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1·2 days agoI mean, they prosecuted the guy. You tell me.
Stop me if this is too large a leap, but I think maybe people in china value the well-being of their children. You know. Like everyone does, everywhere.
Also, iPad babies are a phenomenon here. Pushing things before they’re ready or we have a complete understanding of the consequences is a global phenomenon.
You brought it up, you specifically said “our side has rules”. It’s not a deflection to point out that “our side” violates those rules whenever it suits them.
The “rules” allowed for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. My government is arming and funding a genocide. Our rules are a pretext for the powerful and wealthy to do as they please, while constraining smaller countries.
Yeah, really.
I’m more concerned about the abuses of the government and billionaires in my own country. Why should I get my panties in a twist about a country on the other side of the planet in a language I don’t speak? That’s on their citizens to worry about. Me as a yankee and you as canuck worrying about the other side of the pacific is wasted effort at best, and buying into the military industrial complex at worst.
I doubt any more or less than people here do
Chinese researchers publish in the same international journals everyone does, I don’t think they are using CRISPR any differently than anyone this side of the pacific is.
The verdict said the three defendants had not obtained qualification as doctors, pursued fame and profits, deliberately violated Chinese regulations on scientific research, and crossed an ethical line in both scientific research and medicine, according to Xinhua. It also said they had fabricated ethical review documents.
It’s illegal.
and an even greater dependency on industrial processes
Yep. Learned behavior is where human evolution actually happens; it’s our specialization, our niche as big brained, highly social, linguistic apes. Don’t gotta wait for random genetic changes that happen to encode useful new instincts. We just learn them from one another. Significantly speedier.
If rich people go mucking about with their genomes, it’s much more likely to backfire in unforeseen ways than to actually instill any sort of advantage. Genes are a messy, messy, messy means of encoding things.
…did you respond to the wrong comment?
Well, that’s clearly not the electoral environment we live in.
If you want to win office, you do actually have to communicate a positive idea of the future. Obama didn’t win by saying, “I’m gonna continue basically all of George W. Bush’s policies”. Even though that’s what he actually did, he still had to campaign on something a little more marketable than, “I’m not the other guy”.
Cus with the military you already have a readymade pool of labor to work from, with basicaly zero democratic civilian oversight. Plus, a lot of them live on base.
The reason why EU and US arent so blatant because they can’t just start a troll farm with publics approval.
Doesn’t reddit use heavily correspond to US military bases?
It’s not really much of an option anyway. The actual civil war was fought along a genuine difference - industrial wage-labor in the north vs. the south’s (primarily agrarian) owning people as property. The Culture Game may make it seem like there’s a huge divide, but compared against the history it is peanuts (especially if you ignore what people think and look only at what they do).
5·11 days agothe definition of fascism that struck me as the most useful is
Fascism is when an empire takes the policies it uses for colonial holdings and concurred territory, and begins applying those policies to its core.
In that sense, yankee fascism hasn’t even begun yet. We’re still at the preamble.
half the country cheering him on
Half seems like a vast overestimation. Most of the people around me are checked out and get uncomfortable when politics comes up. Go strike up a conversation with a stranger, ask them about current events and what they think is going wrong. More than any other thing happening, the price of groceries is what’s actually on their mind.
silver lining, they do both agree on bombing the middle east
doesn’t cooperation just warm your heart💞?
13·1 month agoPerhaps. At the same time, we also had a better reputation then. A lot of countries were quick to jump on board when we decided who was gonna get invaded. Maybe they would have been just as eager to pull together and go green? Not that we’ll ever really know, of course.
Gonna have to read those, thanks!