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Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:32AM (#34710503)
> You literally described isolated instances of major social networks

No. It's the current state of social media. Go to youtube and look up tiktok videos. Go to tiktok and look up youtube videos. Neither are banned and yet people cross post.

> Here's a hint, if your premise starts with "make your own Twitter", it can't end with "you can collaborate across these independent networks by copying and pasting your thoughts" and somehow call it not isolated.

That's how twitter currently works. It's how memes from reddit end up on twitter and vice versa.

I'm describing how the internet works and has always worked. What do you think "inter" in internet means? That's what I want social media to become.

Using your logic, we should only have 1 social media company. Otherwise, we can't communicate with each other.

Here's a hint, posts from other social and traditional media end up on HN. Amazing huh? The more networks we have, ultimately the more diversity and more connections. That was the point of the "inter"net.

Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:22AM (#34710309)
Since when is saying countries should have their own social media platforms "racist"? You think it was "racist" for europe to develop airbus? You think a nation should rely on a foreign power for their social media needs? You think a nation should let a foreign power control their electricity?

Saying nations should empower themselves isn't "racism". It's the opposite of racism.

Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:08AM (#34710047)
> because we like to talk to americans?

You think that's what twitter is? Most of us don't use twitter.

> that s like the kid that grabs all the toys for himself, and then has nobody to play with

No. It's more like the poor kid that has no toys and has to beg rich kids for their toys to play with. Wouldn't you want the poor kid to have his own toys? Also, having his own toys would make it more likely that other kids with toys will play with him.

You misunderstood my point. There is a reason why I said social media should be a network of networks, aka the "inter"net. Once turkey and other nations have their own twitter and social media, they can connect to each other. Or you can copy paste things from other "networks" to yours and share that way. There are tons of tiktok videos on youtube and vice versa. Just because you are in your own network doesn't mean you will be isolated.

Given the amount of investment and progress made so far, I suspect it will pass by the end of the decade. That doesn't mean we would have a sentient AI or AGI. If we did, that would be a truly revolutionary moment. Like the discovery of fire or the wheel.
Re:Honest guide to Vanlife in Japan after a year on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:53AM (#34694336)
I don't buy it. What do buses and RVs with toilets do in japan? If it is that difficult to dump trash, then what do these guys do with their soiled diapers? Certainly there has to be better options than wearing diapers.
Re:Ask HN: Is It Age, or Am I Losing Interest in Programming? on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:46AM (#34694268)
Work is boring, repetitive and soul sucking. That's why they pay you to stick around. Otherwise, everyone would be doing it for free.

Unless you have better options, just stick it out. Eventually you'll get used to it and become the soulless robotic 50/60 year olds you see at work. Better than being homeless.

If you think about it, humans were never meant to be living and working the way we do. No more than livestock in industrial farms. It's why we are so drugged up, distracted and unhappy.

Re:Honest guide to Vanlife in Japan after a year on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:37AM (#34694156)
Agreed. Why not install a toilet in the van? I remember watching videos where peopled installed toilets in their van. Didn't seem too complicated.
> FWIW, China's neighbors in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines don't appear to share your characterization of the situation.

All those countries have been invaded and/or occupied by the US. The US is the brutal foreign colonizer in asia, not china. China didn't nuke japan, the worst act not only in ww2 but in human history. The US did.

> Neither do Australia, India, or Indonesia.

Australia is for obvious reasons. India joined the SCO. Notice how nobody talks about "the quad" or indo-pacific anymore? And Indonesia is part of Belt and Road. Australia is historically more of an enemy of India or Indonesia than china is.

The fact of the matter is that most asian nations don't want to antagonize the biggest racist bully in the region - the US. Once they get strong enough, things will change. Everything we project onto china, we are guilty of. It's amazing how the white supremacist nation that butchered and brutalized tens of millions of asians are made to be the good guys.

If china is such a threat, why don't we let these countries get nuclear weapons. Then they won't need our protection. Oh that's right, we dare not let these countries get nukes because the first target on their list would be the "good guys". Who sanctioned india when india went nuclear? Certainly china right? Nope, it was the "good guys".

Nobody has a free media market. China isn't unique in this. You think Top Gun, ww2/holocaust movies, etc are from a "free media" market? You think all the anti-japanese, anti-soviet, anti-chinese, anti-muslim, etc media during the past 100 years was from a "free media" market? The media is how you control the population. You think the elites don't control it?

Everyone accuses china of copying and stealing from the US. Looks like they are copying hollywood.