I’m trying to say… exactly what I said. That your message didn’t tell the whole story. In fact it’s not much of a stretch to say it’s actively misleading. I’ll try and do more to articulate why, see if you agree with me.

You said:

The 1 child policy only ever applied to around 30% of the population anyways. It was just Han Chinese in major urban centers.

First of all, the statement itself is actually false because whilst it was changed after a few years, it did in fact apply to everyone initially so you can’t truthfully say that it “only ever” applied to 1/3 of the population.

Secondly, the 35.4% figure is of people who were subjected to the original one child policy restrictions. There was still a one child policy in place even for rural people except in the case that the first child was a girl. Given this happens about 50% of the time, effectively around 67% of families would still be restricted to one child, even under the revised policy. I’m neglecting the exception for minorities as by definition they are a small share of the population.

So yes, I maintain that what you said did not provide a complete or particularly accurate picture. It’s true that the policy wasn’t as simple as “nobody can have more than one child ever” but your comment was about equally accurate as that statement I would say. By saying the policy only ever applied to about 30% of people you are in my opinion misrepresenting the sheer scale and impact of the policy.

Hopefully that helps to explain why I felt the need to comment, but feel free to tell me if I’m wrong or misunderstanding something.

One might even say it’s an ExtremelyDrawnOutMethodNamesFactoryImpl

Indeed, everyone certainly made a meal of it.

Almost certainly

The Emptiness Machine In My Ass

What if I only eat my own meat?

The sheer Depp’s people will go to with these memes

Huh, no wonder those cows are so chilled out

And the system to uniquely identify vehicles. Seems like a real car guy.

I don’t think this quite tells the whole story. This is what I found in Wikipedia at least:

China’s family planning policies began to be shaped by fears of overpopulation in the 1970s, and officials raised the age of marriage and called for fewer and more broadly spaced births.[3] A near-universal one-child limit was imposed in 1980 and written into the country’s constitution in 1982.[4][5] Numerous exceptions were established over time, and by 1984, only about 35.4% of the population was subject to the original restriction of the policy.[6]: 167  In the mid-1980s, rural parents were allowed to have a second child if the first was a daughter. It also allowed exceptions for some other groups, including ethnic minorities under 10 million people.[7] In 2015, the government raised the limit to two children, and in May 2021 to three.[8] In July 2021, it removed all limits,[9] shortly after implementing financial incentives to encourage individuals to have additional children

I sensed a great disturbance in the force, as though millions of programmers cried out in pain and were suddenly silenced.

Can’t wait for him to start messing with timezones next.

Having Elon anywhere near government anything is a terrible idea and he’s an awful human but what’s this about the EV market? I thought it was doing fine. Twitter though yeah that has been just…a large wtf per minute value for sure.

I mean…how much of the story are we really entitled to when it comes to someone’s personal medical situation and surrounding decisions? I’d say none of it.

Thank you for your thorough critique of my analysis. I am humbled by your attention to detail and your admirable level of dedication to media literacy. If only we could all demonstrate such tenacity in the pursuit of our ideals the world would be a better place.

No need for the attitude, I assumed you were concerned with media literacy and would prefer to look into it yourself and come to your own conclusions. It’s really not hard to look at MBFCs own website and see their analysis and the glaring holes in their methodology. If you want a bit more hand holding though here’s a post I made criticising their rating of the BBC specifically.

Random comment without reason or source is exactly how I’d describe some of MBFC’s bias analysis. If you care about that stuff feel free to look more into it and come to your own conclusions, I just wanted to give a heads up.

If you’re concerned about media sources I’d strongly encourage you to reconsider relying on MBFC.

Thanks, that definitely helps! I’ll make sure to take my socks off before I get my rocks off.

The great thing about schema-less databases is you can put any old thing in there. The bad thing is at some point you have to get it back out again.

He’s probably thinking about him thinking about women in the Byzantine Empire from 1025 to 1204