Baronjutter posted:

Is kaka someone's 6 year old who got ahold of the phone?

Blistex posted:

The reason that they all look like dicks with balls is that you need a round object to apply pressure to the deeper tissue and muscles, but having only one ball on the device makes it awkward to hold against your face/back/shoulders/legs with any force as it will want to twist out of your hand. Having the two balls on it stops that from happening, plus there is a pinching action, as moving it along your skin will squeeze and stretch the skin, resulting in a pleasant feeling.*

Also most of them have the power button/settings on the handle, which would result in them being inserted into an orifice (if you chose to use it for that) and would make operating it difficult. My wife and I saw about 6 of them (all different brands/models) lined up in a boutique in Korea, and we assumed they were vibrators until taking a closer look.

*the owner even had one of those little LCD screens that come with certain products to advertise how they work, and the video on it was demonstrating all these features of one of the dick & ball-shaped massagers.

Haier posted:

Real answer: Many girls look like they are about 12 until they reach 22. I would say most Chinese girls do not look like the women they will become to resemble until they are about 27 or so (if that makes any sense). Like, they go through puberty in their twenties instead of teens.

I think it is part of some plot by the sex toy industry to normalize the idea that women carry boner-shaped devices in their purses everywhere and eventually we will get to the point where those huge suction-cup shower dildos are being used as safety handles for getting into and out of the tub.

oohhboy posted:

You can't do that and not show us the photos, even if it is photoshopped.

oohhboy posted:

I think you need to post the link from the "share" icon than the search link url as it is giving me a semi-random place in New Zealand.

oohhboy posted:

You can't do that and not show us the photos, even if it is photoshopped.

Haier posted:

ladron posted:

I am a child

Jose posted:

i'm not sure why i did this other than being bored at work

big time bisexual posted:

just search for 沈阳南湖公园



edit:

found the swan boats

Dicky mouse posted:

I got eastern Canada.

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An experiment to see whether computers can identify criminals based on their faces has been conducted in China.

Researchers trained an algorithm using more than 1,500 photos of Chinese citizens, hundreds of them convicts. They said the program was then able to correctly identify criminals in further photos 89% of the time.

But the research, which has not been peer reviewed, has been criticised by criminology experts who say the AI may reflect bias in the justice system.

"This article is not looking at people's behaviour, it is looking at criminal conviction," said Prof Susan McVie, professor of quantitative criminology at the University of Edinburgh.

"The criminal justice system consists of a series of decision-making stages, by the police, prosecution and the courts. At each of those stages, people's decision making is affected by factors that are not related to offending behaviour - such as stereotypes about who is most likely to be guilty.

"Research shows jurors are more likely to convict people who look or dress a certain way. What this research may be picking up on is stereotypes that lead to people being picked up by the criminal justice system, rather than the likelihood of somebody offending."

The researchers took 1,856 ID photographs of Chinese citizens that fitted strict criteria of males aged between 18 and 55 with no facial hair or markings. The collection contained 730 ID pictures - not police mugshots - of convicted criminals or "wanted suspects by the ministry of public security". After using 90% of the images to train their algorithm, the researchers used the remaining photos to see whether the computer could correctly identify the convicts. It did so correctly about nine times out of 10.

The researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University said their algorithm had identified key facial features, such as the curvature of the upper lip and distance between eyes, that were common among the convicts.

But Prof McVie said the algorithm may simply have identified patterns in the type of people who are convicted by human juries.

"This is an example of statistics-led research with no theoretical underpinning," said Prof McVie, who is also the director of the Applied Quantitative Methods Network research centre.

"What would be the reason that somebody's face would lead them to be criminal or not? There is no theoretical reason that the way somebody looks should make them a criminal.

"There is a huge margin of error around this sort of work and if you were trying to use the algorithm to predict who might commit a crime, you wouldn't find a high success rate," she told the BBC.

"Going back over 100 years ago, Cesare Lombroso was a 19th Century criminologist who used phrenology - feeling people's heads - with a theory that there were lumps and bumps associated with certain personality traits.

"But it is now considered to be very old and flawed science - criminologists have not believed in it for decades."

Prof McVie also warned that an algorithm used to spot potential criminals based on their appearance - such as passport scanning at an airport, or ID scanning at a night club - could have dangerous consequences.

"Using a system like this based on looks rather than behaviour could lead to eugenics-based policy-making," she said.

"What worries me the most is that we might be judging who is a criminal based on their looks. That sort of approach went badly wrong in our not-too distant history."

Grand Fromage posted:

like they need this

Does he look Tibetan or Uighur? If yes, criminal. If not, no criminal. Done.

Grand Fromage posted:

Chinese is the only language where I've been told repeatedly by people who learned and speak it well not to bother and that they regret ever wasting their time. That big post from AO here is hardly the only instance of that sentiment.

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All residents in China's largely Muslim region of Xinjiang must hand in their passports to local police stations for "examination and management", according to Global Times, a state-funded newspaper .

"Anyone who needs the passport must apply to the police station," an anonymous police officer in Aksu prefecture told the paper on Thursday, adding that the policy had been implemented throughout Xinjiang.

nickmeister posted:

That "anonymous police officer" line is weird. Wouldn't that just be an official statement? It's not like it was some juicy, insider secret.

Also, didn't realize non-Hans in that area of China could ever actually GET a passport.

Atlas Hugged posted:

If you are going to live in or spend a long time in Taiwan, learning 國語 is a good idea.

Pirate Radar posted:

It's a little harder to truly speak none of it than, say, Bangkok, but you don't even need much here if you're in the city like I am. That said, I look enough like a student that people tend to assume I can speak way more than I do.

The Great Autismo! posted:

I thought it was difficult to get a taxi as a foreigner, imagine how bad it was when I was with the Uighur girl I was casually dating in 2012 :/

Stringent posted:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/china-xinjiang-residents-told-turn-passports-161124134129535.html

Haier posted:

I don't understand why they wouldn't want them to leave China. They already don't want them there. Why are they preventing them from going somewhere else?

Also this seems like this might give Trump some ideas.

Atlas Hugged posted:

Perhaps a student of... Hogwarts?

Haier posted:

I don't understand why they wouldn't want them to leave China. They already don't want them there. Why are they preventing them from going somewhere else?

Also this seems like this might give Trump some ideas.

Grand Fromage posted:

Have any other countries mass confiscated passports like this in recent times? The only countries I could think of that might have are places where nobody had a passport anyway like North Korea.

JaucheCharly posted:

Recent, like the Third Reich?