Yes, he shares this behaviour with all dictators it seems. Maybe it's why he admires Xi Jinping so much as he said some years ago as "he controls 1.4 billion people quite ruthlessly."

My criticism was not directed at you.

Edit: It's the same account. Just click to see OP's post history.

One is here: https://lemmy.ca/post/71922045 (they are using a Chinese state-media propaganda outlet)

Here is a non-state, but pro-Russian propaganda outlet: https://lemmy.ca/post/72023330

I edited the typo. It seems that you are - once again - arguing in bad faith. That's waste of time.

(35 Pollard St Richmond Hill ​, ON , L4B 1A8 Canada.)

Yes, down with Israel's right-wing government, but also down with all other authoritarian governments like those in China and Russia. OP is acting in bad faith and frequently posting pro-authoritarian propaganda using their sources such as Chinese state media.

There are also courses in democracy and critical thinking.

I stop this conversation now. There's nothing meaningful to expect.

I don't see how that relates to what I have said. This is a deflection to play down China's violations?

@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca

gov’t access isn’t nearly the main problem ...

It definitely is a main problem, at least in democratic countries. Spying on citizens without reason violates the constitution.

But China isn't a democracy but rather a dictatorship. That makes the situation even worse, and privacy isn't by far the only violation of human rights committed by the government in Beijing as we know.

The cheapest cars 'Made in China' following Carney's deal is Tesla. It comes at around 41k. The cheapest Chinese brands in Canada have a price tag of 120k. It's a high price for Canadians, but the Chinese workers who work in a 996 working culture and the victims of forced labour are paying a much higher price.

What is nltimes.nl and who is behind it?

The website publishes exclusively sensationalist headlines mostly with content that offers not much more than the headline itself. When you try to access the site, they ask for your age. What kind of ads do they run there?

As far as I could figure out, the outlet appears to be a partnership so there are little reporting requirements, but there are only a couple of employees. This seems to be another clickbait media.

That's a misleading headline to say the least.

Russia and China vetoed resolution on the Strait of Hormuz in the UN Security Council.

The draft resolution sought to strongly encourage States interested in the use of commercial maritime routes in the Strait of Hormuz – which lies between Iran, Oman and the United Arab Emirates – and to “coordinate efforts” defensively, to contribute to ensuring the safety and security of navigation there, including the use of escorts for merchant and commercial vessels.

Zelenzkyy is criticizing the UNSC's failure to adopt the resolution (submitted by Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates), indirectly criticizing Russia and China's veto.

These are the facts.

Now saying, 'Zelensky denounces the UNSC for not launching a military operation against Iran', is an absurdly weird framing imo. Why? Because even if this were true (which is not as Zelenskyy didn't say that), it doesn't tell the whole story. The headline creates a hopelessly distorted narrative that has nothing to do with reality.

The original title is,

Russia’s Coal Collapse Marks The End Of Fossil Fuels’ Post-War Illusion

There is a strong body of research regarding the U.S. tariffs conundrum in the meantime (including here in this comm as I just read) revealing that Trump hurts the U.S. more than any other country or region. (And the EU is indeed the least carbon-intensive economy globally due its environmental laws that - as much as we need to improve also here- are stronger than anywhere else in the world.)

Op-eds like this one are being written these days on a daily basis, but they are exaggerated. The EU could maybe retaliate more (would this hurt the European economy as U.S. tariffs do in the U.S.?), but I wouldn't say it is 'cowering'. The Florida man says something every day, and it wouldn't make sense imo to 'bully back.' Economic forecasts for the U.S. are much worse than Trump and these op-eds make it seem.

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This happens through a wide range of measures, depending on the kind of business, customer segments, products and services.

One major tool is Plexure, a New Zealand-based company that offers an app. It is used by McDonalds (which holds almost 10% in Plexure), Ikea, 7-Eleven, and hundreds of other companies around globe.

As the Prospect wrote in 2024 in an article:

It starts with using a cheap offer to entice users to purchase through the mobile app. After that, various factors go into the process of “deep personalization”: Time of day, food preferences, ordering habits, financial behaviors, location, weather, social interactions, and “relevance to key moments i.e. pay day.” ...

If the app knows you get paid every other Friday, it can make your meal deal $4.59 instead of $3.99 when you have more money in your pocket. If it knows you usually grab an Egg McMuffin before class on Wednesday, or that you always only have an hour to eat dinner between your first and second job, it can increase the price on that promotion. If it knows it’s cold out, it can raise the price of hot coffee; on a scorcher, it can up the price of a McFlurry. And the app gets smarter as you agree to or turn down those offers in real time ...

It may be just half a dollar or so, but with millions of customer interactions per day and an increase in customer engagement, companies like McDonalds make a huge profit increase, as the article says:

[Plexure] promises that using its app strategy will increase frequency of orders by 30 percent and the size of orders by 35 percent. Domino’s just attributed its strong first-quarter earnings, with income increasing by 20 percent over last year, to its loyalty program. Grocery stores like Walmart and Kroger have also gotten into this, leveraging purchasing history with digital targeting. And improving artificial intelligence can just make this all move faster ...

But apps like Plexure are not the only way to personalize prices. The entire Prospect article makes an interesting read, and there is a lot of research in the meantime as Bots improve the ways of Dynamic Pricing substantially.

@Sxan@piefed.zip

Edit for an addition: If you like to have a quick read to know how the Plexure app works for McDonald's, here is a brief description

This is not completely on topic, but an interesting read on the DMA by f-droid.org that's worth your time imho:

Google Developer Verification Policy and the DMA

F-Droid strongly aligns with many of the ideals of the DMA regarding ensuring user choice and privacy. For example:

• The DMA has provisions for ensuring third-party software applications or software application stores can be used: F-Droid has long been the premier way for privacy or free software focused users to install applications outside of the Google Play Store
• The DMA places limitations on how gatekeepers process personal data: F-Droid doesn’t even have accounts. We don’t track users at all. There is no personal data for us to process ...

Canada shoudn't want any mining by foreign entities, no matter what country, because in the end there is always a very real threat of exploitation for the benefit of foreign interests at the expense of Canada. Such 'annexation' comes not necessarily by military force, but can also come by political or economic coercion due to dependence on foreign entities or states.

The US has shown that to Canada already of late. China has been doing that to its 'partner' countries all around the globe. Then think of Russia, the former Soviet Union. And all the others now and in history.

These rare earths and supposedly a lot of other things should become sort of a common good. I don't have blueprint how to organize that for Canada as it's very complicated, but it should be public ownership by stakeholders within Canada imo.

The KIIS poll, which began a day after the controversial vote on July 22, found that 58 per cent of Ukrainians currently trust Mr Zelensky, down from an 18-month high of 74 per cent in May and 67 per cent in February-March.

This poll was made before Zelensky reversed his questionable decision and reinstated the anti-corruption bodies' independence. Publishing this more than two weeks later when the situation has already changed is dishonest and has nothing to do with objective, independent journalism. The Straits Times discredits itself with this.

In the areas of Ukraine that Russia has managed to occupy, Ukrainian children are now being being dragged off to the far reaches of Russia to be brainwashed, trained to die with the Russian army invading Europe: Video (3 min)

I am wondering what the alternative would be as Russia is increasingly testing the waters?

Should the UN also launch a “defensive mission” to protest Russian oil transport and infrastructure against Ukrainian attacks?

A reminder that Russia is the aggressor in this war.

And a second reminder, escorting merchant and commercial vessels to ensure their safe passage through the Strait (which is what the resolution aimed at) is one thing, launching a military operation against Iran (which is what your title suggests) is another.

You may have a different opinion, you may oppose or support the resolution, but the headline creates a false impression of what is happening and what Zelenskyy said.

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