Some opinions here are super ignorant. Yes Tiktok has lots of silly videos but it also is a way for many talented people to reach their audience. Many small business owners and indie artists depend on it to make a living.
I initially agreed with the author but at a second thought, I found the author made a big mistake of not distinguishing different types of quality.
The article talked about mostly entertainment or art related quality. However when it comes to utility related quality, it is a totally different story. It is obvious. I even don't need to expand on that.
Why is it impossible for Talyor Swift to ask that question herself? Because she is a blonde singer?
It is very common for someone top of one's trade to command respectable knowledge and skill in another trade.
Einstein was a decent violin player. It wouldn't be a surprise if he asked some deep questions in musics in certain circumstances.
Talyor Swift has got to the top and sustained at the top of probably the most competitive business, and keeps her wealth growing. She has certainly financial knowledge and discipline. I am pretty sure she is capable of asking that question.
I don't think it was full out from Russia's side. They could still mobilize millions and use nukes. They haven't really bombed Kyiv's critical infrastructures and government buildings, for example president's office.
I think Putin will bet it all on full out war to conquer Ukraine in 2023. I wish I would be wrong.
It is crazy that CCP is again on the course of self destruction.
Maybe this sort of self destruction is inevitable for every single major power. It is just a matter if one can correct the wrong and change course before it is too late.
USA ditched Trump by election. Putin is doing shit to Russia.
It is happening in China now.
Chinese people can put up with CCP because we have been through too much disasters. A stable and somehow rational one-party rule is NOT so bad as long as stability is maintained and people's private space is respected to an acceptable level.
Shanghai is right now at the edge of breaking this unwritten agreement between CCP and the people. If this goes on for a few more weeks, there will be social unrest.
No. My complaint is that the study method is fundamentally unreliable. And if we accept that the reports are reliable, and analysis is reliable, 2.5% of all brain dead reports are questionable don't sound suspicious at all.
I admit that I stopped reading further when I saw that line.
Still in the summary:
These two apparently disparate topics converge in a unique case: the intimate involvement of transplant surgeons in China in the execution of prisoners via the procurement of organs. We use computational text analysis to conduct a forensic review of 2838 papers drawn from a dataset of 124 770 Chinese-language transplant publications.
We find evidence in 71 of these reports, spread nationwide, that brain death could not have properly been declared. In these cases, the removal of the heart during organ procurement must have been the proximate cause of the donor's death. Because these organ donors could only have been prisoners, our findings strongly suggest that physicians in the People's Republic of China have participated in executions by organ removal.
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It is 71 reports out of 2838 reports. And the reports themselves could have reliability issues.
And the judgement of brain death has always been controversial. 71 out of 2838 is just 2.5% that is subject to question.
It is so easy to find reports and evidence of how Tiktok could be of great value to people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/dining/tiktok-ban-cooking...
https://www.today.com/popculture/books/what-is-booktok-meani...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-67555175