The plan was always to over saturate the market with coders so the big techs could lower their wages.

That is such Windows user behavior.

A lot of those girls were hidden or otherwise, kept off the books from the Chinese government. Not actually that hard in the more rural areas. Not that that excuses the Chinese government’s polices, but the families of those girls weren’t all that depraved. Lot of of adult women suddenly started materializing out of nothing for college.

It’s been years, so citing my source is hard, but I’ll see what I can find.

edit: https://news.ku.edu/news/article/2016/11/22/study-finds-chinas-missing-girls-theory-likely-far-overblown

…have analyzed statistics and found that a combination of late registration and unreported births explains a larger portion of the “missing girls” than previously reported in Chinese sex-ratio-at-birth statistics. Their findings are published this month in the journal China Quarterly.

The researchers believe local government officials informally worked with farmers and acknowledged that they couldn’t fully enforce the one-child policy. Instead they made tacit agreements in allowing families to have extra children in exchange for social stability in their communities. The cadres, or local governments, would then under-report “out of plan” births that ultimately influenced the national population statistics.

There was also abortions happening and infanticide probably trails behind that. Not great, but not as bad as is passed around. People probably aren’t having kids in China for the same reason they’re not having kids everywhere else. Despite what we hear, people in China are either too poor or too busy with work.

You asked why people might not like him, so I looked him up. Personally, I didn’t like what I saw, but I already stay away from FIFA.

I don’t watch football and I never heard of him before. I’ll probably forget about him in an hour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Saint-Germain_FC

I don’t follow football, but I’m guessing it’s that they’re owned by Qatar Sports Investments. I just assume anyone with ties to FIFA is corrupt.

They make one movie with easy to digest anti-elite themes for every dozen that promotes competition between the working class, has libertarian undertones, or otherwise reinforces the status quo. How many Hollywood heroes promote the status quo vs challenge the status quo?

Also, Parasite is a South Korean movie, which makes it even weirder. SK is way deeper in late stage capitalism than the US if you can believe it. When Samsung alone accounts for 23% of their gdp, something’s wrong.

Netflix released 300 titles this year? Quantity over quality.

I’ve seen this pattern before. Too many times. I stuck with AvE when he was only making “i’m a dumb hick who doesn’t understand trans people” jokes and he would eventually just out right support the Trucker’s “Protest” and teach his daughter racial slurs. That odd friend of a friend who likes Russia a little too much and is confidant that they’ll win, but totally isn’t routing for the.

What hotdiggedydemon is doing is making videos about wedge issues. Things that are somewhat mild or somewhat split in the left leaning crowds. Not so much in the right crowds. His old pony vids aren’t political, but they are cynical and I side eyed him at the time, but quickly forgot about it. It took about ten years before he would reenter my radar with his Eat The Rich video for the phase that youtube was pushing content popular with right wingers at me. That video has one hundred percent appeal to right wingers with it’s generalization to that crowd. There’s a lot of people on the left who don’t trust the left wing pundits, but only the right ringers are making videos about the. Right now, there are much bigger issues then some strawman of a left wing pundits. What that video signals to me is someone slowly testing the waters with how political he thinks he can get away with. At best, he’s a useless centrist making noise about how he’s angry things are changing. At worse, he’s alt right and he’s following a pattern I’ve seen too many times before.

The next video I see is him complaining about Apu being removed from Simpsons, which is another one of those issues that has split options on the left, but the right is pretty united on. Which audience do you think I think he’s catering to?

Kricfalusi is also a groomer, so whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kricfalusi

Also, I never called diggty a fascist or a Nazi. I called him alt right because he’s making videos catering to the alt right. If it quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.

Yes, I was there 15 years ago. You should have seen it 25 years ago.

Ren and Stimpy’s creator didn’t exactly age well either. Honestly, he was only really funny when he was pushing against boundaries. Once he had free reign, it was just gross out stuff.

I disagree with your interpretation of Eat the Rich. If that was supposed to be Hasan specifically, he could have made it more obvious. It’s still an overly simplistic depiction of an idea.

I was there when those pony videos were made. They always seemed more meanspirited than I cared for, but I didn’t think too much of it at the time. Definitely Ren and Stimpy coded.

His Eat The Rich video is a tired strawmen of leftists. Unless that’s a specific person, which it does a piss poor job of convoying, it’s a broad generalization of everyone on the left calling for political change.

His “eat the rich” video was enough. Honestly, I never liked his old pony.mov videos either. He always seemed like an ironic mlp fan.

As much as I think Apu is a fine character, hotdiggedydemon went alt-right culture wars a long time ago.

It sort of also assumed that just because relatives are fucking that they’ll even have a kid.

Rich people bribe legislators to make what they do no longer illegal. They lie constantly, but have their heads so far up their asses, they believe their own lies.

Are you old enough to remember “Freedom Fries”? I know people still stuck in that era.

Bungie wasn’t a Mac exclusive company. They were a Mac first company. Oni, the game they made right before Halo, was released to Windows and PS2 after it was released for Mac. Halo could have had just a big of an impact without being owned by Microsoft.

If Bungie stayed independent, Halo might have been a one and done game and they would have moved on to other IPs though.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/09/french-riot-officers-trial-accused-beating-gilets-jaunes-protesters

ACAB is ACAB the world around.