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Unless I misunderstand, in China it's illegal to distribute VPNs, but simply using one and accessing the wider net is fine. That implementation isn't great, but it could also be a lot worse. Effectively it means anyone who's tech savvy enough can leave the walled garden whenever they like with practically no consequence. Though, it still requires some group of people assume the legal risk of setting up and hosting the VPN infrastructure.

I feel like there must be some means of achieving the same effect without criminalizing people just for providing a service. Like, defaulting to a garden of public and private webpages that meat the standard, but still with some means of leaving that garden provided you pass a minor techincal barrier to entry.

Also forcing every social media site and glorified-website-app to default to chronological sort every time you close the browser tab or leave the app. It's a simple change, but it would do a lot.

This might be a hot take, but I think it started with tying internet identities to real identities.

Careful, that's dangerously close to a Dessalines ban talk right there

Doing science in cool jungles sounds much more fun, while being both safer and more if an adventure.

Deep sea seems like about the same risk but closer to home.

For teachers, I guess they're the biggest figure for students as they grow up. Confucian culture emphasizes enormous respect, and tbf, conformity to teachers.

I grew up wanting to be a YouTuber, and now work as a professor somewhere in East Asia with deep Confucian influence. The teacher-student dynamics here is truly shit.

For sure, their space program feats and plans are incredibly exciting, and things we might see in our lifetime. There's a hopeful star-trek-esque optimism about space rn.

I'm not sure about teachers salaries, I'd have to look it up, but I do know teachers are well respected societally.

Not China but in my country teachers would often get benefits like how US soldiers do.

So for example some apartments had reduced rent and most private schools would accept your children for free and pay off lunch, clubs, school trip fees, etc.

So even tho teachers weren't rich they weren't completely on their own either. Maybe a similar thing happens over there?

There is quite literal Opium War going right now (and for few decades in the past) but China has nothing to do with it, it's waged by the US government against people of US and some other countries mostly in Central and South America.

No war but class war.

I think it’s pretty obvious this is a subset of the answers.

So it seems like, given 3 picks, only 1% of kids are choosing YouTuber as an option. That doesn’t really seem ridiculous.

Edit: it’s 3000 kids total, not per country. So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included.

You need to give yourself more credit. You didn't become a failure, it was within you the whole time; you were always a failure...

That concludes my Pep Talk®

We are both actively exploring the stars and the ocean. There's still a lot we don't know and there's still plenty of species being discovered in rainforest all the time.

Bacterias and viruses are also something that you can never finish exploring and there are for sure weird creatures like tardigrades that are still undiscovered.

You're just in time to discover genetics, epigenetics, biomechanics of nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, how to make custom creatures from DNA building blocks, protein folding applications, mysteries of how the brain works and even math as mature as it is also has tons of undiscovered parts.

Sure you might be too late and to early for a couple of specific things but science discovery is absolutely exploding and random average Joe types are discovering things all the time. I think on the contrary now is one of the most likely things where you can just flat out discover something about the world that nobody has discovered before.