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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.

Well, I didn't, but can you tell me your why your way of thinking doesn't apply across the board?

Bingo.

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.

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.

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 English, was an infographic created by Didi. Either stupidly or some tech dick-waving contest, they made a chart of the most hard working government agencies in Beijing. They had all this work habit data and they released it as a fun little thing.

Suffice it to say, it's hard to find now and a smaller part of a overarching data issue that has gone out of the government's hands.

Totalitarians are gonna totalitarian, but now they've learned to do it effectively and use the terminology the free world does to make it sound righteous.

'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? Fuck knows. The government controls the press and the metrics coming out.

Didi doesn't have a monopoly in China. Meituan is also a large player in the space along with hundreds of tiny ones.

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.

Or because Europe is a bureaucratic nightmare.

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...

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 the early stages of the pandemic. One memorable one is when they hosted a massive dinner for 20000 people in close proximity when it was starting to really heat up.

If it's the lab, that squarely falls on the national government, which in all things can and must do no wrong.

A poster above said it perfectly, when your authority comes from competency, you need to show your competent. The CCP has this precarious position in China where the people support it strongly because they've been doing a good job giving people better lives, at least from their perspective. If that turns badly in any way, it could break them.

Not on weibo.

It's the old adage, "conservatives think liberals are stupid, liberals think conservatives are evil."

I would imagine the opposite side would say the same.

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.

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 Ontario has a history of failed green projects in wind power that have eaten billions of dollars. If these conservative premiers can throw some money together, cut some red tape and get projects moving in the right direction, we should all be applauding.

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...

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 or the effect of 996?

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.

Yes, absolutely. You'll see China having the same issues as Japan about 15-20 years down the line.

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 and smaller houses/apartments into the mix.

What racists?

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.

Anyways, I still think Baidu is pretty garbage and I constantly rely on Bing for inside China searches.

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 its not economically viable for the majority of countries on earth.

Well, the vast majority of Australia is the Outback, which people don't really want to live in.

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.

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.