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2024-10-19 at 6:15 AM UTC in A Short Analysis Of Social Cohesion In The USA
Originally posted by Speedy Parker You are another clueless fuck.
China has more than 300 languages spoken within its borders
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And you are another clueless fuck that doesn't know how to use wikipedia.
"According to the 2010 edition of Nationalencyklopedin, 955 million out of China's then-population of 1.34 billion spoke some variety of Mandarin Chinese as their first language, accounting for 71% of the country's population."
92% of language spoken in China is Chinese.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-10-19 at 5:48 AM UTC in A Short Analysis Of Social Cohesion In The USA"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." - Preamble to the USA Constitution
I'll get to the point. Societies across the globe are held together by a certain "glue" in order to keep subsects of said societies from breaking from the state and forming their own states. This "glue" is oftentimes predicated on ethnicity, religion, language, or culture. Some shining examples are France, China, and Italy.
The citizens of these states, are, by and large, of a single ethnicity or belong to a single ethnic group. In France, you are likely French, perhaps Occitanian. In Italy, you are "Italian" which may mean you are Milanian, Sicilian, Neapolitan, etc. But you still belong to the Italian ethnic group. You also speak Italian, write in Italian, eat Italian food, etc. Same for Chinese people, who are part of a vast nation that spans from Tibet and Xinjiang, to Beijing, from Manchuria to Guangdong.
However, the national identity of USA citizens is not predicated on any part of an individuals identity that is, by and large, static and consistent.
In China, people in Guangdong and in Beijing speak the same language, eat the same food, watch the same shows, read the same books, etc. They have an identity that is composed of various things that are shared by all people across the nation. These things also do not change, or if they do change, they change more or less uniformly throughout the state, and usually at a slow pace.
The USA's demographic profile is composed of many different ethnicities, cultures, languages, etc. This is not to say that USA citizens lack a uniform portion of their identity, however.
USA citizens all share (supposedly) the ideals that are expressed in the preamble above: The rights to life, liberty and happiness.
This fluid identity based on ideals and values allows people to assimilate to the US society and generally be accepted by other citizens. If you pay your taxes, are kind, and don't hurt other people, most people will at least tolerate you, no matter if you are Swahili, Vietnamese, Venezuelan, or German.
This lack of a cohesive, static identity is a double edged sword, though.
The USA is not a old country, but it is also not a new country. The ideals that are shared by it's constituents are, and have been, subject to change. We have seen this in party switches, for example. The Liberals of the 20's and 30's are not the same as the liberals of the 60's and 70's. The USA was founded under the pretense of being able to freely practice any religion, but people in the west are becoming less religious.
The constant development and change of this identity leaves US citizens divided, unable to relate to each other on the basis of heritage, cuisine choices, shared history, or other characteristics shared among ethnicities, such as in many European nation states.
Do you think that a fluid national identity based on ideals instead of shared characteristics is a good or a bad thing? Why or why not?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-10-12 at 1:05 PM UTC in I took my anti depressants for the first time in almost 3 years.Folks, I don't know why I started this shit again and I don't think the he psyche lady knew what she was doing because instead of titrating back on it she just gave me the big pills (30) and said see you in a month.
Today I said fuck it and took one and I feel like I"m like EXCITED1~!~!~!~!~
I love ebineg nice.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-22 at 5:17 PM UTC in My NEW Banner is way better than Bradley's trash oneYeah take me off too!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-21 at 8:40 PM UTC in What happened to Kinkou?"Stinkou" doesn't even make sense.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-21 at 8:04 PM UTC in What happened to Kinkou?Kinkou went Kookoo. You can catch her on the 11 o'clock news.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-20 at 4:09 PM UTC in Petition to bring back the Cuck ButtonThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-20 at 8:22 AM UTC in Petition to bring back the Cuck ButtonI'll fix your ratio don't worry.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-19 at 1:49 PM UTC in Official Petition for Kafka to befriend KinkouKinkou is nicer to me than Kafka and i worry Kafka would rub one off on herThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-19 at 1:01 PM UTC in Official Petition for Kafka to befriend KinkouI'd like to see Kinkou and kafka scissoring
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2024-09-19 at 12:17 PM UTC in Why hasn't anyone brought back Twitter?Twatter.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-19 at 9:25 AM UTC in Lebanon's Spicy BatteriesI’ll try and keep this concise, so cliff notes for what happened:
Incident
On the 17/09, pagers started exploding across southern Lebanon. Hezbullah typically used these pagers to transmit one-way status updates, warnings of inbound strikes etc. to their soldiers and people in the community, and it was the specific brand and model Hezbullah preferred that were exploding. Roughly 3,000 people were hospitalised and 10 killed outright which flooded the Lebanese hospital system, prompting medical resources to be transferred from friendly countries such as Iran and Iraq.
Two days later, other devices began exploding as well, primarily portable ICOM-branded radios but there were also reports of various other items such as clock radios, portable solar chargers, remote access keypads and other personal electronics. This wave of explosions was smaller but more lethal – roughly 400 reported injured and another 10 or so killed.
Cause
The initial news reports, mostly citing anonymous US/israeli sources claimed that it was a cyberattack and that the israeli intelligence services had found a way to remotely detonate the lithium cells inside the pagers. This was obviously not true given the videos of explosions – they were high explosives, there were no major fires and no characteristic vapor/smoke, as well as the explosions themselves being too violent and consistent.
It was later leaked by the Lebanese investigation team (and ‘confirmed’ by anonymous israeli intelligence sources) that the pagers had been tampered with to contain around 20g of PETN explosive compound, and that the batteries had been shorted and overheated in order to detonate the PETN charge.
Attack Vector
Initially I assumed that the pagers themselves had their firmwares hacked to detonate upon receiving a certain code, but the later explosions in other devices makes this seem less likely.
The most likely attack vector is some kind of modular bomb built into the lithium cell – the attacker could remove the battery from the casing, put a smaller battery and triggering system (likely a small radio antenna that shorts the battery when receiving a specific frequency, as space would be too limited for decoding chips or anything like that) in the casing and fill the remainder of the void with PETN. With this kind of device an attacker could replace the lithium cell in any portable device with a hidden bomb without having to worry about software/firmware/circuitry in the device itself.
Supply Chain Attack
Before the second wave of attacks, analysis was focused on the pagers themselves – they were the AP-924 model manufactured by the APOLLO GOLD company in Taiwan, a model that was popular in the 2000s and still in use by hospitals and other critical centres that wanted a way to keep contact with staff if cellular networks failed.
APOLLO is now under investigation by the Taiwanese authorities and has released several statements relating to the AP-924 – specifically that they no longer manufacture the device themselves, and that they’ve licensed the design to a Hungarian consultancy firm, and the design has been changed since it was transferred.
The consultancy firm, BAC Consulting, appears to be some kind of front organisation as it only has one registered employee (a woman who appears to have had her identity stolen, as she published several academic papers on hydroelectric cells in the mid-2000s before re-emerging as a generic NGO volunteer in the 20202s), a website (now deleted) that says nothing about what the company does or any kind of manufacturing capability and annual cash inflows of $500,000+ since 2022. It stands to reason that this company or its subsidiaries were set up explicitly for this kind of sabotage.
As an aside, there are also reports that the manufacturer would not ship the batch of pagers directly to Lebanon, instead sending to Jordan where it was held by customs before being transferred on – leading to speculation that they could’ve been tampered with there.
HANDALA Hacks
A pro-Palestinian hacker group calling itself HANDALA claims to have hacked several israeli companies involved with this attack and will release evidence ‘in a matter of hours’.
They claim that the battery bombs were developed by Israeli Industrial Batteries in conjunction with Unit 8200, israel’s famed SIGINT/Electronic Warfare unit. According to them the explosive batteries were manufactured in israel, then shipped to Europe (specifically to the manufacturing plant affiliated with the aforementioned BAC) and implanted in the pagers and potentially other devices meant to be delivered to Lebanon (indicating that the sabotage was performed at the site of manufacture, not in customs in a transit country).
This, however calls into question how the Mossad was able to transfer large amounts of explosive into the EU and out again after assembly.
The answer to that question is that Vidisco is another israeli state-adjacent company that works with Unit 8200. Vidisco manufactures around 80% of the X-ray and contraband detection hardware used in western airports and seaports, and apparently maintain backdoors that allow israeli state operations to simply silence detection on shipments they want to keep secret.
HANDALA claim to have around 20TB of data stolen from the two companies to prove their claims; we’ll see if they’re able to deliver.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-19 at 6:46 AM UTC in Official Petition for Kafka to befriend KinkouYou can learn a thing or two from Kinks, Kafka. Lmao. Hahahaha. Lol.
You should both dance for us.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-19 at 2 AM UTC in Why hasn't anyone brought back Twitter?noThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-17 at 7:46 AM UTC in Looking 4 a shawty
Originally posted by Kafka Go drill a hole in your skull retard.
you have no consistent worldview or ideology; everything you claim is just egocentric nonsense wrapped up in political language you don't really understand.
everyone should be a 'feminist' because I'M A WOMAN.
abortion is the most important issue because I MIGHT WANT ONE SOMEDAY.
if you don't support my retard behaviour YOU'RE A MISOGYNIST.
I hate immigrants because they might rape ME.
I hate white people because they might rape ME.
you are a perfect example of why universal suffrage was a mistake, the last nail in the coffin of liberal democracy - someone who can't even comprehend the world outside of your inherited house and trust fund has the same baseline political capital as someone who has to build, maintain and otherwise live in it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-09-13 at 4:48 PM UTC in For Trump supportersThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-09-01 at 5:40 AM UTC in What happened to Kinkou?
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2024-08-31 at 7:11 AM UTC in 5000 rockets hit Israel"also I only watch super high IQ videos but you can't see them"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-08-28 at 6:20 PM UTC in The Media Is Not Real Life"Well, the Dems/Reps say.." Shut your goddamn mouth. You really extrapolate the values and beliefs of an entire political party from the information disseminated by news anchors/politicians? Those same news anchors who have a monetary incentive to warp and bend the truth like a board of wet pine? Those politicians who do the same, only to a greater extent and in the pursuit of re-election?
When you watch the news, the politician/news anchor is not even talking to you. They are "talking" to an audience that they bend and twist their silver tongues to appeal to. Hell, what you see on the news is not even indicative of reality. It is a conglomeration of data that is flung hundreds of miles and interpreted by your TV/PC/Phone to portray politicians/news anchors talking to YOU. The videos are chopped and edited, stock images abound. The anchors and politicians only say what is likely to be broadcast and what will increase voter turnout. They are made in the best interest of the corporations. Nothing more, nothing less.
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2024-08-21 at 3:33 AM UTC in 80% of people may fall in love with AI chatbotsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
