• yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    in middle school we learned a vulgar definition of imperialism as the ‘exertion of control of a foreign country upon another’, which is excellently vague and incredibly effective since being on twt informs u that nearly nobody in the whole anglosphere has graduated to the higher understanding that that term is practically useless and not at all what most political writers they misquote were speaking about which leads to fun misunderstandings

  • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
    cake
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    3 days ago

    Interesting observation by a port employee in Mexico, apparently the major ports in Mexico have had a surge in traffic by chinese ships, mostly for transboarding. So they’re using these ports mostly as logistics hubs not necesarily dropping containers in Mexico. This was previously done in Panama.

    This is very likely caused by the panama canal fiasco where americans forced panama to break the COSCO contract. That concession lost them a lot of business.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    3 days ago

    There’s this dude at my job who has a son that has been recently diagnosed with autism and he says he doesn’t know how to handle it properly yet as he has no experience with autism. The other day I caught him changing his shoes mid day because he bought new shoes and said ‘yeah I always do this as I have troubles with getting used to new shoe feels often’

    My friend, I may have some news for you

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      3 days ago

      The amount of people who are autistic without realizing it is staggeringly high.

      Hell, I didn’t realize I was autistic for years upon years until I started learning about what autism is and realized I ticked most of the boxes lol.

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    3 days ago

    in somewhat of a study group for history where we have shared doc. libleft girl talking about some horseshoe theory nonsense

  • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    3 days ago

    hi i posted this in wrong thread but i stand by it

    it is true entirely that xitter is filled with bots and it infests almost any avenue you pick, but while i’d only largely heard secondhand stories, scrolling xcancel looking at pop-culture blogs really shocks you because it’s kind of staggering the level of cultural revolution the anglosphere desperately needs in every single facet of life

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    3 days ago

    Sometimes I’m reminded that the French speaking part of the country has a media boycot of the far right. They will not broadcast anything about them, in any way. And as a result, the far right has a very hard time getting their points across over there.