From the conclusion of the UN report you linked:

Serious human rights violations have been committed in XUAR in the context of the Government’s application of counter-terrorism and counter-“extremism” strategies. The implementation of these strategies, and associated policies in XUAR has led to interlocking patterns of severe and undue restrictions on a wide range of human rights. These patterns of restrictions are characterized by a discriminatory component, as the underlying acts often directly or indirectly affect Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim communities.

But this is all just whataboutism anyway. We can be against human rights violations regardless of who is doing it and whether they condemn each other.

Tip: you can use the WhatsApp web site for text messaging (I don’t think it works for audio/video?) and if you want to use it in a standalone window you can “install” it as a web app (in most browsers). It’ll use way less RAM running in your existing browser than running a separate electron instance.

No, catios are pretty common in Australia, but a lot of people do just let their cats roam outside too (at least here in NSW). I’m not sure why this was news, maybe because it’s quite elaborate, or they just needed more cute cat content.

Generally agree, but your idea that native games are safer than websites is backwards. Browsers are basically hardened sandboxes for running untrusted code. Even though steam does a good job of detecting and taking down malware it’s still downloading executables that run with full access to your system (unless you run steam in a sandbox of some kind). Playing games in a browser is no less safe than loading any other website.

And TIIIIIIIIIIME…

Wow, you hated Gleba so much you went back in time a year to stop playing factory games?! (Space Age came out just under a year ago)

I loved Gleba because it makes you rethink how you build a factory to avoid stockpiling and storage and instead keep everything moving. If you’re struggling with it you can also just use bots a lot and it works pretty well. If you’re struggling with the enemies you just need to defend your pollution cloud and they basically don’t attack at all.

Because then logically extending this you end up with JavaScript, where “1”==1 and it’s super hard to reason about what will/should happen

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is a Borderlands spinoff shooter/RPG that’s co-op and happens to be free to claim on Epic games store this week. I haven’t played it yet but really enjoyed the Tiny Tina DLC for Borderlands 2.

FAF is Forged Alliance Forever, a community launcher/patcher for Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (the expansion). It has an active community and adds a multiplayer ladder, balance fixes, quality of life improvements, co-op versions of campaign missions, and more. It’s great!