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Thank you for writing this epos. Your points are valid and even thou many chinese would disagree (I think), the parallels you draw between western and chinese phenomena are striking.

From afar (I have never been to china), I have to admit with a cold shiver, that the chinese control over the media might be working as intended. Usually, wealth and security encourage laicistic world views but like you said, nationalistic tendencies are on the rise everywhere and very useful for totalitarian regimes.

Maybe, the CCP even manages, with stronger measures, to rule away the demographic crisis, they are heading for and western governments will be even more jelly. It’s very concerning.

> However show me an alternative with a UX that is simple enough for my 6 year old to use, that works on iOS, Android, MacOS, and now Linux.

I have my keepass vault in my dotfiles repository. All i need on any device is keepass and if i want to write to that vault, git. Of course i secured my publically accessible vault with a strong password and an additional token. Works fine for me but i have to admit, using a lot of devices with write access to that vault would get cumbersome.

Poluation x Goods/Services x Energy/Resource demand x Waste production = Human impact on earth

It seems fairly common to picture the earth heading to an unstable overpopulation but imo this is only a comfortably narrowed down perspective on large scale problems. Especially for western countries, it is tempting to focus on the global population issue because this is primarily a phenomenon of rural, poor regions, so not their own. The other three mayor factors at play here would unfortunately require to rethink basic economics and this would reach deep down into societies. I suspect some sort of psychological "the others fault" self defense emerging in large. I have to be honest here, i fell for it too at first.

Even if the overpopulation would be the only factor we face, its solution would still be large scale and system questioning because either you throw away any moral standards or you end up creating and distributing wealth in a sustainable way. No, simply the delivery of contraception is no solutions only good healthcare and especially the education of girls/women.

>Second, the distinction between normative and descriptive statements, as you define them, is not always clear-cut.

True but does not matter. Those statements, that fit into the descriptive/normative categories are the key ones of any text, the rest is either allusion or up for the courts to decide. IMO phrasing like "looks like there might be voter fraud" would not have let to the storm of the capitol.

>"I think all <insert group> are criminals"? Note that the "I think" was implicit in your phrasing

The difference of normative/descriptive statements is the same as subjective/objective ones. "I think ..." already started subjectively and can only have a descriptive component, if its backed up with a statement like "because X is ...".

>"Donald Trump is a criminal."

>The US approach to this is to generally try to avoid having the government be the arbiter of truth

But courts decide who is a criminal or not. And when such a decision is made, you could legally call Trump a criminal. Experts are frequently heard in court to distinguish it, so why not extend it? It does not have to the ministry of truth (political) but we all require the authority, that tells us the way things are, hopefully in an unbiased way.

I think many US americans despise the german approach to censorship of speech. Here in germany, we have not freedom speech but freedom of opinion, which makes a very crucial distinction.

There are two kinds of statements, descriptive and normative ones.

Descriptive statements explain "as is" relationships like "this door is blue" or "2 + 2 = 5". It does not matter if the statement is false or not.

Normative statements cover subjective "should be" relationships. These are opinions like "it should be 3 years parental leave" and thus protected in german law as beeing unrestricted. This is, what is needed for free public discourse and not the right to claim falsehoods.

In germany, you cant freely say that "jews are all criminals" and "the holocaust never happend". Over here, you can get penalized for public statements like these because (a) they are not opinions but wrong descriptive statements and (b) explicitly noted as beeing illegal. Whereas in the Us all speech is free (insults and such excluded ofc).

The question is, where do you draw the line. To which point can wrong descriptive public statements still be tolerated and where might they harm society or individuals? From the german perspective, this question is easy to answer and i am considering the storm of the capitol here :)

From the Github page: >Browsers would need a way to form clusters that are both useful and private >The browser uses machine learning algorithms to develop a cohort based on the sites that an individual visits.

To me it sound like just another layer of indirection with google right in the center of it. Even if this method works well enough from an advertising perspective, i expect there will soon be adverserial models to deanonymize.

>People are more comfortable with a stranger injecting a liquid into their bodies when they know everyone else let it happen as well.

>5. False associations, confusion of causation and correlation

I dont think they accept vaccinations because others do it.

>whatever facts presented are either cherry-picked or irrelevant.

>Look what japan did.

>Look what the dutch did.

>Look, the US was altruistic enough to give them indipendence.

>Look, the US even trains their military.

You responeded with a bunch of whatabout and called the US an ally.

Would you call the US an ally of south america too? (And ignore all the horrible hegemonic involvement.)

Why do you only cherry-pick Venezuela as an example and not Cuba, where mixed races living peacefully, side by side?

How does rioting promote marxism or socialism?

(>Look at all this right-wing brainfuck.)

Even their page https://www.valvesoftware.com/ is down. I'm not a web developer but doesn't that smell like bad architecture?