Sounds pretty ideal. I am not political scientist, nor do I think political scientist can have solid prediction about success of a macro political system at this level of a abstraction -- it is simply too complex of a system.
I feel from the past experiment regarding socialism, there seems to be a conflict between large state and large state serving the will of the people.
Power corrupt: for a social democracy to be functional, I believe needs to have (at least the following) two characteristic:
Most people should not have to feel the worry for the lack of resources. Thus, wealth display will naturally be unnesscary, if not frowned upon. Eliminating the culture of admiring people with excessive assets.
A strong democratic system that discourages the consolidation of power under a couple oligarchs.
Socialism only states the public ownership of means of production (sometimes called capital), but there is no requirement in the removal of market.
One of the way socialism can develop is when the cost of capital is way below cost of labour, making worker owning their own capital trivial.
However, there is really no requirement on the side of removal of market, universal healthcare, or universal educations etc; these are often consequence of a strong public sector and (at least attempts at) efficient allocation of resource through said public power.
In most places people usually equate socialism with big government, that IMO really is Marx-Leninism (which is formulated by neither Marx or Lenin, but Stalin).
Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.
Either with market or not, in a socialist society, worker are still compensated for their labor and expertise.
In the scenario I described earlier, even more than a capitalist society, since labor is the more valuable resource given the low value of capital.
China never even advertize themselves as a communist country, the official speak is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristic" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics , but often being moked as another way to say "state-sponsored/authoritarian capitalism".
In the party's official narrative, socialism with Chinese characteristics is Marxism adapted to Chinese conditions and a product of scientific socialism. The theory stipulated that China was in the primary stage of socialism due to its relatively low level of material wealth and needed to engage in economic growth before it pursued a more egalitarian form of socialism, which in turn would lead to a communist society described in Marxist orthodoxy.[2]
I recall very long time ago, I used to have improperly rendered CJK because of language setting.
Apparently, some character can be renderer differently in Kanji and Chinese, which causes size/type face inconsistency.
Can you add Japanese as the secondary (or primary) language in your machine, restart and see if it fixes anything?
I mean I cannot remember the last time I took 36 hours off...
If I work over night (like literally to the morning), I will some time take the next day off, and then have a slow day after :( Most of the time, I only take the morning off.
Hopefully, life will get better, but I don't honestly see an obvious way off...
This graph also reflects an extremely cherry-picked example only focusing on minnesota, somali immigrant, and "with children"?!
Are they just focusing on deporting those that are on welfare AND undocumented? That set is likely close to empty, as U.S. do not provide undocumented immigrant any welfare.
Also why are they not comparing the walfare number to rural U.S., where citizens are much more likely to depends on welfare.
If the immigrant welfare usage is lower than their base, does that mean their base have no right to request deportation of any immigrant?
Overall, I am just really confused what this picture is trying to prove.
Do U.S. people really think anyone can just be here and get the same level of welfare as a citizen? U.S. already has a much more difficult immigration procedure than most European countries, and many people with legitimate high-paying and irreplaceable jobs are already afraid to go home because of the stupid visa system -- people need to jump through bunch of visa hoops even when they are prefectly legal to be here and pay more taxes than Trump and Musk.
Most of my foreign friends haven't gone home for at least 5 years, many for decades, because they cannot afford to take months to jump through the visa hoops.
Even if they do, H1B stamp only lasts one year, meaning they will jump through the hoops again no matter how legal and irreplaceable they are.
Finally, I am interested in how much government subsidy and tax break Musk and Trump received, and how does that compare to the entire population of somali immigrants "with children" in Minnesota.
I stopped realizing it, but MACA is quite literally the slogan of Xi: 中华民族的伟大复兴 often translated to "Great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation" in official English version. However, I feel a more accurate translation might be "the great resuscitation of the Chinese race."1
Basically the xenophobia of MAGA with a sprinkle of racial pride on top.
"Chinese race" is likely not a scientific concepts, as Chinese people are made up of at least tens of different races, for the last two thousand years.
They also moved shitload of industry outside of Beijing around 2008, so the pollution moves to more rural cities.
EV and transport in Beijing is great, impressive, and I enjoy them greatly when I was there, but it is also important to set realistic expectations. Switching to EV and transport improves people's lives a lot and probably can be a golden bullets in many western cities. But for a city as dense and big as Beijing, there needs to be other sacrifices.
As a person who enjoyed liberal art college and studied a liberal art major (mathematics), I think some people here might misunderstood the definition of liberal art.
"Liberal art" means "skills of free people", which by its very history, are useful skills that don't immediately lead to professional applications, since they historically target comparativly weathy people who are in higher class of society, who don't need to immediately find work to stay alive.
Not to say we should still limit liberal art education to the wealthiest few, but there is still immense value in these subjects, especially in the long term.
Most of the majors in U.S. undergrad educations are liberal art majors, like physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science (not engineering), economics, sociology, physiology, music, fine art etc. The exceptions are business, law, medical field, and engineering, several of these fields seldom have undergrad programs.
In general, most of the U.S. research universities teaches libral art subjects in their "college of art and science", which is usually the most popular college in universities.
If you want to use a simple setup: single screen, older hardware, and don't mind minor performance drop in game, the mint is great.
If you want to use a more fancy setup, multiple high DPI screen, or cutting edge hardware, I would try bazzite first.