With the recent Biden chip sanctions, I don’t think it is ridiculous to assert that the United States is very close to being informally at war with the two other most destructive nations in the world.--Cowen
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Artificial intelligence can now produce prose that accomplishes the learning outcomes of a college writing assignment.
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Although Rishi Sunak is a Hindu, he will still be able to advise the King on ecclesiastical appointments. Only Jews and Roman Catholics are barred from doing so by statute.
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Rishi Sunak, Emmanuel Macron, Olof Scholz, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are all 5’7".
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Some local girls are marrying one VDV [part of the military] guy after another because they’re dying quickly enough that you can get several compensations in a few months.
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Social Credits
A fascinating enhancement of the modern state has emerged in China: Social credits. Like a credit score, it implies trustworthiness, only social, not financial. They are behavior grades, on-line and off-line, and can impact whether you can travel, buy plane tickets, buy property, take loans.
What in the West are basic rights, the direct results of human dignity, are being doled out in China by the state, the exact obverse of modern Western thought. In America, rights are inherent in every human being. In China, these rights are earned and stored, to be banked and spent, on deposit in some bureaucratic vault to be accessed under certain conditions. Or denied.
So are freedoms becoming commodities?
A fascinating enhancement of the modern state has emerged in China: Social credits. Like a credit score, it implies trustworthiness, only social, not financial. They are behavior grades, on-line and off-line, and can impact whether you can travel, buy plane tickets, buy property, take loans.
What in the West are basic rights, the direct results of human dignity, are being doled out in China by the state, the exact obverse of modern Western thought. In America, rights are inherent in every human being. In China, these rights are earned and stored, to be banked and spent, on deposit in some bureaucratic vault to be accessed under certain conditions. Or denied.
So are freedoms becoming commodities?
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