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Reply to comment by neku in i think it's important we consider privacy as an important social justice issue. (CW for fascism, lotsa things) by twovests
hey sorry for not reading this or replying to this yet, things have gotten wild very quickly in my life just recently, and this is something i definitely want to read. i appreciate the source
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Reply to comment by neku in i think it's important we consider privacy as an important social justice issue. (CW for fascism, lotsa things) by twovests
can you provide more details here? i didn't know about this and i can't find a lot of details supporting that, and i definitely want to know more
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Reply to comment by neku in i think it's important we consider privacy as an important social justice issue. (CW for fascism, lotsa things) by twovests
i agree that it sounds very wild
TLDR: It sounds wild but is true. Just google "organ harvesting falun gong" and "organ harvesting uyghur". I focused too much on Uyghur people, the Falun Gong have been and still are also having their organs harvested.
First: Concentration camps for the Uyghur ethnic group (an extreme minority ethnic group which is mostly Muslim) (is most definitely a thing)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps], and (1)there's (2)plenty (3)of (4)research into facial ethnicity recognition and into recognition of Uyghur faces in particular.
Uyghur people make up less than 1% of the China population, but nearly half of people in Xinjiang are Uyghur. Xinjiang has a higher amount of surveillance than the rest of China, and anybody who enters the region has to consent to having a spyware app installed to their phone.
Finally, regarding organ harvesting, the most egregious claim: There's a well-known less-recent history of organ harvesting from other political prisoners, most notably the Falun Gong. The "reliance on death row inmates" for organ harvesting was supposedly ending around 2014.
Reports on systematic organ harvesting from Falun Gong prisoners first emerged in 2006, though the practice is thought by some to have started six years earlier.
Further down in the article,
Based on his research, Gutmann concluded that organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience became prevalent in the northwestern province of Xinjiang during the 1990s, when members of the Uyghur ethnic group were targeted in security crackdowns and “strike hard campaigns.”
I.e. If this is correct, they were harvesting organs from Uyghur people (who are mostly Muslim) and switched to Falun Gong around 1999.
So, aside from all this history, there are more recent reports that organs are still being harvested from prisoners. This is following an investigation that was released publicly, at ChinaTribunal
I focused too much on Uyghur people, but reading into this, the Falun Gong still are and have been being focused on. I was focused on the Uyghur people because of the amount of ML publications I saw regarding facial recognition of Uyghur people.
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Elon Musk Hired A Convicted Felon To Dig Up Dirt On The Cave Rescuer by mm_
to be fair i do this too but only ironically
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Reply to WHATS UP ITS TIME FOR SKELLOWEEN by hollyhoppet
YES
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Explanation for people who don't hate themselves:
fsck
is a Linux utility called "Filesystem check", which can be used to fix a broken filesystem (or seriously seriously damage it)
fsck -y
(where -y
means "yes, fix this") automatically says "yes, fix this issue" rather than having you answer 10000 yes or no questions
the feeling when you do stupid, stupid, stupid things, but are able to fix it in just a few minutes?
fsck yes
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Reply to comment by Dogmantra in God I'm thankful for jstpst by twovests
u r valid
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Reply to the mattering is occurring by devtesla
stay excited with me!! i've been excited for years. we're on the proper timeline for impeachment, and even though it's unlikely to come to fruition, it's still good for continuing investigations.
it's a real fucking shame that the only thing that matters is when trump hurts the other rich and powerful, but let's hope he continues.
but i have a feeling trump would step down or something before he were to get impeached. he's an extremely useful symbol of oppression and a symbol of rallying for white supremacists and that symbol would take a great blow if he was impeached.
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ok but is this take serious? i'm not familiar with this person
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Reply to comment by missingno in Reconciling Stallman's philosophies with him being A Pretty Gross Person to others by twovests
this is one very good take
thank you hatsune miku for emacs
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Reply to I removed a Nick Robinson video cause fuck him but it was about Rusty's Real Deal Baseball which I should mention is a fucking great game by devtesla
Oh man I didn't know anything about this guy
Context for those who didn't know, because I had to Google it: 2017 sexual harrassment controversy, I can't easily find a lot of info on this though
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Reply to Official Just Post Appreciation Post by flabberghaster
i appreciate jstpst a lot and i'm really happy to be in this place
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by BIG_RAIN_THUNDERSTORM in You need to start using password managers and 2FA by twovests
big and absolute truth
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Reply to Summary of the Stallman controversy (CW: Gross dudes, Epstein controversy, pedophilia) by twovests
Thanks to the power of open source, we can publish forks of our favorite open source software under a pseudonym
so we can truly say hatsune miku created emacs
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Reply to Richard Stallman is at it again. by flabberghaster
Not sure if "at it again" refers to ANOTHER fresh piece of Gross News, or to this, which unfolded over the past few days. I'd provide context in this comment, but it includes some uncomfortable discussion (specifically w.r.t. pedophilia) so I'll make a fresh post for it.
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in the live action fairy odd parents movie, starring Drake Bell as 23 year old NEET 5th-grader Timmy Turner, is a whole fuckin trip by twovests
sorry for corrupting ur soul
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Reply to comment by Volt in imposter syndrome rant by twovests
i don't mean to say that i'm an "imposter", more that it's like... really annoying to hear people talk about it and diagnose it to others (including me)
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Undeniable Metroid opinions by twovests
thank you
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Reply to still can't believe OVERTIME is a game that exists: Team Fortress prequel game / Undertale recreation. It's a full game with three routes and entirely free. by twovests
Also, for those who thought Sans was too easy,
:^)
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Reply to comment by devtesla in Undeniable Metroid opinions by twovests
I hadn't thought about the market appeal like that (the need to make games longer.)
Re: Samus Returns, I liked the game a lot (but preferred AM2R -- I'm a big fan of Fusion and Zero Mission.) I gotta play Tropical Freeze eventually
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Reply to comment by musou in Firefox 69 has been released by emma
nice
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Reply to introducing the new sony playstation by hollyhoppet
that was a fuckin amazing song!!! i bet it comes from an amazing game!
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in You need to start using password managers and 2FA by twovests
you lied :(
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Reply to comment by voxpoplar in Mullvad is a VPN that costs $6/mo, is very easy to use, and logs nothing. I recommend it to anyone needing a VPN. by twovests
mullvad seems good enough to me
if i should believe what they say, then they're good as fuck