You can also find an audiobook of this on torrents and youtube.

Most countries of the world are capitalist. Most of them are poor or middle income.

Only a tiny number of them are in the imperial core, and fit most modern definitions of imperialist. Russia is not among them.

Spain’s government only recently started turning against the US, and this vote was in 2022.

As for Ireland, can’t say.

Love it, nice job!

Not just China, no country on earth should be naive enough to let the US surveillance corporations operate within their borders. Here’s a good video on why the PRC keeps them out.

But all these experiences tell me Chinese society is not accepting of even apparent criticism, which does not look like a free society to me.

The PRC doesn’t just allow criticism and freedom of speech, it acts on it, unlike western countries where everyone (arguably) has the freedom to shout into the void and change nothing. The CPC is the world’s biggest pollster, which constantly gets feedback from its citizens, and acts on them.

This ones my fave: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

It shows the percentages of people who use your same browser features (called similarity ratios), and can determine whether you’re unique in their dataset. Can help for tweaking browser settings to try to make yourself not unique.

There’s nothing wrong with thinking highly of a country, especially one on an upward trajectory in so many ways: working to end world poverty, end dependence on fossil fuels via a green energy revolution, and put a stop to the low-wage trap that US imperialism has imposed on the global south.

The only reason these seem offensive to you, is that you’re propagandized to hate the geopolitical enemies of the US police state (and its vassals), so anyone saying something positive about them must be heresy that demands a public condemnation.

If I spoke highly of any other US enemy (like Cuba or Venezuela or the DPRK), it’d likely evoke the same reaction, but if I spoke highly of a neutral country like Tanzania, Malaysia, or Switzerland, it wouldn’t need the same condemnation.

Was staunchly team vim for 15 years, but now I’m on helix. As another user stated below, its like if vim were re-designed today, and without needing any addons to be a code-aware editor.

I have this going continually.

Fill a quart mason jar with 15g of hibiscus flowers, add water, put it in the fridge, and wait till morning or evening. Filter it out into a water bottle, and repeat by adding more flowers.

Then once the jar is full after a week or so, make jamaica tacos with them.

Good of course, as long as the torrents stay seeded (at least to a certain ratio). I haven’t kept up with all these sonarr advances over the years.

Torrenters : Communitarian / communist, sharing to strangers for the communal good.

Service-enjoyers : Individualist consumers, paying to rent data (not own it) from capitalist media companies, shares nothing to the community.

You can go into the jerboa settings to force it to use thumbnails I described above.

There’s also a new release today that drops the metered network check from the data-saver.

I have yet to read this book, but The Palestine Laboratory is supposed to outline how a lot of the surveillance and weaponry used today are first developed and tested in Israel to aid the occupation, then exported to other countries.

After nazi germany defeated poland and their government collapsed and fled, the USSR either had the choice to let the nazis continue unhindered eastward, or to move forward. This action saved millions of lives from the nazi’s scorched earth campaign which included mass rapes. You can read more about this here.

Also noteworthy: in 1939, Stalin offered a million troops in a pact to the UK and France to stop nazi germany.

UK and France refused the offer.

Data from authoritarian countries is less reliable

Part of the ideology of white-supremacy, is that proximity to whiteness means trustworthiness and authenticity, and distance from it means untrustworthiness.

So white supremacists think only the western countries (and their allies like South Korea, Japan, and other US military base countries) data and educational institutions can be trusted, while the numbers coming from any country opposed to them must inherently be a lie.

Also most US police forces, as part of the militarization of police, have been effectively using tanks and APCs against protestors and civilians for at least 15 years now. Israel uses the Palestinian people as guinea pigs for most of this new population control tech, then the equipment that works gets sold to US police.

One other more recent example too of the US using tanks against its citizens was the waco standoff. The US used tanks against, then burned ~100 people alive.