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#China at it again. #Europe tries to do something against the bullish Russia, but theres nothing #EU will do against this fascist dictatorship. Why is it? Human rights seem to have a price like everything else. So much for all those speeches about upholding human rights and democracy. If you got the trade, no one cares about your crimes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-48667221/inside-china-s-thought-transformation-camps

Just came across of some cretins in reddit.com/r/freespeech talking about moving to #fediverse because of the " #censorship" in the bigger platforms like #YouTube and #facebook.

The sinking feeling intensifies.

https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006080122.html

Rahaa tehdään julkisen vallan avulla, mutta varmistetaan turvaa tuovan koneiston köyhtyminen kiertämällä veroja. Etenkin kiukuttaa julkisten toimintojen ulkoistamisesta rahaa kuppaavat yritykset. Työttömät ja eläkeläiset maksavat veroja valtiolta saamista tuloistaan, mutta yritysten ei ilmeisesti tarvitse.

Its not a good look when three biggest powers on this tiny blue dot are ranked so low on the #worldPressFreedomIndex. #USA is at 48, #Russia healthy 101 behind of its cold war rival at 149 and everyones favourite one party dictatorship #China is ranked at cool 177 (last one is #Turkmenistan at 180)

#ffs #wtf #democracy #journalism #rsf

2018 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders is out! #Norway is number one again, #Finland is second and #Sweden is third. Northern countries are dominating!

The land of the free #USA is right down there at 48th between #Romania and #Senegal. Go figure.

https://rsf.org/en/ranking

#worldpressfreedomindex #reporterswithoutborders #rsf #journalism #pressfreedom

Olihan ralli! #persut ovat todella lähellä suomen suurimman puolueen paikkaa ja toisaalta vihertävät puolueetkin saivat kovan tuloksen.

Nyt ovet kiinni, niin pääsee sedät vääntään diiliä.

https://newsnowfinland.fi/videos/political-hate-speech-targets-immigrant-candidates

"What is #hatespeech?"
*shows the video.
"Okay. Yeah. But those are just trolls"
*facepalm

#ilmastomarssi #helsinki #nytonpakko #ilmastovaalit

Turhauttavaa. Gallup-johtaja #SDP ottanut sivun Sipilän pelikirjasta, eikä sano mistään mitään.

#Kokoomus, wanha työväenpuolue ei sano ilmastonmuutoksesta mitään, koska autot kuuluu teille ja savut tehtaiden piippuun.

Ja #keskusta pettää aina. Luulisi kaikkien jo ymmärtäneen, kun Sipilä vanha dramaturgi kyselemättä tovereiltaan otti ja erotti hallituksen varmistaakseen edes jonkinlaisen vaalimenestyksen.

#eduskuntavaalit2019 #vaalit2019

https://www.apnews.com/9d43f4b74260411797043ddd391c13d8

Full blown fascist nation larping communism does the #blackmirror.

Can the democratic nations just please shut this shit show down and exclude them from everything? Oh, theres loads of money to be made? No worries then. Carry on.

#china #socialcredit #fascism #surveillance

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/matteo-salvini-russia-italy/ arent these far-right people at all wondering why the non-eu nation run by billionaire crooks just happens to support them? Especially when those crooks try to do it in secret.

I need that "Are we the baddies?" gif.

https://cryptopals.com/ can some of you with more in depth knowledge of #crypto, #cryptography, #encryption let the rest of us know if this is actually useful?

Loving the new look of #matrix #riotapp.

I'm not sure if learning #programming should be this unpleasant. I'm hoping that once I can actually contribute and make something with real life use I might enjoy this more.

Right people?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote putting the technical side (how to actually organize the vote) on the side for the minute, who can tell me why plurality voting is still more widely used than single transferable voting?

To me, this seems like the best way to do the whole democracy thing. Your vote wouldn't feel so wasted.

#singletransferablevoting #democracy #poll

I just found my beloved #N900. Could any of the good people at #pine64 or #librem think about shipping their mobile devices with cool and useful keyboards like in the N900?