I ask my mate in Shenzhen what he thinks of China and Xi.

He hates Xi and so do most of his friends. His wife is even a member of the CCP.

If you don’t fully commit to the party line and pay increasing fees you don’t progress in the CCP. Sounds a lot like Scientology tbh and they see it as more of a tax. Because leaving is a huge no-no. She wishes she never joined.

I take his (Chinese) opinion of China much more highly than a bunch of angry Zoomer kids on Lemmy.ml posting puff-pieces by the CCP.

Is this called “Masking”?

I recently heard about “masking” and thought it was something everyone did.

What about on dogs?

No I’ve done meth but if you#'re taking life advice from a recovering meth addict online who’s being sarcastic you need to hand in your license to life because you’re a fucking moron that would cut themselves on mouldy bread.

Jesus fucking christ. Take shit you see online less seriously.

Doing meth would change your attitude.

Hello world in Java = 500 lines of code.

Hello world in Rust = 3 lines of code.

Java is over-engineered corporate bullshit used by banks and Android development. Nobody programs Java for the fun of it.

I don’t see an “air homies” community because that would be weird too.

It’s not as good as a cup of tea.

But if I dropped you in the Pacific ocean you wouldn’t live long.

Are you one of those people who wants to have sex with cartoon horses?

This seems like a very middle class response. Pottery? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one. Is that something that exists in the Cotswolds?