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Poe’s law strikes again. I legit cannot determine whether your comment is satire or genuine.

Your first false equivalence arises out of trivializing the qualitative differences in freedom between China and the USA/EU, implicitly framing the limitations in China as comparab…

Do you get paid by the word, by the post, or are you actually this nuts and do this for free?

It’s possible to simultaneously drive economic development, lift a populace out of poverty, and not construct an authoritarian regime. See also: Western Democracy. Remind me again …

Dong Jianbiao, the father of Dong Yaoqiong, who authorities disappeared for splashing ink on a poster of President Xi Jinping in 2018, died in a prison in Hunan province. The new M…

You have conspicuously avoided addressing the specific, systemic human rights abuses unique to China. Instead, your post employs a series of rhetorical tactics aimed at stifling co…

In another comment, you claimed that “Black Lives Matter leaders … died in mysterious accidents and car fires.” This ventures firmly into the realm of conspiracy theory. Do you fee…

I don’t believe you’re engaging in good faith; you are employing tactics meant to stifle discourse: 1. False Equivalence: Suggesting that economic progress and freedom of speech ar…

Human rights and human prosperity aren’t mutually exclusive. On top of which, they did such a terrible job of lifting people out of poverty, they unnecessarily killed tens of milli…

By all human rights measures, it is worse. Freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of religion … you name it. Feel free to read the yearly reports from the HRW: https://…

Xinjiang internment camps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps Censorship in China: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China Four Cardinal Principl…

For all the faults of western democracies, the Chinese Communist Party is far worse. That’s not anti-China propaganda. You comment on this issue a surprising amount, and clearly fe…

It’s very rare that bicycle is going to mechanically fail and send you flying. Short of the time I was hit by a car, I’ve never had a bicycling emergency — road or mountain — that …

The design, maintenance, and alteration of parachute equipment is regulated by the FAA; equipment must be approved under the FAA’s technical standards, and anyone packing a parachu…

It’s very likely that the hardware and/or firmware was not designed to meet a quality standard appropriate for the associated customer risks.

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As someone who has been saved from more serious injury by a helmet more than once … that’s flat-earth levels of delusion.

Why do you take umbrage with a such a relevant fact being disclosed? Helmets save lives, and isn’t it literally their job to inform us of such facts?

I didn’t agree to terms that require I provide them with plaintext traffic to analyze.

> SNI monitoring is a reasonable compromise, and I think a healthy one No, it’s not. ISPs have no right to know who I am speaking to or why.

You’re right, I see that as embarrassingly trivial. This whole thread is inane — if using a simple API is “amazing engineering”, what do you call the actual amazing engineering you…