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Trump is a full blown cult of personality at this point, no one else will do. Maybe that's a good thing since he doesn't seem to have much time left.

Are you really pretending there's no difference between assisting a country in defending itself from an aggressor, and starting your own war as the aggressor?

True, but with how secretive North Korea is, it's difficult to get accurate cultural news directly from the source.

Send in the great musician!

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I just can't with this western bullshit!

I'm sure if someone remarked about "eastern bullshit" that you would cry racism, and you wouldn't be wrong. Thanks for at least being amusing by calling me a racist and then immediately acting like one yourself. Don't feel too bad about it, you're one of countless to prove that wise saying which predates the CCP by 1400 years.

You pointed out how well China will be able to combat their declining birth rates and what they are doing to raise fertility rates. That's great. You disliked the format of the article and didn't feel it expressed their point adequately. Awesome. But you're coming at the comments section with an intensity that seems disproportionate to how banal the article is. Birth rates are plummeting across the world, and every other country has their turn to have attention drawn to it, complete with their own set of uninvited suggestions regarding potential impact and what to do about it. It's okay for people to disagree on the impact of stats like this. It's normal and healthy when done in good faith.

Regarding your other post: "Anti-CCP is anti-China" is a tactic to try to deflect away criticism entirely. It is dangerous for a population to be stripped of the right to criticize their government. I criticize my own government all the time, and others as well when I think they're making poor decisions. The CCP doesn't get to be above this on an international scale because racism. The old stigmatizing the critic into silence approach is not conducive to open dialogue, and it's ultimately a way of shooting yourself in the foot. 欲蓋彌彰

Your assessment seems spot on to me. I'm connecting some projected dots to late stage capitalism. Perhaps the AIs will trickle down and such if we hold off on regulations.

Of course it's possible for the government to impose regulations without sticking their face in and motorboating the AI's contents. Google, Microsoft et al. would love to prevent this from happening because they actually do have their faces in there.

This is such an important distinction. Current AI is incapable of wanting to cause any of that harm, yet it's already happening. The danger won't be skynet, it will be and always has been human greed and ignorance.

A justice system criticised by Iran’s psychiatrists

Thank goodness. Hopefully they all fight against this blatant exploitation of psychiatry to persecute and control women.

Hmm, this makes me think of the tradition on certain parts of the internet where people publicly announce the name and crime of this convicted rapist. They'll explain where he's currently living, the name he's trying to go by, and bars he was seen at. This activity seems to stem from the outrage at the excessive leniency he was shown by the judge, although could also be protecting other potential victims.

I wonder if this kind of vigilante doxxing would fall under the scope of such a law, especially when his name is already in so many publications.

The remarks were made by Qiao Jie, deputy of Peking University Health Science Center and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, at a conference on Tuesday.

The population in the Chinese mainland fell for the first time in 61 years in 2022, decreasing by a total of 850,000, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed.

Doesn't sound like clickbait at all to me. The viewpoint appears quite honest and genuine, and they go on to give sources for why they believe this matters. If you have contradicting stats, please share.

Not my fault it's so forgettable.