@stevedidwhat_infosec Fr I don't think people understand you can simultaneously find it funny and be deeply disturbed by what severe and acute mental illness and online reactionaries can do to someone.

@stevedidwhat_infosec It just means CIA. You shouldn't, it's a pretty dark reference to when internet lolcow obsessives encouraged a schizophrenic operating systems coder who lived with his parents to say racist stuff. He does have one famous rant he rehashed s lot where he says "CIA [racial slur] all glow in the dark you can see them coming". At this point it's transcended any racist connotation as people have mistakenly picked it up without realizing, and it's a meme

@conditional_soup *Urumqi god this charlimit is so awful I can do 5000 but 500 is grueling. Sorry for triple tapping ya

@conditional_soup If you've heard of the one child policy here's a fun fact none of you "China watchers" know. Most regions and/or minority groups did not get affected. If you were Han or anything in Tibet, or a minority any placd, you could be fruitful and multiply. Just an example of how China deliberately gives minority groups boosted democratic representation, healthcare access, training, and cultural representation. Which is what responsible nations should do (glaring at indian res)

@JohnDClay @turkishdelight Zenz repurposes the pro-life argument that reduced birth rates are genocide to make it look like Xinjiang getting free healthcare & women who had 3 kids already receiving tubal ligations/ etc. is genocide the same way KKK guys think modernity is white genocide. China literally trained these people to be bilingual realtors and stuff like that, it wasn't even a mega trade program or something. They got people to white collar shit Xinjiang is rich

@afraid_of_zombies I gleaned nothing from his writings 😅

@aniki LOOOL NEAL STEPHENSON overrated shit!! I don't care what people codified, I give stuff separate star ratings for writing and worldbuilding etc

@myrrh @afraid_of_zombies for good reason