This is the best summary I could come up with: It’s “members of Congress, conservative activists and wealthy tech investors.”

int is_even(int n)
{
    int result = -1;
    char number[8]; //should be enough
    sprintf(number, "%d", n);

    // check the number
    // TODO: handle negative numbers
    for (char *p=number; *p; p++)
    {
        if (*p=='0' || *p=='2' || *p=='4' || *p=='6' || *p=='8')
            result = 1;
        else if (*p=='1' || *p=='3' || *p=='5' || *p=='7' || *p=='9')
            result = 0;
        else {
           fprintf(stderr, "Your number is wrong!\n");
           exit(1); 
        }
    }
    return result;
}

Unless you’re doing something unusual, it’s probably because you’re browsing youtube without being logged in.

Who are all these extremist wackos who don’t already want to abolish capitalism?

You might think that things have changed over the years, but I was around in 1995 and I can assure you this looked exactly as ridiculous then as it does now.

AI that is used to monitor cameras and identify our faces to track everywhere everyone goes: Why would that concern you? Do you have something to hide, citizen?

AI that might be used to generate agitprop, competing with conventional advertising: HOLY SHIT we need a new international treaty right away!

She would have expected people to name figures such as Quintus Lollius Urbicus, who became governor of Roman Britain

Look, I know everyone in Britain is required to know the names and dates of all the monarchs going back to the 9th century, but expecting everyone to be able to come up with that name when put on the spot is going a little too far.

I’ve just noticed that this is in c/piracy. I suppose there’s lots of interest in the story here and everywhere else, but I’d just like to remind you all that ad-blocking is not piracy.

Yes, exactly like that.

… and if you think you’re a leftist you might want to be careful about it. I don’t know how it is outside Canada, but inside Canada that image is mostly popular with racists, including hardcore white nationalist types. They love to post it, as if to say “We’re not the racists, this guy is the real racist, hurr hurr hurr.”

Well, the whole thing is completely implausible in a lot of ways, but to start with the basic premise: Canada does not punish people for calling the PM racist. Calling the PM racist is a popular sport lately in Canada. Nobody cares, because almost everyone knows that basically it isn’t true. He’s an idiot, but not a particularly racist one. Nor is “exposing the true nature of the Hong Kong riots”, whatever their nature might in fact be, anything that could possibly incur the wrath of the Canadian civil service, that part of it responsible for issuing passports. Canada may be corrupt and cruel in various ways, but not in anything resembling the ways depicted here. Its government is not going to do anything that would risk creating a major scandal, and this certainly would if there were any truth in it whatsoever, in order to be capriciously cruel to someone for no apparent reason other than to defend the honour of Hong Kong protesters. It makes no sense whatsoever.

I mean there’s really no reason to read beyond the headline to see this. That it expects us to believe NATO is somehow involved kinda gives it away that this is pure bullshit. But the more one does read, the zanier it gets. Although for all I know maybe there really is a “Carl Chen”. I’ve talked to homeless people with far weirder tales to tell than that one, even one guy who was abducted by the Grey aliens.

This doesn’t even look well-crafted enough to what I’d expect from genuine Chinese state propaganda. More like some kind of AI-generated melange of conspiracy theory nonsense where the model was trained on all the “fake news” garbage that could be found.

I’ve nothing against communists in general or I wouldn’t have signed up on lemmy.ml, but now that I take a look it appears that u/dessalines does maintain a “socalism faq” that includes quite a lot more apologising for Stalin than I would’ve expected and what appears to be some Uyghur genocide denying among many other objectionable things. It looks pretty bad, although I suppose there’s some good stuff in there as well.

To be fair, the political views of reddit, twitter, and facebook management are probably just about as far from my own.