No, I do that on threads about american devs. You can't just hand wave any criticisms of a government away with "racism" or "but whatabout this other government you also complain about?!"

I notice you haven't told me that homophobia is bad too while you're calling me racist, I guess that means you like homophobia? No? That's just as ridiculous as "if you criticise one government you have to criticise them all in the same comment." This isn't "did you bring enough criticism for the whole class" time.

None of this should be news to anyone here, lemmy is highly privacy focused and that doesn't go away simply because the proprietary blobs in question could be doing sketchy things for the CCP instead of the NSA, either way it's bad to normal people who aren't blindly allegiant to the CCP or the NSA.

My car was Hecho en Mexico so long ago they didn't know cars could even connect to anything other than OBD2, phone was wiped for graphene, and my light switches don't have proprietary blobs that can phone home, they have screws and wires and absolutely no (internet) connectivity. Hell even my computer is Taiwanese, and runs Fedora anyway, though I am already bitching about Intel ME and AMD PSP.

Honestly, the concern around privacy is nothing new for lemmy, the only problem is that instead of worrying about corporate or US GOV spying in this case the worry is the CCP, and that's bad because criticising anyone but "western propagandists блять" is a no-no here.

Yeah, sure would be if anyone had done that, but that assumption was an invention of your own not contained within the statement you replied to. "The belief" is that the Chinese government can coerce any citizens within it's borders (and some outside it's borders no less), stop putting words in other's mouths yourself then.

Mmhmm "canned meme response" yes. Totally not employed to curtail criticisms of the government you're defending, I can tell by the originality.

Hang on, it's racist to call out totalitarian dictatorships that put muslims in concentration camps and have secret police in other countries to enforce their draconian laws abroad on other sovereign state's soil?

Fuck that, the chinese government is sketchy as hell, and so are you for trying to downplay the distrust said government has earned quite well as "racism." Do you work directly for them or is it more of a 3rd party contractor situation?

I agree and thanks for putting me on!

You jest, but I have whipped out the NBC gas mask because of a rank fart before.

Corridos (like Los Tigres Del Norte, Vicente Fernandez, Chalino Sanchez)- their accordion players have no fucking business being that good!

Old country (like Lefty Frizzell and Ernest Tubb) - Them dulcet tones and godDAMN that slide gitar.

Hold on there partner, you left off bookwyrm, pixelfed, misskey, and pleroma!

Ah good to know, that makes sense, thanks!

More like they don't care if you're lfet or rihgt.

Well I suppose idk about that specific one but I have seen videos kamikaze style drones that did indeed turn vehicles into shrapnel, especially small light ones like that thing (not like tanks but those truck things or the ATVs all day). Half the time they're just an rpg-7 grenade duct taped to the drone, RPGs can 100% produce shrapnel from that truck, it's not an m-80.

But yeah, try and outrun it, or hope whatever shrapnel is produced by the shrapnel-producing bomb itself striking the truck and the shrapnel that used to be attached to said truck before a bomb hit it misses an artery or vital organ, and then hope the follow up drones see your white flag, basically the two options they had it seems.

Tbf I'm pretty sure if they stopped the vehicle the bomb would have reached them sooner, if they piled out it likely would have turned the vehicle to shrapnel before they got far enough away to then safely surrender.

And I'm not sure the drone operator had enough time to even register the signal and change the direction of the drone. Human reaction time is about .5sec from decision to action, and on top of that add "is that even within the realm of possibility for drone maneuverability," it honestly kinda seems like they were just fucked on timing.