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Just watched a "Feynman" video on Youtube I thought was a little off. Especially when one of the examples simply seemed outright wrong.But I thought it was probably me who misunderstood something. Until I read the description, and it turned out his voice was recreated by AI, and the "lecture" was designed by an unknown person to be in the "spirit" of Feynman!

It had Feynman's name all over it, and then in the description they end it with:

No impersonation is intended

When they had his name all over it, and the title claims it's a lecture by Feynman which it absolutely wasn't, and they use AI to simulate his voice!! How is that not impersonating? That shit should be outright illegal, it is fraud, Feynman had nothing to do with the content, and it even had mistakes!

Unfortunately on Youtube I can't find a way to block a channel after having seen the video. That option seems to only be available on my start page for the suggested videos on that page.I have blocked hundreds of AI crap channels, and they keep popping up.

No American politics are for Americans to decide. European governments don't even express an opinion, because it is considering meddling in internal affairs of a sovereign country.

Your strawman is wrong and stupid.

Chip manufacturing isn't rocket science...It's harder.

Yep our everyday smartphones are the result of the biggest technological achievement of humanity yet.The precision work required to make the modern chips inside those phones is insane. The know how and technologies required to do it surpasses anything else humanity has done.Just the friggin EUV "lamp" for a high end process is $400 million!!You can't just assemble that shit like a piece of IKEA furniture, and even knowing the composition of things, doesn't necessarily tell you how to make it so it works.But China has the resources to make the best minds and technologies available to make it succeed, and eventually they will. Because every development team in the world is working under the same physical laws, so with enough skill and resources, they will succeed because it's already proven to be possible. And that's the advantage the catch up team always has, they don't need to doubt whether it's even possible.

Great, these enduring protests need more exposure. Congratulations to everyone who is participating, they are doing their part to stop the madness.

Highest estimate for no kings was 5 million, which is 1.6%. So accounting for infants and the sick I find that to be a reasonable estimate.

That is at the very least true in many cases. I hope Americans can overcome it.

I wish you the best of luck.

There are 100M citizens in the party, which is a small percentage of the population.

That's less than 10% of the population, and still everybody can only join under one party program. That's not democracy.

The system is, in fact, democratic,

No it isn't, you claiming that only shows you don't understand what democracy is.

The size of the party in China is small,

That is mostly irrelevant, it's the lack of political freedom that matters. Here we have 12 parties in parliament, no less than 2 of them are new parties, that sprung from older parties because they wanted to change the political agenda. Such an option does not in any way exist in China.

they have to prevent disruption of the revolutionary government by outside forces.

No they don't, and they already don't allow anyone to express such opinions anywhere else, it's even easier to prevent it within the party. That point is pure bullshit. It's the authoritarian paranoia that fears change, even if a majority of people want it. But here the CCP fear even the MENTION of change!! The only thing worse is autocracy, where a single individual holds all power.

And as it turns out, the party is incredibly responsive to the people.

But still people are not allowed to ask for democracy.

This isn’t really true in one-party systems. One-party systems have factions and the factions all fight for their program within the party.

The same is true when you have 12 parties, the difference is that in CCP you have to stay within what is allowed under one party program. In a democracy you can do the same but within many different party programs that span a wider spectrum, where in an authoritarian country many of them would be illegal.

The US outlawed the communist party, blacklisted every communist sympathizer

I already mentioned that USA is a deeply flawed democracy, that has failed to improve their democracy. In Scandinavian countries the Communist party is absolutely 100% allowed and legal. But In Denmark when the Soviet Union collapsed, the Danish Communist Party went bankrupt because support from the Soviet Union dried up. And there was so little interest that the communist party doesn't exist here anymore. We do however have a number of left wing parties that are based on social democracy. Denmark has one of the highest democracy ratings in the world, so when arguing on how democracy works, you should use a functioning democracy as example and not the very flawed democracy of USA.

That would never happen in the US because the US would brutally put such protests down very quickly.

In a democracy demonstrators don't generally throw bombs at police, because the demonstrations are allowed, and their political viewpoints are allowed, and police does not try to arrest peaceful protestors.

however, we given orders to disengage when things got too violent.

Nice to hear there is some humanism, it didn't go so well at Tiananmen Square square in 1989.But yes I've been aware for years that the Chinese "thought police" is not as ruthless as it once was. For instance an Internet blogger criticizing the system is not even necessarily imprisoned, but instead the blog can be taken over by authorities, and the content switched to state propaganda. A way more humane approach that is still efficient.Progress has been made, but silencing opposition is not democracy.

launching point for Western terrorism

Everything you write about Hong Kong sounds like propaganda. But the part about Western Terrorism is weird. There is no reason to believe terrorism would somehow be carried over from the west to China. If a person from Hong Kong perform a terrorist act in China, that is 100% a case of Chinese terrorism.

But these are two very different experiences. China is under siege, being surrounded by nuclear military bases.

Nukes can be intercontinental, so geography is not so relevant. And China is surrounded by Russia, Kazakhstan, India and a bunch of smaller countries, none of those countries would ever stand a chance against China in a war. India and Russia have nukes, but why would China be afraid of being attacked by them?The idea that China is under siege is exactly what a totalitarian regime would claim before invading another country, just like Putin did before invading Ukraine.Are you saying China is planning an invasion?

the powers that be in the US do not listen to the people at all, and consistently have terrible approval ratings, whereas the Chinese government is constantly working on their process of listening to and addressing the needs of the people.

As I've mentioned already, USA is a very flawed democracy, and some of the dissatisfaction is due to this, they have options, but no good options.In China however, the people don't have an alternative political party with an alternative offer to compare the Chinese government to. And considering the development has been generally good for quality of life in China, it is understandable that the majority of Chinese population is pretty happy with how things are going.I recently watched a Norwegian youtuber called Bjørn Nyland who test drives electric cars, and who went to China, to try some of the new Chinese electric cars. And he filmed freely in China (Shenzhen), something that would not have been possible just a few years ago. But it's also amazing to see how modern Shenzhen is, and the number of cool eating places is insane. Very clearly the places he visited people had very high living standard. Probably a good bit above average for China, but goddam it looked nice.I can understand why people in China think things are generally good, and are happy with their government, in some ways they have done an extremely good job.

whereas in the US Indian reservations are horrible places

It's funny how you continue to use USA as an example, you should be aware that USA is not respected in this regard in Europe. USA is in many ways worse than China.As a democracy they are a joke that we call only one party better than China. They have a horrible history of slavery, and the racism continue to be high despite being a multicultural society for 2 centuries! They don't have healthcare for all, like every other democracy, and they don't have paid education.You are not really making much of a point by pointing out that USA sucks too.BUT!! Think about this, among one party countries, China stands as a shiny beacon above the rest. Whereas USA as a democracy is rock bottom in almost every aspect, except they have a huge economy.USA is about to fall into one party authoritarianism, What do you think the chances are? Will the people be better off with just one party?

It sounds like you’re saying Totalitarian == Fascism == Authoritarian

They have traits in common, Totalitarian is dictatorship by one ruler, Authoritarian is centralized rule that does not allow political opposition much like China.One of the main aspects of fascism is that it is always authoritarian or totalitarian. So being authoritarian means being similar to fascism in some of their main aspects.But == usually means identical, and I never claimed that. Just that China being having an authoritarian government, means it shares significant similarities with fascism.

America is more authoritarian than China

By definition democracy is supposed to be the opposite of authoritarian, but most definitely USA is the most authoritarian and also most flawed democracy that exist.

it imprisons more of its people,

USA is the most unjust democracy in the world,

it (USA) uses violence against the entire world,

Yes even Americans are beginning to realize that. Unfortunately China is beginning to behave a lot like USA, which I don't really blame them for, especially the 2nd term of Trump has been awful for relations between China and USA, but I'm afraid it has also put a strain on relations between China and EU. I find the Nexperia debacle particularly embarrassing for EU. Had it been bought by a company from any other country, there wouldn't have been a problem. But because it was China, and Trump somehow thinks it his job to make as much pain as possible for China, USA pressured EU and Netherlands to prevent China access to a company they bought fair and square under EU regulation!? Apparently the situation is being resolved, but here should never have been a "situation".

China, on the other hand, does not allow the president to issue unilateral executive orders

Good. 👍 That may explain why China seems to generally behave more balanced and intelligently than USA.

China is not somehow obviously evil compared to the West.

I never claimed that, I have great respect for what China has achieved in many ways, China seems to respect the sovereignty of other countries, but for some reason Xi is hellbent that Taiwan must be reunited with mainland China. Why not accept that Taiwan is now a different country from China? And try to work together, China is the most obvious major economic partner for Taiwan anyway.look at Russia trying to "reunite" Ukraine, it has made life hell for millions of people. With no benefits for either side. The soviet union was legally dissolved in 1991, why not accept that? And in the same way, why can't China accept that for all practical purposes Taiwan is an independent country now?

Interesting debate, although I disagree at times, you put forward a reasonably balanced argument IMO.Now I'm out of space too. 😋And it's 02:30 here now, so I say goodnight. 🥱 💤

Then you don't know what 10% looks like.

It seems like you want the entire country to openly go into civil war

And what in my comments makes you think that? Problem is that allegedly Trump is already using the national guard now to stop protests around the White house.While he prevented them when he tried to make a coup when he lost last time.Trump is a traitor, and he wants to end democracy, but maybe you don't understand that?

There is only so much one person can do, and I absolutely do not blame those Americans that actually voted against Trump, and those who are actively protesting.It's the remaining 90+% that are the problem.At least the majority seems to be voting Democrat now, but it's far from a sure thing there will be another presidential election.

PS:I have no idea why you got a downvote?

It was an attempt at a joke.

They also don't have access to quality European cars without steep tariffs.The US market is massively favoring American cars. Meaning they can only have shitty expensive American cars.I just bought a used 4 year old VW ID.4 with 120.000 km (75.000 miles) on it, not a squeak to hear when I drive it. with Tesla they make noises already when delivered new from the factory!! At least the ones we get in Denmark do.

A problem designed to solved by a "small" bribe to Trump.

In theory you could have democracy with only one party, but AFAIK that's not really how it works in China.Who people can vote for is decided by the party, and AFAIK not everybody can become a member of the party, and participate in that decision.Also only one party means only one party program, and that can never be democracy, as when people vote, there is only one party program to vote for.It's also not a democracy if certain viewpoints are oppressed, which is very much the case in China, and which we have seen very clearly in Hong Kong.But yes China has some level of a very very flawed democracy, and there is a visible path for improvement within the system, when the political landscape allows for it.But as we have seen with the American flawed democracy, the powers that be may be very hesitant to yield power to a more democratic structure. In that way USA has failed for about 200 years. Hopefully the Chinese model allows for a bit more progress than we've seen in USA.

Regarding the 95%, that is very high, but I have no doubt that the government/CCP is very popular, after half a century of strong economic progress, with actual progress to the population too, I'll even go so far as to say it's well deserved.But on the humanitarian side, and respect for minorities, China is still way behind. It is also a country with death penalty, which is clearly contrary to democratic values.

The idea that China is fascist is laughable.

The most visible signs are oppression of opposition, which is 100% undeniable. And also oppression of the truth through censorship, the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre is still illegal to even talk about. So no processing of the mistakes, and no learning from them. These are the 2 clearest markers of a totalitarian system.As I wrote, fascist as in authoritarian, and it is a fact, IDK why you consider facts laughable?

It doesn’t matter where you are in the world right now, there are efforts being made to bring fascism there.

Oh yes, that threat is becoming more and more real, but the propaganda is originating from Russia and succeeded in USA, and USA is where it needs to be stopped, because it can still be stopped by democratic means. And because it is the American efforts that are more likely to succeed in EU.But we should absolutely do to Russia what they've been doing to EU, UK, USA to amputate the west and NATO. But hopefully the sanctions from Ukraine on Russia will be working soon. So the Russian federation will collapse like the Soviet Union did.

I don't think The Trump and his gang of trillionaires will succeed in EU, but you are 100% right that we need to be careful.But it would be sad if we lose USA entirely to this Russian bullshit, and it's weird why so many of the richest people in USA are so willing to give up their own country?Trump, Vance, Thiel, Musk, Ellis, Zuckerberg are all literally traitors to USA, humanity, democracy and decency.I would love to see the American population take them all down.

I suppose the condensing water vapor forming water crystals after a plane is a chemical too. So I guess the chemtrails are sort of real, but it is just water, and it's completely harmless.The correct name for the phenomenon is contrails. Which unfortunately contains con as the lead of the word, so that's probably not helpful either.The cause is hot air ejected from the jet engine creates water vapor, that is quickly cooled down at the low temperatures at high altitudes, this forms ice crystals that create the characteristic white trails after jet planes.This is a result of physics, and it makes no sense to try to ban that, because physical laws of nature supersede human law every time.

Both sides were way worse in the past, but no it is not the west or USA that has been feeding this dispute.Both sides need to recognize the current situation of China and Taiwan being autonomous states as the status quo. And that from a humanitarian perspective both sides are best served by staying separate.But today Taiwan is a democracy AFAIK, with elections every 4 years. While China remains totalitarian. So the fascism in the form of totalitarianism is clearly on the Chinese side now, even though they call it Communism, it's actually closer to Fascist Germany during WW2, than it is to anything normal people would call socialism.

Yes, they are about half way there. There are still legal options to oppose the administration.

t feels like the No Kings protests maybe weren’t reported in your area

Based on Wikipedia I just wrote a comment attributing no kings 5 mullion as is the highest estimate, which is 1.6% or maybe 2% if you discount children and the sick.

But still as I wrote earlier, compare that single day event to the noise generated by the Occupy Wall Street demonstration that lasted for 59 days!The situation is worse now than it was then, but for some reason people are doing less?

But it's nice to hear that more is done than I thought. I hope it grows further.If a turnout of 10% can be reached, there is no federal force big enough to stop that!