Ehh not really.

Economically: The pro China ones can sometimes be pro market-ish. However, I’ve seen some of them talk about how Xi Jinping is making China have a more and more planned economy day by day. As for the pro USSR n North Korea ones, I’ve seen them range from hard anti-market to having teeny tiny sympathy for a very small, heavily state controlled market.

Socially: I’ve seen many trans ppl on hexbear. Aaaand I’ve also seen ppl claim transgenderism itself to being bourgeoisie manufactured fake science to distract the population from the real issue- class warfare. HOWEVER, I have seen none of them defending religious beliefs or ideals.

Therefore, the only thing similar that they share with right wingers, is that their political structures would over time evolve into stateful, classful, authoritarian systems.

Oh, and yeah- they both really love strongmen…

I’m curious what the dragon on the right sounds like. A little growl or a big growl?

I have an OLED screen though. It gets really really dim, plus the black background is as dark as it can get. But again, I guess it’s that additional luxury.

E readers are definitely not worse than my phone. They most definitely are better (even if the difference isn’t that significant). Therefore, if money was not a concern, I would get one too ig!

Yeah, I get the short lines issue. It’s especially a problem for me for books with figures in them (like textbooks). Too much of scrolling necessary there.

For normal mostly text based stuff, it’s alright for me. But again, I do have a large-ish phone. So ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Ah, so u have an LCD screen? Have u tried OLED screens? There’s no backlight.

I never got the point of eReaders tbh. I mean sure, they look exactly like paper n stuff, but what’s wrong with ur phone?

I read on my phone with a black background and white-gray text. It’s really comfortable, and I don’t need to buy and charge extra devices. Really curious to know why you guys don’t do something like this.

Individual Spartans didn’t have slaves (like other nations, where individuals owned slaves). Instead, the Spartan military state owned all slaves called “Helots”. So yeah, the movie 300 is very far from reality.

Trying to approach you in good faith here.

Why downvote? It’s just a joke, right? No one’s promoting Christianity here.

We were taught mx+b and ß0 + ß1x

Le Frenchman

Exactly, which is why they’re doing performative shit like this

I have planned on not running as well.

Problem: Higher childhood depression rates linked to social media usage, social media caused disruption in education (like usage in schools), privacy violation of minors, etc.

An enforceable, common sense solution: Very strict privacy protection laws, that would end up protecting everybody, including minors. Better, kid friendly urban infrastructure like dedicated bike paths protected from car traffic, better pedestrian areas, parks and so on. Kids will get outside their house if there is a kid friendly outside. A greener, more human friendly outside where you can socialize with other humans would always be preferred over doom scrolling online. For the disruption in education issue, it is very education system dependent.

What solution these people came up with: Make it illegal for individuals under the age of 16 to create social media accounts. How do they enforce this? No idea. Does this solve any of the above problems? No. Is this performative? Yes.

Speaking from personal experience, social media was one of the most liberating tools for me as a kid. I lived in a shitty, conservative country and was gay. Social media told me that I wasn’t disgusting. I was always more of a lurker than a poster, so I thankfully didn’t really experience being contacted by groomers and so on. However, many of my friends who posted their images and stuff almost always got pedos in their DMs, so that’s a very real issue.

I could ask my silly little questions related to astrophysics on Reddit and get really good answers. Noone around me irl was ever interested/able to talk about stuff like this. I could explore different political ideologies, get into related servers on Discord and learn more about this. None of this was possible without social media.

Banning social media outright is such a boomer move lol. Doing so isn’t going to solve any real problems associated with childhood social media usage. It’s just going to give the jackass parents complaining about this a false sense of security, when the kids still end up suffering.

No. U look wise

That’s what Indian news sites look like lol. As for credibility, almost none of them really meet the mark (including the ones unsympathetic to the Modi government).

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Wow, a really interesting project! Fuck the haters OP! Checking it out rn!

N he had to see Darth MacDonalds get reelected :(

Aww so cuteee

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