I never said China didn’t invest into their national programs. I said their definitions of “poverty” are in question.

Just to clarify something. People tend to confuse the terms of “absolute poverty” and “poverty”.

The claim of “completely eliminating absolute poverty” (which is a claim the CCP makes) is almost true. Supposedly the number of people in absolute poverty in China is now 0.7%.

However, this is often reported as China “eliminating all poverty”, which isn’t true. The World Bank puts people still living in poverty in China at 13% (exact numbers are hard because of the CCPs information control), which is higher than what China self claims. Because China doesn’t use the World Bank’s definition for poverty.

I’ve been to China and have family from there. Don’t try to make this about some nationalistic nonsense. It would be amazing if people in China had as much access to the things in life everyone deserves, but the CCP isn’t exactly known for being honest.

And how does that equate to me coping?

One of their largest bridges collapsed because of a weakness in the bridge’s foundation that I think involved a landslide.

There was another one from earlier this year that involved a number of cars falling with the bridge.

The Chinese also figured out that the bridge was going to collapse ahead of time, so they evacuated all motorists. Don’t think there were any casualties.

You’re right, the most recent one involved no casualties, because the day before someone walking across the bridge noticed a huge crack and posted it to Douyin. Officials noticed it and then closed the bridge.

You want to cite what you’re talking about here?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56194622

I guess that was 4 years ago, but I remember it as more recently.

while it was 77.6 in the US

I don’t live in the USA. I consider the USA a 3rd world country cosplaying as a 1st world one. Healthcare in the USA is one of the most broken and predatory in the world. So it’s not a meaningful comparison IMO.

What am I coping with exactly? I don’t live in the US and I’m not a US citizen.

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

I guess you’re right, because I’ve never worked as an IT admin, or had the policy at multiple companies I’ve worked at changed to allow Linux devices for devs.

Taking Immich as an example, there’s a lot of heavy lifting happening there behind the scenes in external libraries that are not written in JS.

Real programmers are language agnostic

Thought terminating sentence.

No, I like “bossware”. It tells you exactly what it is. It’s “spyware from your boss”.

In an ideal world, id love a debian thinkpad or framework

Then make your world ideal. Pester your boss or the IT guys with articles showing how Linux is better than Windows at security or dev work. Show them how Linux isn’t prone to the same security concerns. Show them articles or examples about how you could do your work with a Linux install.

China recently lowered the earning amount for poverty to just below what most Chinese people make, thereby “reducing” poverty.

I like how fast they build infrastructure

You mean collapsing within a few years? Three of their largest bridges recently built just collapsed. And a lot of structures over there collapse within a few to several years.

I bet they would be, they might actually be more ravenous than Swifties.

Hardly, Linux adoption has been going up steadily for many years, and it’s accelerating. And for reasons completely different than this.

He honestly did a great service for linux in getting them to really start improving the user experience

All he did was make the maintainers of apt realize they need to account for the lowest common denominator. As in, really stupid people like Linus Sebastian who can’t read. No one else had that problem.

All their product reviews had been found out to be wildly bogus. The stats they show for comparisons in their videos are inconsistent, inaccurate, and self-contradicting.

They’ve lost all their credibility. I have no idea why people still watch their garbage.

Then he’s changed his tune. I haven’t watched him for years at this point when I realized how technologically inept they are. I’m thinking specifically of the storage server video.

The problem with this is that it gives legitimacy to an idiot YouTuber who has gone out of their way to discourage new Linux users.

And nevermind all the other garbage from LTT

I really wonder why Linus Torvalds is giving that clown the time of day.

Vaccinated doesn’t mean “can’t get it”