracy and proves my point.

“95.5 percent of respondents were either relatively satisfied or highly satisfied with Beijing” while 11% were satisfied with local government.

Bro cmon dont tell me you dont see what’s happening here. China plays propaganda for its citizens constantly and punishes anti government thought. But not for the local government. This poll doesnt accurately capture sentiment became people do not have freedom of expression in china. I’d believe that most people like the government, its done very well but 95.5% is a joke.

You’re sitting here trying to tell me that the one party authoritarian state who regularly crushes citizens freedom of expression is actually democratic. Yeah I’m sure they wander to the voting booth and make the touch decision of voting for the CCP or nothing with the CCP waiting over their shoulder.

You people are delusional.

Is Japan communist?

In what?

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Its not public ownership when an authoritarian state owns a company. Its only public ownership if the state is a democracy.

They’re a capitalist country with an authoritarian government. They may want to transition to a true communist society in the future but they need capitalism to build their countrys economy.

China is capitalist.

Japans rail system cooks china.

Upgrade my PC. I put new parts in but I dont notice any real gains because my system was already running well.

My most costly mistake was probably installing gentoo on a Chromebook. That took so long and was both fun and extremely frustrating. It was working but now I’m getting these weird drive errors because the entire thing is loaded on an SD to avoid using the Chromebooks 15gb internal storage.

There’s a lot of Americans that need to take note of the language. They’re saying “united states” not trump. I see so many Americans sitting there thinking trumps actions only affect trump and once someone new comes in things will go back to normal. This will be held against America for a long time.

I’m on Nobara for 3 years now after spending a year on manjaro. Nobara is pretty sweet, performance is top of the line, its stable and I get packages decently fast.

But I hate not being able to use discover to update.

So I’d switch if something had a cooler fetch logo and was able to fix that.

I’m familiar with the linux system ive done gentoo and arch but why I use distros like nobara and fedora is because i can’t be fucked to keep up with what the latest optimisation are and then implement them.

A lot of the tasks ai is doing are process issues. If the worker needs ai to filter a report for to much jargon people need to write more concise reports. There now we’ve saved time for the readers and the writer. For the replying to emails with “personalised” job advice. Thats gross, I dont think its ethical for government workers to give ai responses to people who are desperately seeking employment.

All kinds of things can motivate workers to care more about their job and thus work harder. Stuff like saying if you finish your work you can go home early (this would net me 4 hours of productivity each day). Things like performance based compensation. Shorter work weeks. Less commute time. Better work environment. Im sure many people could find an extra 26mins in there day if they wanted to.

Also keep in mind this is a self reported study. It feels productive when ai writes you an email but sometimes you fluff around with ai and you could have just written it 20s.