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The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
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#12All those people who protest ... They protest against what ? In France, we have the "Gilets Jaunes", who also protest, there is also the young people who protest against climate change. They protest, and they go nowhere ...
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#13Terrible 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
Tbh they’d probably get more people to answer “yes” if they made the “yes” very clear. Most people just blindly press whatever looks like yes. The dark pattern would have the opposite effect in this case imo.
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#14> “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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tukQDg22o9M
That video screen on the inside of the umbrella could be made with some portable beamer projecting it, would be cool to have in a storm so you could see oncoming traffic haha
Re: The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
#15Terrible 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
Haha I didn't know they made a verb out of Zuckerberg's name.
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#16> Chinese e-commerce sites like Taobao and AliExpress no longer sell them to customers in Hong Kong Impressive coordination of public & private bureaucracies
A cursory glance indicates I am perfectly able to buy an umbrella from Ali express in Hong Kong - didn't go all the way through the purchase however.
I do somewhat question the reliability of the source in this instance.
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#17All those people who protest ... They protest against what ? In France, we have the "Gilets Jaunes", who also protest, there is also the young people who protest against climate change. They protest, and they go nowhere ...
Honestly, right now, the "unfairness of life" is the closest to a coherent message I can interpret from their "movement".
It was really a tense and passionate debate 2 months ago, but now many of us just roll our eyes at the latest news, like when they shave people who clean the streets, burn an MTR station, cry in a foreign country they need to be "freed", and the like...
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#18Following the Be water thinking, ppl start to have no specific items or clothes to represent themselves now. So the essential tool would be the determination to live in this city with courage, hope, dignity and helping each other in a crisis created by no one but the government.
This government has lost all its credibility within a hundred day, which is impressive in a way I guess? I don’t think HK will be totally recovered when CCP continues to intervene. The damage has be made, and the scar will always be there.
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#19All those people who protest ... They protest against what ? In France, we have the "Gilets Jaunes", who also protest, there is also the young people who protest against climate change. They protest, and they go nowhere ...
Honestly, right now, the "unfairness of life" is the closest to a coherent message I can interpret from their "movement". It was really a tense and passionate debate 2 months ago, but now many of us just roll our eyes at the latest news, like when they shave people who clean the streets, burn an MTR station, cry in a foreign country they need to be "freed", and the like...
Is the message closer to “we reject the terms of the social contract that we’re being offered”?
Re: The Essential Tool for Hong Kong Protesters? An Umbrella
#20Next year on AliExpress, weaponized umbrella's
Yeah, they will shock the user if opened in a protest area.