I have read all 3 of those sources AND Googled “what percentage of the population of China has access to safe drinking water” and NONE of the results agree with your claims… That’s the point.
You’re either lying, or too stupid to use the internet safely.
You’re stuck in an echo chamber and you don’t even realize it. I’m trying to fucking help you learn how to think for yourself and do REAL research and your only response is ad hominem attacks…
I’m Canadian you fuckwit…
Your search term is literal confirmation bias presented by AI…
Did you not learn the scientific method wherever you were educated?
The fact that you just played all the anti-China greatest hits demonstrates that you are predisposed to be critical of other cultures and will actively seek out information exclusively to confirm your bias… Grow up.
Because as expected, the sources don’t support the initial claim…and you know that because you made your claim without any, then scrambled to try and find some that supported your presupposition.
Maybe you’re just ignorant and stubborn, maybe you’re a bad faith actor intentionally spreading misinformation; that’s up for other people to decide.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Your bullshit doesn’t just stand uncontested, it’s not other people’s responsibility to validate your lies.
Except I already know the claim is bullshit… Hence the challenge.
You’re a propaganda bot.
So 1 actual study from 3 years ago, which concludes that the water specifically in Wuhan meets the countries safety standards and 2 unsourced travel blogs…
You are spreading propaganda in bad faith, as expected
Go away bot…
Yet you can’t provide a source…
You’re claiming that 80% of the Chinese population lacks access to clean water? You’re gonna need to provide a source on that incredulous claim.
Only that doesn’t move the needle on the underlying problem at all. After the civil rights movement in the US they busted up Klan rallies, made it more difficult to be openly discriminatory in the workplace and essential services, and made it more difficult for assholes to do their thing. None of that changed them, it just pushed then underground… Where they festered and grew in numbers for 50 years.
We either need forums to engage with these in the hope we can guide them to more enlightened perspectives or, more cynically, we need places we can reliably look for them if we develop the fortitude for more, radical solutions.
Why do you believe that?
~150,000 tonnes of Canadian origin methane (LNG) are lost into the atmosphere from infrastructure and transportation leakage annually, prior to end-user combustion.
Because methane is a significantly more potent greenhouse gas, this is the equivalent of ~17,880,000 tonnes of new CO2 emission. Annually.
Since methane takes time to break down, there is a cumulative effect. Over a 20-year timeframe, just the leaked methane has the equivalent warming impact of ~2,367,500,000 tonne-years of CO2.
Journalists avoiding publication options based on ideology is literally how we end up with echo chambers…
On this topic specifically, don’t you think it’s important to try and communicate directly with the people who are being misinformed?
It’s like anything… Think about how many people ride bicycles. Now go to ANY online community where people talk about cycling; it will likely be the most insufferably pedantic assholes you can imagine.
99% of people who buy video games don’t identify as “gamers”, they don’t read gaming media, and they certainly don’t interact with gaming discussion online.
As both an industry professional (former), and a self-identified gamer, I stopped giving a shit what “core gamers” had to say 10 years ago.
I disagree. You’re comparing polishing a marble to polishing the ISS while it’s in orbit.
An N64 game like Ocarina of Time or GoldenEye was a masterpiece, but it fit entirely onto a 32-megabyte cartridge. The entire codebase, every asset, and every line of logic could be held in the heads of a tight team of 15 to 30 people. The constraints were brutal, but they were static.
A modern AAA game is often over 100 gigabytes, that is a 3000x increase in asset data size. You aren’t managing a single, self-contained loop anymore. You are orchestrating the collision of massive, volatile, overlapping systems: real-time global illumination, dynamic physics engines, streaming open-world asset pipelines, complex AI behavior trees, and branching narrative databases. All of this has to run smoothly across vastly different hardware setups, from high end PCs down to consoles.
When people say the “care and polish” isn’t there, they are usually reacting to the friction of this sheer scale, not a lack of effort. In the 90s, if a mechanic broke, one programmer could trace it. Today, a bug might be the result of a physics calculation conflict with an audio asset streaming millisecond late over a network layer. The fact that these massive digital ecosystems even boot up and run at 60 frames per second is an engineering miracle that dwarfs the entire development scope of the 90s. We aren’t getting less care; we are getting infinitely more complexity for effectively half the inflation-adjusted price.
As one of the nations most impacted by the specific coastal ecological impacts of shipping and accidents, is a toll really out of line?
There are a multitude of social, legal, and economic policy changes that need to happen to make societies more resilient against this kind of culture war shit in the future. For extant populations the only way to de-radicalized them is with education, whether that’s voluntary or otherwise.
I’m certainly going to get down voted to oblivion, but the Chinese model is worth looking at. No civilization in human history has provided a higher standard of living to a larger population of individuals.
I like the idea of a true secular humanist end state, but as populations explode, I think we need a system that can function and deliver value at scale first; then we can gradually expand technological and ideological infrastructure for more direct democratic decision making.
It strikes me that finding ways to expand ideological freedom and democratic participation in the Chinese model would be orders of magnitude easier than scaling something like the Nordic model to more than a billion people.
Straight, cisgender white people are having a real hard time not being the loudest voices in the room anymore and it shows…
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Even shitty video game “AI” outmatched human players 20 years ago. 90% of video game AI development is dumbing that shit down enough that it’s fun, but still convincing.
That’s sort of my point… Prices are WAY down. Lower than they have EVER been. $125 for an 8 hr. game. What would that cost today?
I did attack your source. NONE of the sources either of you quoted say what you claim they fucking say.
You are lying.
It’s that simple.