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For the good of the world, I hope you are right. I admit I did get a bit too passioniate in the earlier post.

I respectfully disagree that waning respect for America in this context illustrates what you say it does. Chinese culture is fundamentally opposed to American culture, and those things you mention, open democracy, religious and cultural tolerance, etc. are expressions of American culture. What nations like China and various others respect about America is money, and how to make a lot of it even at the expense of American people and industry, all while laughing at how we live our lives and making a mockery of us. As a person of Asian descent and having lived amongst other non-American groups, I can say most do not want to live like Americans at all and often spit on "western values". They love our money but they don't give a damn about our democracy and cultural tolerance. Hate to say it, but it's for the most part accurate.

Maybe it's a good thing. Moving away from seeing America as an economic goldrush where everyone can come and "get theirs", and more toward a place where people actually live in. This is my home, not an all you can eat buffet. If America cannot take care of its own poor and suffering, what are we doing trying to take care of the entire world?

It would be slightly harder. What I'm looking out for here is voice distortion and the unnatural flow of speech, and it's present in every Faux recording. It's just unnatural compared to how JR normally sounds.

It was easy to figure out which are the fakes, but I am very impressed and spooked at the idea of this technology improving, then getting into the wrong hands.

That's exactly what I mean though, your conclusion that Asians are better off than other minorities just because you saw a bunch of Asians in your elite college (who were most likely foreigners coming to study abroad anyway and not American citizens) is justification the left uses to disregard us lesser Asians in lower economic classes.

Also Asian myself. There has never really been a place for us on either side of the political spectrum. The left does not treat us as they do with other minorities, so they don't care about screwing us over while the right generally only uses us to pretend that they care about minorities to appeal to centrists/other.

While the right's policies may benefit us a bit, culturally the right will be just as happy to screw us to benefit themselves/their majority constituents when the time comes.

We'll have nonviolent prison cities separate from the violent ones. :)

Good thing in Japan, even if one or two people litter, there's at least 100 other fine people who will be there to pick up after you happily without even thinking about it.

Man I'd love that here in the US

What if we had prison cities where prisoners can live "freely" and have their own economies and stuff? Let's see how they like trying to live normal lives with other people who have no qualms about stealing and killing to get what they want, just like they may have done themselves to innocent people before they were imprisoned. Will the criminals learn to get along or will they end up killing each other? I wouldn't care because they're in the prison city and not anywhere near me and other normal people, which is what prison is for right? Maybe we can even free those who prove themselves to be outstanding citizens in those prison cities.

Just a thought.

Incentive for who though? For the homeless and very poor, who probably will not even be the ones purchasing those bottles(at least at the same rate as those in higher economic classes) in the first place? We need to make it worth it for the good number of consumers who buy these things, so that they don't litter in the first place and put more thought about those $0.50-$1.00 per bottle they're tossing out. Yes, this may make it so that less bottles are available for the homeless/impoverished, but I think we should be doing way more for them than giving them the scraps that are 10 cent bottles...

A small deposit is no incentive. Now if it were a significant amount like $.50-$1.00 per bottle you recycle, then you'd have people literally racing to get those bottles. Then just increase the price on the drinks itself by a bit to make up for that, which is also a disincentive to discourage a number of people from buying them in the first place.

How do we convince other cultures to adapt to the new culture though? Any such efforts would be drowned out by cries of racism and cultural erasure or whatever they're calling it nowadays.

"And personally, I'm willing to pay extra for lab-grown."

I believe this mindset amongst thoughtful consumers like yourself only do harm. Like with other trendy foods that get popularized for health or whatever reason, it incentivizes the producers to raise the prices and when consumers like yourself accept that price, it sends a signal to them. The product then becomes too expensive for regular normal people to afford, so only wealthier families can afford to eat them and get those health benefits. If it is imperative for us to make healthy and sustainable diets more widespread, we must strive to make it as accessible as possible. Same with the beyond burger stuff or any other vegetarian/vegan products.

We have laws to punish bad behavior after it happens, while they have a culture that reinforces good behavior from the start.

Nowadays, it seems like trying to enforce good/proper behavior in the U.S. would be taken as an affront to personal freedom or "forcing one's culture onto others", so perhaps we need a different way to incentivize good behavior in this multicultural society where it's almost a sin to want and expect others to do something for the good of anyone but themselves.

In South Korea, when you order from certain places for certain types of food, they come in actual containers/tupperwares that you just leave outside your door and someone from the restaurant will come pick it up at some point.

I don't see it working in the U.S. though, since people would probably be stealing them and other horrific stuff. Just a very different culture...

>"Why wouldn’t we want to know the citizenship of the people living in the country? "

I think he told us that answer already. His politics benefits from noncitizens being counted in the census, so it would be problematic if such a question were to scare away any illegal immigrants living in the U.S (this is because no permanent legal resident is scared of citizenship questions, since it's usually clarified if something is okay for a legal resident noncitizen or not).

>Yet I know for a fact that if you dropped them in Southside Chicago, where my family is from, they would suddenly know better than to behave like this. They wouldn't toss their gang signs around or speak that word… ever. And that is because they know that these things would undoubtedly be met with confrontation, and they only get away with their actions because of the lack of African presence in this community.

I can't be the only one who thinks the racist you know is better than the racist you don't.

Also, the sentiment here that people wouldn't dare use the word if there were more blacks around, in fear of intimidation and violence in return, doesn't paint a very good picture of black people.

Considering that most people on HN are self-starters who had to learn things on their own whether by necessity or just because they preferred it that way, it may not be so obvious that a good number of people are not able to have that kind of freedom. Whether for good or bad, these types of people must be coerced toward doing things for their own good, like with punishment for not doing the homework, otherwise they would choose to do nothing and fail. Even with homework and all the punishments, there's kids who still can't be made to work. But if the teachers gave them homework...you can't say they didn't try you know. If there was no homework, I'm sure a number of parents would be complaining how the schools didn't do anything for their children. And parents generally pay taxes, that funds these schools.

Perhaps there should be a way for kids to opt-out of homework provided they have the grades and work ethic? And then this would incentivize other kids to try harder as well if they want that privilege.

Tipping is horrible and incentivizes the worker to prioritize people who tip/ are likely to tip and underperform for people who do not/or are likely not to.

You can see this play out in the food service industry and it is horrible and only contributes to a culture of soft-discrimination.

That's what happens when you have a culture that so heavily looks down on people who work these kinds of jobs. Failures who couldn't make it in school work at Mcdonalds they say, and failures they'll get, making their burgers.

Why would anyone become a white male in today's political climate? If anything, the concern would be white males turning themselves into minorities to get racial benefits. :-)

I see no reason why they would assemble anything in California, with its high cost of living and higher minimum wage, when they could just design and assemble everything in their own backyard for way cheaper. Cool slogan though.

Does anyone foresee a future where it would become more economically viable to do manufacturing in California instead of literally anywhere else?

"Why people in East Asian countries wear surgical masks in public (2014)" would seem to be a more accurate title.

As others say, in Japan specifically, it is a cultural-courtesy thing and is about not getting others sick rather than preventing yourself from getting sick.

I had a similar idea, but a feed for posts/comments related to those posts from various places on the web like reddit, forums, imageboards, etc.

What would really be great is a integrated night/darkmode for your night readers like me.

Anyone find a privacy policy anywhere? I went to the mother site listed at the bottom, but it is entirely in Russian. Tried translating privacy to Russian and searching various terms, but getting nothing.

Edit: nvm I found it

"Bashupload has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that Bashupload shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services."

Is CNN shocked that when you search for books related to vaccines, you get books related to vaccines?

Or are they insinuating that it is Amazon's job to decide what ideas/opinions are allowed to be sold on their marketplace and as such, it is their duty to deplatform any seller/writer who sells books about subjects that the current society decides is unacceptable? Sounds like modern book burning to me. Why is it that CNN or anyone thinks that people need to be safeguarded from opposing or even dangerous ideas? Do people not have the agency to decide for themselves? How come we don't give the same treatment for religious books like the bible or the quran? Certainly there's some dangerous ideas in them that could lead to hurting people. It doesn't have to stop there either, there are tons of other ideas that can be dangerous like the extremes of either side of the political spectrum.

I find that these meat substitutes, vegetarian, and vegan options do not do very well because often times they are not only inferior in taste, but they cost way more. I do not see many people changing their mindsets until they can make these things significantly cheaper than eating meat products. As it is currently, vegetarianism and veganism are pretty much only available to middle class and higher people who can afford to make those choices. Healthy and environmentally-friendly options should not be a premium! They should be the default, mainstream, and accessible.

Note: Yeah, it can be cheap to go meatless if you do all the cooking yourself, but with premade products or meals at a restaurant, the vegetarian/vegan options are often priced higher, convincing no one to try them instead of affordable, flavorful meat-based dishes they are familiar with.

Too educated to fail. :-)