Handguns should be legal everywhere, especially for clean people like Roberts. The article also disputes “the police were not responsive”, and lying about animal control coming to spite your neighbor doesn’t add to credibility.

Hmm, you do have a point.

…animal crossing, for one?

Oh no, I spaced out for 4 seconds. Have the British taken over the world?

like I said, I edited the title

Well, my point is that it can very realistically cause someone to have a wrong perception of Chinese workplace culture. Yes, it’s overworking, exhausting, and sometimes inhumane, but not to the point of violence.

Apparently, whoever added this was an awful devil who decided that adding false information with sources that only sourced the history and usage of the term was a good idea.

The trademark is adrenalin, not adrenaline, and owned by Endo, not Pfizer. I have edited the title and am editing the article as we type. Apparently there’s someone who posted to the talk page about this back in may but didn’t get noticed.

This was changed on 4 May 2023 by someone who thought he was correcting a typo.

I read it, but from past experience, I know that some people don’t. Either way, omitting something (intentionally or not) to make for a misleading post is still bad clickbait.

Actually, someone synthesized something very similar in 1897 and named it “epinephrine”. 4 years later, someone independently synthesized it and trademarked it as “adrenaline”.

The terminology is now one of the few differences between the INN and BAN systems of names.[72] Although European health professionals and scientists preferentially use the term “adrenaline”, the converse is true among American health professionals and scientists. Nevertheless, even among the latter, receptors for this substance are called “adrenergic receptors” or “adrenoceptors”, and pharmaceuticals that mimic its effects are often called “adrenergics”. The history of adrenaline and epinephrine is reviewed by Rao.[73]

That’s a Medium article whose author is “Python Programmer at Google.” [sic]. You sure it’s a reliable source?

Edit: Author shares the same first name as OP.

It’s probably a similar learning speed

FORTRAN: Proto-Indo-European COBOL: Proto-Sino-Tibetic

Assembly: neuron signals

it’s on Wikipedia and backed up by reliable sources

Ooh, I get it now.

I was sort of thinking more about the effects: it’s a punishment that only causes kind of–petty discomfort. I’d agree that it’s not really public shaming, hence there’s not really any judicial public shaming in China anymore.

what are we arguing for here lol

Like I said, it’s kind of public shaming indeed. I’m not sure how to feel about it.

That’s just a fraud offender registry, which I have listed as one of the only forms of kind of–public shaming. It’s not been shut down as part of the social credit shutdowns and only financial stuff can put you there.

I don’t sympathize with their current leadership, but social credit never was really a thing. Zhima Credit was indeed a big thing, but it was banking credit and quite frequently got conflated with these voluntary systems. I was in school in Hangzhou—one of the biggest trials according to the article—for four years until mid 2022, and I didn’t think it was a thing because it was too small to be noticed or talked about in class.

Participation is fully voluntary and there are no enticement beyond losing access to minor rewards. For fear of overreach and pushback, the Chinese central government banned punishments for low scores and minor offences.[15] During the city trials, pilot programs only saw limited participation.[20] Many people living in pilot program cities are unaware of the programs.[20] In Xiamen, 210,059 users activated their social credit account, roughly 5 percent of the population of Xiamen; 60,000 or 1.5 percent of population in Wuhu participated the system; Hangzhou has 1,872,316 (15 percent) participants and fewer regularly use the system.

And no, bank credit is not the same thing at all. That’s just your average American credit score but embedded in a monolith.

That hasn’t made it anywhere besides a little more adoption of bank credit.