This is suggesting Microsoft should take more power to itself, and disguise it as "community support"

> If anything, the US is still far away from as bad as China

That is a matter of opinion

I am unsure about social conditions within the countries ( freedom Vs. economic security -hard to compare)

But in international relations the USA has been a rouge state for many decades (e.g. tjr Gulf of Tonkin deception). The USA pretends to care about "values", but does not, it cares about it's own interests

China is plain speaking and cares, openly and transparently, about its interests

The USA has institutionalised hypocrisy. China sins her own sins in the open

The USA is much worse than China - to foreigners

> China is plain speaking and cares, openly and transparently, about its interests

Hum... Are you from the US or Europe?

The amount of propaganda circulating worldwide about how China is helping propel all developing nations into modernity with infrastructure investment is just ridiculous. (And yeah, there's half a truth in it, like all useful propaganda.)

> The USA is much worse than China - to foreigners

The USA is such a hellhole that millions want to come here, legally or otherwise.

From the corner of "...and what could possibly go wrong?"

Areweaudioyet has been lost...

Audio in Rust cannot use Jack on Aarch64

The jack crate is broken.

A sad state of arrairs

> Can we catch up under this administration?

No. The future is Chinese, if the Chinese can maintain good governance.

A big "if"

> Money attracts people who want money.

Yes.

I think the future lies in organisation's bound by ties other that money

In my home town there is an example: Kai Tahu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C4%81i_Tahu#Trading_enterpr...)

Family based. Start with $170M in the 1990s and now worth billions

The basically aquire and never divest.

Need to save state for an HTML form?

UUencode all 354 fields (64MB string) and put it in a hidden input field!

Twice!!

Yes

I prefer this sort of story to a scientific study!

Many places, many times.

Trust in institutions is fundamental to a society that is goof to live in.

USAnian institutions are particularly corrupt, all the way to the very top. It is not like that everywhere