ghomrassen

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by ghomrassen 5y ago
crickets
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
That's the crux of the issue isn't it. Society has to set some ground rules, no? I'm all for live and let be, but letting vagrancy fester and destroy cities where other people want to live is where I draw the line.
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
Well, I didn't, but can you tell me your why your way of thinking doesn't apply across the board?
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
Bingo.
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
So righteousness falls upon the vulnerable? I guess I'll tell my drug addicted cousin he's all good because he's vulnerable. You can be moral by being against the will of someone who's lost their way.
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
Your logic can be extended indefinitely. Are we torturing pedophiles by forcing them not to abuse children? What about murderers? Society coalesced for a reason.
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
They are not doing this for anti-monopoly reasons. It's purely because they thought the tech companies had more data, and therefore more power than them. One of the examples I've seen over here, which I can't seem to find in
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
'Poverty alleviation' is one of their current blockbuster initiatives that gets massive air time. TV shows, documentaries, news reports, all focused on how committed the government is to fighting it. How much is actually happening
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
Didi doesn't have a monopoly in China. Meituan is also a large player in the space along with hundreds of tiny ones.
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
Registering is one part of a thousand part process. Ask a small business owner, other than geography, would you rather operate in California or Texas. 9 out of 10 will say Texas.
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by ghomrassen 5y ago
Or because Europe is a bureaucratic nightmare.
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by ghomrassen 6y ago
Up until a few weeks ago, it was the only governmental line you'd hear here on the news in China. Frozen salmon coming from Norway...
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by ghomrassen 6y ago
The lies aren't for the international community, it's for the people of China. If the wet market is at fault, it can be blamed on the local party leadership, which was easy enough to do because they continued to screw up during th
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by ghomrassen 6y ago
Not on weibo.
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by ghomrassen 6y ago
It's the old adage, "conservatives think liberals are stupid, liberals think conservatives are evil."
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by ghomrassen 6y ago
I would imagine the opposite side would say the same.
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by ghomrassen 7y ago
This. They originally wanted to make the maglev line all the way to the other airport (Hongqiao) with a stop in downtown (People's Square). If they just went to People's Square, the amount of people using it would be MUCH greater.
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by ghomrassen 7y ago
Or they have a better working relationships because they same similar goals. Conservatives aren't evil bogeymen who want to destroy the environment wholesale, they want to find a realistic solution to the problem. Add to the fact that
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by ghomrassen 7y ago
It hasn't been a happy time for Ottawa's LRT. They've been scrambling to buy up buses to take over during LRT shutdowns. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/transit-update-commiss...
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by ghomrassen 7y ago
Heard about this a couple days ago, crazy stuff. For those who don't know, bilibili is a massive video hosting platform in China aimed toward the younger generation. So the question is who leaked it and why? Just a disgruntled employee
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by ghomrassen 7y ago
Absolutely. More children meant more farmhands. In the city, it's a net negative. It's not to say you're wrong, it's just the one child policy is a compounding factor.
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by ghomrassen 7y ago
Yes, absolutely. You'll see China having the same issues as Japan about 15-20 years down the line.
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by ghomrassen 7y ago
One child policy was in effect and Chinese people got used to it. It's been enforced as a social norm and the subsequent generations seldom have more than two kids. You can add China's increased urbanisation, increased work hours
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by ghomrassen 8y ago
What racists?
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by ghomrassen 8y ago
Not sure if search is what they really care about. With their exit from the Chinese market in 2010, they gave up quite a bit in the Play Store, Youtube, etc. I think they want an entry back into China for the extras, rather than the search.
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by ghomrassen 9y ago
The original plan was to run it to the "city centre" at People's Square and then on to the other airport in town Hongqiao. The problem was expense, and for money to be a problem for the infrastructure-happy Chinese, you know
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by ghomrassen 9y ago
Well, the vast majority of Australia is the Outback, which people don't really want to live in.
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by ghomrassen 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(magazine)
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by ghomrassen 9y ago
What's to stop San Francisco from creating a lot more high-density housing? Doesn't that solve many issues with housing supply? Looking at wikipedia, the density is crazy low even compared to other major cities in the US.
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by ghomrassen 9y ago
Yeah, I think you're closer, as long as you pronounce the own like owned rather than pow-n, as I read it at first.

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