Kevin_P
18d ago
I am elite enough not to need to perform manual labor, the proof is in my delicate fingernails.
This is the same reason others see it as low class - it's announcing "I'm in a position where people could mistake me for a manual worker, so I need to do this to distinguish myself". Just another example of the barberpole of fashion.
Kevin_P
18d ago
Plus Carthage between those two. But if you're going back that far then it stops being a distinctive feature of Sicily because everywhere was conquered back and forth in those days.
Kevin_P
3mo ago
I don't think much has really changed with Chunwan. Nationalist posturing has always been part of the show, that part is nothing new, and the same thing for washed-up western celebs - Lionel Richie and Westlife haven't been relevant for decades. The robots were kind of cool but showcasing China's strength is part for the course.
On the broader point I agree that the "China is an advanced country now" narrative is working, and part of that is due to propaganda, but it's also pretty much true. If anything, attraction to Chinese culture is well behind where it "should" be if it was based on national strength.
Kevin_P
3mo ago
I don't have any statistics to prove you wrong, but this doesn't describe my experience at all. Even if you back off from "sneer at breeders" to just "actively dislike kids", my perception is that this group is still vastly outnumbered by people whose objection falls into the "too much effort" bucket.
Kevin_P
4mo ago
Not to push you into becoming the Japanese sex industry guy, but I noticed you referred to hostess clubs and girl's bars as two separate categories. I was previously under the impression that these were the same thing; any chance you could quickly elaborate on the distinction?
Kevin_P
8mo ago
Sketch engine might be the most reliable option. Use the English Trends corpus, which is basically "everything we could scrape off the web". Instructions here
It also lets you see the most common words used together with your search term, which might be helpful to distinguish programming frameworks from theoretical ones.
It's a paid service but they have a 30 day free trial.
Kevin_P
8mo ago
A few thoughts:
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Google Trends is about search traffic; content volume is a different product (ngrams). So this would be about people looking for "my framework", which wouldn't necessarily be linked to more people writing frameworks
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Possibly incompatible with the first point, but a post-AI uptick in a particular word/phrasing doesn't always translate to more discussion of the relevant concept. There are just some words that LLMs really seem to like using, and I wouldn't be surprised if "framework" was in that category
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When I think about the word "framework" I would usually associate it with coding rather than theories. So to the extent that it's really related to an increase in some activity, that could well be programming rather than theorising.
It's class anxiety all the way down
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