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Hope you look up what Ford's Ceo had to say about Xiaomi cars. I have a feeling that you won't like it.

link it if you have a good source smh


I strongly object to the claim "In reality, English spelling is more like learning Kanji." as someone who had to learn both Chinese and English characters.


Both rely on groups of characters. Both are non-phonetic. Both rely on multiple memorized pronunciations for those character groups based on surrounding character group context. Both preserve symbol shape for reason of historical context.

There are certainly differences, but if you place current English spelling next to something like Shavian (or some other language with near-pure phonetic spelling), I'd say that Modern English learning patterns are closer to Kanji than the pure phonetic alphabets.


If you ever tried to learn Chinese, you wouldn't be saying any of this.


The company will also focus on content creation targeting gen Zs. All of this coincides with the TikTok buyout, as noted in the article and acknowledged by Netanyahu himself.


Same. On an android browser, not signed into any Google accounts. Got the legitimate result at the very top.


Otter browser

https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Ungoogled Chromium

The Android version https://github.com/macchrome/droidchrome/releases comes with customizable adblock filters e.g. easylist, I don't care about cookies, EasyPrivacy etc. that I'm no longer forced to put up with Firefox's jank just for some decent adblocking on my phone anymore.


QRD?


Yeah they do, add it as a bookmark and launch from address bar. I do it on Firefox for Android and Bromite all the time.


The article had earlier mentions of live animals, I find it odd that it didn't bother you until it got to 'cats'.


Look, I'm not suggesting anyone eat any kind of live animal, especially cats, but I think there's a question here of how exactly one would eat some of these animals... even my smallest cat is easily way too big to fit in my mouth and certainly too big to pass through my esophagus, and all of that disregards the very practical consideration of the animal fighting back. Thus, I read a great deal of dramatic flair and exaggeration in the article - it seems vey unlikely that he ate all of the things listed, at least not in the way they were described, but rather it seems likely that there arose some fables given the person's clear extreme appetite and habits.


Probably as odd as people having dogs as pets but eating pigs?

People getting upset about animals being eaten alive/dead/at all is highly dependent on cultural background. There is no logic to it.


Eating live sea food (oysters, gold fish, octopus, etc.) isn't that uncommon in most cultures.


I thought a lot of the instances of supposed "live" small octupus being eaten that you can see in videos are actually recently-killed octopus that spasm when large amounts of soy sauce are applied to the tentacles, because of the salinity of the soy sauce.


Yes thats the truth for most of the American vloggers.

But there is plenty of shit like toads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_NW2A9D-tw

But really, is there really a difference between having something killed by you, or killed 5 seconds ago and eating raw


At first glance, it is less surprising when he's eating live animals as a "warm-up act for a traveling charlatan" than when he does so as an experiment for medical professionals. With a little reflection this is probably more of a modern surprise -- medical ethics were a bit lax at the time I guess.


They didn't take it over "forcibly", they took it over with popular support from the Chinese people. If that doesn't grant you legitimacy I honestly don't know what would.


Popular support would be democratic elections. That's not what happened - it was a civil war, fighting the KMT supporters.


The reason it had popular support is because USSR gave them money and resources, presumably just for this reason.


Citation needed. A quick Google search on life expectancy during the middle ages tells me that men lived longer than women.


Where do you see that? Every result from my quick searching is listing women as longer than men. Example: https://www.purplemotes.net/2015/08/23/medieval-life-expecta...



The ratio of older women to men: historical perspectives and cross-national comparisons

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10902048/

This paper seems to disagree heavily with you.


Just going by the abstract that you linked, that study seems to only relate to the past 100 years.

And extrapolating this to the middle ages and earlier:

In general, countries with a lower overall life expectancy had a lower number of women per 100 men aged 75+, while countries with higher overall life expectancy had a higher female to male ratio in this age group. A hundred years ago there were nearly equal numbers of women and men aged 75+ in many countries.

It doesn't seem to disagree with me at all.


"making it to adulthood" is different than "living longer"


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