I feel the perceived difficulty varies from person to person. Personally I found Mandarin much easier to pick up than German or Spanish, since you don't have to worry about conjugation.

Sure but this is like calling North Korea a democracy because the official name of the country is the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"

China is a Communist country (in the Leninist sense), it's just that Shenzhen is a special economic zone. This allows them to keep their ideology while operating within the global market economy.

It's also why Democracy and unbridled Capitalism leaking into Hong Kong is problematic for them. Though, to be fair, Hong Kong is also why Shenzhen has been such a success for them.

"China isn't communist" is the biggest cope ever. It's simply an excuse to imply that their success is inherently related to their """"""embrace"""""" of """"""capitalism"""""" because some people cannot handle the fact that their system is dying, and want to point to the new world leader and imply that the very same system in their country applies to China. It simply does not. Marxism-Leninism is the guiding ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, and they are kicking everyone's ass.

It's essentially a dogwhistle to spot idiots. Anyone who says "China isn't communist" completely lacks even the most basic comprehension of ideological concepts.

Major world powers generally agree on the reality of climate change, the disagreement is on how to address it

The Goomba Fallacy strikes once again

Thanks for sharing the name of the phenomenon! I was not aware of it before.

This fallacy's pretty cool and first time I Heard of it!

Do you know other fallacies like this which are less known but as interesting (that you or others might know of) probably?

The news typically reports arrests based on information provided by a government, but if people are being disappeared by the government you can't really rely on the truth of that info

Just doing nothing isn't great for the "human spirit", but UBI doesn't mean people can't find their own goals to pursue. The idea of something where people are not longer required to work to survive is hard to accept since many people haven't seriously considered how they could meaning outside of their careers

I could ask every one of my coworkers what they would do and they would have a realistic answer.

I don't really have sympathy for people attached to their careers. They did that to themselves.

counterpoint : my father had realistic expectations for what he wanted to do post-retirement.

what actually happened was that he sat around purposeless because it turns out that the motivation of producing a paycheck or product was actually the reason he did things. He stopped showering, became depressed, and neglected his health.

And this isn't an uncommon reaction to the open-ended 'free-form' life post-retirement. Some people very realistically need to have some level of structure imposed on their life or otherwise be taught how to create that structure themselves. I think this will be a very real problem whenever UBI gets closer to reality.

Maybe the False Consensus Effect?

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

If the belief is that switching a font is wasteful, why is the solution is to switch fonts again?

For anyone else interested in reading more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing_tactics

For a while Netflix didn't support 1080p on browsers other than Edge on Windows or Safari on Mac. This has changed somewhat but they still reserve their resolution content for their "blessed" OS/browser combinations

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

It's not just Netflix. It is also FaceTime calls for Firefox. This is the reason why Netflix limits Firefox.