If China becomes democratic it is no longer China anywhere as we know it. The agenda is still, AFAIK, that the totalitarian regime is necessary for another undisclosed amount of time with the end goal to transition into full communism.

The problem is of course that the party elite quite enjoy this position they are in and are in no hurry for any societal transitions in any direction whatsoever.

So, in my mind, your question is at best some imaginary world building for a fictional scenario that has no connection with reality.

Yeah, all right you convinced me. Look how the political engagement of other people was not enough against the masses that fell for coordinated misinformation. Surely it would make no difference if more people were to be active in politics or society or environmentalism or activism or information or anything else. All we can do is to wait for another somebody else go vigalante so we can enjoy some brief parasocial justice boner circlejerk. Everybody that suggests otherwise ruins our cynical doomer misanthropic apathy wankfest. Shame on them. Boo. Downvotes. Everything is hopeless forever.

So be the change then.

“I’ll preemptively give up that anybody will make any effort so I don’t have to either and I’ll just wait for somebody else to step up save us all.”

/The Devils Advocate.

Regular Scandinavian life.

Not very, unless the nazis I’m reminding people that every day is punch one of manage to wheezingly waddle up from the basement and attempt to do something about it despite my genes being more pure norse whitey aryan than they could ever dream of so attempts of me life would just be another proof of my superior intellectual reasoning to their simplistic racism tribalism.

Hallon because it is cheap and it works.

Oh that’s a nice surprise. Thanks.

In my newish place there is a built in microwave without rotating plate. Do modern microwave ovens use technological innovations to spread out the waves somehow clever or is it just a stupid modern microwave?

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A bottle of whisky and a gift certificate to UNICEF. Couldn’t be happier.

Me and dog are doing just fine, thank you. I make some traditional foods, we eat well and then we chill.

(I left my last relationship a couple of years ago and I’m very content living by myself. I’m invited to some friends place but honestly though I love them I can’t be arsed. I’ll see them some other day that isn’t hectic and supposedly special.)

Enshittification seems damn inevitable these days.

I don’t know when it was the first time, but I had a cousin that bought underage me wine. When my friends were getting drunk on numerous cans of low alcohol beers, I had a full bottle of red wine in my coat to get me properly drunk and silly. No wonder I left the metal scene early on and became a pretentious fuck. It was inevitable.

From what I heard later it was for him.

He changed careers.

The lemmy leave office early because the servers are barely noticing the extra traffic.

Back in the days before the interwebs and pocket computers with access to all the knowledge and history of mankind, there were the outdated encyclopedia at home that you’d pop out occasionally, the up to date encyclopedia at the library that you never got around to check out anything casual and then there was the truth by the person arguing the most insistent that they were right.

I had someone lash out at me once many moons ago that I used to greet him with “hey how you doing”.

Short story, he was not doing well at all.

Gaming the besserwisser for the common good.