In India, there have been pages created listing Muslim girls and women for sale. Using photos and real names. And the men describe the various ways they want to use their "property" once they buy them. If you were a Muslim in India, facing fears of state-encouraged real life violence, what sort of conversation would you like to have with these people? Are you going to look at a page like that and think: "I'm so thankful for the culture being created here."
What you say works great in a vacuum. But unfettered hate speech leads to bad places. Just ask the German Jews. Ask a Tutsi how they felt about the hateful radio shows before the genocide started. Imagine what it was like to be a black person in the US facing lynching and pogroms over the misinformation being widely spread.
But, hey, I guess just "conversation" would have solved all of those issues. Because those screaming their hateful messages are just misunderstood people who can be easily reasoned with. And who can call it hate to begin with? After all, calling a group subhuman, and wishing for their daughters to be raped, is just a cultural development no one should interfere with.
>> there have been pages created listing Muslim girls and women for sale. Using photos and real names.
What ... can you show some proof?
this is getting into dangerous territory here .... making unsubstantiated claims. These claims are quite extraordinary and require extraordinary proof.
All you have to do is copy this part of your parent comment and paste it on google/duckduckgo - 'In India, there have been pages created listing Muslim girls and women for sale' .
I'm one of those people who highlights lines as I read them to help me keep focus. Plus, I'd rather have explicit copying via a specific action than something that just happens automatically on highlight.
I wouldn't be surprised if they did. The post-Stalin Soviet Union would be a much freer place than North Korea. Here's a couple of quotes from Andrei Lankov's* book "Essays on Daily Life in North Korea" on how Soviets viewed North Korea:
"When I arrived in North Korea for the first time on a sunny day in September 1984, I felt perplexed. I came to study at the Kim 11 Sung University, as a participant in an exchange program between the then-USSR and North Korea. It was the first overseas trip of my life, and I was thrilled, but I also had some preconceived ideas - and in the first hours and days it became clear that the situation did not feel like I thought it should.
At that time I was fully aware that I was in what in 1984 was arguably the world's most brutal dictatorship. The Soviet Union was not exactly a democracy itself, but even for us, the people from Moscow and Leningrad, North Korea stood for the embodiment of inefficiency, brutality and, above all, repressive dictatorship. Even the official Soviet media sometimes allowed some subtle hints at what was going on there."
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"Quite often the inflated tributes to the Great Leader and to the Dear Leader, delivered in a badly edited foreign version, produce the opposite of the intended effect on the audience, making the North into a laughingstock. I still remember how in the 1970s, when I was a teenager in the then Soviet Union in my native Leningrad, many barbershops stocked copies of Korea magazine, a lavishly illustrated North Korean propaganda monthly. What was such a publication doing in the barbershops? The answer, I suspect, would be quite embarrassing for its editors: it was subscribed to in order to amuse the patrons who were waiting for a haircut. The North Korean propaganda appeared very weird to the Russians - not least because it looked like a grossly exaggerated version of their own official propaganda. The grotesquely bad Russian translation of the texts also provided unintended comical effects."
* - Andrei Lankov is a Russian born in the Soviet Union and now lives in Seoul. His books and articles on North Korea are very interesting and worthwhile.
This was exactly the kind of context I was missing. Thanks for this.
I remember some high-profile expats immigrating to China in the 1950s and 60s, and writing about their experiences publicly to acclaim and disdain. Do you know if any of these are critically well-received?
I'm not sure which high-profile expats you're referring to. That's not an area I'm familiar with. I do know about the fates of some westerners who went to North Korea. But don't know much about those who went to China.
Under the heading Notable People[0], there are a fair number, American McGee and Sidney Rittenberg[1] especially jump out at me, the latter for being the first American citizen to join the CCP and for his work with Bill Gates to break into the Chinese market. Yes, that Bill Gates.
Thanks for sharing. Took me around 4 minutes and docked successfully on my first try. What a great interface too. Without training and without even looking at the instructions, I managed to dock it.
This may be a dumb question but I noticed something a bit odd. I had no trouble getting the orientation right and stabilizing those numbers. They didn't drift after getting to zero. But there was always a little drift on Y and a bit more on Z. A very small drift, but I was thinking I should have been able to completely stabilize it. That a single click right thrust would cancel out the previous single click of the left thrust.
But that wasn't the case. Is that a fault of the simulator? Or how a spaceship would handle in reality? That the translation movements can never be completely canceled out and have to be monitored?
If you're accelerating towards an orbital object you are by definition not in the same orbit as the target object. If you were you would be moving at the exact same speed. This effect makes getting yourself close enough for docking all sorts of tricky if you don't know what you're doing. Once you get close enough (like in the linked simulator) you can mostly ignore the problem since the effects are small given the relative speeds involved.
I can heartily recommend messing around with orbital maneuvers in KSP to get a feel for the problem. It's not exactly intuitive.
I believe it might be because of the orbit isn’t perfectly circular and and same inclination as the station. Check some docking videos where they show relative trajectories between docking ships and station and you notice that it forms “loops” if no thrust is applied. Orbital mechanics can be unintuitive, if you apply thrust towards your orbital motion you raise your orbit on the opposite side of the earth and so on.
You're not alone. I made the switch this year. Primarily for working on an iOS project. There are days I miss Windows quite a bit. For most things, animations are minimal. Things just pop up, switch gears, and do what you want almost instantly. Explorer is far better than Finder for most things, even if it's also substantially uglier.
Just for a simple example: I change to arbitrary folders frequently. Control-L in Explorer, type the path, and I'm there the second I hit return. Done. Finder has a similar method using Command-Shift-G. But not only is the shortcut more awkward but going to the path has a delay. Not a long one. But it's noticeable and annoying.
Oh well. Spotlight does seem to work better than 10/11's built-in search. So maybe it's a wash. Still miss Windows sometimes.
At any rate, I did make one change in MacOS which long term Mac users might find heretical. When using my external mechanical keyboard, I have Command mapped to the Control key. Control (which doesn't get used often) mapped to the Windows / Super key. Alt / Option is unchanged.
It's a bit amazing how much easier this made everything. Most of the usual keyboard shortcuts I had in Windows now map 1:1 on my Mac. Which is great for the muscle memory.
I mentioned it above. It does. On my machine (M1) there's sometimes very brief pauses while typing the path. I assume it's doing some sort of validation. And then sometimes there's a brief pause after hitting return. Complete with spinner.
It's not a huge delay in either case. Just a few ms delay. Not really a big deal. But annoying because Explorer is instant and Finder is not.
Go to bookshop.org. Buy the book you want. Then download from libgen or z-library guilt free. If you don't want the hardcopy, you can pass it on to a friend. Start a tiny library in your neighborhood. Or just leave it on a coffeeshop table to entertain some random person.
Bookshop.org is basically a coop organized by booksellers across the country. A local bookstore will fulfill your order and get the proceeds. Your purchase will support local businesses as well as pay the author.
Bookshop does offer ebooks via My Must Reads, but their ebook format looks to be non-standard. Still, you could buy via Bookshop / My Must Reads and still download a friendlier version from libgen, etc. So there's an option which would avoid getting an unwanted physical book while supporting bookshops and authors.
Kobo has a partnership with local bookstores, and supposedly gives them a cut. I don't know much about this, but it might be worth looking into. Kobo DRM is easily stripped so it would be a viable option. But Kobo is at least partially owned by Walmart and that might be something you'd rather not support.
If the fake Rolex was a bit-for-bit, atom-for-atom copy of the original, then it would have the same value as a real Rolex. At that point, there would be no difference that would matter in the slightest.
If what I get by right-clicking is the same as what you get by purchasing an NFT, then there's no difference that matters. Well, there's one difference: I got this image for free and you paid for it.
Get a weather radio if you don't have one. For about 20-40 bucks, you can get one with rechargeable batteries and a charging cradle. Follow the instructions to set it for your regional station. It will wake up and sound the alert for any warnings in your area. Plus you can actively listen to it for the latest storm news.
As long as you still have power & internet, your local tv station will usually stream during weather emergencies. I've done this on more than one stormy day. Sat comfortably on the couch watching one stream on the iPad while another played on the television. Wondering if this was going to be the day when it finally hit.
On your phone, get RadarScope. It's highly worth the 5 or 10 dollars. It's a detailed radar app. Has many different radar products. Can see the usual storm views with warnings outlined. the relative velocity to see the spin. correlation coefficient to determine if there's a debris ball. Etc. Shows the estimated tracking path for storm cells. For the many storms in my area, this has been invaluable.
Probably the most important resource is NOAA's local prediction pages and the Storm Prediction Center (SPC). During storm seasons, the SPC's Convective Outlook is worth checking at least once a day to see if anything's likely in the near future. Plus the mesoscale discussions are useful on the storm day to see how the forecasters think the events will play out.
For local reporting by locals, Twitter is surprisingly useful. Look for a hashtag that contains the two letter abbreviation for your state plus the letters "wx". I follow #kswx for Kansas storms.
Seconding the recommendation for a weather radio. If you get a good one, you can program it with your SAME code (basically a region code) and also select which types of alerts you want it to sound for. I have one next to my bed since we're on the upper level of a 2-story house with it set to only alert on severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings. This gives me confidence that I will be alerted if there's an issue and still have time to make it to the basement.
This is the radio I have, and though I have a few small complaints overall I'm very happy with it:
As a side note, having lived my whole life in the Midwest I've always dealt with tornados and know how they work, and it's shocking how little a lot of other people here seem to know. I guess if you don't have a few tornado watches/warnings a year then you just don't ever learn about them. The amount of ridiculous takes in these comments is really something - you don't find out about tornados before you go to work so you can stay home, or have time when there's a tornado warning to get in your car and go for a drive or anything like that. If you're lucky you have 5-10 minutes notice, but it's common to get only 30 seconds or so of warning. People who live in the Midwest know that when you hear a tornado warning (around here they sound the civil defense sirens, but also weather radio and phone alerts), you go to your place of shelter immediately.
What you say works great in a vacuum. But unfettered hate speech leads to bad places. Just ask the German Jews. Ask a Tutsi how they felt about the hateful radio shows before the genocide started. Imagine what it was like to be a black person in the US facing lynching and pogroms over the misinformation being widely spread.
But, hey, I guess just "conversation" would have solved all of those issues. Because those screaming their hateful messages are just misunderstood people who can be easily reasoned with. And who can call it hate to begin with? After all, calling a group subhuman, and wishing for their daughters to be raped, is just a cultural development no one should interfere with.