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Really more of a PR spectacle than a worthwhile experiment. Including humans seems to have caused most of the problems there. If you actually wanted to experiment with closed biolo…

Choosing your husband more wisely, I suppose?

And if footballers could just stop struggling against one another then maybe they could all agree on which direction the ball should go. There's no room for agreement here. The sid…

How about the Spratly Sea?

Taiwan was originally not a country, but it became one when it held elections. Having been elected by the people of the island of Formosa, and with no other legitimate government l…

The PRC has no claim to any Chinese territory whatsoever because the PRC is not in any sense a legitimate government.

Legal, orderly immigration of highly intelligent individuals is a fantastic thing.

The rest of the world... but since "South China Sea" is an English name I think a consensus among the English-speaking countries would suffice.

There's only a few dozen remaining completely unelected "governments" in the world, and yes, we should definitely get rid of all of them. Certainly Taiwan never had a legitimate go…

I spent way too long thinking about this and getting annoyed before remembering that Predictors aren't real.

One very simple action that we should be doing is changing the name of the "South China Sea" to something else.

Yes, but legitimate governments such as the be Philippines and Malaysia are also the subject of the CCP's imperial claims.

A better point would be that the current CCP regime in Beijing has no legitimate claim to be any kind of government with any legal claim over any territory whatsoever. An unelected…

I don't know how anyone can look at the US and come to the conclusion that there's too many people in prison. When I walk down the streets of any major US city I get the exact oppo…

I fully agree that website owners shouldn't lose the right to determine what goes up on their own website, but with the caveat that this right also comes with legal liability for a…

A new frontier for cancel culture.

I trust "officials familiar with the meeting" about as much as I trust "some guy" at this point.

I see some circumstantial evidence but no proof.

It seems to me that social media companies should only be allowed the legal protection of being "platforms" if they are truly neutral. No censorship, no algorithms. Facebook should…

While in general I agree with the idea of debating the strongest version of your opponent's ideas, I think it's okay to call out a clear motte-and-bailey when you see one, and requ…

I think this is one of those cases where everyone actually is arguing in good faith. Nobody is actually in favour of people dying, and nobody is actually in favour of imposing lock…

You can't go round dismissing the central core of the opposing side's strongest arguments like that.

Milk isn't sweet, though? I'm curious, are you from a country where milk is conventionally UHT treated? UHT milk has a sweet (and plasticky) taste to me.

It's the second largest economy. And I agree that it's practically impossible to avoid it completely, I only suggest avoiding it where possible. My personal rule is to not buy anyt…