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by ailun 5y ago
Do you not understand how shoes work?
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by ailun 5y ago
It is abuse. The warranty wasn’t “free shoes for life.” If a pair of hiking boots lasts more than a decade (his comment seems to imply they’ve already lasted a decade) that’s a normal lifespan, not a problem. Of course, one could always the
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by ailun 5y ago
Seriously? You’re going to use them for a decade plus then abuse the return policy for a new pair? Not cool.
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by ailun 5y ago
Same - I would switch immediately if it worked well in China. Express VPN used to work, but after weeks of outages I switched to Astrill.
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by ailun 5y ago
It's not new, but I just read Neverness by David Zindell. I had a similar feeling with his invented language. He actually does it so realistically that sometimes I couldn't tell when the words were invented and when they were ju
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by ailun 5y ago
They force the gaming companies to use real-name ID and face verification.
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by ailun 5y ago
Should note that this describes white-collar jobs. More than half the population works blue-collar or service jobs, and few of them are working less than 6 days a week.
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by ailun 5y ago
So is the arts track an example of the vocational schools hintymad is talking about? Or is it just a different track at the same high school? Another thing I don't understand - he's saying 50% of kids go to vocational schools, and
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by ailun 5y ago
I knew what you meant. A better way for me to put it would have been: "I wasn't making a counter argument, just telling you my current understanding and the reasons for it." To me there's a big difference in attitude. I&
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by ailun 5y ago
First of all, not everything is an "argument." How about a discussion? I'm not interested in an argument. It's interesting that there's no calculus on the gaokao. It's an elective in high school (same as the US
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by ailun 5y ago
Where are you getting that 50% don’t pass the high school entrance exam? It’s not pass-fail. Which high school you get accepted to is based on your relative score, yes, but I haven’t heard anything like that 50% number going to vocational s
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by ailun 5y ago
The official release does mention reducing anxiety and costs for parents, and you can see how the birth rate goal makes sense, but it does seem to be more about student welfare. At least, the release doesn’t mention the birth rate that I ca
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by ailun 5y ago
Why do you get paid more than most other EU citizens for having US citizenship? Just because it’s a US company? Did you get the job in the US then move to Croatia? Do they only hire US citizens? How does the local tax situation work out? So
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by ailun 5y ago
LGBTQ as a movement is seen as a western influence. It’s funny that I saw your comment, earlier today I read a machine-translated version of this article(1) that was shared by a Wechat contact. I would say this attitude is fairly common amo
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by ailun 5y ago
Which Chinese vaccine are you talking about? The two common ones are Sinovac and Sinopharm; neither uses a modified adenovirus. Also, neither of them have been taken by billions of people.
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by ailun 5y ago
That’s something Whole Foods uses for the subcontracted cleaning crews, not the directly-hired employees. They laid off all their maintenance crews a year before Amazon bought them. It’s also not on the workers’ personal phones, they have s
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by ailun 6y ago
I didn’t think you need to worry too much about them. The prices they offer to the seller are absurdly low - plenty of people will sell independently instead. In my case they offered 35% less than I got selling the car myself. There was no
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by ailun 6y ago
I was curious so I looked it up. From zettelkasten.de/introduction/ when the author is talking about the principle of atomicity: > Wikipedia, also, is not a web of thoughts, because you can only link to articles and sections wi
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by ailun 6y ago
Yeah, again, we’re not talking about the same thing.
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by ailun 6y ago
I said nothing about both sides being equally wrong, that’s something you projected around my comment. I was sharing a completely true observation. It’s a really common sentiment for people everywhere. To me, it’s a separate and unrelated i
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by ailun 6y ago
Sometimes I read comment sections on conservative websites. They say the exact same thing except with the parties reversed.
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by ailun 6y ago
Well, one difference is that the Supreme Court basically killed the law as written because it conflicted with the 1st Amendment. Can you find anyone who has been prosecuted since the case I linked? Prosecutors aren’t going to use the law a
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by ailun 6y ago
Yeah, including everyone at work and our customers. I could do payments through Alipay, but there’s no way people are going to accommodate me in other ways.
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by ailun 6y ago
I hope they win. Living in China, I told my friends here that at least they will have their day in court - a win would really help show an advantage of the US system in a high-profile way. Trump is doing so much to hurt the US image among C
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by ailun 6y ago
Well, I live in China, so technically we don't. You can say we were born under different legal systems. In China, law is often a tool to punish those the state doesn't like. Trump hasn't banned TikTok yet, and the powers he i
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by ailun 6y ago
There is no law named "National Security Law" in the United States, he was just using it as a poor deflection, as you know. Once he linked a specific law, I elaborated. You can check it out if you actually care.
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by ailun 6y ago
I’m very sure. Do you actually have an issue with the substance of what I said? Obviously I’m not going to link you to all my online accounts to prove to you whether I’ve sufficiently criticized the US. I’m going to very briefly reply to yo
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by ailun 6y ago
That's great, you linked something specific to talk about. Interestingly, the actual application of that law demonstrates how rights are protected in the US. You may know that Chairman Xi thinks there should never be an independent ju
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by ailun 6y ago
How was it shown a failure? Because one side didn’t get what they want? All while mainland security forces were kidnapping booksellers and trying to erode rights at every step? There was no failure of democracy in Hong Kong, the mainland wa
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by ailun 6y ago
Guess what? I don’t agree with many of the recent infringements on constitutional rights in the US either. I can criticize my country because I’m not a blind nationalist. And the US doing something wrong doesn’t excuse what China is doing t

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