Now this is character development. Happy for him.

I don’t have an issue with having an issue with all existing countries

Fair. I was just unsure whether you really did mean all countries.

Some places are better, some are worse.

And some places are better for some people, while being worse for other people. Not necessarily always, but sometimes it’s a matter of preferences. One person may choose to live in a country with fewer liberties due to preferable climate. For them that would be a good choice, but for you it may not be.

But the argument indicates that we should treat an unknown as better than a known, and that the red flags are just flags.

Personally I didn’t get that impression.

You’d be surprised how many of these “bad things in China” are US propaganda. I guess those millions spent on misinformation are paying off.

So, are things bad there or good there?

Real life is never so simple as to be either good or bad. Are things good in the country you live in? Are they bad? Can you really pick one or the other, when it highly depends on personal views and priorities? For you it may be good, and for others it may be bad. Especially considering we know so little about countries like DPRK.

I think the main point here is that, whatever it’s currently like inside DPRK, it’s being actively made worse by outside entities, notably the American Empire. And the information we have available is extremely unreliable.

Like, I dunno, man. Any country that does military parades is immediately kind of a red flag for me.

So basically all countries on the planet?

I’m by no means a veteran programmer, but I do study computer science and write automation scripts at work.

We get questions like this one every now and then, and usually the answers coming from experienced developers are: “You’re looking for an engaging project idea.” Not sure if this fits your case, but it seems like it to me.

Basically, pick your interest and then look for something related to it that you could write code for. You like video games? Try making games, cheats for games, mods or some other companion apps. If you’re struggling to find a suitable interest, you can always try writing scripts to automate your everyday computer tasks.

So my question is, since everyone on lemmy is a programmer, what do you guys actually do?

The answer to this question will vary a lot, depending on the specifics of the person’s job or interests. Though there is often a lot of copying and pasting involved.

He knows for a fact, since he checked it himself.

You don’t need an ID to download apps on your phone in China. The process is virtually identical to how we do it in the West.

Same country that just gave Nintendo a patent for a generic game idea thay has been in wide use for years. Yeah… this is strictly about profits from their anime industry. Japan is just as much of a capitalist dystopia as the US is. Though if they manage to hurt the AI ‘industry’ - nice, I guess?

I don’t think you realize what kinds of people are in the US military. Be careful what you wish for.

As far as I can tell, Newsom is just a ‘fascist, but not too obvious, so people won’t protest’ kind of candidate. A perfect pick if you want to salvage what remains of the empire and delay its inevitable collapse. But then again, it’s not like Americans have any reasonable candidates. And we’re also going on the assumption that there will be another election, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Would he be an improvement for the American people? And for other countries? At the very least, minorities in the USA would be [mostly] safe for a few years.

If autism isn’t a single condition, why do we lump everyone who’s autistic into the same bucket?

Why do we talk about the autism spectrum like it’s a disease (or a bunch of diseases)? The only problem with autistic people is that they live in a society that is made for non-autistic people and it actively punishes them for being different. Kind of like with LGBT people, though I’d say a lot worse in this case. There’s nothing stopping people in the spectrum from functioning similarly or better than ‘regular’ people, other than the aforementioned society.