They didn’t actually change his name, they just transliterated it with different characters. Names of non-Chinese people all need to have Chinese characters so people in China know how to pronounce them.

Sometimes these characters have no special meaning, but other times the meaning of the characters chosen may flatter or unflatter the namesake. In this case it sounds like the Chinese government chose some characters with not-so-charitable meanings to transliterate “Marco Rubio”.

That change is that technical fix that allowed him to enter the country, since “Marco Rubio” with the previous spelling is sanctioned and banned from China.

Or worse, it incentivizes all games to be subscription-only.

Multi-alignment means no alignment, doesn’t it?

Relatable content right here

Awesome recommendation, thanks!

They’d have to be real idiots to move this critical industry out of Taiwan

Big if true

sudo extinguish

No one is gonna cry at this guy’s funeral

3. Getting married changes nothing about the relationship. Until recently, the government didn’t even recognise same sex marriages. So if a straight couple gets married, should that make their relationship more valid because the government decides to put a stamp of approval on theirs and not on a gay couple? I hope not.

Depending on where you live, even if you don’t get married, a long de-facto union would be considered equivalent and you might face the same obligations here

Really just shows what George Carlin said for a long time, there’s no such thing as “rights”. They’re temporary privileges that can be revoked whenever convenient.

Theythembug*

This should also serve as a wake-up call for Europe, deeply dependent on US technology services

I think he was just trying to cheer her up

Marc Andreessen does that with his name too: https://a16z.com/

Fair point, but you can still take a supplement instead of eating a cricket

You do you, but ain’t no way I’m going to rely on a proprietary operating system for my computing

Literally zero need to eat insects. Plants have everything we need.

AI = Asians Inside

I get triggered when in American movies people jump on the bed with shoes on