I watched those 2 channels some time ago too. I think they’ve become more and more CCP-critical over time though. I remember their videos almost 10 years ago being quite uncritical. They definitely couldn’t put their current content out if they still lived in China.

I think the crux of it is though that they were Youtubers, their critical views were for outsiders/foreigners, not for the average Chinese douyin/youkou user and as such were less relevant for 公安. Chinese people couldn’t watch those if they weren’t using a VPN.

In the same vein, if you were making death threats against the current administration you’ll likely get in trouble if you do it on Facebook or TruthSocial. But it would most likely fly completely under the radar if you did it in Mandarin and posted it on TikTok/Douyin. Censors can’t censor what flies over their head.

(As a German living here) I doubt it. It’s bad but it’s still not China-level bad - and even in China they don’t arrest literally everyone. If you’re a foreign national living in the US however, you should be a bit more careful.

There’s only 3-4 big EU-Eurozone-Europe ETFs, I’m sure you can figure out which one suits you in about 10 minutes research 😅 At least that’s how long it took me to decide what to swap my VOO for.

I don’t think that’s quite right. Products here usually always have their country of origin either on the product label itself or on the price label if it’s unpackaged produce. Sure, it’s extremely easy to pick the made-in-China garlic at a grocery store thinking it was grown in Germany, but usually you find a European-alternative for, in this case garlic, in the organic/Bio section.

This was a thing even into the mid 2000s in my household :)

That’s cool and all but I don’t think there’s a drug in existence which can make that webpage make sense. It’s like an HTML-CSS-fever dream

Insane headline, considering the article. Didn’t expect such a bad take from the Kyiv Independent.

Not surprised at all that not a single Chinese company has exited the Russian market. Quite shocked however, that over 200 German SMEs still haven’t exited the Russian market.

Seems like the AI bubble is finally global now 😂

And another one

Yes, I use an HHKB (60%) and I love it. You can press fn+4 different keys to get the same result as arrow keys and it’s actually better than traditional arrow keys in that your right hand doesn’t have to move away from the home row. There’s a also other lovely details such as [Caps lock] being replaced by [Ctrl] great if you work a lot with Emacs or Unix terminals in general. Oh and them Topre switches 😮‍💨

Gotta correct you there. The internet has its roots in the 1970s Arpanet (and maybe even earlier projects). You’re thinking of the World Wide Web (Webpages, HTML, HTTP) that came with Tim-Berners Lee but is built upon the pre-existing internet structures and services.

Doing great 😆