Summary
At least 126 people have been confirmed dead and 188 others injured as of Tuesday night after a magnitude-6.8 earthquake jolted Dingri County in the city of Xigaze in China’s Xizang Autonomous Region at 9:05 a.m. on Tuesday.
The earthquake emergency response in Xizang has been raised to level I, the highest level, the region’s emergency command center announced Tuesday.
To date, around 30,400 people have been relocated to temporary settlements, and all the injured people have been treated.
on a related note, duckduckgo clearly on that #censorship because :
I even put CGTN in the query and nope. Only western media outlets. So laughable since I started using duckduckgo to avoid google’s tracking, but even google will relent and provide me a link to CGTN
duckduckgo changed their terms at the start of the Ukraine war, proudly announcing that they will no longer show “biased” media. They’re just as bad as google in that regard.
you can get it by setting your search region to china.
Appreciated. Probably going to just completely nope out of western search engines altogether at this point anyway lol. especially with the overuse of AI collation at the top (of which I’ve noticed DDG has been doing just as much if not more than google)
Any recommendations for search engines that you are planning to use?
Maybe, it is time for me to also move from western search engines as well.
I just use yandex. That search engine will give me both russian and western sources, which i apreciated (for the ukraine war situation).
Unfortunately I don’t think I can completely forgo google for its ability to give decent results to “info + reddit” queries and its indexing of xtwitter (which I don’t use but sometimes need/want to find something). I’m a Chinese heritage speaker and have been working on improving my reading skills for the last 5+ years so I will probably (try to) transition to using sogou, baidu, toutiao etc… baidu isn’t free of the AI scourge but at least you have to opt-in rather than being forced to see it top and center. However, searching for info in English or about anyone from the anglophone sphere of the internet (contemporary western ML writers for example) is difficult or even outright impossible. Also, the business model of most/all search engines is adverts or otherwise eyeballs (for news, etc) so that’s just unavoidable these days at some level.
Yandex is ru-based and seems to have decent English-language results, from my ~5 minutes of usage. We’ll see…
Welcome to hear any one else having other search engine alternatives also.
I think I should start learning Mandarin.
You should. Not even just for using better search engines/internet resources (though that is a good reason too). It’s an incredibly useful language to learn.
It also isn’t as difficult as people make it out to be. The grammar is very easy and logical.
The founder of DDG is on record saying they censor search results based on his western lib bias.
My heart goes out to the people of Xizang effected by this tragedy.
The western media and Falun Gong propaganda outlets will of course exploit these people’s deaths, using them to somehow blame the Chinese Government, similarly to the Zhengzhou floods.
126 more victims of communism according to the "little black book"ers.
Duckduck go admitted shortly after the start of the Ukraine Semi that they deprioritize Russian media in essence censoring them by pushing them to the very bottom. Not a surprise they do the same for Chinese media given their defense of that move in the face of outrage about that kind of censorship.
Calling it a special military operation is just as cringe as the liberals who say “full-scale invasion”.
It’s a war.
I think the difference there is the distinction as to when the war began.
People say “special military operation” not to try to reframe it as something less than a war, but because it is a part of a war that was already ongoing. It’s a way of referring to specific military actions that took place as part of the larger conflict. The war didn’t start in 2022, if OP had written “DDG admitted shortly after the start of the Ukraine war that they deprioritize…” their statement wouldn’t be true anymore.
Saying SMO isn’t trying to be cheeky or downplay the war, it is just providing a specific point of reference.
Well I don’t want to call it the start of the war which is why I put it like that.
The fact is the war was started by the US Nazi Ukrainian proxies in 2014 and involved Ukrainian citizens fighting one another for 8 years. Russia simply got involved in an existing war that was on the verge of escalating.
I refuse to accept or propagate the western propaganda framing of Russia as the aggressor which is why I put it that way. They didn’t start the war, they got involved in one being waged against them instead of turning the other cheek. But that’s not a succinct way of putting it.
They even censor mildly left Portuguese-language outlets like Operamundi, which I suppose is sort of critical of Ukraine, but honestly it’s a really bad search engine too. At least it is a bit tamer with the AI.
