You're making the mistake of thinking New Shiny zealots give a shit about portability. All they care about is winning their moronic argument.

Oh no, not the F word! How would the snowflakes cope? As for misgendering, that's just made up crap to placate magic thinking morons. You might as well talk and misspeciesing idiots who identify as fluffy animals. GTFU.

Nope. I didn't say that. Typical Chinese citizens understand how rampant corruption is and there is very little empathy for a potentially innocent person caught up the purge machine.

Yep, corruption is so rampant with government workers (at all levels) in China that nobody has any trouble believing that story when someone who isn't corrupt is purged for any number of other reasons. One need only to see the number of children of relatively minor officials tooling around Europe in exotic sports cars and living VERY extravagantly. When the average family income in China is still only about US$6k per year, there is little sympathy for these people when they are rounded up (justly or unjustly).

I guess, tell me you've never worked in a union ship without telling me you've never worked in a union shop?

Unions did a lot of good at one time for low skilled work. They gave us the 40 hour work week and weekends. But mid/high-skilled union shops quickly turn to shit. The quality goes out the window and there's no merit incentive for very merit based jobs.

Not all unions are equal. Most are no longer a positive change.

I guess in this case not "nepo babies"... just plain old discrimination.
The poor don't get the opportunities that richer folks do.

Go ahead blame China for having the technical knowledge and market savvy to out compete US automakers who still think that ICE cars have a future.

This just illustrates the way the rich get richer.
Going to a "good" school means that you make connections to get a good job and then it just keeps going from there on out.

I've heard people say, "well kids can get accounts elsewhere and view porn." Look, you have to lead by example. If you're a parent and don't want your kids watching porn, you get a router that does some blocking. It won't get all of it, but you don't allow yourself a bypass either. Explain to you kids, "I know porn is tempting. I think it's wrong and I know it's wrong and try not to watch it." Yes they can still watch it if they want to, but you've let your values be known and they will either share them or dismiss them.

If you don't have any moral issues with porn, well then it really doesn't matter and let you're kids do whatever .. or whatever place in the middle you stand; you explain that to your kids.

But it should be the PARENTS who control that, not big daddy government. Don't outsource your responsibilities as parents.

... has forced american consumers to buy ridiculously oversized SUVs and pickups for the last 2 decades. The best selling car in the US? F150. Don't tell me someone living in the suburbs needs one of those gas guzzling and impractical (unless you really need to chuck half a ton of building material in the bed) vehicles. Manual trades yes, most people? No.

Reddit is a cesspool of propaganda, authoritarianism, groupthink and, now, tons of LLM bots. It lost any credibility it had a decade ago. Still, I am very against these types of laws. In the UK, they have destroyed all small sites and forums. They are not about protecting children and teens. Is social media bad for teens? It's BAD FOR ADULTS! The algorithmic ranking system is always a massive danger and social media in-general gives people a false sense of relevance.

Small fourms, boards and things like ActivityPub (Pleroma/Mastodon) which allow the standard reverse chronological are still massive time-wasters, but they're nowhere near as bad as Facebook/Xitter/Insta (FB was funded by Peter Thiel and went online the day after DARPA shut down Digital LifeLog. Purely a coincidence I'm sure).

I'm glad Reddit is saying something about this, but they're not the ones with the moral high ground to even run such a campaign. Still, it affects every smaller site forum and startup that accepts user generated submissions. If you want to know about how bad Reddit is, I wrote this a few years back:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbattlepenguin.com%2Fpoli...

It's going to collide with their bilateral agreement with the EU that provides freedom of movement between Switzerland and the EU. Will be interesting to see how that works out.

So the great monocultured unwashed masses will be ruled by diverse or wealthy foreigners? What could possibly go wrong?

"The chances of someone being born with excellent skills is equal everywhere"

This is a nice rhetorical assertion, and one I'd like to agree with, but it's (unfortunately, for both the skilled and those in less advanced areas) provably false.

Skill directly correlates to IQ at a population level. The IQ of European-native peoples, Chinese, Japanese, and Jewish peoples is in the 100-105 range average. Africa, India, and the Middle East (to a lesser degree)? Not true at all. A full SD or more different. You've got a huge problem with inbreeding throughout India and the Middle East, for instance. This means that your average person is not going to have the same chance of being "born with excellent skills".

Of course, this is also not without discounting things like upbringing and environment, and it undoubtedly has some play in the matter.

As for this policy, it has absolutely nothing to do with letting the best and brightest immigrate. It's clearly reactionary due to unfettered refugees and other unskilled immigrants who can't speak the language, don't want to speak the language, and bring obscene levels of crime to what would otherwise be an idyllic socialist utopia.

In what ways do you find it superior?

For me, Grok has been pretty consistent at making some pretty wild code recommendations and not following specifications.

It's not like Gemini, which will get stuck implementing things and then get into a histrionic panic loop, but it's not nearly as good as gpt5.1 in implementing correct, complete code per specification.