QS ranking is mostly BS, it weighs international students and faculties, as if that is a marker for a good university.
To have a bunch of indians with previous qualifications from degree mills.
A much more objective ranking is the Nature Index that measures the research intensity, Chinese universities ranks far above others.
Great thread about @strikeperps proposal. But I think this is one of the MOST important points.
- it’s not to fund expenses
- it’s not to pay the wages of over priced devs
- it’s not for lambo
It’s to deepen liquidity, increase volume, and draw more eyes to #Cardano
This India's "train"? A ball-sack-sweat tsunami of a hundred curry-farting dudes welded tighter than plague-riddled sardines in a rolling human armpit- one cough and the whole shitbox catches the apocalypse!
The most disgusting part of this story is not that the Japanese emperor reflected on wartime history.
It is who Japan chooses to reflect toward.
During WWII, Imperial Japan invaded and occupied what is now Indonesia.
But Indonesia was a Dutch colony at the time.
So once again, Japan’s remorse is directed upward — toward the former white colonial ruler — not downward toward the Asian people who actually suffered under Japanese occupation.
This is the same pattern.
Japan can bow deeply before Western victims.
Japan can speak gently in Europe.
Japan can kneel at memorials for Australians killed in war.
But when it comes to Asia — China, Korea, Southeast Asia, comfort women, Nanjing, Unit 731, forced labor, massacres, colonial brutality — suddenly the language becomes vague.
“Difficult history.”
“Tragic experiences.”
“Different interpretations.”
“Future peace.”
And politicians like Sanae Takaichi still visit Yasukuni Shrine, still deny or minimize Imperial Japan’s crimes, still posture as if Japan was the misunderstood victim of history.
Japan did not repent equally.
It merely ranked the victims.
Japan internalized the colonial gaze so completely that it sees itself as the “white” country of Asia.
So it lowers its head to the West.
But toward Asian victims, it still acts superior, evasive, and offended when memory refuses to disappear.
That is why Japanese remorse often feels so hollow.
It is not offered equally to the dead.
It is performed selectively for those Japan still recognizes as above itself.
Asia remembers because Asia was the crime scene.
And no amount of polite European banquet language can erase that.
@DwightSinghS Stop talking and take action, lynch them where they are make an example which will stop these cockroaches from polluting the environment.
@ryangrim@hasanthehun There is still one such country and its Japan who still hold bitterly that they lost against China when China was divided and at its weakest point ever in history that they couldn’t beat them then
🇮🇱🇱🇧 IDF spokesperson:
“Hezbollah is fighting a defensive battle to prevent our forces from completing the destruction of these infrastructures.”
“Hezbollah is the one that violated the ceasefire. It is trying to defend its capabilities it built over the years.”
He legit said: we had to attack them because they violated the ceasefire by defending themselves. I can’t even.
Source: TABZ / Writer: Jamie
The Economist has a fascinating habit when it comes to China. If a city is poor, it’s proof the system failed. If a city becomes prosperous, safe, clean, affordable, well-connected, and pleasant to live in, then prosperity itself becomes the problem.
According to the article, Shaoxing is comfortable, prosperous, safe, convenient, culturally rich, and offers a lower-pressure lifestyle than China’s megacities. Yet somehow the conclusion is still “comfort meets constraint”.
Imagine applying the same framework elsewhere😅
Copenhagen: “Happiness meets boredom.”
Zurich: “Wealth meets excessive punctuality.”
Amsterdam: “Freedom meets inconvenient rain.”
Tokyo: “Efficiency meets social pressure.”
At some point every successful city can be turned into a cautionary tale if the goal is to find a cloud behind every silver lining.
The article acknowledges many of the things ordinary people actually care about like safety, reliable infrastructure, good public transport, clean streets, economic opportunity and affordable living relative to income. But then, immediately pivots into “yes, but…” mode.
From a development economics perspective, a more interesting question would be how did a country that was overwhelmingly poor 40 years ago create dozens of cities where millions of people now enjoy middle-class lifestyles?
China lifted roughly 800 million people out of extreme poverty over several decades. Whether one likes China’s political system or not, that achievement deserves credit rather than being treated as an inconvenient footnote. The economic transformation itself is one of the largest in human history.
The article also illustrates a broader tendency in Western commentary: quality of life is often measured differently depending on the country.
When a European city has CCTV, zoning regulations, government planning, and strong public transit, it’s called good governance.
When a Chinese city has extensive CCTV,
zoning regulations, government planning, and strong public transit, it’s called “constraint”.
I’d say The Economist is applying a double standard, so on brand.
A good economist starts with outcomes.
Are people safer?
Is purchasing power rising?
Is infrastructure improving?
Are opportunities expanding?
Do residents voluntarily choose to stay there?
If the answers are mostly yes, then the city deserves credit.
The real paradox is that some commentators seem uncomfortable whenever comfort appears in places they expected to fail.
@TheEconomist
100 million people is 7% of China’s population. Meanwhile something like 40% of Americans struggle to pay their debts. When 7% of China’s population struggle to pay debts that’s a crisis. When it’s 40% of America’s population though that’s just business as usual I guess 🤷🏻♂️
@mainichi Takaichi is the best PM to date, making japs poorer by the day, yen crashing down, REEs are almost depleted, isolated from the rest of the world and stirring up a war u never gonna win with China. I mean y’all voted for it lmao and u deserve to go extinct by your own doing