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The Tax Office in Australia does the same thing and push it every time I call, I imagine it branches out to the other gov bodies too. It's fun listening to the whole spiel about 'Like a fingerprint your voice is unique to you'.

Google is blocked in China so naturally they'd need a Chinese alternative, with everything going on it's easy to fear monger but people need to chill out a bit. Locale is probably one of the least intrusive ways to determine location, using GPS would probably cause an even further problem if people realise that there's a backdoor to avoid location permission

Any company that markets/releases in China and relies on some google service (maps/safe search/safety net/google sign in/firebase/etc) need to find an alternative, not because everyone is on the Chinese payroll but more often than not these services are business critical.

they're trying to ask if there's a chance for false alarm (i think)

Not really sure, it's a bit mixed. She knows about the event and people died but not the specifics like Tank Man, the APC pies, mowing down students at chokepoints etc She didn't know about the event until I told her so she probably doesn't have a strong opinion either way just knows it was bad. It's a hard subject to broach.

My girlfriend is the same, this Hong Kong issue has been quite the discussion point whenever something news worthy happens. I'm pretty sure some of my beliefs has been swayed by western propaganda but she believes China is not in the wrong here, she knows loosely about 1984 and is aware of what's happening with muslims but with HK she and a lot of my other mainland friends think the protesters are destroying everything, who knows how their opinions shape if China decides to start cleansing HK but it's interesting to see how deep this ideology is rooted and it's even more interesting to see her opinions change the longer she lives in a democratic country (like she tried talking about Xi Jinping to her mainland friends but they told her to cut it out since she forgot about the lack of free speech over there).

I think everyone has different definitions of freedom, some might think it only means to be physically free but lack of free speech and lack of proper human rights are a-ok because they don't know any better.

There's some images attached to this post [0], if you've used snapchat or tiktok/douyin they have pretty decent filters baked in but I guess the magic is making the video quality low enough to 'smooth' out the effect.

Also found an article [1] that looks at how much people are willing to spend and how far people are willing to go to hide their real look, things like buying silicon upper body suit(?) to get better looking boobs/frame or voice changers

[0] https://weibo.com/3824282019/HFtfQzAcw

[1] http://www.sohu.com/a/330373892_100117963 (mildly NSFW)

Have you tried Elite Dangerous? It leans more towards the Sci-Fi aspect but those elements can be ignored and you could just spend your time exploring the milky way like a lot of others do (even more so if you use VR), if I recall they sourced real data to build the universe and extrapolate to fill in the blanks. Sure it isn't the universe but it's still a pretty good way to explore our galaxy