I see that we can reach across the aisle to commit to calling our opponents pedophiles.

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This is Greg Raiff’s first piece for Fortune’s user-generated content program. He appairs to be the CEO of a charter jet company.

it also has a bottom. it only triggers when revenue exceeds $69.8 million, so about 2.3 million copies

caveat: the game still has to sell at least 3M copies for the devs to get the $250M

the game has to sell at least 3M copies for the devs to get the $250M tho

It does mention:

Earlier this year, publisher Krafton was accused of ignoring a court order by announcing to staff that the game was releasing in May, despite such a decision seemingly being the responsibility of the newly reinstated CEO Ted Gill.

Gill is the first person named as part of “the three”.

it wasn’t XBOX before‽

what’s wrong with it? cis lesbians and gay men are fleeing texas too is the point of the title

9% of transgender people report they’ve actually moved to a different state since November 2024, as have 5% of all LGBTQ people

yeah their point is that, as seen in the 2022 changes, the invasion of ukraine has made “maintain status quo forever” the most popular option—and made “status quo first and move towards independence” and “decide later” (which is leaving open the possibility of moving towards independence) trend downwards. nobody is disagreeing that unification has always been unpopular

it’s worthy of note that 33.5% against 23% means the latter (status quo and move towards independence) is still a substantially popular opinion, but the person you’re replying to is correct that maintain status quo indefinitely has an incredible plurality

relevant domestic opinion polls: https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963

what study was that? i have a hunch that it said less than you think. by 1964 there was a surgeon general’s report and meta-analysis that showed smoking had lots of ill effects on the smoker including “low birth weight” and the 1979 report and meta-analysis found “The more the mother smokes, the greater the baby’s birth-weight reduction”

check out https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44697/table/ch5.t1

meta studies are the highest standard of evidence. when peer-reviewed, looking at old evidence in new lights is precisely what they’re supposed to do, and there’s no problem with that unless there’s a response/refutal along those lines.

i haven’t seen them be at a higher frequency than usual either; in fact the latest data i could find shows it’s slowed down since 2019: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11795965/figure/cesm70010-fig-0002/ (note that the data cutoff is May 2024)

because now we will be overwhelmed by meta studies that are made by AI.

Have we even found a single major-journal systematic review that was made by AI yet?

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i def agree that /0 is having a lot of flippancy and groupthink issues, but i would not call them authoritarian. i would say it has true leftists, just a culture of extremely mean ones who don’t need too much evidence to be persuaded into exclusion

that can’t help you illustrate free speech either

https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=人肉+辱华

seems to be still up: https://space.bilibili.com/19248926 again, it is normal for tucker carlson and alex jones to be occasionally suspended

your point (on free speech) is not supported if there are seldom protests on national issues.

could you give an example of a dissident movement that has openly protested? i would not think the white paper protestor count as an organization (organizing, sure, but there’s a difference)

in the past ten years, human flesh searching most often targets those perceived to make anti-nationalist comments.

i’ll agree that it’s questionable if it has state backing but i completely missed your claim that doxxing campaigns are the result of the government. unfortunately my honest reaction to that is “huh‽”

March 2006

March 2006 was a much more liberalized time.

you just don’t find these kinds of firebrand figures anywhere in the mainstream

well yeah, because there are no mainstream politics in china that are not local. instead, they do non–party-threatening punditry. i’m talking people like zhang xuefeng and yuan tengfei (note that despite impressions some outdated reports might give, zhang xuefeng was only temporarily suspended, which well carlson has been too.), or hardcore hardcore domestic tankies like guyanmuchan.

that’s politicians. politicians do get relatively long sentences for corruption in europe. there’s so many ways to abuse workers besides bribery

and in any case, none of the executions have been for bribery that caused neglect to workers’ rights or safety collapses as you calimed. the most i’ve found for these cases is 15 years and merely expelling for Yang Dongliang—whose neglect caused 173 deaths, 798 injuries, and nearly ¥7B of property damage in the horrific Tianjin explosions—not even anywhere close to a single life expectancy. the medicine Duilio Poggiolini took bribes to approve didn’t even kill anyone and he still served half of Yang’s sentence.

the only tangential one was Zheng Xiaoyu, who state-approved medicine that in one instance caused “14 patient deaths, hundreds being permanently disabled, and several thousand more falling seriously ill”, which has no comparable case in europe with a similar impact per-capita.

China at a local level is incredibly directly democratic

i actually agree with that. but the local governments cannot override the system decided higher-up by democratic centralism.

financial fraud and corruption are not violating workers’ human rights