Just so nobody forgets, North Face planted ads on Wikipedia, and then threw one of their regional managers under the bus when they got caught, as if to claim that it wasn’t really the real company doing it.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/05/29/lets-talk-about-the-north-face-defacing-wikipedia/
Hopping on this to share that Milo Learns made by some of my Cambodian friends also just added Japanese for conversation practice. It has an online community as well if you don’t like talking to an AI. But sadly it is freemium, so OP wins on that front. https://milo.niy.ai/
Yeah, it was always gonna be either Country or Christian music that got AI’ed first. Music for morons basically
“Massive trillion dollar corporations are behaving absolutely fucking atrociously, so we need to do the same” is such an awful take that it makes me doubt the legitimacy of this user account.
You don’t even need to, you just need seven digits of numbers. As password formats go, it’s hella low entropy.
I don’t think it’s unwholesome to hustle for an artist management job, I reckon if he’s helping the guy out then as a manager he should be getting 10% of busking earnings…
Your phrasing implies that the issue was that farmers all sat about at home not working because they weren’t getting paid. There were plenty of problems, but I’ve seen scant evidence that that the threat of getting fired for not doing your job was even in the top three.
Which means they beat inflation by like 1000%, good investment
Yeah, Capitalism fundamentally isn’t “for all”, it’s for holders of Capital.
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It’s shocking because of how easy it was for them to do the decent thing. Literally all they had to do was nothing, but they paid for the lawyers and did the work, and made a conscious effort to fuck over the most vulnerable people in the country.
The fact that her username is The Patriotic Blonde really just tells you
…that the whole thing was probably never a real person posting their actual thoughts to begin with?
Only in the same way that you could always write your own newsletter and hand it out in the street. I feel like you’re wilfully missing the point there.
Pre-internet there was a certain amount of natural limit on how much bullshit one could spread, because you had to print physical newspapers and find distributors, which meant that you had to have a name and a business address people could find you at.
With 2000s Internet this limiter was removed, but counterbalanced by everyone being able to present their own side for the marketplace of ideas.
Now in 2025 we’re in the worst of both worlds, where a tiny number of trillion-dollar companies control 98% of Internet traffic and are making it clear that they have no qualms abusing that power to shape public discourse.
just got a bunch of his friends to agree with him
You mean the International Astronomical Union? I mean at some point if every world-level expert on the topic is saying the same thing, then maybe you need to let go of what Miss Honey told you in first grade.
…however, go to to the top of your question, modern Vietnam is doing ok compared to its immediate neighbours. There’s some amount of corruption at various levels of government but this seems to be improving slowly. The main utilities etc are govt owned so stuff like mobile phone plans are reasonably priced. Commerce is thriving, but I don’t think that was ever banned in the first place.
They relaxed visa requirements for visitors more recently, so the tourist spots are WAY more crowded than 15 years ago.
The South were not above bad behaviour, some evidence of which is in the Museum of War Remnants in HCMC, but this is true of most wars ever.
I don’t think it’s useful to make a good/bad guys argument case for North vs South, but it is easy to make a case that the USA committed a lot of heinous atrocities in that whole region for little reason beyond the fact that the rich people in charge didn’t like the idea of communism becoming popular and their wealth being taken from them.
There are no shortage of stories of Viet Cong being sneaky or less than gracious hosts to captured POWs, but these often skim over the fact that they were the ones being invaded; it’s churlish to conduct a massively asymmetrical assault on a peasant village with helicopters, bombers and Agent Orange, and then complain that their prison facilities weren’t up to your standards…
he’s 27 years old
People used to complain that Teletubbies had nothing to offer a child’s development. Now in 2025 my nephew watches the same half hour cgi marble race on YouTube two or three times a day, every day
Eh. I don’t know what the specific story behind OP’s post was, but generally whenever I see things like “they gave life to the community” or whatever trotted out as a defense of a banned poster, it was usually an idiot troll whose usual contribution was to derail every discussion and piss people off. They only gave life to community if you define “life” as a high post count, which is a flawed metric for this very reason.