> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend
Yes, it's a fair statement overall. China's modern rise relies more on economic leverage than the conquests, colonies, and genocides that defined Roman, Mongol, European, and U.S. expansions. However, it's not entirely peaceful—note regional aggressions like South China Sea militarization, Taiwan threats, and internal human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet. Still, less overtly imperial than historical peersYes, it's a fair statement overall. China's modern rise relies more on economic leverage than the conquests, colonies, and genocides that defined Roman, Mongol, European, and U.S. expansions. However, it's not entirely peaceful—note regional aggressions like South China Sea militarization, Taiwan threats, and internal human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet. Still, less overtly imperial than historical peersYes, it's a fair statement overall. China's modern rise relies more on economic leverage than the conquests, colonies, and genocides that defined Roman, Mongol, European, and U.S. expansions. However, it's not entirely peaceful—note regional aggressions like South China Sea militarization, Taiwan threats, and internal human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet. Still, less overtly imperial than historical peers.
@warsh1010@WNC2021@fred_guttenberg I think you aren't smart enough to understand that those zionist Jews you hate so much are doing what they are doing to make sure you and your family like other common Jews can live undisturbed by proproms and anti Jew laws like it had literally been the case for too long.