It's a massive oversimplification that seems to whitewash China's policies.
Every country that undergoes industrialisation and urbanisation has a big drop in birth rates. Same in capitalist and socialist countries, there's no essential difference in how it plays out (the tempo is different from case to case for many reasons, but the trend is the same). But China additionally made the rates plummet through govt intervention.
So you stressed and praised the part that wasn't truly crucial for the outcome (socialism), but ignored the part (one child policy) that drastically contributed to the outcome and that can't be presented as nice or intuitively desirable (regardless of whether it objectively was or wasn't a good decision). That's not simplification but selectiveness.
(Yes, it is true that many lemmings who live outside China just project their own "China sucks" logic onto the Chinese, and their approach is wrong, I agree with you on that count.)
That's not the point of downvotes. If you're assuming people are downvoting you just to make you feel bad, you're taking it way to personally.
Upvotes are funny too. I like what you posted, but can’t be bothered to articulate why. So I’m gonna click a button at you and hope it makes you feel good.
I get the joke, but the sources aren't self-published. They're published by an instance other than the author and that's good enough, that's what the self‐publishing rule is about.
The COI can hardly apply to members of a fairly broad group writing about the group. By that logic, Americans shouldn't write about the USA, only gay people could write about heterosexuality, etc.
Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia articles about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships.
The users are revolting? Well, fucking finally. Ygg was in general a shockingly hostile service. I made a profile, downloaded a torrent, left it seeding, and quickly got banned with no explanation whatsoever. Many other people reported similar experiences, completely nonsensical self-destructive behaviour from the admins. So this is hopefully an opportunity for French pirates to start anew on a healthier basis.
(I left the torrent seeding even after being banned, and it would still upload to Ygg users... but I limited my upload to 1 kbps, lol. It's pretty rare so I should upload it to a normal tracker one of these days.)
Give me a young star, and I can use the reductionist laws of physics to predict that star’s future: It will live a million years rather than a billion years; it will die as a black hole rather than as a white dwarf. But the components of a living organism yield something new and unexpected, a phenomenon called “emergence.” Give me a simple cell from the early days of Earth’s history, and I could never predict that some 4 billion years later it would evolve into a giant rabbit that can punch you in the face. Kangaroos—like humans—are an unpredictable, emergent consequence of life’s evolution.
But couldn't "reductionism" simply chalk this inability up to the practical lack of physical information and our purely technical inability to play out (simulate) something as massive as, at the very least, all that takes place on an entire planet?
In fact, even the example with the predictability of a star's life isn't all that certain in practice – do we really know exactly how the star's life will play out, or just generally? Will the Sun become a red giant in roughly ten million years, or in exactly 10.285.914 years? It's still a complicated chaotic system and we certainly can't account for all the details and microflunctuations. The same inability applies to physics describing evolution, with the main difference being how far-reaching the difficult-to-predict micro-flunctuations can be (a change in a gene can change everything about life on Earth millenia down the line; a solar flare, while involving an incomprehensibly larger amount of energy, changes next to nothing about how the star's life will play out, as far as we're concerned).
I take these differences more as a spontaneous consequence of how you frame your topic of study, depending on your practical possibilities (different methodologies arising based on how suitable/doable they are for different objects), rather than as a strict border between hard determinist physics and non-physical magic.
Dedicated gay beach, as far as it gets without having some official designation of that sort. Straight people just don't go there at all, based on decades of my beachgoing in the area, local oral knowledge, and, well, going there myself and seeing the people. My friend once tried to go there, his mother (who has lived nearby on and off for decades and has family there) asked him wtf he's doing, that's the gay beach...
If you were actually at some sort of private gay club where public sex is allowed, all good, but I feel like you probably wouldn’t be questioning and trying to justify it if that was the case.
Well, obviously, I realise this was definitely a more questionable case, especially as I consider it in retrospect 😅
He's some guy with a long-term drug addiction and mental illnesses that he doesn't want to take meds for (he made a thread about it like yesterday). The crashout doesn't seem to be caused by transphobia, as far as I see, he has posted weird stuff all over the place for random reasons.
Well, the beach was a dedicated gay nudist beach, so I figured it might be more tolerant of that (though a friend of mine, who passed it by many times, said he has never seen people having sex there), and the place was relatively secluded so very few people on the beach could see it at all. Definitely not kids.
So that's how I'm rationalising it to myself.
But you explain it well, and I guess some feeling of guilt is deserved. Beach sex isn't very comfortable anyway so I'm not planning to do it again any time soon.
I had sex on a nudist beach and a boat passed by right as I had a cock down my throat. Can't say I felt any embarrassment, with regards to being seen by the people on the boat. Yet afterwards I wondered if the act could've been seen as inappropriate by the other beachgoers, which would definitely make me feel some embarrassment.
Admittedly at this point you probably won't find anything useful on the official site, other than the last redacted version. Hopefully someone has saved the first version and uploaded it elsewhere?
Hmm...