Not about the CCP or politics but I’ve found Chinese Doom Scroll tremedously useful as a window into Chinese culture and ways of thinking. It’s a daily translation of popular Weibo posts that the author encouters while doom scrolling.
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An allele is a variant form of a gene. When we say that a gene has two (or more) alleles, we don’t mean that a gene contains two or more alleles, but that the gene exists in several variant forms. Sort of like how carbon-12, carbon-13 and carbon-14 are different isotopes of the same element. As far as I understand, calling the mutated allele a “mutated copy of the gene” is correct.
(I’m fairly certain of this, but if my understanding is wrong I’d welcome the correction of someone more knowledgeable.)
A breath smelling of acetone can also occur when someone is losing weight very fast (extreme diets or the beginning of an eating disorder). An interesting tidbit.
China is a good example of why this argument doesn’t work: according to Confucian values, children are fundamentally indebted to their parents (you owe them your life + all the resources spent raising you), and it’s common to see Chinese people exhorting others to have children because “this way you’ll have someone to take care of you when you’re old”. That line of argument does not seem to be working, to say the least.