antonim

Hmm...

It’s an oversimplification…but not a big one.

It's a massive oversimplification that seems to whitewash China's policies.

Every country that undergoes industrialisation and urbanisation has a big drop in birth rates. Same in capitalist and socialist countries, there's no essential difference in how it plays out (the tempo is different from case to case for many reasons, but the trend is the same). But China additionally made the rates plummet through govt intervention.

So you stressed and praised the part that wasn't truly crucial for the outcome (socialism), but ignored the part (one child policy) that drastically contributed to the outcome and that can't be presented as nice or intuitively desirable (regardless of whether it objectively was or wasn't a good decision). That's not simplification but selectiveness.

(Yes, it is true that many lemmings who live outside China just project their own "China sucks" logic onto the Chinese, and their approach is wrong, I agree with you on that count.)

I’m sorry, how the fuck can an app made for men to find other men to get their back blown out be AI first.

AI is pretty good at fucking people in the ass.

The users are revolting? Well, fucking finally. Ygg was in general a shockingly hostile service. I made a profile, downloaded a torrent, left it seeding, and quickly got banned with no explanation whatsoever. Many other people reported similar experiences, completely nonsensical self-destructive behaviour from the admins. So this is hopefully an opportunity for French pirates to start anew on a healthier basis.

(I left the torrent seeding even after being banned, and it would still upload to Ygg users... but I limited my upload to 1 kbps, lol. It's pretty rare so I should upload it to a normal tracker one of these days.)

Give me a young star, and I can use the reductionist laws of physics to predict that star’s future: It will live a million years rather than a billion years; it will die as a black hole rather than as a white dwarf. But the components of a living organism yield something new and unexpected, a phenomenon called “emergence.” Give me a simple cell from the early days of Earth’s history, and I could never predict that some 4 billion years later it would evolve into a giant rabbit that can punch you in the face. Kangaroos—like humans—are an unpredictable, emergent consequence of life’s evolution.

But couldn't "reductionism" simply chalk this inability up to the practical lack of physical information and our purely technical inability to play out (simulate) something as massive as, at the very least, all that takes place on an entire planet?

In fact, even the example with the predictability of a star's life isn't all that certain in practice – do we really know exactly how the star's life will play out, or just generally? Will the Sun become a red giant in roughly ten million years, or in exactly 10.285.914 years? It's still a complicated chaotic system and we certainly can't account for all the details and microflunctuations. The same inability applies to physics describing evolution, with the main difference being how far-reaching the difficult-to-predict micro-flunctuations can be (a change in a gene can change everything about life on Earth millenia down the line; a solar flare, while involving an incomprehensibly larger amount of energy, changes next to nothing about how the star's life will play out, as far as we're concerned).

I take these differences more as a spontaneous consequence of how you frame your topic of study, depending on your practical possibilities (different methodologies arising based on how suitable/doable they are for different objects), rather than as a strict border between hard determinist physics and non-physical magic.

Not to my knowledge

Dedicated gay beach, as far as it gets without having some official designation of that sort. Straight people just don't go there at all, based on decades of my beachgoing in the area, local oral knowledge, and, well, going there myself and seeing the people. My friend once tried to go there, his mother (who has lived nearby on and off for decades and has family there) asked him wtf he's doing, that's the gay beach...

If you were actually at some sort of private gay club where public sex is allowed, all good, but I feel like you probably wouldn’t be questioning and trying to justify it if that was the case.

Well, obviously, I realise this was definitely a more questionable case, especially as I consider it in retrospect 😅

Oh wow that’s crazy.

Sadly, literally :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstriped_ground_squirrel

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/12/05/the-worlds-first-ai-minister-got-caught-on-bribes

(Ok, the above article is mostly not true, the story was made up by an Onion-style satirical portal.)

He's some guy with a long-term drug addiction and mental illnesses that he doesn't want to take meds for (he made a thread about it like yesterday). The crashout doesn't seem to be caused by transphobia, as far as I see, he has posted weird stuff all over the place for random reasons.

Well, the beach was a dedicated gay nudist beach, so I figured it might be more tolerant of that (though a friend of mine, who passed it by many times, said he has never seen people having sex there), and the place was relatively secluded so very few people on the beach could see it at all. Definitely not kids.

So that's how I'm rationalising it to myself.

But you explain it well, and I guess some feeling of guilt is deserved. Beach sex isn't very comfortable anyway so I'm not planning to do it again any time soon.