Mitja Drab

[Mitja Drab @Torkohlast]

Karantena, 24. dan: Tudi brez kvasa trebuh lepo vzhaja.

[Mitja Drab @Torkohlast]

Traffic lights are so funny. Like here, have a little phone break.

[michael @FilledwithUrine]

making her wear those remote controlled vibrating panties in public so i can inform her when i’m tired and want to leave the party

[michael @FilledwithUrine]

*looks inward* this shit sucks

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

We are so lucky, looking back at history, China quelled the Tiananmen Square protest movement in good time. Just imagine where China and humanity would be today if the US had managed to install the Chinese equivalent of a Zalenski or Al-Jolani in Bejing in1989; how many millions of Chinese people would have died of hunger, remained in poverty, and lost a chance at a decent life.

How many bridges would not have been completed, roads not paved, social and technological advances not made, factories not opened, and cities, schools, and public infrastructure not built and developed, had China fallen into decades of instability, undoubtedly used by Western powers to exploit and corrupt it beyond repair?

As China makes amazing strides in technology and public services for its people (and, unlike the US, without destroying its working classes, but rather building them up), we should be very, very thankful China made the right decision and did not follow the path to guaranteed doom taken by other countries 'liberated' and 'democratized' by Western colonial powers.

Just imagine where we would be with no counter to Western imperialism. China as a 3rd-world, violent, broken, internally-conflicted, US-approved 'democracy', can you picture the horror?

Do you realize what they saved themselves fro,?
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What the West has done in Gaza and about Gaza - the dystopian enforcement, censorship, and coercion - is 100 times worse than what China did in and about Tiananmen. No Western country has any right to criticize anyone about anything ever again in all of history.

Thank you

[indi.ca @indica]

Isn't it ironic? A hundred EV companies have bloomed under communism, while capitalism subsidizes one moron. A startup has trained an AI for $5.5 million under communism, while capitalist AI requires $500 billion in government support. 1/11

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek have had an unusual volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we're also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say "Well actually China is actually quite bad actually" in response.

Western liberals who fancy themselves enlightened and critical of power tend to get very squirmy and uncomfortable in their skin when they hear people saying positive things about the PRC, and love nothing more than to tell you that China is just as evil and tyrannical as the western power alliance, if not worse.

This is objectively, measurably false. China hasn't spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression. China isn't circling the planet with hundreds of military bases while working to destroy any nation or group anywhere in the world who disobeys it. China isn't strangling nations around the world with starvation sanctions for refusing to bow to its dictates. China didn't just spend 15 months lighting the middle east on fire and backing a live-streamed genocide. China hasn't spent the last three years endangering the world in frequently terrifying acts of nuclear brinkmanship with a rival nuclear superpower. Only the US-centralized empire has done this.

Whenever I point this out I get empire apologists going "Well yeah, SO FAR! We haven't seen China doing all that evil foreign policy shit YET because they're still not powerful enough!" Which is just silly. China absolutely is powerful enough to be a whole lot more abusive and murderous abroad, and it simply isn't. Westerners love to claim that China has secret agendas to conquer the world someday (hilariously implying that these hypothetical future abuses make China morally comparable to the US empire's current known abuses), but if you actually dig into the evidence for these claims what you'll find every time is that all they provide evidence for is China's openly stated goal of a multi-polar world that isn't ruled by Washington.

Our ancestors set sail to conquer the world; their ancestors built a wall. This notion that China has an interest in ruling over a bunch of white foreigners has as much rational basis as old racist superstitions that black and brown people wanted equal rights so that they could come and steal white men's wives and have sex with their daughters.

They're just a better civilization than ours — not because theirs is miraculous or perfect, but because ours is just that murderous and dystopian. They simply do the normal thing while we do the freakish thing: they make the lives of their citizens better and better and avoid unnecessary wars, while western governments make the lives of their citizens worse and worse while plunging into new acts of mass military slaughter every few years.

Any criticisms you could level at China — that their domestic policy is more authoritarian than ours, that their culture is more conservative, etc — are eclipsed in moral terms by the depravity of our own western governments by many orders of magnitude. And why would you even level such criticisms while living under the single most bloodthirsty and tyrannical power structure on earth? That would be like a German living under the Third Reich looking overseas and bitching about Brazil.

I find nothing more pathetic than a westerner who lives under the shadow of the US empire spending their time and energy criticizing the abuses of nations who lie outside that power structure. It's an embarrassing, bootlicking way to live. Focus on criticizing the far greater abuses of the far greater evil that you actually live under, loser.

[Taco @ThatDudeTaco]

Everything we know about Luigi Mangione

A thread:

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

why can't Vance (or Harris) simply say that the people who have harmed working class Americans are rapacious billionaires like Trump and Peter Thiel, not immigrants who work themselves to the bone trying to give their kids a better life.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

undocumented migrants are stealing your jobs, your welfare AND your houses. they're also doing all the crimes. this is the republican platform. its objectively untrue and also insane.

[David Fishman @pretentiouswhat]

I'd like to share some learnings on small-city China.

For 4 days, I've been in southern Hunan in the city of Chenzhou (郴州).

Chenzhou is not a big or famous city. But its stories are worth telling anyway.

I'll tell you why in this thread:🧵

[Mitja Drab @Torkohlast]

It was a great pleasure to become acquainted with the @eurocurvobio community. I hope to see you again soon!

[Lucja_Kowalewska @KowalewskaLucja]

Can you imagine more curved, more kind, more positive, more generous and smarter group of people?! I can’t! You were the greatest speakers, poster presenters and participants ever. CURVOBIO will be back in 2027 🚀🤩🥳
@eurocurvobio @COSTprogramme

[Mitja Drab @Torkohlast]

@crnkovic Grozno

[Mitja Drab @Torkohlast]

The global economic loss of trying to plug in USB correctly.

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

This was brutal https://t.co/9GXcsDbq6L

[Mitja Drab @Torkohlast]

Morda bodo čez sto let gledali na našo dobo in se čudili nazadnjaštvu ljudi danes, da se nismo mogli organizirat, ko pa smo še imeli svoboden internet. 3/3

[Mitja Drab @Torkohlast]

Ne maram zgražanja nad “premalo woke” preteklostjo in posledičnega kenslanja tipov, ker so bili seksisti ali rasisti. To je neiskrena in udobna pozicija, ki nam jo podari čas. AKA po bitki smo vsi generali. 1/3

[Mitja Drab @Torkohlast]

Point je v tem, da ima vsako obdobje svoje antagonizme, svoje gordijske vozle, ki jih je treba razdelat, ko so tako blizu, da jih ne vidimo. 2/3

[Mitja Drab @Torkohlast]

Antifeministično je, ko te feministka porogljivo okliče za femboya. Je moški, ki ima kako “značilno žensko” kvaliteto, zato slabši moški? Še več: pripisovanje spola značajskim lastnostim je v navzkrižju s feminizmom.

[Alec Sulkin @thesulk]

My wife’s stories are like Grateful Dead songs. I literally applaud when she gets back to the point.