If you’re seeing this, you’re full of shit :)

The world is not black and white but all three are very far on the white side. “Centrist” is one of the biggest misnomers of all time. Truly left wing parties don’t exist in the West so our “centre” is nowhere near the centre.

Most of the anti-LGBTQ+ rethoric in AES countries is cultural and has existed long before socialism, not due to socialism. Can’t speak for other cultures but as a Chinese immigrant in Canada, I’ve never met more LGBTQ+ phobic people than anticommunist Chinese immigrants, namely older ones. That’s literally their biggest complaint about Canadian culture and they compare it to the communism they “escaped” all the time. Word for word what your white boomer uncle says but with some of that toxic “if you dare disagree with your elders you’re the scum of the earth” traditional Chinese mentality sprinkled in.

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Workers trying to defeat the King Koopa

but it still feels like the a lot of their cultural exports haven’t cracked the “just exotic enough for broad global appeal” that big-brand anime or K-pop have hit.

Because China doesn’t give a shit about what Westerners think of their media. Most Japanese and Korean media, certainly the big name big budget ones, are very intentional and strategic about capturing the Western market because it’s part of their business model and they depend on Western revenue to get a sufficient return. I’m part of the Chinese diaspora and my parents have to VPN into China or rely on pirate reuploads hosted on YouTube or otherwise outside China just to watch their favourite shows because the Western entertainment market is irrelevant to the producing companies.

Same with games actually. Genshin and similar are specifically designed for the Western market and AFAIK isn’t even a drop in the bucket compared to the ecosystem of Chinese domestic games that you’ve never heard of because they don’t get marketed anywhere else. China really doesn’t give nearly as much of a shit about pop culture “influence” beyond its borders as most Western countries do.

Sydney Sweeny has great genes ⚡⚡

Because people who brag about that have historically always defeated the commies. Yep, always.

OpenAI’s vastly inferior LLM sends its regards

No, that’s definitely alpha behaviour. Your scheduler is poorly optimised because it’s the first build that managed to compile.

I’d imagine Rust’s strict enforcement of a few specific patterns makes the assembly more predictable than C/++ where you can do literally anything?

From bird’s eye chile to habanero

Wears fur coat alone is Scumbag Steve worthy.

Interestingly, developers in ecosystems like Go, Rust, and those utilizing native Web APIs—where robust standard libraries drastically reduce reliance on third-party code and strict cryptographic verification is built into the core toolchain

Does NPM really not do cryptographic verification or is this part of the joke? I always assumed the attacks were due to a compromised key or something, but this is implying you can just push whatever you want to an NPM package if you have the author’s login?

Japanese because Kanji which is still used everywhere doesn’t give information on how it’s pronounced. Learning to read and especially write them is much more difficult than Spanish spelling rules. Same problem as the language Kanji came from, Chinese. Source: Chinese immigrant who’s fluent in speaking Chinese but can’t read it. Japanese does have an advantage over Chinese in that it actually has character sets that give pronunciation information though. Presumably you can at least just write in one of the two phonetic character sets and people will understand you okay but I’m not quite sure how the combination of character sets work in practice.

This is why the more I think about it, the less I’m afraid of AGI. I mean, if the super basic non-thinking AI we have now, developed by capitalists and programmed to be loyal to the bourgeoisie, ends up like this.

Also, Chinese cities don’t give a shit if you decorate the outside of your unit. HOAs do.

Literally kind of term the Ferengi from Star Trek would use.

Literally one of the first complaints libs have about Chinese cities is “copy paste skyscrapers everywhere.” They have some variety in parts of the city but most of the residential areas are still “boring” and “homogeneous” and “designed to kill individualism” according to Western internet geniuses.

Minimalism in GUIs, maybe (still, give me CLI any day). But minimalism in housing and infrastructure is absolutely critical and they are absolutely not equal to software. We need to be as efficient as we can because I don’t know if the author has noticed the state of housing in the world. How many more “boring, dull” buildings could be built for the same price? How many more if we copy pasted the same designs instead of demanding everything be unique? (But god forbid they be too different from the existing style or else the NIMBYs protesting minimalist buildings complain about that too.) The people who “prefer” the visually complex building have never been homeless in the back alley of that building before, nor have they ever been priced out of their neighbourhood by gentrification when their boring gray building gets torn down to build the pretty building.

Wouldn’t intelligence also be a material condition? How your brain is wired plays a significant role in how it interacts with the environment, so if humans evolved with a more intelligent brain it would significantly alter our trajectory from early civilisations, no? Would probably also kick off civilisations much earlier.