yea we can! i tink. i hope. i dont even think neccessarily attached to ML stuff or analysis, weekly megathreads in many places allow for the users to just talk and commune w others :3

on the purge stories they seemed pretty irrelevant to me first time around, afaik prc has so many purges that go under radar since its no dog and pony show. makes sense for them to be so stringent atm with how shaky the world is, it reassures me at the least. plus i never trust whatever western rags have to say about largely confidential machinations in prc especially pla