The Tax Office in Australia does the same thing and push it every time I call, I imagine it branches out to the other gov bodies too. It's fun listening to the whole spiel about 'Like a fingerprint your voice is unique to you'.
Google is blocked in China so naturally they'd need a Chinese alternative, with everything going on it's easy to fear monger but people need to chill out a bit.
Locale is probably one of the least intrusive ways to determine location, using GPS would probably cause an even further problem if people realise that there's a backdoor to avoid location permission
Any company that markets/releases in China and relies on some google service (maps/safe search/safety net/google sign in/firebase/etc) need to find an alternative, not because everyone is on the Chinese payroll but more often than not these services are business critical.
The first watchOS version that had this monitoring built-in seemed to be prone to false positives. However, the watch first asks you if you are ok and if you do not acknowledge so in a few seconds, then it dials out.
Right. The other day I accidentally slammed my watch into the wall and it started asking me if I was OK. You have a chance to say that everything is fine and that you don’t need help before it starts calling emergency services and telling people you’re in trouble.
My girlfriend is the same, this Hong Kong issue has been quite the discussion point whenever something news worthy happens.
I'm pretty sure some of my beliefs has been swayed by western propaganda but she believes China is not in the wrong here, she knows loosely about 1984 and is aware of what's happening with muslims but with HK she and a lot of my other mainland friends think the protesters are destroying everything, who knows how their opinions shape if China decides to start cleansing HK but it's interesting to see how deep this ideology is rooted and it's even more interesting to see her opinions change the longer she lives in a democratic country (like she tried talking about Xi Jinping to her mainland friends but they told her to cut it out since she forgot about the lack of free speech over there).
I think everyone has different definitions of freedom, some might think it only means to be physically free but lack of free speech and lack of proper human rights are a-ok because they don't know any better.
Everyone feels a lack of free speech about issues they want to discuss. The hard part is establishing a shared understanding that some issues you'd like to discuss will always end up being inconvenient to the powers that be. Most Chinese citizens I've seen discuss the issue argue that they're simply immune to the problem; that as long as you're a responsible person just trying to live a good life, the government won't end up strongly interfering with what you want to say.
True. Actually discussing the leaders doesn't do anyone any good. For one, how do you know the things you being fed are real? And what are you going to do if it's real/not real? Just venting?
If you don't like the leadership, there are plenty of other ways to improve that, but talking is the cheapest.
And that all sounds well and good to most people, until it's their dad who the leaders decide should be shipped off to a re-education camp. But it's too late at that point; even if I go around yelling to everyone that my dad's not a terrorist, they know just as well as I once did that yelling at government leaders means I'm a cheap agitator with nothing better to do.
No. You misundertood. Changes cannot be achieved by simple talking. You have to complain and do things if it doesn't work. BTW I agree with peaceful protesters.
> Actually discussing the leaders doesn't do anyone any good.
So: No, I didn't.
> Changes cannot be achieved by simple talking.
Yes, they can. And are. Constantly.
> You have to complain and do things if it doesn't work.
No. For one, many things can be changed by talking, and talking only. But also, there is absolutely nothing wrong if someone only talks about things being bad where action besides talking is required to change things. It's neither morally wrong, nor is it useless, if your talking is what enables others to implement the changes.
What actually is completely useless is complaining about people only talking about a problem. Absolutely nothing useful can possibly come from that. But it's a common fallacy used by authoritarians and parroted by their followers, nothing particularly special to China. Which is the general impression I get from a lot of your arguments in this discussion: Tons of typical authoritarian fallacies the likes of which you would also hear from right-wing nationalists in "western countries".
Not really sure, it's a bit mixed. She knows about the event and people died but not the specifics like Tank Man, the APC pies, mowing down students at chokepoints etc
She didn't know about the event until I told her so she probably doesn't have a strong opinion either way just knows it was bad.
It's a hard subject to broach.
There's some images attached to this post [0], if you've used snapchat or tiktok/douyin they have pretty decent filters baked in but I guess the magic is making the video quality low enough to 'smooth' out the effect.
Also found an article [1] that looks at how much people are willing to spend and how far people are willing to go to hide their real look, things like buying silicon upper body suit(?) to get better looking boobs/frame or voice changers
Have you tried Elite Dangerous? It leans more towards the Sci-Fi aspect but those elements can be ignored and you could just spend your time exploring the milky way like a lot of others do (even more so if you use VR), if I recall they sourced real data to build the universe and extrapolate to fill in the blanks. Sure it isn't the universe but it's still a pretty good way to explore our galaxy
SpaceEngine let's you zoom through _galaxies_ like that old windows screensaver was for stars. I've always sorta understood that the universe was "big", but it never clicked how infinite it really is until I zipped through SpaceEngine for an hour.
That said, Elite: Dangerous is pretty awesome. It helps ground how far away everything is. Even with the game's FTL travel, the fact that it takes actual weeks to reach Sagattarius A* boggles the mind.
I believe the scale isn't correct in many places to enhance gameplay. That said, it is pretty great in VR and the universe replica they created is unmatched in any game.
