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Cake day: September 6th, 2023

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  • I use it as a daily driver, but sometimes it’s do slow I want to use chromium (cromite) again. I have a website open, I turn off the screen and immediately turn it back on, and the page takes several seconds to load again. And sometimes, it doesn’t even load at all and it’s just grey. Same thing happens when I switch to another app from Mull. It’s annoying, but the extensions and privacy are still worth it.


















  • I know that powerful governments operate various illegal places in other countries to serve their needs. China even admitted operating some illegal “police stations” in my country after they shut those down themselfs, and I have no doubts taht the USA does similar things. However, I haven’t found any sources about this place being operated by US government. Maybe I’m bad at research, but no one from those claiming it was that provided any source either. The person in the second screenshot even says that they’re just guessing. When I see my government, or US government, or the EU, do some bullshit, I don’t immediately start thinking about how it was actually a move to defend from Chinese or Russian forces.

    It’s was the same in the thread I mentioned about China blocking access to lemmy.ml: there were definitely even some hexbear users criticizing China’s censorship, but there were also multiple tankies writing essays about how the censoring is actually necessary because of capitalist propaganda (is lemmy.ml an US propaganda website?) and just doing all sorts of mental gymnastics to justify it. I know I’m using the words “mental gymnastics” too much now, but I just can’t see any better naming for some of the comments out there. So, it’s not just about this particular LGBT center, it’s about this mentality of trying to come up with any reason of why the (usually Chinese) government is actually doing good thing. Isn’t that the ultimate win of propaganda, when people no longer need government to falsely justify it’s actions, because they do the justification themselves?