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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 19 hours ago (28 children)

Wait, China's not a dystopian nightmare?

[–] Michal@programming.dev -5 points 7 hours ago

It is, but they're not allowed to talk about it. Social credit.

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 1 day ago (6 children)

People are people no matter where they live, which also means you can't trust any government anywhere. Propaganda is powerful.

The idea of a social credit score has always been hilarious to me, like yo bros we have credit scores over here and they legitimately fuck us over since you need good credit to do alot of things like renting a place to live.

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[–] Arelin@lemmy.zip 32 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

Well tbf, even though it's strictly banned in China there are still some cases of it happening in rural areas.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 49 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

But in the US it's legal. In a bunch of states all you need is parental consent for a teen barely out of puberty to marry an adult, and some will lower the age if the child is already pregnant.

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[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 63 points 1 day ago (2 children)

wow the level of cope in this thread (thankfully not that many tho) arguing over stats - which are probably made up anyway.

some people can't handle that most humans just wanna be friends regardless of gov politics bs

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

some people can’t handle that most humans just wanna be friends regardless of gov politics bs

Yes exactly. There are lots of internet weirdos trying to spread culture war nonsense, but if you actually go outside every once in a while, you realize that most people just aren't like that. I work in a restaurant that has a lot of ukrainian and russian visitors (migrants). At one point, a large group of russians came in for a birthday party, and they asked the owner to put on a playlist of russian music. Like, really cheesy russian pop. After some time, a girl from a smaller table of ukrainians calls me over and complains about the music. I relay it to the owner, and he asks them what they would rather listen to instead. They tell him, and he adds their songs on the queue. The rest of the evening was spent playing and dancing to russian and ukrainian and armenian songs (the owner is armenian, and there were some armenian guests too) and the atmosphere was just generally very chill. Not a single fuck was given about politics that evening.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 15 hours ago

So total brain rot absolutely everywhere?

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