The U.S. makes mistakes in terms of doing the wrong thing. But because it’s a democracy, it is capable of recognizing those mistakes and attempting to make amends. For example the internment of people of Japanese descent during world war 2, it was terrible for the folks rounded up and put into camps. It took 40 years, but we acknowledged it was wrong.

“In 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, Public Law 100-383 – the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – that acknowledged the injustice of "internment," apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was incarcerated.”

If you are in a dictatorship, that acknowledgement of a past wrong is absolutely impossible. That’s why democracy is so important. George Takei makes this point much more eloquently that I ever could, and it’s why he believes so strongly in democracy.

>If you are in a dictatorship, that acknowledgement of a past wrong is absolutely impossible

Immediately after Stalin died Khruschev went on to destalinize the country, with the USSR still being a "dictatorship" by any reasonable definition.

Did he apologize for any of Stalin’s actions? That’s was parent is saying. There was no apology for Holomodor, for example.

>Did he apologize for any of Stalin’s actions?

Yes, that was the whole point, he explicitly went around apologizing for Stalin and a lot of the stuff he did.. Rehabilitation of Volga germans, freeing political prisoners, partial? abolition of prison labor, shaming/removing Stalin's lieutenants, etc.

>There was no apology for Holodomor

There wasn't any apology for that, not that I'm aware of.

For my own kids when they are bored there is a flow of requests. First they ask if they can watch TV. Then they ask if they play video games. Then they ask if they can goto a friends house that they like. Then they ask if they can see a neighbor kid who they are kinda meh about. If I keep saying no to all the distractions they typically will enter a complainy phase about how they are bored, but after a bit of boredom they enter a very imaginative state where we can end up with some top tier kid games, the kind you might see on Bluey.

Same exact thing with my 4 year old. We give him very little screen time but it is always the first thing he asks for. Once he (begrudgingly) accepts that he isn't going to get to watch TV and he has to play by himself (if we can't play with him for some reason like coming dinner or taking care of his infant brother) he goes into an amazing creative state where he will play by himself for hours, narrating and creating new games with rules. Or drawing on his easel.

Once he is in the creative zone, he takes charge of his time. He will ask us to help with something and then tell us to go away and then have us come see what he built while he tells us elaborate stories.

There is a kids book called the boring book that captures this process pretty well.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-boring-book_shinsuke-yoshi...

I noticed a similar pattern with mine.

I limit their time with electronic devices (yt kids, games, etc) because it seems that the devices/services are similar to drugs including withdrawal symptoms.

So getting bored just means having to find something to play with. Lego is a good creative way to spend time. Going outside is also preferable to Minecraft ..

Sounds very similar to mine, perhaps the process they need to go through to achieve the 'state of boredom' where true creativity can be unlocked.

> Then they ask if they can goto a friends house that they like.

The friends house where they will get TV or video games.

Thankfully the various parents are all pretty good about restricting screen time.

Dogs that beg for food are dogs that know they get fed when they beg for food.

Dogs have varying levels of optimism. Some cheerfully begs for food despite a success rate of maybe 1:100.

China has tremendous leverage over him via whether he can access their markets.

The goal for Tesla was to jumpstart the electric car industry by example, not to sell electric cars in China.

Tesla built 51% of their global production in Shanghai, China in Q1 2024.

The leverage isn't just shutting down the China market, it's the threat to 51% of Tesla's production capacity.

Tell that to his net worth.

He's already beat out in their market, not much leverage there lol.

A 50 billionaire that someone could take a billion of… tremendous?

I am aware. But EU car makers have been very successful in China.

I fear that's temporary until Chinese manufacturers have copied everything and produce it for lower costs.

This just means resigning yourself to a slow death. If you can't innovate, you will cease to exist soon anyways.

What the EU car makers need is the competition, to actually stay continually ahead.

China’s competitive advantage is cheap labour brought about by poor workers rights and a low quality of life. Innovation has nothing to do with it. It is hilarious that you think European economies want to compete with that. The tariffs eliminate the exploitation that China can leverage that European manufacturers cannot. They are actually levelling the playing field in this market - you know - making it more competitive through innovation (the thing you apparently like) vs maximising exploitation of the workforce.

Can you explain what you mean?

I fail to see the downside for EU manufacturers.

China is VWs biggest market. BMW, Renault, Mercedes all have massive interests in China, which very quickly end the second China retaliates on the tariffs.

Currently EU manufacturers are competing in China. If a trade war happens that will end and both sides will retreat to their own respective regions, currently that is clearly worse for EU car makers. All German car makers oppose these tarrifs for exactly those reasons.

> China is VWs biggest market

Yes but for how long? China was very successful at baiting Tesla and raising their own EV industry. If anything it's proving that businesses can't rely on Chinese markets even without a trade war.

Tesla is failing because their products are falling behind every day.

>Yes but for how long

Depends on the EU regulations. If they don't want successful EU companies, not for very long.

German automakers oppose it because they will be hit the hardest. They focus on premium market. They don't have much competition in that market especially for conventional cars. And they don't care much what will happen later and with others.

But the other side of the wall is that all other low and mid price segment manufacturers (Renault, Stellantis, etc.) welcome the tariffs. Because that's where the automakers from China compete (unfairly).

>They focus on premium market.

Are you kidding? Do you know who VW is?

I think the OP meant "as intented by the US", ie. car manufacturers moving their production for the US market out of China.

Majority of VWs sold in China are made in China

Some part of the inflation now is also because of the import new import tariffs (my country first). Countrys with new high import tariffs have a higher inflation rate.

I'd argue the way American culture is constructed (drive everywhere, less opportunities to walk, folks are socially isolated) in a way that actually puts people in a situation where they are much more likely to be overweight.

So the costs are ones we as a society are putting on individuals are coming back to bite everyone in the ass.

Of course there are tons of other ways that Japanese society makes it easier to be skinny than American society does. Im just saying that some portion is the shame culture, not sure how much and not sure if its possible to figure that out, but I do know that Im not interested in trying that method.

My kids are still playing catchup in terms of illnesses since the pandemic. Our district masked for the first two years. Neither of my kids were sick for those two years.

Since then they’ve been playing catchup immunity wise as they’ve been exposed to all the colds and other viruses. Which means they are absent more.

I’m hopeful that they are almost caught up in terms of what they have been exposed to and the amount of times they are sick in a year will be declining.

Seriously it blows my mind that folks say masks don’t work because if you’ve had school age children you know how often they are sick and for those two years the district was masking we had nothing. It was glorious while it lasted.

> It was glorious while it lasted

this sounds almost like you regret that it couldn't

I’m surprised if tobacco utilization has increased during the time period in question.

It hasn't. It may have among younger people though, as a result of increasing incomes in poorer countries.

Not in the US, but maybe elsewhere.

This is so great

Probably spun off

Most likely licensed at exorbitant prices or killed, Broadcom likely can’t get a sizable chunk of money for it given the current state of desktop virtualization, and they are all about tossing small customers to the ditch.