The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
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#2Terrible GDPR page - not clear if you’re answering “yes” or “no”
Why do websites insist on the most terrible custom designs? What’s wrong with “input type=checkbox”?
Re: The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
#3Terrible GDPR page - not clear if you’re answering “yes” or “no” Why do websites insist on the most terrible custom designs? What’s wrong with “input type=checkbox”?
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#4and trekking poles, knives and petrol bombs.
Re: The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
#5> Chinese e-commerce sites like Taobao and AliExpress no longer sell them to customers in Hong Kong
Impressive coordination of public & private bureaucracies
Re: The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
#6Terrible GDPR page - not clear if you’re answering “yes” or “no” Why do websites insist on the most terrible custom designs? What’s wrong with “input type=checkbox”?
The "not clear if you’re answering “yes” or “no”" part is the entire point of the deliberately poor design. See https://www.darkpatterns.org/ for more examples
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#7> Chinese e-commerce sites like Taobao and AliExpress no longer sell them to customers in Hong Kong Impressive coordination of public & private bureaucracies
Maybe because they’re one and the same?
Re: The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
#8Remember 2014, Kyiv, Maidan. We actively used a push-to-talk mobile app Zello. Cheap used mobile phone, burner sim-card without id, and you're on the way. Also many people used whatsapp, Facebook was very liberal to UA protesters.
"Winter on fire", Netflix, highly recommend.
Of course times changing, and heard now Zello is affiliated with Russian government.
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#9> “If you compare the umbrella with the weapon the others are using to attack us, the umbrella is nothing for that. Actually, umbrellas are really easily broken and we only use it to protect ourselves.”
Are umbrellas in China just really light and flimsy? I've had a lot of umbrellas heavy and sturdy enough to do some serious damage if I were so inclined.
Re: The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
#10> “If you compare the umbrella with the weapon the others are using to attack us, the umbrella is nothing for that. Actually, umbrellas are really easily broken and we only use it to protect ourselves.” Are umbrellas in China just really light and flimsy? I've had a lot of umbrellas heavy and sturdy enough to do some serious damage if I were so inclined.
Compared to British umbrellas.