I've reemerged from my posting hiatus just to find out what's going on here

My guess is it must be happening to an extent considering the difficulty in enforcing labour codes in a country of 2bil people. But there’s no evidence of systemic use of child labour the way it used to occur in, say, Victorian England.

I feel quite hesitant to engage with the self_improvement comm, when there are honest-to-god homeless people on this site. Puts my petty problems into perspective

So apparently China is doing a Hecking Censorship^TM^ by snubbing LGBTQ writers and those critical of the PRC in the latest Hugo Awards nominations. Anybody have a source for this that isn’t blatant Anglo hate-mongering?

I would really love to learn how to be more open minded towards religious folks. I thought I had reached a point of acceptance, especially considering I've been warming up to Buddhism recently. But that latent New Atheism Islamophobia really flared up when I saw one of Hakim's community posts talking about Islam being an important component of Palestinian resilience, which goes to show I haven't really made as much progress as I thought I did.

Came across this BrandNewSentence-ass headline today

A Mongolian Neo-Nazi Environmentalist Walks Into a Lingerie Store in Ulan Bator

Isn't that, like, a Trotsky thing?

Fucking Hindutvas man smfh

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I don't think it does, but I guess if you don't have much scope to engage in any action irl, it's far from the worst thing that you can do with your time. That's what I tell myself anyway

Only if you're from Frankfurt