First of all, thanks for the great work!

How’s the onboarding of the new contributors going? I assume suddenly getting a huge influx of eager contributors might create a lot of fun “problems” that software developers don’t usually get in their day jobs.

Related to that, besides the contributor docs on join-lemmy, is there any recommended reading before getting down to work on starting to contribute (already made or in the works)? I’ve been looking into helping out and getting better at Rust in the process.

What if they did this as the BRICS currency comes online?

I wasn’t aware of BRICS currency plan and that sounds huge. Anybody have anything I could read in more depth on that?

That’s just is just to put it into perspective how many homes that is for the size of Venezuela. Some of the homes seem to be 2/3-bedroom apartments and the program seems to be explicitly designed to accommodate larger families so they’re definitely housing more than a fifth of the population on this alone.

That’s around a full fifth of the population hot damn! I hope with the current surge in LatAm/China cooperation and the USA hurting itself in confusion the sanctions eventually become irrelevant.

I’m generally not a violent person but Telegraph headlines are one of the few things that make me consider smacking somebody across their face. And Google still deems it worthy of top results sometimes. Horrid.

So you’re saying NATO is going to defensively first-strike nuke Russia to protect USA “national security” of foreign resources? \s

Love how they have a bunch of suggestions that don’t include “de-escalate the trade war.”

From 2005 to 2015 alone, China’s production of low-purity gallium exploded from 22 metric tons to 444 metric tons.

It is always staggering to think how much China has developed technologically within just the last 20 years. I’m not even old but still remember when “Chinese” tech was popularly synonymous with “bootleg.” Now it’s all so good that the USA has to ban it while they play catch-up. They got beat at their own game.

Building on that but on a more serious front, what third world countries in the world have more exploitable galium production that could get democratically expropriated by the international community?

Yeah, it is definitely an escalation, but I wouldn’t say it’s disproportionate within the context of Sweden also joining NATO. That means that Sweden is basically an enemy country to them, and also one that not only houses neo-nazis but authorizes burning of Iraqi symbols. From my understanding this a constant criticism from Muslim-majority countries opposed to NATO that they’ll house both neo-nazis and fundamentalist terrorist recruiters within their lands while constantly invading, destabilising or toppling MENA countries that actually try to curb those groups.

Reading further it seems like workers were safely evacuated the day before and nobody was hurt. Things like this happen a lot where armed groups burn empty buildings/busses and symbolically and embassy workers in enemy countries already expect events like that. It sends the message that Sweden is not welcome there and makes their meddling and interference harder to do, though it sometimes can also be a false flag operation to justify even more military intervention. I guess an important bit is that the embassy is Sweden’s government’s official representation in Iraq, so if Iraqi people have an issue with Sweden that’s the first place to go complain.

It is definitely not some great victory for Iraq though just a minor event, but it’ll make headlines in The West® and I still think it’s not really an unfair escalation. Now the ball is on the court of Sweden on if they’ll escalate further or back down.

Also Christian Atheists is an extremely weird oxymoron. How can one be atheist if they are Christian?

I haven’t found a better name for this phenomenon I see a lot, so that’s how I call them in my head. It’s that sort of atheist that assumes that just because they renounced the metaphysical beliefs of Christianity that they are suddenly devoid of all Christian cultural values and social beliefs, which leads them to assume they’re universal. They tend to side a lot with actual reactionary Christians on racist/xenophobic policies such as the clothing bans by refusing to understand the power dynamics and nuances of religions, cultures and their interactions, and also look down on different religious traditions such as Hanukkah without bothering to even learn about them beforehand. Lots of them don’t even know much about Christianity outside of Catholicism/Protestantism. TLDR: Culturally Catholic Reactionary Atheists.

I met a lot of people like that in my life, including one former friend that went on a huge tirade against Islam just because I commented that I was trying to learn how to pronounce Arabic script. Being atheist and an amateur theology/history nerd myself I am not fond of this behaviour.

The alternatives like Telegram and Signal also operate heavily in the USA so they’d also be a no-go. They must have some special deal since whatsapp is used a lot even on an official capacity by Latin American governments and it’d make international communications harder (and create demand for a LatAm-based alternative).

We have a local popular saying that roughly translates to “never confuse the reaction of the oppressed with the violence of the oppressor” that I think applies here. As I said, it is only an unambiguously fair reaction if they did not kill anybody, which the outlet doesn’t report on. In case innocent workers (“diplomats” hardly count) were harmed then we can bring out the criticism/support balance and figure the better position out more thoroughly.

Burning the Koran and the flag essentially has the same purpose, even if they are usually taken differently by Christians and Christian Atheists. They are both symbols of a people, and burning them represents hatred towards that people. Since a majority of Iraqis are Muslims, there is not much difference here but I pointed it out to make it less ambiguous to those who still tolerate veiled islamophobia for some faux atheist principle. And also to point out the hypocrisy of the outlet to only put “Koran” in the headline and not refer to the flag. They know what they’re doing.

The desecration of brick and mortar is about as material as the help that Sweden provides to Iraqi people. That is, it is only symbolic.

The main difference between Indian, Irish or even British people burning the British flag compared to Europeans burning the Iraqi one is that first is being done out of rejection of imperialist authority on their lands, while the latter is being done by explicitly imperialist powers after having invaded and ruined the country (or at least aided in it). The act in a vacuum isn’t evil because nothing social exists in a vacuum, the important part is to notice the explicit message of it. If I were to burn a flag of Portugal as a Brazilian it would have a different meaning from me burning those of Uruguay or Haiti, and the same thing applies to an European burning the flags of the countries their nations destroys.

This happened “in response to the Swedish government’s repeated authorization to burn the noble Koran, insult Islamic sanctities, and burn the Iraqi flag,” government spokesman Basem Al-Awadi said.

So not just the Koran but also a symbol of their nation. So long as nobody was killed it is a very fair retaliation. Respect goes both ways.

Yeah, but “socialists” over here are usually like “we gotta do it sensibly” while at this point I’m just along the lines of “close the ports and let them starve”. If Europe doesn’t get ahold of itself soon all of its resource suppliers are just gonna bail and they’ll find out they’re still just a glorified peninsula. China values us more and they have triple the European population and a bigger GDP.

Adorable. Cute. Have a cookie and go play with the other kids. 🍪

Holy shit what an infuriating article. Europe has its head so up its ass that it looks like an inverted Ouroboros and yahoo couldn’t even put the name “CELAC” in the headline, going instead for “EU-LatAm”. Doesn’t even mention basic shit like el bloqueo. Anybody have a more in-depth and less europhile source? In Spanish works too.

“Idiots manage to ruin incredibly important meeting of 60 countries to talk about some other country” should be the actual headline. Every day nationalising all European property in LatAm seems like a better idea. Gringo bom é gringo com fome.

Edit: the complaint about the article was not meant as an offence to the poster, just to how bad “white” newspapers portray the same countries their beloved gringolands depend on to exist as if they’re just afterthoughts.

The article just says “Korean” which I assume means southerner since it was in Seoul, but I initially got the impression that the civilian was from the DPRK. Just leaving this here in case people have the same confusion.

That is very interesting. Back at the start of the war the narrative over here was that the price of bread went up due to Ukraine not being able to export its wheat but when looking into it neither country was ever in the list of top suppliers in the first place. Global markets sure are fun…

Yeah, I’ve never heard so many people openly talking about the possibility of not relying on the dollar in South America. The USA’s grip on people’s mind seems to finally have begun wavering after 60 years of trusting them and their Harvard economists blindly.

Can’t wait for the political pundits and economists of my country to have an existential crisis over no longer being able to sum up every government decision by “Dollar exchange value went down/up so it is good/bad”. Doubt it will be as quick as he makes it out to be though, he’s probably going for one of those quick cash grab book deals.

Genuine (but rather ignorant) question, what are the thoughts in China with regards to eventually deaccelerating economic growth? I might be coming at this from the wrong way because everywhere I’ve lived a “increase in GDP” usually correlated with an actual worsening of the overal community’s conditions and that is probably different in China. Do they have any long term plans in discussion about a “constant GDP per capita” or anything of the sort eventually rather than constant growth?

Edit: man, can’t even be free from libs over here…