Isn’t it “sawry”?

Okay, genuine ask, why don’t you move to china? You could make a good living being an english teacher or something.

There’s also some whatsapp clients on flathub that claim to support linux mobile. Matrix bridges are also available.

No it’s not, now answer my question please.

Ok, say I wanna go pay at a café near me that doesn’t accept cash, what do I do?

atleast where I live transit has all the metro and bus lines, and real-tike tracking of when the next bus/metro is, while osmand just has the metro and like 3 bus lines, so it’s kinda useless for transit.

Osmand ia great for biking though.

apparently in canada saying “sorry” is no longer considered an admission of guilt, legally, since people say it too much.

either that or they have amnesia

Yes, I am aware, I just want to point out you started this thread by replying “hahahaha no” to someone saying tap to pay on their phone was more secure than a cc

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How long is the password on a credit card, or the tap to pay on a credit card.

other device

Alternative version of android that removes google stuff, basically.

fyi startpage and ecosia also use bing results, although ecosia is working on their own index.

Removed by mod

tldr: tokens got cheaper, but ai models use more of them

Yes, the original person give a (admittly, secondary) source, in the form of ed zitron’s blog, I have already read it, so I know it’s not bs.

If you don’t know, why make the claim

The source for those is either you, quora, or the ccp.

Not very reliable sources, and the results of the polls which I do know are legitimate may be explained by the lack of free press.

Some of the stuff is true, like the better healthcare system, or high speed rail, but that’s more the US being absymally bad than china being great

source?

Okay, my understanding is that there are classically two classes: the working class, and the bourgeoisie. Only thing I’d add is that there’s the “I own means” bourgeoisie and the “I am powerful politically” bourgeoisie. Pretty much always the same, but not necessarily.

“western” democracy improves upon this by making every person have at least some power politically, thanks to everyone being able to promote and run on ideas, this also allows local and foreign powers to amplify certain ideas, which isn’t great. Various factors make this system more or less effective at representing the people’s will.

As I understand it, the Chinese system of democracy is basically a mirage, because while you can argue it does a better job than any other dictatorship, it still is one, since the people have virtually no say on who the leaders are. I see it as something akin to a meritocracy, where an elite choose other people they deem fit to lead. In this context the CPC are no functionally no different to the bourgeoisie, they just replaced them.

The top-down governance can be good, but it also causes a lot of problems, such as the one child policy that created and still creates tons of problems and suffering.

As for Imperialism, which was mentioned earler in the thread, while the US and europe are undisputed world champions of imperialism, china also does imperialism in it’s own borders, with the western provinces.

I am certainly open to being wrong, this is just how I currently see the subject.

edit: clarification

Well, if the class in power is the one who controls the large firms, key industries and media, then the class in power are the high-ranking CCP officials, no? And ccp officials choose who the new ccp officials will be. I don’t see how the working class is involved here. I don’t really understand how the government is elected.

I don’t really want to go read a bunch of theory, because I think you should be able to leverage your clearly extensive knowledge of the subject to convince me.