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@selea @Gargron

I once proposed it for Matrix Synapse but it was met with... not much excitement to put that lightly :)

Alleged YouTube #censorship of Chinese expression Wu Mao (五毛) which is said to be the name for "CCP propaganda division". And it is blocked.

But then I find this - can anyone with *actual* knowledge of Chinese confirm?

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%BA%94%E6%AF%9B/24163406

Wu Mao

Fifty cents, a buzzword on the Internet, mostly refers to posting a post in the forum for money. The reason why it is called the five cents is because the earliest posters, in addition to the base salary, pay a salary of fifty cents per post.

@Mithrandir

Exactly, I couldn't even come up with a reasonable comment here 😂

@vtag

Это именно есть и методика Consumer Price Index, которая широко применяеться в экономике для исследования реальной инфляции и роста цен (только более систематично, а так всё правильно сделал).

@rumblestiltskin @aral

Not saying it does. I'm from Poland where the state imposed quasi-official Roman-Catholicism reaches new highs of absurdity and corruption each time, so I have a very strong practical base for criticism of religion.

What I'm wondering about is why widespread secularisation, either state-imposed or organic, is quickly replaced by equally widespread mix of some other esoteric nonsense.

@aral

While I personally fully agree with your assessment, we should be looking a bit deeper than that - at least if we call ourselves rational.

Religion is a widespread phenomenon in all human cultures, all around the world. Countries which enforced state atheism eventually made full swing back into even more bizarre mix of esoteric beliefs.

There's much more to that in religion than simple "backwardness" (and I have no idea what to be honest).

Matt Blaze, a veteran cryptographer, got it perfectly on Twitter:

"If this were WWII, these people would be refusing to use blackout curtains at night because having your city bombed is an important freedom."

A really nice series of videos that explain what does it exactly mean that a power plant has 1 GW nominal power, and how much electricity it really makes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCe6DTehZ38

@electricsand

The good side is that LiberaPay contributions have almost tripled since April :) I have just checked and I had contribution to MicroG set previously and I have just increased it. Thanks for publicizing this story!