Great powers use whatever means necessary to compete, that's fair game. Danger with moralizing rhetoric is that public, on both sides, take it 💯 seriously. They don't realize the double standards; see the other side not as competitor but as Immoral Foe.
@MushtaqBilalPhD Academic writing is inaccessible because publishers make it ridiculously expensive, not because the writing style is too complicated. ChatGPT is cool, but people try to hype it with anything they can think of.
It’s darkly funny how to neoliberal turn, characterized by deregulation in so many areas, coincided with the strangling of supply in the most important areas of housing and healthcare
@holmenkollin @TracyBethHoeg Das Abstract klingt aber so als hätten sie nur geprüft ob man Leute die gerade eine Maske tragen schlechter versteht. Die Sprachentwicklung von Kindern ist eher eine weiterführende Idee.
When will China's COVID-zero policy end?
I'd say between Oct to March 2023, because the current strict COVID-zero policy is sustained by two factors:
1. Power: ambitious officials trying to clinch a Politburo seat at 20th Party Congress, using COVID-zero to show their loyalty;
@DEhnts Naja die Fed hebt ja auch beim kleinsten Anzeichen von Inflation sofort präventiv den Zins, natürlich gehen dann beide gemeinsam rauf und runter.
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The argument that the economy does best with zero government support is just ideology, no less so than the opposite claim, that the economy can only do well under full government control.