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I keep noticing from other browsers that comments never show up so I start over.
Also apparently my home IP is on some list and so I hop on LTE.
Your own enforcement efforts seem to at least partly responsible for pushing me into this behavior.
Dunno. The teachers (nuns, priests, and monks) in my East Coast elementary school had 30-45 students per class, and somehow we didn't run amok.
(Yes, 45 was not an uncommon number. When your performance in class is publicly ranked weekly you become acutely aware of how many students are in the class.)
You don't have to be generally pro-China to be fully in support of what China is doing. You can hate the Uighers (Muslims) even if you also hate China. When you see your enemies fighting, you can pick the side you find to be less-bad or you can just cheer the fight in the hope that both suffer.
Grew up in rural Midwest US in the 80s. We walked in lines on a schedule for bio breaks.
We had to “shut a door respectfully” basically library rules for the sake of others.
Our school had 25-30 kids per class. How else does one manage that? If you really needed to go you could and this article does not say that’s explicitly disallowed.
I think you’re losing the forest for a tree here. The problem is the whole kidnapping & cultural cleansing.