There was no value judgement in mine (or the other guys) comment, that’s entirely your victim complex. Of course I would rather china not try to destroy our local markets but that is very very low on the list of things to hate the ccp for and I can’t say it’s fundamentally morally wrong in the world we live in either.

It’s just a fact that it’s subsidized and your propaganda that it’s cheap because china is just better at manufacturing is a flat out lie.

Maybe understand the very basics of trade wars first lol

They’re that cheap because the chinese government pays for them to be that cheap. It also helps that they exploit their workforce as much as possible, but they still wouldn’t be as cheap as they are without the subsidies.

On the one hand I agree, on the other this is sadly born from a safety issue - if there’s even a 0.1% chance of the guy getting aggressive if you turn him down, I’d also rather give a fake number. And due to selection bias of “guys hitting on strangers” that number is probably higher in reality - realistically a high number of women has either had that exact experience or knows someone that did.

And really if this happened to me, while it’d be more disappointing then just getting a “nah not interested” immediately, I think I’d mainly be sad that someone felt unsafe enough around me to do that, even if it might have nothing to do with me in particular at all. It’s not some kind of long leading on after all, and the reasons are understandable.

I long for a world where this just isn’t necessary at all.

Edit: i kinda forgot that the op had the prank part, but honestly I’d probably just think she’s a dick for giving me and apparently a lot of others some randos number lol - still you’re right you should only do that if the guy deserves it for being an ass

If the character’s ethnicity isn’t directly relevant to the story or its message, why does it matter? People of all kinds of heritage live just about anywhere in the world, so a character being from some country doesn’t have to determine their ethnicity.

Afaik that’s the system youtube uses for videos/streams with youtube premium (and twitch as well with turbo). You can’t see where your money went as the viewet, but supposedly (don’t have sources rn so feel free to correct mr, but I’ve heard multiple creators say this) it’s just the same revenue split as other purchases, applied to the price of your membership and distributed based on what you watch.

Federation at its core promotes echo chambers because instance admins can just defed from any instances that popularly have different opinions. But it’s also a benefit because really safe spaces are also just echo chambers (and less extremely just “a place where you don’t have to argue with nazis” means shutting out some opinions) and they have their place because sometimes you just don’t want to deal with the world’s bullshit.

The nice thing is that you can choose an instance that fits your own needs for that and still interact with others that prefer different moderation, so long as your own instance isn’t part of the defed list. So if someone wants to argue with nazis but still participate in idk lgbt spaces, they can, and the nazis still won’t bother the lgbt space.

And if everything fails, you can also host your own.