DPRK Explained’s videos are great! He talks about North Korea like a normal, regular country. The North Korean music he finds (posted on DPRK Explained Music) are always quite relaxing.

I believe he has successfully changed his stance to be more critical of Israel: https://youtu.be/_OlKGD0_19E

This paragraph is hilarious:

This programme is cogent as a national strategy, but unfriendly to financial investors. The emphasis on investment means that supply will always run ahead of demand, leading to deflationary pressure, which is bad for corporate profits. Even the favoured high-tech sectors face intense competition that will erode margins.

In normal language: According to western economists, investing in manufacturing is bad because it decreases prices (as goods become easier and faster to manufacture) and increases competition (due to more goods being made), making price gouging harder.

This is a textbook case of the falling rate of profit due to capital investment.

Good stuff. This video raised a debate on r/TheDeprogram over GDF’S supposed ‘antisemitism’ based on his comment section.

I don’t really see anything particularly antisemitic with the video though. GDF’s overall argument is that, while today the USA wholeheartedly backs Israel because the relationship is mutually beneficial, early in Israel’s existence this was much murkier. Thus there was a need for the Zionist lobby to forcefully align US interests with those of Israel.

If we had real foresight before WW2, we should have convinced Hitler to invade Zionist Israel. Have the fascists annihilate each other. If the only thing the Nazis cared about was ‘fighting world Jewry’, the logical thing to do would be to invade Israel, the center of it all.

Of course, this never happened because:

• hating Jews was only tangential to the Nazis’ real purpose of defending capital
• Nazis and Zionists collaborated.

We only single out the Jewish genocide because 😱 they were white! None of the other genocided peoples are white, so it’s OK.

Thanks for writing this. I watched that video a while ago and was fuming from the number of times Brian blames China for something the US itself did before as well.

Brian seems to believe that 1) whatever the US space program does is good while whatever China does is bad, and 2) China can magically and immediately adopt the US’s best space tech, and that China deliberately doesn’t because communists want people to suffer.

The anti-satellite weapons complaint is particularly eregious. The USA, India, China, and Russia have all tested anti-satellite weapons, yet Westoids only complain about China and Russia. As with nukes, all strong military powers need anti-satellite capabilities for the same reasons. In fact, anti-satellite weapons are often adapted for anti-ICBM uses as well. Live testing is the only way to make sure they work.

The ‘rocket first stages falling from the sky’ point is only a problem with China’s current expendable rocket tech. China has several reusable rocket startups (see Dongfang Space for more info) and once they are up and running, the first stages will be able to do controlled landings instead.

Similarly, hypergolic fuels are simple and just work, making them great for initial rockets in a resource-strapped country like pre-2000s China. Now that China has more money and research talent, it is shifting to less toxic propellants like methane and kerosene.

To him, ‘checking biases’ means opening Ground News and adding every ‘China bad’ fact he can find that’s even spuriously related to space into the video script.

China has a pretty vibrant yuri manga (called manhua) scene, and I guess that is soaking into the new Chinese anime (donghua) scene as well.

Mihoyo is pretty notorious for making a lot of their female characters super gay. For example, in their pre-Genshin game, Honkai Impact 3rd, nearly all the original main girls are gay for one another.

This looks awesome! Here’s the art source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/77055903

Yeah, it’s the only way to get any papers post-2020 other than traveling to the nearest college library. You just paste the papers’ doi in the search box.

Its been invaluable for my own research papers.

This project is amazing and arguably even more ambitious then scihub. Their goal is to get their entire library onto IPFS (basically torrenting for webpages) so that the library is impossible to take down and so users can self-host the Nexus client.

It seems impossible for Western fascists to comprehend that most people don’t have the primal urge to invade and genocide everyone around them once their country is strong.

I think Huawei’s talking about their new triple-folding phone, the Mate XT. The phone unfolds like a z-fold brochure from a regular phone into an iPad.

This triple folding finally lets folding phones match real tablet sizes, which might make them finally an attractive option for consumers who want to merge their phone and iPad into one.

At this point, Palestine has the right to nuke Israel if they could. Equivalent retaliation for the bombs.

This event is quite a blatant attempt by NATO to pressure Telegram into giving them a backdoor, which is a good sign that they didn’t have access previously.

One must ask why Signal, Matrix/Element, Session, and Tor haven’t faced such attacks despite being based in Western countries.

For example, Tor is developed by the US government to protect their spies, and was opened to the public to shield spy web traffic.

Are there any true anti-imperialist alternatives? For instance, Wechat is made in China, but doesn’t have any mechanisms to protect user info.

Agree. As parents get richer, their methods always seem to be ‘better’ simply because they have more time and money to invest in their kids. People always talk about how parents should give their kids ‘enriching childhoods’, but completely ignore that enrichment costs shittons of money.

This is a great article. Cross comparisons like these are excellent tools for revealing blatant media bias.

Oh, just an annoying marketing stunt. Capitalism distracts me once again.

I’m swapping to a brand new Samsung in a couple months. I need the S Pen for school. I don’t think an alternate privatevOS exists for it 😭.

Shiiiit. My mobile is in the vulnerable demographic. Time to see if Google will patch this out.