emergencyfood

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2 yr. ago

I mentioned those too ('any south Asian alphabet'). But it's okay.

2mo ago

Do you think the Nobel Peace Prize still makes sense? If so, who would you give it to?

Nobel prizes cannot be given to the dead.

2mo ago

Do languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?

I already mentioned those?

2mo ago

Do languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?

Latin (Romaji)

2mo ago

What battle influenced the course of history the most?

Mobei. The Han replaced the Xiongnu as the major power of east Asia, and caused a westward migration of central Asian tribes that would result in the sack of Rome. I made a meme about this a year ago.

2mo ago

Do languages that use non-Latin alphabets (Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew) have upper and lower case letters? What about serif or sans-serif? How do they show emphasis?

Asian

The Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew alphabets are more similar to each other than to any south / southeast Asian alphabet. Chinese and Korean are completely unrelated to this alphabet family (which is of Egyptian origin), or to each other. Japanese has four scripts. So you'll need to be a little more precise than 'Asian'.

To answer your original question, Cyrillic and Greek have upper case, Arabic and Hebrew have cursive which is not exactly the same, and neither Chinese nor south Asian scripts have upper case.

2mo ago

burning petro dollars vs renewable commodities

They just recognized that selling solar pannels and stuff to othercountries is very profitable.

If it was very profitable, countries and companies would be falling over each other to do it.

2mo ago

ARE TANKIES CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML? (2025 edition)

Ah, my eyes!

2mo ago

I'm vooooting!

emergencyfood @sh.itjust.works

because it historically has never done so

This is an extreme position. Yes, the cards are stacked, and yes, the thieves will fight tooth and nail to preserve their privileges, but there have definitely been examples of a certain election result making things better. My country got independence[1], and the British people got public healthcare, because they voted Labour in 1945. We kicked out a strongwoman in 1977, and reined in a strongman last year. These are just examples from my country.

[1] I'm aware that there were other causes as well, but Churchill would probably have tried to hold on even after the British position became logistically and economically unviable.

Memes @lemmy.ml

2mo ago

Character designs

2mo ago

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As far as we know we have not found the colonialism gene, and there is no evidence that Europeans are somehow genetically different at this locus. So we can, at least for now, ignore the possibility that Europeans are inherently evil, or predisposed towards colonialism. Rather, the actions of any people must be understood as a consequence of their circumstances and culture.

due to all that's happened in history, white people today are, while not intrinsically or genetically evil, tainted by the colonialism that has already happened and are therefore more likely to be the exploiters than the exploited due to their historical advantage.

White people are not only the beneficiaries of the colonialism that has already happened, they are often also the beneficiaries of colonialism that is currently happening. The CIA didn't coup random Central American countries because they were bored. The IMF and World Bank don't give loans to African countries for humanitarian reasons.

But human societies are not species and human-human interactions are not strictly ecological. For one, human societies have overarching coordination and collective will that species don't have, and human societies as a whole often show more characteristics akin to a single organism than a species (though even that is apples to oranges)

I feel that the same principles that govern other animals should apply, more or less, to humans too. Although it might be more appropriate to compare human societies to populations of social animals (such as ant colonies or beehives) than to different species.

Does that imply that Imperial China was less evil than Imperial Europe? Or are they just as evil but in a different way (land-based conquest instead of sea based)? Or did they just not have the resources to do what Europe did but absolutely would have if they did? I don't know hence why I'm asking.

I think the difference is that historically China had excellent agricultural land, a relatively modern and stable economy, and was surrounded by poorer and less advanced countries. So people had all the resources they wanted, and had little incentive to go far away. In contrast, Europe was fragmented, with Scotland, the Netherlands and Portugal actually having poor / too little land, and so there was a push for both raw materials and markets.

3mo ago

What exactly is the situation of the Uyghur in China's Xinjiang since 2014 up until now?

As far as I know, no one was forced to change their religion (Uyghurs aren't even the biggest Muslim group in China, that's the Hui) and there was no mass murder. I believe some innocent people who were wrongly suspected of being terrorists were strip-searched, particularly in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.

3mo ago

What exactly is the situation of the Uyghur in China's Xinjiang since 2014 up until now?

Yogthos, Cowbee etc. have given very detailed answers below. From what I know, the things they said are mostly correct. However, one point to note is that a very small minority of Uyghur people, who were influenced by fundamentalist Wahhabi teachings, carried out terrorist attacks against non-Uyghur people in the 2010s. So there was an atmosphere of fear and suspicion against all the Uyghurs, and many innocent people were subjected to searches, arrests, and so on. This has been documented by the UN. Of course, this is not dissimilar to the way Muslims were treated in France or the US after terrorist attacks. In fact, representatives from Muslim countries who visited Xinjiang praised the government's response, as it included a lot of job creation and infrastructure projects to turn people away from extremism.

3mo ago

would you visit an authoritarian country if you had the chance to live there up to 4 weeks for free even if you believe multiparty democracy to be something non negotiable?

Every country is 'authoritarian'. That's pretty much the practical definition of a country - that they, and they alone, can use force within their borders.

If you travel to another country, you should of course consider your own safety, as well as whether that country crosses something you see as a red line. To give an example, I oppose state restrictions on religion (unless they are dangerous to the public), am a republican, and support Palestinian independence. But I would visit France, the UAE or Germany if I got the chance, and I would try to understand why they have those policies (restrictions on Muslims' clothes, monarchy, and ban on criticising Israel). But I would not go to the US, since getting shot by a random madman is not good for health.

3mo ago

Democratic Socialists

This is simplistic. If reform works, do it. If it cannot, use force. Even Marx, if I remember correctly, supported the reformist Chartists in relatively democratic countries like England (while supporting revolutionary methods in feudal Germany).

3mo ago

Donny Boy being honest

Euro won't work. For other countries to use the Euro, they need to have Euro stocks. For this, the EU needs to (1) run a deficit, and (2) manufacture something of value to the rest of the world. But the EU won't run a deficit, and its manufacturing sector is collapsing.

3mo ago

Google Photos app uploaded all my locally saved pictures completely against my will