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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I went to check and Wikipedia is linking the wayback machine's version of the guardian article. Fair enough.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

What hitmen don't want you 🫵 to know!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why doesn't Wikipedia have it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That's the exact problem. Corporations aren't people. They might be run by people, but they are a concept of their own, that create a very twister social dynamic where the people that run them have certain feeling of obligation but also a sense of irresponsibility. Because the "corporation", or the embodiment of the abstract end of maximizing profit, takes responsibility for the employees'. Mostly culturally, but even in many ways legally too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Maybe could have framed this "non-US TV shows". Now you're inviting the majority if users to just tell you their favorite US series 🤷

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How about Cuba, then?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tbh seriously, I think reading "PHP & MySQL in de praktijk" (PHP & MySQL in practice) must have had the most impact on my life. It definitely kickstarted my interest in programming.

Other than technical books, I thought "Testament Of Youth", about the 1st world was, was pretty profound.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think it's mostly the uther lack of consideration for the locals at the time. Europeans went there with the explicit aim to "conquer" and loot a continent that was inhabited by dozens if not hundreds of societies. They went there, killed, raped and enslaved hundreds of thousands of people. Can't imagine to hear anyone defend that kind of behavior.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I doubt any of these examples have anything to do with reading comprehension problems..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's dangerous to confuse a national identity with an ethnic one. But I grant you, it's nations who are at fault with claiming the terms and other ones by acknowledging them.

But aside from that (and I just wonder), is there such a thing as a Chinese ethnicity? I always imagined China was pretty diverse, ethnic-wise. With the northern mountain people, the coastal people the western people (I don't know names or terms) being quite different from one another.. Is that not true?

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