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Comment Similar to what's going on in academia. (Score 2) 42

Anything coming from China was already a running joke in science during the last decade due to the very low quality and made up results that usually accompanied their papers. Nowadays, with the AI generated papers they are spewing out, we just completely disregard anything where the main author's name sounds Chinese.

Comment Re:Has Lord of the Flies not been translated? (Score 1) 87

Lord of the Flies is not simply about "people" trapped in a survival situation, is about "children". Unsupervised children of certain ages, can absolutely be awful to other children, and the only thing keeping them back, is that they will have to respond for it to adults latter on.

Comment China vs Gina (Score 1) 683

See, I can understand if a truly conscientious entity wants to avoid people like Gina (I personally don't think what she did is so bad, but fine).

I also accept that most entities (people, companies) understand the world is made in shades of gray, and that we shouldn't go around painting people as monsters just because of some minor actions.

But what truly bothers me, is the sheer, absolute, epic hypocrisy of Disney calling out Gina Carano, while they do all sorts of disgusting stuff to appease China. Things like taking out black characters out of posters in China, because they know there's a true racist sentiment over there. Or like allowing the Chinese Communist Party to veto their script for Mulan, or a number of really, really bad things.

Where I come from, when you beat up the little guy for something bad he did, but you act all meek towards the big ugly, really monstrous big guy, you are labeled as an hypocrite and a coward: That's exactly that what Disney is.

Comment Rejoin is not the same as ratifying it (Score 1) 345

Like Obama, Biden is "joining" the Paris Agreement. "Joining", doesn't mean anything, is just some gesture of good will. What every other 1st world nation did at the time when Obama "joined" it, was to actually "ratify" it in a legal binding, that would need to hold even for future presidents. Obama didn't do it, so Trump could just ditch with without any repercussions.

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