Yes, that’s part of the problem. Comparing the relative ‘badness’ of different kinds of bad actions in different situations and thinking about citizens/expats/tourists etc. roles in the systems where these things are happening. Not even getting onto moral Qs about workers/consumers and companies

Not trying to do a gotcha or be flippant, just when so many states (and institutions) cross lines that shouldn’t be crossed I find it hard to form a coherent moral outlook

I’m inclined to agree with you, I always have trouble with this question though, given how many states have done/are doing terrible things, how ought one feel about people who emigrate to China - given Xinjiang, Tibet etc - or the USA, given all the wars/support for Israel’s war crimes etc.

I didn’t say Macron didn’t require support from the left, just that in certain “developed democracies” the far right could be defeated by centrist led blocs, indicating that perhaps a centrist party with more competent/charismatic leadership and a slightly better economy could also do better in UK

Even less clear how this generalises across the rest of developed democracies, how many European countries are currently run by centrist parties or coalitions? Left-wing candidates like Hollande didn’t keep the far right Le Pen out of the presidency for the last ten years, centrist Macron did, no?

No, I mean apparently a lot of voters are not included in the OP’s analysis if we consider the national picture

reform and greens combined currently polling under 45% nationally, of course FPTP can skew this, but 55+% of the electorate apparently doesn’t fall into the two teams the OP outlines, so what’s going on there?

which parties fall into the "reactionary centrism" group in your view?

Intrigued to know the wrong answers here

the correct translation for 主席 is ‘big cheese’

What’s the book? And will it be in English or Chinese? 祝大卖！

Yes, ultimately I think this is an officiating problem, but some clubs have profited from it than others, are Arsenal among the major beneficiaries of laxer enforcement of fouls on the opposition keeper?

Arsenal do seem to score an awful lot of goals from corners though, I’d be interested to see if they have scored more than Brentford in that regard

But Arsenal are a lot better than Brentford so I would rather blame them 😜

Come on now, pushing and shoving from corners is clearly as old as football, but this particular tactic of pushing the keeper definitely seemed to originate with Arsenal cos the officiating changed, fair play you’re going within the law, but bit rich to pretend the tactics didn’t start in north ldn

Ah the classic bloated royal corpse, going way back, I was thinking I’d missed some significant news about the current prince William

William who?

马上有钱 dream come true (picture of a horse with a big gold coin on its back)

马年快乐🐴🐎🔥

Liever Turks dan Paaps - Wikipedia

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China is selling a lot of drones to one or both sides though right?

book title reading: Xi Jin Ping’s Important Treatise on Production Safety

Young Sheldon is currently the highest rated American show on one of the most popular streaming sites for overseas Chinese

bsky.app/profile/booz... if you click through to this thread there are some resources suggested too

yeah I was gonna say this... where to start? idk probably Bengbu

Palling around with American war criminals is pretty bad…. that’s Jimmy Lai on the right there isn’t it?

Sun Xinmei (female, born in 1994) was identified, marched to the prison and executed. Recently, the Changsha Intermediate People's Court in Hunan Province issued a notice that the court executed four criminals on September 22 in accordance with the law. Sun Xinmei, who had great social influence in Wangcheng and Ningxiang cities five years ago, was also identified and marched to a prison and executed on the same day.

The offender is Sun Xinmei, female, born on 18 August 1994, of Shunan Township, Zizhong County, Sichuan province. It is understood that in 2010, Sun Xinmei, then 16, met Yang, a Changsha man (who died aged 33), online. In 2014, Sun Xinmei had stayed at Yang's home during a trip from Sichuan to Changsha. According to Sun Xinmei's confession/ after coming to the case, she was molested by Yang that night, and remained angry with Yang and attempted to kill Yang and obtain money.

Apparently you can also get executed for killing your abuser though…

4. Gulf in performance between how most people interact with AI products and the peak of AI abilities (due to payment barriers, lack of know-how etc.)

I can see at a few major potential drivers of this phenomenon:

1. Backlash to “hype” surrounding certain AI scenarios and abilities
2. AI becoming a corporate buzz word and being rushed into existing products regardless of whether consumers want it
3. Kind of depressing what AI can do already

Nǐ 你 is the standard form of “you” in Chinese, nín 您 is the polite form, so it sounds like Starmer is addressing Xi as his superior or elder, and Xi is addressing Starmer as just some guy

“What did the Chinese farmer say when he saw someone stealing his cattle?”

“我cow！”