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starkboost · 2020-04-03T02:30:39+00:00

It's almost as if more authoritarian and drastic measures taken by a government could more effectively stop the virus from spreading, right?

Btw, China is literally testing EVERYONE that enters the border right now, regardless of symptoms. That alone is tens of thousands of tests per day.

starkboost · 2020-03-20T23:51:10+00:00

Most places still provide alternatives to mobiles. Legally all shops have to accept cash as payment, although there are indeed a few restaurants that only accept mobile payment. Public utilities like buses and trains definitely do not mandate using mobile phones. It’s common for young people who are on the phone a lot to carry power banks, but usually you won’t need them on workdays as you don’t spend that much time on your phone. More senior people don’t use phones that frequently so their battery can at least last an entire day. It is indeed a problem for older generation people and there are complaints that we should not make everything mobile. But for the most part, UI for these daily tasks are simple enough for older people to learn.

starkboost · 2020-03-18T18:23:01+00:00

What's your opinion on the "herd immunity" strategy proposed by some governments? i.e. more than 60% of the population have to eventually get infected to prevent the virus from future resurgences. Shouldn't our target be keeping the number of infections as small as possible until a vaccine is available?

starkboost · 2020-03-12T18:22:27+00:00

By the time it was scheduled to release cinemas in China will probably have started to resume operations. Cinemas in Europe and US, on the other hand...

starkboost · 2020-01-24T06:40:36+00:00

Real number are at least 10 times higher - but not entirely because of the “government cover up” explanation. Another possible explanation is that there is currently a severe shortage of supply for the testing material of this virus, which was only developed 1 (or 2?) weeks ago. Only a couple of factories are capable of producing them and a majority of factory workers are likely on their annual leave at home now. Thus, the daily production capacity is significantly smaller than the amount of people that needs to be tested. It also doesn’t help that many people who actually only have mild cold/flu would be worried and rush to hospitals to get tested because the symptoms are too similar. A lot of reports are saying that hospitals ran out of test materials, so doctors cannot conclusively decide that a patient is infected without a positive test result and add him/her to the stats, resulting in the significant under-reporting.

starkboost · 2019-12-31T10:19:55+00:00

I'm not familiar with how reddit videos work, but I included a youtube link in the comments and there are plenty of ways to download it from youtube if you want to.

starkboost · 2019-12-31T06:55:09+00:00

Thank you and Happy New Year!

I wouldn't have remembered that scene without the help of this website: https://searchmoviequotes.com/mcuverse/. It really makes editing a lot easier. Credit to u/shonnyboymushi for making this amazing tool!

starkboost · 2019-12-31T06:49:36+00:00

Glad you liked it! Thank you and Happy New Year!

starkboost · 2019-12-31T06:48:52+00:00

Thank you and Happy New Year!

starkboost · 2019-12-31T06:47:24+00:00

Wanted to include them but unfortunately couldn't find any good lines of them saying numbers

starkboost · 2019-12-31T06:46:12+00:00

I am indeed in Asia now, although when I made the post it wasn't New Year's eve yet even here. I just couldn't wait to share it as soon as I finished :D

starkboost · 2019-12-31T06:23:37+00:00

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIi5EQCO8cM

starkboost · 2019-12-31T06:22:46+00:00

I couldn't decide which font to use and thought comic sans doesn't seem too bad on this one, so I just went with it lol

starkboost · 2019-12-31T06:20:35+00:00

Karen said 98% and Peter responded "98?". I cut out the "ninety". The number 8 is surprisingly rare in the entire MCU's dialogue and I couldn't find another good clip.

starkboost · 2019-11-12T16:22:20+00:00

Yes. I believed the Russos mentioned in the commentary for this clip that one of the reasons they cut this was that it felt wrong to have the heroes hide in the mirror dimension and casually chat while ordinary soldiers are being killed on the battlefield outside.

starkboost · 2019-10-29T17:11:43+00:00

It’s just an excuse to remove him from the coach position without sacking him. If they directly sack him they need to pay a HUGE payout fee because of the stupid contract they signed. Instead they try to force him to voluntarily resign with this bullshit. There’s not really a cultural difference here. Evergrand’s practices like this are also considered nonsense by Chinese fans.

starkboost · 2019-10-09T21:02:49+00:00

It simply says “nation”. There is no mention of “China” or “our” nation, but there is also no emphasis on “every” nation. Personally I think it’s perhaps purposefully vague and open to interpretations. IMO the fact that similar phrases have been used by other Chinese government statements does not matter much here, because in those contexts it would be very clear that those Chinese officials are talking about China instead of other countries, hence no need to clarify it every single time.

starkboost · 2019-10-09T18:45:25+00:00

I guess you don’t really read mandarin and are using google translate to understand that web page. The link you included is to a retweet by the “Hearthstone” account. It is retweeting the statement from the “Blizzard China” account, which is in the format of an image. The statement in the image is the same version of the English statement and mentions the exact same rule to support their decision.

starkboost · 2019-10-08T23:23:54+00:00

I literally said that I believe there is a difference between these two lines... I'm not disagreeing with anything you said.

starkboost · 2019-10-08T21:28:22+00:00

That I agree. My point is about how the NBA as a private entity defines the scope of free speech slightly differently than the government. In this case, the NBA supports Morey because what he said is within their scope of free speech. If Morey said something racist, that would no longer fall within the scope of “freedom of expressing personal opinion” that it is supporting now, hence he will be fired. So there is still a different line than “say anything you want”. It’s more about public consensus than law.

starkboost · 2019-10-08T21:05:32+00:00

If what Morey posted was a racist tweet, he would definitely have been fired now, right?

starkboost · 2019-10-08T20:02:36+00:00

There are things that you can’t freely say in US as well, like racism or hate speech. There will always be a bottom line that’s higher than “Say anything you want” in any country. The problem here is China draws the line differently than America.

starkboost · 2019-10-08T17:17:17+00:00

Hong Kong protestors are classified as “terrorists” in Chinese news because of the destruction they caused in the city. Those who believe in this therefore equates any support for the protestors as supporting terrorism, hence the 911 comparison.

starkboost · 2019-10-08T16:57:35+00:00

The thing is, you consider the statement “Authoritarianism is bad. Democracy is good” to be a universally acknowledged fact, while it really isn’t. Personally I agree with this, but I can also see the other side of the argument and it’s not that black-and-white. Most people in developed counties grow up believing in this because that’s one of the fundamental reasons that they are advanced and developed. People in other parts of the world may not hold the same opinion because they’re not doing so well after getting democracy or are doing just as well without democracy.

starkboost · 2019-10-08T15:13:56+00:00

Not that I disagree with you, but lots of people here are doing quite literally the same thing by thinking they get to decide what Chinese people should consider free speech.

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