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So, it turns out everyone could just talk with Chinese citizens this whole time (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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DPRK social media innovation when?

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I always imagined travelling back in time 100 years and trying to explain our tech.

-"We have personal communicators available at all times, that we can use to instantly communicate with anyone on Earth."

-"Wow! But I guess language barriers make it impossible?"

-'No, actually. A surprising amount of people in the world understand English. Also, we have instant translators in our communicators. I could contact someone in China right now and have a conversation about anything."

-"Incredible!! What sort of topics do you talk to them about?"

-"...I don't. It's kinda impolite to just start talking to strangers. I mostly talk to old friends from school. And my family."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

We returned to greek origin. Wanna talk with randoms? Go to the forum...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

Yeah it worked for the first part of internet history. You talked to people from all over the world.

Now people use the internet like a carnival freak show exhibition. They don't talk to others. They scroll to gawk at what oddities and tap the glass and jeer at the inhuman thing. Social media is designed this way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

One of my favourite (?) conspiracy theories locally is regarding any left wing policy or social action. Like, you can just go to the meetings bro. Socialist alliance or whatever are super keen for new active members. You can literally go see how they make decisions.

Obviously, the sort of person that makes these sorts of claims aren't actually looking to be convinced of any truth.

This reminds me of that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

lmao true!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Bets are up, where will it be banned first, China or the US?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Both; at the same time ( same week ). 1:10 odds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 minutes ago

done!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

yeah, but then you find out that you've been propagandized your whole life and NO ONE wants that shit. lol