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Grayjay is open-source but not free to use, though you can technically use it without paying. I paid for it but would maybe not, now that I find more about FUTO's political line

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    I would say LingoDeer a 1000x over Duolingo if you go the path of apps. It's Chinese, non-AI courses, you hear and see real speakers, you have written resources for each category

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    It seems that most of the time, my discussions with people about socialism and communism end up on the topic of "but people are inherently bad, or at least a few people are, and will always take advatange of others. Even during natural disorders, some go steal everything in the stores while other help strangers"

    I always have a hard time arguing that human nature depend on the environment, that it takes a few generations, and that there is probably always going to be violence but it's marginal and can be taken care of.

    What main ideas am I missing? And how to argue about this and respond to this central idea that refrain a lot of liberals?

    Thank you!

    If you have any theory that you want to point at, that would also be great

     

    I've noticed recently (a couple of weeks) that searching for emoji via the search bar in the emoji panel seems now to be impossible in Google Board when the app does not have internet access (for privacy reasons).

    The error message translates to "Emoji search data in unavailable". It only says this when my native language/keyboard layout is selected, not on US English QWERTY. There, search works as usual

    Is it something already talked about? I do not want to enable internet connection on this app because of Google telemetry (I don't have GSF installed and use GrapheneOS)

    Thanks for any bit of information/advice on this

    Google Board emoji panel error message saying emoji search data is unavailable, in French
     

    How entitled do you have to be to freely expose this kind of theory on a post about consipary theories?

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    "I once heard of a pediatrician who successfully convinced a concerned mother that anti-vax ideology was likely a psyop by the Russians to weaken the health of the American populace starting with our children. Doesn’t hurt that it’s probably true.

    EDIT: My personal conspiracy theory is that the Chinese government did engineer (or at least selectively cultivate) COVID, but not to kill Americans. In the early days of the pandemic there was some speculation that it affected some blood types more than others, particularly type A. While no link to blood type specifically was found, type A is a more common genetic trait as you move out of Asia and towards the middle east. China has been heavily persecuting the Uyghurs (Chinese Muslims), and those who have managed to get out of the camps have reported medical experimentation and being injected with unknown substances. In addition, the virus would also kill a significant number of the older population, which is important because of the population crunch they’re about to experience due to one-child policies resulting in a high amount of female-specific infanticide. They’re about to have a bunch of old people and a massive shortage of able bodied young people to care for them. Even if they didn’t directly “engineer” the virus in a gene-sequencing manner, they have a lot off motive to just generally cultivate and spread (you can’t really “breed” a virus) an infectious disease targeting people of middle eastern descent and elders.

    Thank you for coming to my tinfoil-hat Ted Talk."

    https://sh.itjust.works/comment/13862295

    User explaining own conspiracy theory about Chinese government engineering the COVID virus to target middle east and Uighurs.
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