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Re:China's AI news anchors by browsercoin on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:34AM (#18415117)
Not at all challenging, considering the average CCTV (what a fitting name for a chinese tv station) anchor's range of emotional expression is limited to a knob.

Might as well just produce a deepfake anchor with Xi's ugly ass face instantly traumatizing millions of Chinese children, who knows how many falun gong infants were sacrificed to save the poor sick Chinese elite (they actually eat the fucking placenta for supposedly viagra effect jesus fucking christ im outta here never EVER gonna catch me going to China)

Re:China's AI news anchors by sctb on Friday November 09, 2018 @05:10PM (#18418474)
If you keep posting unsubstantive flamewar-style comments we'll ban the account. Please just post something thoughtful and informative that we can learn from instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:China's AI news anchors by i_am_nomad on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:41AM (#18415186)
Please try to not be so polemic and disagreeable in your posts, and instead bring a spirit of respect here. Chinese people are human beings.
Re:China's AI news anchors by msla on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:13AM (#18415471)
> Please try to not be so polemic and disagreeable in your posts, and instead bring a spirit of respect here.

Pointing out the crimes of the PRC is not disrespectful.

Except, perhaps, to the PRC.

> Chinese people are human beings.

Nobody's saying they're not.

Re:China's AI news anchors by browsercoin on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:22AM (#18415534)
> Except, perhaps, to the PRC.

or people who has been unwittingly duped/brainwashed into buying that "China will overtake USA anytime now" propaganda.

it's not limited to race, I've definitely seen some white American dude shilling for China...smh

Re:China's AI news anchors by PavlovsCat on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:28PM (#18416637)
> it's not limited to race

Very true.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27307476

> The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said there was not enough evidence for the organisation to "either support or not support" placentophagy as there had not been enough research on the health benefits.

On the one hand I didn't want to post this because it kinda grossed me out and might ruin someone's day or something -- on the other hand, I "totally could see it being a thing in Asia", just because of the other powdered animal stuff; but wasn't aware of it being a thing, period, and I guess that would describe many people. And some of the sentences in that article are really quite something, oh my.

Re:China's AI news anchors by browsercoin on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:44PM (#18416758)
I literally just threw up after finishing my avocado sandwich.

should add NSFL to that link.

im done with HN for the rest of the day.

Re:China's AI news anchors by yourbandsucks on Friday November 09, 2018 @02:03PM (#18416946)
I'm not understanding the relevance here, could you explain?
Re:China's AI news anchors by PavlovsCat on Friday November 09, 2018 @03:45PM (#18417852)
I already did? OP said they placenta eating is a thing in China, and

> I "totally could see it being a thing in Asia", just because of the other powdered animal stuff; but wasn't aware of it being a thing [everywhere], period, and I guess that would describe many people

so I shared my, uhh, information, instead of just letting that stereotype kinda linger.

Re:China's AI news anchors by yourbandsucks on Friday November 09, 2018 @04:08PM (#18418049)
I didn't see OPs original rant, it's been flagged. I'm assuming there was something in there about how awful Chinese people are because placenta?

As far as it being a thing.. I'm pretty sure historically it's a really big thing. Protein is expensive for subsistence farmers. Too bad OP lost their lunch over it

Re:China's AI news anchors by PavlovsCat on Friday November 09, 2018 @04:27PM (#18418178)
> I'm assuming there was something in there about how awful Chinese people are because placenta?

Exactly that.

Re:China's AI news anchors by browsercoin on Friday November 09, 2018 @08:10PM (#18419326)
PavlovsCat wrote a very generalizing statement about what "Asians" eat and then tried to smear it on me. It was a thinly veiled racism but then again people from UK doesn't seem to have a good grip on what is considered racist in North America. What he wrote would fall under sneaky bigotry. Not full blown racism but I'm used to seeing dogwhistling on reddit.

I only wrote that the corrupt Chinese elite exploit the people including taking prisoners organs, prostitution, all sorts of human rights abuse.

but somehow it's been derived to that removed comment which implied that I didn't view Mainland China unfavorably, please don't try to conflate it with sinophobia, I haven't made that case at all, it's just apalling behavior from the Communist party of China that pisses me off because it pains me to see what my Chinese friends go through.

Re:China's AI news anchors by PavlovsCat on Friday November 09, 2018 @08:51PM (#18419487)
> PavlovsCat wrote a very generalizing statement about what "Asians" eat

I said I considered it possible because of the powdered animals stuff [0]. That's not even a statement about "what Asians eat", much less a generalizing one.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/08/08/extinctio...

> It was a thinly veiled racism

I said I "totally could see it being a thing in Asia". Call that racism if you must, but there is nothing "veiled" here.

> I only wrote that the corrupt Chinese elite exploit the people including taking prisoners organs, prostitution, all sorts of human rights abuse

Yeah, and you put it like this

> the poor sick Chinese elite (they actually eat the fucking placenta for supposedly viagra effect jesus fucking christ im outta here never EVER gonna catch me going to China)

(anyone can turn on "showdead" and still see the comment, you know that, right?)

Sure, technically I guess "they" refers to the Chinese elite. Insofar I accept your correction. But still, way, I actually looked something up real quick that even you, who made the claim, apparently knew nothing about... and as I said, I only "shared what I found" because it refutes any stereotypes about only Asian or Chinese people doing that, heh.

Anyways, back to a vegan Alicia Silverstone eating her placenta; I find that by itself infinitely more fascinating than any of whatever this is.

Re:China's AI news anchors by yourbandsucks on Friday November 09, 2018 @08:18PM (#18419356)
Like I said, I didn't see your original comment. All I'll say is that I encourage you to listen to people who've lived in China about Chinese problems rather than just overlaying an American worldview.

Edit: oh nevermind, I can see the comment now. Shame on you.

Re:China's AI news anchors by yourbandsucks on Friday November 09, 2018 @12:25PM (#18416086)
Maybe you're so bought into an "us vs them" mentality that you equated fair-mindedness with "shilling".