America desperately needs ranked choice voting, everywhere it can implement it.

I would also argue mandatory voting would be useful but I don't think the Americans are ready for that.

If you want an industry to act in a certain way you legislate for it, not wag fingers at consumers buying things. "If you want cheaper consumer devices we all need to individually stop using AI" is not useful or realistic.

Plenty of diesel trucks though.

The amount of times "global commodity" was explained in this comment section was interesting.

I guess no one can fault the West for retaliating by paying people to light stuff on fire in Russia, for deterrence. And I guess no one can blame the West for sending Ukraine more missiles to fire into Russia, to end the war.

The one-party-state and leader-for-life thing is a bit more substantial than egg eating habits. It's all fun and games while they're increasingly productive and not very internationally assertive but that won't last forever.

If you're going to make claims of bad faith about other users like that you should link and quote.

We do, just not social media for the sake of extracting maximum ad revenue out of users. We're a widespread society we need large online spaces, but not ones algorithmically designed to addict and derrange users.

Look up how the wireless radio helped spread European fascism. It's not about "the people can think this but can't think that", it's "how does this new communication platform change the existing political culture and how will we adapt?"

The way you've talked about the average Asian it seems like you're describing a cultural predisposition but representing it as a racial one.

And it's easy to see why HK citizens would have cultural preferences towards independent legal systems and political freedom. Their 'being Asian' is independent of this.