LoreleiSankTheShip

What do you do, exactly, to earn money for food/clothes in that lifestyle? That has always puzzled me

Honestly I'm one of those people. If what I want to look up isn't something terribly important, just a random curiosity that's irrelevant to most things, I'll most likely ask an AI. SEO has just gotten so bad that I don't want to spend the time looking through the answers to find what I want.

I have read the article. While yes, most of it is neutral and factual, the opening paragraph colours all of it towards a certain message by saying "Gen Z has managed to", implying Gen Z is responsible for it - which it most definitely isn't, we are nowhere near being decision makers today, let alone 10-20 years ago when we were meant to learn and develop these skills.

I am a teacher, and also part of Gen Z. Believe it or not, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone more in favour of restricting access to social media for kids or raising standards than me; the fact of the matter is, however, that we didn't cause these problems. It's not like we are happy about this either.

I'm not sure why this article frames this outcome as the fault of Gen Z. It's not their fault their parents gave them iPads instead of spending time with them, nor for the chronically underfunded educational system.

The internet has no viable alternatives. Shitter has multiple other social media alternatives. There's no excuse.

Knowingly going to the Nazi Bar makes you a Nazi, full stop

The other countries have a term limit for who wields that power.

The Chairman of the Central Military Commission is the head of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and the commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the People's Armed Police (PAP) and the Militia. The officeholder is additionally vested with the command authority over China's nuclear arsenal.

Access to the nuclear arsenal seems like excessive power for a figurehead. Xi Jinping holds that office.

He might not have absolute power in the state but your comparison with a common employee is frankly laughable. He is the agenda setter for the highest tiers of Chinese Government, he has the power to appoint multiple executive positions and he is the supreme military leader. He's not just a random cog in the machine like the grocery clerk, he has real, actual, abusable power and democratic systems must limit any person's access to abusable power, even if you believe there hasn't been abuse yet. The issue is not that, the issue is that some day, a person with ill intent might maneuver themselves into holding Xi Jinping's office and abusing said power, hence the need for the newcomer's terms to also be limited.

For the record, though, I think the fact that Xi has managed to remove his term limits is in and of itself an abuse of power, regardless of what else he has done.

It is not merely about doing a good job, it is about the ethics of power. Power corrupts, so the only reasonable recourse is to share it with as many people as possible and wield it for a limited amount of time. And it's also about ethics, what gives one person the right to have power over others for a limitless amount of time?

Frankly, you seem like you're about to argue for people just doing as they're told and not worrying their pretty little heads with this, which is against any sane left wing ideals.

All European democracies have term limits too. Heck, even ancient civilizations had term limits, and disregarding those has always lead to worse outcomes for the common man.

A good indicator is not having the same leader for decades. Term limits are a democratic safeguard and China has mostly abolished them. That does not bode well.

Yup. You constantly fight the UI and some of the mechanics are very unintuitive.