I enjoy the time walking inside the Grocery store (my neighborhood Walmart), looking around and picking stuff. I feel it's part of good life. Am I an outlier?
I don't mind it, the biggest issue for me is finding parking as I always seem to hit crowds of people whenever I go. I also like the idea of going around and picking out specific fresh produce. I like looking at the apples and bananas before I put them into my cart, as I trust my own QC over somebody elses.
> Being lack of information, most citizens support gov’s standpoint.
NO, because of the censorship, we do not know how many people actually support gov’s standpoint. Your statement is pure speculation and does not have any factual basis.
The Chinese government will not allow any professional organization to conduct and publish a survey like: "Do you support the censorship?", or "Do you support protest in HK?", or "Do you support shooting students in the Tianman Square", or "Do you support Xi to be the Chairman forever?"
Even the Chinese government itself does not know how many people support it and they fear the number is in fact not small, that is exactly why they need censorship in the first place.
One of the most commonly used words in their propaganda is "一小撮" [1, 2]. They always claim the people against them is only a few bad people. I never bought this even when I was in middle school. The reason is so obvious: if it is truly only a few people against you, why don't you just allow people to vote? Why don't you just allow people to speak up? The only reason you are so afraid is that you know maybe it is not just a few, and you know there is a good reason for people to stand against you.
I suspect you're being downvoted for the big shouty capital NO, and the fact you're trying to refute someone's opinion, when they were explicitly asked what their opinion was. This came across as being negative and confrontational. Reading your post more carefully I can see your heart is in the right place and are mainly just trying to provide context and comment but the initial confrontational tone drowns that out.
This is a very open and courteous community, where a bit of generosity in interpreting people's statements, and courtesy even to people we disagree with, is highly valued and it seems to me you have some very valuable views and experience to share.
Thanks for your voice, and pointing out the defect in my thought. I came up with my view by my observation on Chinese SNS platform, and no factual basis like a professional survey or any data could support my view.
It let me feel bad that in the political environment in China which is not allowed to talk about politics freely, it's hard to find factual evidence to support my stand.
I still don't buy the "There is no nature vs. nurture" statement. Maybe there's more than nature vs. nurture, or more complicated than nature vs. nurture. But totally no nature vs. nurture? Overstatement.
Nature vs. nurture hasn't been a thing since the 2000's when second generation sequencing dramatically expanded the breadth of information we had about species' genomes and (along with other discoveries made at the time) made us realize there was indeed a lot more to it than this dichotomy. It's about as relevant in our modern understanding of genomics as the debate between GOTOs vs. structured programming is to our modern understanding of software engineering.
No. It's not about whether there was "a lot" more. It's about how much it can add on top of "nature vs. nurture" to explain common social phenomena. It is very possible the new knowledge can be 100 times more complicated, but it only adds 1% more explanation power to everyday phenomena.
Take physics as an example, quantum physics has "a lot" more than classical physics, but no physicists will discard classical physics as being no longer valid, or no longer useful for explaining everyday physical world, or you should always use quantum physics in engineering, etc.
Explaining common social phenomena with modern human genomics isn't a thing period. If you'd attempted to introduce some sociobiology talking points in a typical genomics conference you'd be laughed out of the room. (That's assuming the organizers would even consider your abstract for a talk in the first place.) No one really discusses 'nature vs nurture' anymore outside of a few circles that somehow still haven't gotten the memo. It's just not relevant anymore to modern fields.
The anti-American rhetoric has always been there, no matter what. The Communist party can even blame the tiananmen square massacre on the western world. This is called brainwash.
What is more scary is that there are many Chinese Americans using WeChat to connect with family members. There is no doubt some of them work in the U.S. government or other sensitive companies or agencies. By tracking their location alone, the Chinese government can obtain huge amount of data.
should we ban wechat? probably yes. it's a quintessential threat to privacy, freedom, and democracy practice.
but are we able to? not at all. All big corporates and even some in government are on their side. China is where money is to make and ruling is to learn.
The question is what is the due process to ban wechat. An executive order from Trump? If wechat is banned, should all other Chinese apps and websites be banned because every Chinese company is tied to Chinese government? If someone objects to the ban, should he/she be banned for colluding with a foreign threat? If you go down the slope, then at some point the US will become as oppressive as China. China can't make US more authoritarian, but paranoia can.
Yes. At that time many Chinese students got green card by taking advantage of the 1989-6-4 (Today is a special day) massacre. There is a special term for those kind of green cards: blood cards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Student_Protection_Act...
It turns out, after a decade, most of those blood card scholars have no problem to work for the communist party government at all, as long as they can get paid.
Exactly. I do NOT want to use business plan for my family!
They still do not address whether shared folder count against your space. It is just stupid. This means I can not share the photo folder with my family members. If I have 500G of photos, and I share the photo folder with my other family members, it will take 500G from each one of them? How ridiculous it is! This is why I have to convert from Dropbox to OneDrive. I still use Dropbox without subscription, because it auto renames camera photos.
