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Pick posted:I mean, don't they worry about the strength of the system, considering they seem to intend their children--specifically their children--to inherit it? Most Chinese people I know are very apolitical, in the sense that they have no opinion on actual politics, and only just regurgitate slogans/statements without fully knowing what they mean or their greater repercussions. If they are not wealthy, then they usually have no great love for the party, and have even less interest in knowing anything about it or their government. These are the kids of people who are too busy keeping their noses to the grindstone to make ends meet, so they don't have time to worry about the larger picture or the future of the country. The only people who care about the strength of the system are people high-up enough in the government that know they will never be able to escape to the west as it would be seen as a defection and they would likely be returned by force or possibly extradited (legally or Israeli-style). Those are the people who are intent on shoring up their positions and making sure that they will always have the money, space, power and protection to live a life of luxury and security. This is why Uncle Xi has been purging the hell out of the CCP/PLA and trying to create a personality cult, he knows he's never going to be able to leave, and getting to this position has made him a lot of enemies. He and his crew know they have to create some manner of lasting stability for themselves, and if they can't overturn term limits, they have to make enough inroads and friends so that they won't find themselves black-bagged and put on trial a week after the next general election. Everyone who is not too high-up to emigrate or too poor is busy trying to get as much money overseas as they can. As soon as they reach the "magic number" (the amount of money they think they need to live the rest of their lives in the west), they'll hop the next flight to LA/Vancouver and meet up with their kids who are already there. As for the future of their kids? The current boomers in China are just like ours in the west. They don't care, it's all FYGM, and their worries extend as far as they expect to live.
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Glenn Quebec posted:Lol at this suggestion. "Dear police, a woman is in my garbage." Yeah plus it's her and an army of people like her. It's practically an industry in NYC. I lived near the redemption center in he article and it was just a steady parade of collectors digging through the same bags https://brooklynbased.com/blog/2014/04/24/canners-versus-the-city-the-fight-for-your-recycling-bin/
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May 25, 2017 17:36
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Halfway through Tombstone right now and feeling bad for Peng Dehuai.
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Snowy posted:Yeah plus it's her and an army of people like her. It's practically an industry in NYC. What about 'Hello police? There's someone going through my and my neighbour' s garbage and taking paperwork. I think she's doing identity theft'? Or hose her down with water everytime you see her.
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Almost all buildings where I live have their trash locked up so hobo's can't destroy everything. Sometimes people forget to lock it and the next morning it looks like 100 raccoons got into the trash, they just toss it everywhere. We also have a locked paper recycling bin and an unlocked plastic/glass recycling bin that people generally further sort anything with a deposit to one side so the hobos can get them easier. If you lock your bottle recycling bin they will cut the lock off. If you don't sort the items with a deposit they will noisily root around for 40 min at 1am. I still don't understand why they root around the garbage every time its unlocked, there's nothing good in there.
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caberham posted:We don't know. There might be some arm of the government that believes in long term development but no one has heard of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yQjGZ482l8
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May 25, 2017 18:58
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Blistex posted:Most Chinese people I know are very apolitical, in the sense that they have no opinion on actual politics, and only just regurgitate slogans/statements without fully knowing what they mean or their greater repercussions. If they are not wealthy, then they usually have no great love for the party, and have even less interest in knowing anything about it or their government. These are the kids of people who are too busy keeping their noses to the grindstone to make ends meet, so they don't have time to worry about the larger picture or the future of the country. So basically strip it and dump? But then where do they expect to go, America? In that case, are they invested in ensuring America's economy is robust?
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Pick posted:So basically strip it and dump? But then where do they expect to go, America? In that case, are they invested in ensuring America's economy is robust? They plan to be dead by the time anything catches up to them/their country. It's boomer mentality the world over.
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Baronjutter posted:They plan to be dead by the time anything catches up to them/their country. It's boomer mentality the world over. This right here! I've seen Chinese parents actively interfere with their daughter's love-life/career because it is affecting the quality of care they are receiving from them. How old are these kids and their parents? Sometimes mid-20's and early 50's. Nothing like ensuring your daughter is a left-behind woman who will never get married or advance in her career so that she can take care of you for the next 25 years (at least 20 of which you will be more than capable of taking care of yourself). It's like China dialled boomer FYGM mentality up to "11".
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Once you open a good bottle of wine, everyone wants a sip. But nobody ends up buying it because it's practically empty and used up. 
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A Chinese company is offering free training for US coal miners to become wind farmers https://qz.com/990192/a-chinese-company-wants-to-retrain-wyoming-coal-miners-to-become-wind-farmers/
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Haier posted:Dragon Bort Festival is coming, and guess what everyone I know wants to do? All go to Hong Kong on the same day, or go to some mountain that everyone else wants to go to at the same time. They get upset when I ask why not do it at a time with less people, like I am asking them to not have any holiday at all. Then comes the whining "OMG, SO MANY PPL" when they do go. You know how in historical wars, anything that involves China always ends up involving 100,000 dead civilians at least? Apply statistics to a population as big as China and anything negative thing becomes terrifying. Think of how many stupid idiots exist in any country, and apply that percentage to 1,300,000,000. I mean just dumb fuckers seem to exist everywhere and in every group, and now you have a country where the dominant cultural pressure is to do what other people do when you want to have fun. Add to this 5000 years of ecological devastation and now there's a country where you have a really limited amount of cool places to visit, and an everpresent throng of dumbasses who see no problem staring at the back of a village auntie's head for 10 hours while they supposedly experience the Great Wall. People take polls in first-world countries all the time and ask people questions like, "do you think lizards are dogs" and there's like 10% of people that say yes. could you imagine 130 million dumbasses in a country where there's like, 5 vacation spots in popular knowledge? I've never met a single Chinese person who wanted to visit huangshan or jiuzhaigou at peak hours because they are sensible human beings but that doesn't matter at all when there's millions of of idiots ready to pack up their bags and create a human sweat lodge and there's only so much space on a footpath.
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May 25, 2017 21:39
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SaltyJesus posted:A Chinese company is offering free training for US coal miners to become wind farmers 
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May 25, 2017 21:42
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Ha, reminds me of that Xavier renegade angel EP where the scientist enslaves whirlwinds
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SaltyJesus posted:A Chinese company is offering free training for US coal miners to become wind farmers A redditor helpfully pointed out that the coal miners already declined a more generous package from their own country. Coal miners are proud, but not for quite as long as other professionals.
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I try to have as much sympathy as possible for the rural poor, they're in a really bad situation, but then they slap away hands trying to help them unfuck them selves and transform their economy into something relevant it's hard to remain sympathetic.
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Baronjutter posted:I try to have as much sympathy as possible for the rural poor, they're in a really bad situation, but then they slap away hands trying to help them unfuck them selves and transform their economy into something relevant it's hard to remain sympathetic. but enough about the chinese
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Fauxtool posted:but enough about the chinese It's sadly the same all over the world. The rural poor are absolutely hosed over by the system and ignored by technocrats in the capital who have declared their towns and village economically obsolete so just let em die out. But at the same time they stubbornly refuse to do anything to improve their situations and will actively fight and resist the few opportunities they're given.
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I was submitting my weekly report today when I noticed that I have so far made around $1k saving my HK superior $200, with more to come. I'm not going to mention it to anyone. This is my China story.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:You know how in historical wars, anything that involves China always ends up involving 100,000 dead civilians at least? Apply statistics to a population as big as China and anything negative thing becomes terrifying. My favorite is watching people run whenever something involves queuing, or time sensitive such and such. Yesterday I was walking in the metro station to transfer, and we were in the long hall between train routes. One guy with a briefcase suddenly starts jogging for no reason. Within seconds a bunch of people either join in, or jog for 5-10 meters and go back to walking. If most of the people jog and then quit, everyone else will too since the signal is clear that there's no need to run. It's a mental and physical reflex that is hard to beat. I bet you could start a full-blown stampede if you just like 5-10 people in a pack during rush hour to suddenly start running without saying anything.
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Baronjutter posted:I try to have as much sympathy as possible for the rural poor, they're in a really bad situation, but then they slap away hands trying to help them unfuck them selves and transform their economy into something relevant it's hard to remain sympathetic. I was born a bitcoin miner and I'll die a bitcoin miner, just like my daddy before me and his daddy before him. 
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There aren't many things in this world funnier than watching people in my area try to use subway turnstiles. 1. Stand in front of the turnstile for a long time, considering your next move. Everyone lines up behind you because everyone has to do the same thing as everyone else. 2. Take out your card. Contemplate the card. There is a mystery hidden inside; if only you could unlock it! 3. Wave your card ineffectively over something that is not the sensor. 4. Locate the sensor and wave your card over it. 5. Why is nothing happening? Start yelling, or take this time to answer a text, or both! 6. Locate the sensor again. This time, place your card directly on it, as the signs instruct you to do. But leave it there for a good, long time, like at least twenty seconds. 7. Stare at the opened gate. Contemplate the gate. There is a mystery here, as well. 8. After literally being pushed through, get your clothes, purse, and/or hair stuck on something, necessitating a prolonged bout of whining and even more time spent trying to get from point A to point B. 9. Congratulations! You made it through! Play a phone game as you walk to the one door that has a glob of people crammed against it, waiting, ignoring the twenty other unoccupied waiting spots on the platform. Escalators cause similar problems, but I can't even with that right now.
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I honestly think a society or region/city can be entirely summed up by two things: the state of public washrooms and escalator use. Clean public bathrooms means a combination of people caring about public infrastructure enough to have to have them cleaned and maintained properly and the common person having the decency not to poo poo or piss all over the place. People keeping to the right on escalators is also a mark of a civil society where people understand that even if they aren't in a hurry doing a tiny minor thing can make the entire system flow better for everyone. Some places have clean enough bathrooms but horrible "escalator culture" and they tend to be wealthy but uncultured placed full of self-absorbed assholes (vancouver) Some places have filthy horrible toilets but good people will loving keep right on escalators, these tend to be places with some culture but often a large rich/poor divide Some places have both, and are truly bastions of civilization.
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Baronjutter posted:I honestly think a society or region/city can be entirely summed up by two things: the state of public washrooms and escalator use. Clean public bathrooms means a combination of people caring about public infrastructure enough to have to have them cleaned and maintained properly and the common person having the decency not to poo poo or piss all over the place. People keeping to the right on escalators is also a mark of a civil society where people understand that even if they aren't in a hurry doing a tiny minor thing can make the entire system flow better for everyone. Some places have neither, but DO have 5000 years of history.
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I thought escalators were a fun place to point your toddler so that it can stay right at the top, unsupervised and terrified and wobbly, screaming for you or whatever elderly relative actually raises your kid, while you text a good three meters away. Or a good place to stop, block traffic, and devour a snack. Or an interesting new parking spot for your stroller. No? Is that not right?
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Baronjutter posted:Some places have filthy horrible toilets but good people will loving keep right on escalators, these tend to be places with some culture but often a large rich/poor divide toronto represent
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Fojar38 posted:toronto represent gently caress your city edit: apologies for the rudeness
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I was walking. An office man was trying to cross the road by cutting across and jumping over the 1.5m tall divider fence. He got hit by a car. His leg was totally broken and looked like it was going a few wrong directions. He was very casual about it, and the driver stood with with him while they both played on their phones. It was like 500m from a huge hospital, but I don't know if any medical response came since I didn't watch for too long. Craziest thing? I was the only one watching this. Everyone else was ignoring this busted up dude laying in the road. A one man Kan Re Nao team. It was sad that he didn't get a good audience.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:gently caress your city Zanta loves even those who stray.
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Baronjutter posted:I honestly think a society or region/city can be entirely summed up by two things: the state of public washrooms and escalator use. Clean public bathrooms means a combination of people caring about public infrastructure enough to have to have them cleaned and maintained properly and the common person having the decency not to poo poo or piss all over the place. People keeping to the right on escalators is also a mark of a civil society where people understand that even if they aren't in a hurry doing a tiny minor thing can make the entire system flow better for everyone. Chomp8645 posted:Some places have neither, but DO have 5000 years of history. lol
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Private Speech posted:Well frankly even BBC gets in on fellating China, though that might have more to do with government policy I guess
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nomad2020 posted:I was submitting my weekly report today when I noticed that I have so far made around $1k saving my HK superior $200, with more to come. I'm not going to mention it to anyone. This is my China story. Spend it on alcohol at Caberham's flat on the island on Monday There's a bar downstairs
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I was at the US consulate today and greatly enjoyed using the cleanest bathroom in the western half of China. I wanted to live in there forever.
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I remember using the one at the embassy in Beijing one time and being impressed that every fixture up to and including the soap dispensers had clearly been imported from the USA. It was glorious. 
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My country tis of Thee
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quote:Misses Wang, Zhang, Huang and Cheng have this week been arrested and stand accused of academic fraud in the United States. It was revealed Ms. Wang sat the TOEFL exam for the other three students in order to help them gain visas and entrance into US universities. http://www.thenanjinger.com/index.php/news/national-stories/item/2131-4-chinese-students-arrested-in-the-us-over-academic-fraud
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My ultimate wet dream is just the basic academic rules and basic existing tax and finance laws actually aggressively enforced in BC/Canada. It would result in a massive windfall in evaded taxes and fines and clear up a lot of post-secondary slots.
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The Great Autismo! posted:The report said that these actions, “violate basic principals of equality in education” 
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That's exactly what I thought of too
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I haven't checked FB groups in a while.quote:Thank to invite me... anyone knows any interesting place in Chengdu for sight seeing in this Dragon Boat Festival? sorry its not.in chengdu and have passed the.time. quote:Hi guys ! Me and my girls are looking for a photo shoot souvenir with traditional Chinese costume before leaving China. Any recommandations in Chengdu ? Thanks !!!! 1: yeah wenjiang district still u can make.it (Wenjiang is a suburb of half a million people covering a very large area) 2: if you like Sichuan opera，you can try quote:Hello all, I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with Shining Me Education?I have a job offer with them in a private kindergarten. Can't really find any reviews about them, so if anyone had any info/heard about them I'd really appreciate it! ask for meilian organization. u should get apart time job there quote:Hey Folks. I'm considering a job offer in Chengdu right now and wanted some info. (Number of specific questions here) chengdu is quite good
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