Chana [none/use name] @ Chana @hexbear.net

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They are probably orientalist racists. Deprogramming this will be challenging. I would start them on a path of media criticism, like reading FAIR.org articles.

"Gonna be better" doesn't mean anything when they are not discernable qualities. Not even worth arguing about whether one is or not, it is throwing money away.

And yes a USB-C to 3.5 mm with a half-decent DAC in it, which you can get for $15, will sound just as good unless you are in a perfectly silent room with electrostatics or something. At which point you don't want or need something portable.

With what army?

"But it was a definite attack on them [Ukrainians] as they were discriminated against as far as death went." This phrase directly conveys the intent to destroy a group, which is the core of the genocide definition.

No it doesn't.

Stop trying to let LLMs think for you. They are regurgitation and pattern machines, not thinking ones. In this quote, Conquest is implying a larger proportion of Ukrainians died than Russian. That's it. That he explicitly rejects using the word genocide when he embraced it before shows his distancing himself from his prior exaggerative claims.

If you can't engage in good faith, you should leave and ask yourself what you're so afraid of that you can't even think or discuss these topics.

Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Basic Books, 2010. (Snyder builds upon Conquest's work and largely affirms the genocidal intent).

Snyder us, to put it mildly, a dumbass. This is the guy parading around liberal circles about leaving the country because he is a self-labeled expert on "authoritarianism" and he thinks he, a privileged old white professor, is somehow at risk. His mind is deeply confused about the most trivial aspects of the topic about which he is supposesly an expert. Regarding the "holodomor", he famously avoided critically engaging with literally anything in the Soviet Archives, Wheatcroft & Davies main thrusts, or Mark Tauger. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an academically dishonest ideologue, something you will become very familiar with if you ever try to actually learn this topic rather than trusting an LLM to regurgitare bullshit for you to swallow like a helpless baby bird.

Suffice it to say, Snyder is lazy and incorrect in his guesswork on intent.

Applebaum, Anne. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. Doubleday, 2017. (Applebaum extensively cites and acknowledges Conquest's pioneering role, and her own work comes to a similar conclusion regarding genocide).

Applebaum is a hack and nobody respects her work except the ignorant and/or ideological and dishonest. Her book was written for a pop audience to push a message and is not a scholarlt work. The sources she cites frequently say the exact opposite of what she claims they do in the citation. Applebaum is an ideologue who is also part of the council on foreign relations and who lied about an pushed for the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, an act that killed roughly a million people directly and through destruction of infrastructures. She does not care about mass murder. She is the poster child of ghoulish liberals and, again, in no way a historian.

Sysyn, Frank E. "Thirty Years of Research on the Holodomor: A Balance Sheet." East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies. (how Conquest's work held up to new evidence and his continued stance).

Is that so?

Come on, we all know you haven't actually read any of these citations. Be honest.

"They" as a neutral pronoun predates using "he" for everything and has been considered more proper for a long time - except among losers.

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Haha get fucked Netherlands

They're really not worth it. A $15 USB-C dongle and a smartphone will put out audio quality better than almost any audiophile's headphones can discern.

Also you can get DAPs for like $50-$100 that will be the same type of deal: indiscernable.

Best country for slapping a French guy by far.

Since others have already provided resources, I'll take a different angle: why do you want this? Is it for education of friendlies, presentation to a hostile audience? Irl or online?

Dumping links is useful for shutting up some people who will never read them anyways but usually won't educate, for example. And some people need a rhetorical aporoach more than an informative one.

i agree not all, but the Han people have been using these techniques for thousands of years

No they haven't and China is an actual multiethnic country, not an ethnic supremacist country premised on settler colonial genocide like yours.

You wish Han were like white people because it means white supremacy has less guilt. This is itself a white supremacist way of thinking and you're told to believe in it to remain consenting to anti-China actions that are tajen by your vassal state.

no culture or people have clean hands, that is just the human experience.

Whataboutism, eh? Only yours is actually meant to ahistorically flatten the crimes of Eurocentric capitalism and falsely equate it to unspecified "Han" crimes. But I bet you couldn't even give a definition of "Han" without looking it up.

By even implying these are issues with China you have already provided a perspective. Everyone can see it and it is a perspective that has hoovered up propaganda.

a trade war that has been continuing for over 20 years

Pushed by your country every single time.

extremely high property prices

Your housing is financialized. This is capitalism in your country functioning per capitalists' intentions.

continually being sold to foreign investment firms

This is a consequence of financialization. But you're supposed to be talking about China, right? Why don't you show us a breakdown of the percentage of your country's real estate is foreign-owned and by country?

Anglos have been scapegoating other countries for their financialized real estare bubbles to take the heat off their own financial capitalists, i.e. the people actually doing the deed.

an agricultural industry formally based upon small business family farms now being funnelled into a few small foreign hands

You used that word again - foreign. Is everything foreign China?

PS your country's agricultural industry has monopolized for ages, you're describing a myth that hasn't been true since the 70s.

a loss in political influence over our neighbours due to a global superpower pushing us out

Why does your country deserve political influence over its neighbors! What has it actually done with that influence? Ever done any investigation of, say, East Timor?

an education system focused on providing greater care for exchange students than educating an increasingly stupid at home population

Oh so you're just a xenophobe and likely racist. Go ahead and show your math on that one, O Great Working Class Appreciator.

would you like me to go on?

I'd rather you grew a spine and stopped pretending at knowledge.

edit: also my favourite, random military drills in nearby waters without warning leading to passenger flights being diverted so they dont get shot down

Just think critically. Just for a moment. These were "warships". Their live fire is basically big guns. How high to passenger aircraft fly? Put on your thinking cwhataboutismon't want to get all wgataboutism lest you have a critical thought, but what might be comparable here for, say, Australia? Has it, perchance, engaged in naval war exercises in the Taiwan Strait? Go ahead and remind yourself.

no member of the working class has power over any political authority and yet i can still have an opinion.

Literally every working class organization is a political authority over which they are exercising power. And these organizations are frequently used to effect change, which is why capitalist states constantly try to stifle them.

thinking israel is a colonist state also doesnt ask anything of me.

Your state funds and runs interference for genocide. It uses fake genocide propaganda against China, in part, to take the heat off of itself. You are gladly supporting their effort using faux left language that is really just liberal thinking.

in fact, the chinese situation is much closer to home for me considering china is on my side of the world and an extremely potent political issue in my country. but ig you keep assuming...

China is not a political issue. It is a country of over a billion people. Your country is just an Anglo settler colonist vassal of the chief imperialists and those imperialists demand that you pick fights with their designated rival.

Are you just going to do what they tell you?

im not from either of those places and like, don't you see how clearly this is whataboutism.

Whataboutism is a liberal thought-terminating cliché whose purpose is to shut down valid points about inconsistent rhetoric and thoughts. Liberals depend on inconsistency to maintain their worldview, for them and theirs to be the good guys doing correct actions even though they constantly do the exact opposite and for their designated enemies to be evil incarnate deserving of every violence the liberals' governments attempt to unleash.

Instead of validating this absurd way of thinking, criticize it.

normally i dont really like the 'logical fallacy' point in political diacussions or whatever, but damn. all governments around the world are awful and will fuck the working class as soon as it gives a powerful individual more power.

Is "Israel" genociding Gaza the same as Vietnam having traffic cops? This flattening rhetoric is not insightful, it is actually incorrect and you're using it to defend actual imperialist lies. It's also basically ancap bullshit at its core, zero social analysis, just a vague "government bad" statement. What tools do you think the working class will use for its liberation? You think it's just going to abolish government and survive?

if the UN has clearly stated that in many interviews people have said they were forcibly drugged, woman assulted and people interred without access to communications with their family...

"The UN" has said none of this. Read your sources more carefully.

idk, ig i am wasting my time, obviously the most scrutinised multi-national institution is bias. china definately doesnt have greater representation than most other countries.

I think you're trying to make some sarcastic point but it doesn't make any sense. What are you trying to say?

Very anarchist for them to shield literal Nazis from criticism of... being Nazis.

Yet another hivd of reactionary liberals pretending to be anarchist.

Others already have good recommendations for the provider so I will add some other notes.

First, please note that with the way DNS works, your home IP will now be recognizable as "the IP this domain points to" so make sure the chain of networking devices are secure, starting at your router. At minimum make sure the router firmware is up to date. The only way to avoid this kind of thing is to have a VPS as an intermediary, essentially a tunnel, though there are fancy new ways of making tunnels more powerful, like self-hosting tailscale-like services. But that has its own security downside, which is trusting the VPS provider. I think a DNS entry for your own home IP is generally better in terms of security vs. time invested but the VPS can be made theoretically superior by being careful with cryptographic strategy.

Second, yes you can, generally speaking, forward external requests on a given port to a local network IP and port. This is a decent way to slightly obfuscate ssh. By default it is port 22, so instead of opening 22 externally, you make some high-number (like 55342) port externally route to a server on port 22 locally. When sshing externally you just specify the high number port. Your router firmware may limit how well this works.

Third, yes the IP changing can cause DNS problems. You can set up a dynamic DNS service that changes your DNS records if your router external IP changes. If you run router firmware like OpenWRT the router itself can run this service. But you can also run dynamic DNS on a local server and have it do the same thing. Using a provider with a good API like porkbun makes this easier.

Hi! I'm at the cafe, thanks for meeting up with me to discuas the new round of funding. Look for me under the guy just jorkin' it.

There was fog in so many places. You don't even know.

"The waters" is still a common way among Christian nerds to refer to the deluge, i.e. God's most famous genocide. But only among the worst nerds.