I’m not here to debate you on how the great firewall compares to what other countries do, I wasn’t saying anything like that

The part I was pointing out is that it’s hypocritical, in my opinion, for a government (China) to act like there’s some injustice being done to them by countries like the USA putting sanctions on them when they are currently voluntarily cutting their population off from the world.

They’re saying they want to collaborate while at the same time preventing their own citizens from accessing many western websites and services.

Maybe if this was a completely isolated situation it makes more sense but it seems hypocritical to say something like this while their government is actively bolstering the great firewall to prevent Chinese citizens from accessing stuff the rest of the world has access to

Yeah, its a bit much. But hey, it’s something that brings a lot of the users here together. Common ground to get conversation going and gets the new Reddit refugees interacting with content on here. After a while it’ll probably die down but it’s very much at the forefront of new users’ minds.

Ayy I got into Bloodywood a little while back, they’re pretty sick. Haven’t gone through a lot of their catalog but cool to see them mentioned, seems like their fanbase has been growing a ton over the past year

So the farmers reduce the water table so the country isn’t muddy?

No, it’s so the are they’re farming on isn’t too muddy for the heavy machinery. They’re not talking about the areas peope are normally driving on.

But the water table being lower than the rainfall means there’s a drought and things are getting too dry. That’s not good for anybody. It harms the very ecosystem they’re trying to farm in.