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  • The notion that China, or the US, or really anybody is committing theft by utilizing technological innovations, is what should be being discussed here. Individual innovations themselves were never made in a vacuum. Design, or information at large, is not something that can be privately owned. We have patents to give the right to seek super profits to the lucky individual that invents a new tech/process. An immensely lucky individual, who may or may not have actually done the labor to make the patent but is nonetheless the owner of the slip of paper, was born to live with enough resources, in the right places, and born before it was already invented, of course. The innovations that we enjoy today are a result of countless nameless people tinkering and improving, not just a few brilliantly outstanding inventors, who then somehow are a result of the success of a whole nation.


  • If espionage and theft jumpstarting technologies are not “innovative”, I’ve got some news for you about the “innovative” examples of “good” capitalist businesses in the US. Who, by sheer coincidence, peddle the idea that Chinese industry is somehow “less advanced” than ours, yet who we still rely on to make “our” high tech commodities.

    And is this soft power? We aren’t watching Chinese films and blanket idolizing Chinese culture, like with Japan. No, this is hard power in a sense, of material support. It just looks weird to you since you’ve only ever seen hard power in the form of existential domination.




  • Maybe (a) AI dystopia, climate collapse, the Great Clanker War, Singularity, etc. (b) Technofeudalism, 2-tier AI models, infinite rent extraction, feed the machine, climate collapse., etc. © revolutionize the means of production and distribution to prioritize planetary thermodynamic balance/cooling, human needs, ecological needs, get our fucking shit together. Or (d), classic nuclear Armageddon. Or something else. Trying to br hopeful out of spite, but not hopeful for luck.




  • yuki_gassen@lemmy.mlOPtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Ladybug?
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    11 days ago

    You sound more informed than me, but that’s about where I’m at too lol. I couldn’t see where that infographic originally came from, but I’ve spent the day reading the Wikipedia articles on these guys. Supposedly, lady beetles from all over were introduced to kill aphid populations, to varying degrees of success. It ended up harming native populations more, ofc. I guess by being better at eating prey? (Skill issue?)



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    Okay, that’s what I thought too. But then I came across this, do u think it might be a native lady beetle? Found on a reddit post (from image searching). I only ask since I’m getting more and more confused lol, I don’t see an M mark on my lil dude



  • Idk, it’s kinda always going to be propaganda when there is financing involved, no? Not all propaganda is bad, it’s the interests behind it and how that financing is structured, like if it is a grassroots donation based media outlet (Democracy Now!). Correct me if I’m oversimplifying, but in the ideal sense, a PSA by the state for folks to wash their hands with soap is “good propaganda.” When the state is not a tool of the proletariat, when the state tells its citizens to be wary of their own vaccines (that had to pass their own regulations), or when the state spreads the notion that another state is committing genocide (to distract away from the genocides that our state commits/is implicit in), then it’s the bad kind of propaganda. In that sense, I think it would be good to have more anticapitalist propaganda! More art, music, documentaries, etc. Call it PSA if that sounds better lol