There was a construction company BYD contracted out of China to bring Chinese workers to construct a factory in Brazil. It was shut down by Brazilian labor authorities for “slavery like” conditions and treatment if the Chinese workers.
That seems to be source for that claim.
During shutdown one church had a laptop on the lectern as the priest had been exposed to Covid through their husband and did the service over zoom to the congregation at home
The poster above you provided a link.BYD contracted a Chinese construction firm to build a factory in Brazil that the Brazilian labor authorities shuttered over the slave like working conditions.
All of my family’s churches stream services on youtube. Most started during COVID and never stopped.
Source on slave labor at BYD?
Honestly as an older person it very much feels like a lot of Lemmy is under 25. It’s the little things like not understanding the historical context that something from the past fits in while simultaneously telling me Im wrong about the time that I lived through.
Yeah it’s like 4chan in that the parts that were worth a damn live elsewhere. Early internet cultures are interesting but they weren’t healthy and quite a lot would prove the commonality of attraction of heterosexual men towards teenagers.
It was a ton of memes, soundboards (you might have heard the series of prank calls people made with them), and a lot of the same images that would make reddit’s jailbait sub. Im not sure it dying represents a loss.
Were you an adult with internet access and were English speaking and on the internet a lot between 2005-2010? If you answer no to any of those that’s why you don’t know it.
The foundational sites aren’t always known. Im willing to bet most people think the meme formats they shared started on facebook or instagram.
Seriously? It’s foundational to the history of the internet. If an image macro format, what the kids call memes, didn’t start on /b/ it started on ebaumsworld.
Yes, and no English language site other than 4chan has been a larger part of early English language internet culture than ebaumsworld. So many things started there.
No, it was a Chinese subcontractor using Chinese labor.