Large Language Models (LLMs) aren’t truth machines. They’re garbage in, garbage out. The input to English-language models is largely English-language texts from Five Eyes countries, with all the disinformation and bias that that entails. This is an especially poor topic to engage LLMs with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedNote

First of all there is no slave labor in China. Second of all it hasn’t been kept quiet, or else people wouldn’t be posting about it. And third of all the US is not benefiting from any labor in Xinjiang because it has banned imports from the region in order to cause unemployment in the hopes of rekindling its failed terrorism campaign.

And what can we know about the region in the current time, like can a random tourist go and see with their own eyes the truth, and maybe film it ?

Yes, you can go there and film it, which plenty of people have done and posted them on RedNote, TikTok, YouTube, etc.

China and the Marxist forums deny anything harmful

We don’t deny anything harmful for which there is actual evidence. The US-backed Salafi/Wahhabi extremist terrorist attacks certainly were harmful[1][2], and if you would consider the prosecution of said terrorists to be harmful, then okay.

Or a PieFed user or an Mbin user. The threadiverse isn’t only Lemmy.

Lemmy users

Not everyone here is on Lemmy, and this is a Redditism that I wish we’d leave behind.

And all the fundamenta of capitalism and imperalism are consequences of how we humans are our own wolves.

• It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. — Frederic Jameson
• It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of imperialism. — Daniel Bessner

 
Genetic determinism was historically grossly over-applied and is still over-applied in popular (pseudo-)science and in far-right politics.

Biological determinism has been associated with movements in science and society including eugenics, scientific racism, and the debates around the heritability of IQ, the basis of sexual orientation, and evolutionary foundations of cooperation in sociobiology.

You’re hastily jumping to the conclusion that the new thing is the same as the old thing just because it has some similarities.

Capitalist realism & imperialist realism and their consequences.

Historically these laws exist because US law is based on English common law. I’d bet a Loonie that they exist in Canada as well for the same historical reason. If you live in a former British colony, it may be worth your time to get a basic understanding of common law.

• Duty Owed Trespassers (emphasis mine):

  A landowner has no duty to keep premises in a safe condition for the benefit of trespassers. An owner does not possess any duty to a trespasser under the traditional common law view except to abstain from willful or wanton misconduct or entrapment.

Capitalist states are authoritarian no matter how many parties they have. They are dictatorships of the capitalist class against the working class.

I write both Taiwanese and Chinese because my grandparents were Chinese nationalists (KMT) who fought and lost to the communists and left China with Chiang Kaishek when he retreated to Taiwan.

You understand that Chiang Kai-shek and his KMT party were fascist, right?

cultural genocide against the Uyghurs

That’s not a real thing.

dilutes Tibetan culture and wants to

Show me the Tibetans who miss living as illiterate serfs under autocratic feudalism and I’ll show you the CIA-backed, “suck my tongue” royal family and its deputies.

democratic Taiwan

Bourgeois democracy is a head fake.

Because pawb.social is defederated from hexbear.

Not sure… Which do think would win in a fight?

If they’re tasty, no less unhealthy, and affordable, I’ll eat ’em. Grown muscle tissue isn’t connected to a nervous system, never mind a brain. They’re no more “animal” than tofu as far as I’m concerned.

But I can think of a couple of major likely problems:

1. They’ll probably still require more resources (energy, water, etc.) to produce than plants, so I’d probably limit my consumption.
2. Given the history of capitalism and the meat industry, I’d be suspicious of them still harming animals behind the curtain somewhere, somehow. The industry ought to be heavily regulated to ensure they aren’t doing that, but again, history shows that under late capitalism they probably won’t be.

Oh, those aren’t like Oblique Strategies[1][2] at all; they’re specific.

Thank you for correcting a lazy, ignorant hot-take.

If you use terms like “the liberal news”, you know you’re stuck in an echo chamber.

It’s almost impossible to be “stuck in an echo chamber” when living in a Five Eyes country. Or rather, it’s almost impossible to not be stuck in the Five Eyes liberal echo chamber. You would have to go full Kaczynski, living in a shack in the woods.

That sounds good in theory, but keep in mind that 99% of English-language news sources are liberal ones.