I mean, it kinda still does, but even if they did eventually invade, it wouldn’t necessarily make China the only game in town. There are already other fabrication plants going up around the globe, an invasion would definitely accelerate their development.
If Taiwan gets invaded they’ll just blow their chip fabs, they’ve said as much multiple times and presumably have a plan in place to do it at a moment’s notice. If that’s what China is after I don’t know that an invasion is going to work even if they succeed. It could deny future chip production to other countries though.
I did: Got a free ride pretty much so why not? I ended up getting multiple degrees in part just because they sounded interesting (I was also working 1-4 jobs depending on the time though, so some of it was part time).
I have not ruled out going back sometime in the future if the opportunity presents itself.
They can both be great, I don’t think I can pick a favorite.
Could be people just aren’t upvoting it, could be all the upvotes did not properly sync, or it could also be a crosspost from a different community or magazine that got the comment spillover but again, without people actually upvoting all of the crossposts.
Find a job you actually like!
Nope, I don’t have one.
Can they? Probably.
Will they? Eh…
They’re around but not nearly as bad as they are on sites like Reddit, Facebook, X, etc. They are also usually called out when someone is trying to circumvent the bot tag. It probably helps that Lemmy is much smaller, so there’s less incentive to send spambots to something like Lemmy compared to larger places.
That said, asudox is right in that there aren’t really any built in safeguards either, it’s pretty much up to the admins and/or mods to stop them.
shocking
Is it?
I once accidentally scryed in a puddle: I “saw” a scene outside my friend’s house with police cars and bad vibes. I called them to see if they were OK but they absolutely refused to talk about it, then I started getting threatened online. I tried talking to my friend’s cousin about it too, but she said she promised not to tell anyone. It turned out this friend’s brother got in trouble for domestic abuse after attacking her (I only found out years later). He was likely the one threatening me online.
My best guess is that somehow I subconsciously figured it out and the reflection in the puddle kinda acted as a focal point for putting together details I didn’t even realize I’d picked up. I’d always been pretty good at intuiting some kinds of information, but this was a whole different level. I also haven’t really experienced anything quite like it since.
I got attacked by a mentally ill guy having some sort of freak-out: He came up, told me he was stressed out, then started punching me in the arm. I backed up just out of punching distance but still in kicking distance, squared off, and warned him to leave. Someone who was with him kinda dragged him off before he could close the gap again so things didn’t escalate past that, but my plan was to teep him in the guts/chest as hard as I could if he came at me again.
You are now a poop sherpa, thank you for your kind service.
There are dozens, probably more like hundreds of different instances out there, all with different rules.
There’s extremists on Lemmy too, but they’re mostly on defederated instances like hexbear and lemmygrad or whatever it’s called now.
I still go to reddit and you are basically describing reddit itself: It’s a bunch of reposts. Not sure what you mean about “uncensored” exactly but if you’re talking about NSFW stuff, there’s instances that cater to that sort of thing here too.
You will get better results if you browse all and start subscribing to things you actually like, then set your filter to subscribed and you’re off to the races!
Look, I had a lot going on, so I kind of stole some flowers from someone’s yard on the way, but the other wise men caught me. It’s bullshit!
That would probably require some modifications…
Yeah, but you can though. Go spec your own gaming rig if you don’t believe me.
Also, again, there’s pretty much no way it’ll be $1,000.
Wow, the UK sounds like an awful place.