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remember when i was called a racist when i talked about the lack of communal ethos in china, lol
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Jul 25, 2017 13:56
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Trammel posted:Weirdly, according to recent statistics, the average person in the US regularly uses less (but presumably larger) apps on their smartphone than a person in China. This is measuring something completely different - the question isn't if a person is doing the same thing everyday, a monopoly is if everyone is using the same apps. The last graph in that article (percent of time spent in top app) is the applicable one, but doesn't have data for china.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:38
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Ahhh yes, Chaoshan masculinity.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:44
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Trammel posted:Weirdly, according to recent statistics, the average person in the US regularly uses less (but presumably larger) apps on their smartphone than a person in China.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:46
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You need 5 different apps that do the same thing here. For example, those rental bikes had 6 or 7 different companies although it seems to be down to 3 now with one dying. There are 3 different uber type apps. Even the phone paying thing has 2 different apps you can use.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:49
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Haier posted:Ahhh yes, Chaoshan masculinity. choke me harder daddy
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Jul 25, 2017 16:05
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Lmao @ the guy scootering a child into the trash. I can't believe in such casual callousness
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Jul 25, 2017 16:18
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Hey, didn't you know? Compassion and humanity is universal everywhere. Assuming anything else would be racism.
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Jul 25, 2017 16:21
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quote:Thirteen Chinese Super League clubs could be forced to forfeit their participation in the competition next season after failing to pay their players properly. Who could possibly have forseen this?
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Jul 25, 2017 16:30
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someone in china promising the world, then failing to plan ahead and budget accordingly? seems unbelievable tbh
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Jul 25, 2017 16:47
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I was always told the inscrutable Chinese like to play the long game
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Jul 25, 2017 16:47
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The Great Autismo! posted:I was always told the inscrutable Chinese like to play the long game We already established theyre playing soccer.
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Jul 25, 2017 17:16
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To be fair soccer is probably one of the only sports where kicking things in a temper tantrum could be a good thing
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Jul 25, 2017 20:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1DggmRoUTc
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Jul 25, 2017 21:00
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Blue Star Error posted:Who could possibly have forseen this? The classic Donald Trump play.
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Jul 25, 2017 22:35
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A man I met at a social function tried to convince me that China is far ahead of the US in their space program. He also said that by the end of the year we could launch to Mars. From the Moon.
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Jul 25, 2017 23:19
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One of the biggest tragedies about China is people who actually try to learn about it often end up more ignorant than if they haven't bothered thanks to how incredibly bad reporting on China is
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Jul 25, 2017 23:28
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What, she bought duty-free at one airport, and is pissed off that she can't take it through another one?
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Jul 25, 2017 23:34
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She is an idiot. When you buy duty free you don't have to take it on the plane with you if you are flying internationally. They give you a receipt for you to pick up the items at your final destination with no charge. She didn't even drink any making her failure even greater.
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Jul 26, 2017 02:32
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China will do just about anything to get on the news. http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-40723015/china-opens-panda-shaped-solar-power-plant
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Jul 26, 2017 02:47
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She's stuck in the 80's drinking XO
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Jul 26, 2017 03:44
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FillInTheBlank posted:He wasn't 'paying respects to war criminals' they came across a nice looking shrine and took some photos not knowing what it was for. did you see the pictures? he was doing the pray thing.
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Jul 26, 2017 03:56
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oohhboy posted:She is an idiot. When you buy duty free you don't have to take it on the plane with you if you are flying internationally. They give you a receipt for you to pick up the items at your final destination with no charge. Haier fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Jul 26, 2017 |
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Jul 26, 2017 04:10
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https://www.engadget.com/amp/2017/07/20/leeco-jia-yueting-investigation/quote:Inside LeEco's spectacular fall from grace
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Haier posted:I saw this happen in Narita with an older, overweight white business. He had soooo many bottles, and he was angry as hell. It was amazing. The little Japanese girl responsible for not letting the booze through the security check kept telling "We have a no liquids policy, I am so sorry," and kept bowing to him. He was frothing, pointing, shouting, while people were giving up their water bottles and staring at him. I am guessing he planned on drinking half that stuff on the plane. How is this happening? I've bought duty free liquor before and never had a problem. You go through security, get to the terminal, buy your booze, and then fly. As long as you don't leave the terminal (exit out of the secured area) at your next stop, you're good to get on the next leg of your trip. Am I missing something? Are these people buying it outside of the airport and then trying to get through security?
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Jul 26, 2017 04:19
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Blistex posted:How is this happening? I've bought duty free liquor before and never had a problem. You go through security, get to the terminal, buy your booze, and then fly. As long as you don't leave the terminal (exit out of the secured area) at your next stop, you're good to get on the next leg of your trip. Some flights from Hong Kong airpot won't let you bring liquids on the plane, even those purchased in the international / airside section. They have security checking bags on the tunnel bridge before you enter the plane.
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Jul 26, 2017 05:06
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Trammel posted:Some flights from Hong Kong airpot won't let you bring liquids on the plane, even those purchased in the international / airside section. They have security checking bags on the tunnel bridge before you enter the plane.
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Jul 26, 2017 05:23
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oohhboy posted:The classic Donald Trump play. Does that make us trump voters because we are the only ones who saw it coming? Like everything in China, its just a poor imitation of the real thing
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Jul 26, 2017 06:42
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Trammel posted:Some flights from Hong Kong airpot won't let you bring liquids on the plane, even those purchased in the international / airside section. They have security checking bags on the tunnel bridge before you enter the plane. then whats the point of even having the stores there then?
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Jul 26, 2017 06:47
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Trammel posted:Some flights from Hong Kong airpot won't let you bring liquids on the plane, even those purchased in the international / airside section. They have security checking bags on the tunnel bridge before you enter the plane. I've had this happen on international flights out of China too, but only to the USA. I wonder if it's some unadvertised TSA policy that they're making other countries comply with (like the laptops thing on flights from the Middle East recently) Still drat annoying to have to toss the Coke I bought at the shop literally next to the gate.
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Jul 26, 2017 07:24
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Ups_rail posted:then whats the point of even having the stores there then?
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I imagine the scenario is basically like this: if I buy at duty free in Taiwan, I can bring it on the plane. Hell, I can *buy* it on the plane. If that flight was direct to LA, no problem. I just carry it off and do customs as normal. However, if that flight connects through Japan I'm boned. When you land in Japan you don't go through immigration or customs if you're just connecting, but you do go through a security checkpoint where you have to throw out your liquids. If I bought the booze at Japan duty free, no problem. But I can't carry any liquid through that checkpoint. So if you are going to buy duty free, do it through your last connecting airport.
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Jul 26, 2017 08:28
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There are cigarettes sold in cartons at the border between shenzhen and Hong Kong. You walk out of China, having got your passport stamped, so in between countries, and just before you cross the bridge, there are these duty free shops. They confuse the hell out of me. By law, the most cigarettes you can bring into HK is 19. But unlike an airport, the bridge can only take you one place - to HK
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re chinese manufacturing: Jimmy Carter posted:decent post here about how if you deal with Japan instead of China for sourcing components you're gonna have a much nicer time eschaton posted:yeah, his "what kind of binning options are there?" "what do you mean, binning?" exchange is pretty much the ideal for Japanese manufacturing
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Hedenius posted:That's not a problem in any country basically. It's just that if you're fifteen people splitting a bill it's going to take a pretty long time. If you can instantly transfer money only on person has to pay. Let me shed a tear for the server who I'm tipping 20%. Those five minutes at the register are going to be harrowing. More seriously, when I'm out with a group of people of this size in Taiwan or Thailand (especially Thailand), I have a very, very strict policy of never being entangled in the bill. If I can pay for each drink or food item as I order them, I do. Otherwise I basically pretend I'm sitting at the neighboring table and I'm not with the large group and so the restaurant has to give me a personal bill. This is because almost every time I'm in a situation like this where I'm expected to cover my own food and drink, I'm out with a bunch of FoB English teachers who are irresponsible, drunk, and broke. Even when I've made it absolutely clear that I've purchased every one of my drinks direct from the bar and paid, and confirmed this with the bar, those weasels have tried to claim I owe them money for the bill. No loving thank you. It's the same every time. Bill comes. I know I had 3 beers. I multiply the cost of the beer times 3 plus whatever service charge might be included. Everyone else is supposedly doing the same. The money gets pooled. And suddenly we're shy $40USD. "Oh hey Atlas can you throw a bit more in?" Yeah gently caress off. Having an app doesn't make things any better. The last thing in the world I want to do is to cover the whole bill myself and then hound a bunch of English teachers to reimburse me. Or worse be badgered by an English teacher who is trying to get a free meal by me overpaying.
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Jul 26, 2017 08:58
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Not being able to take duty-free onto the airplane is a loving travesty, almost as bad as having to go through security when transferring and losing your duty-free liquor there (get hosed Frankfurt). How the hell am I going to get drunk on my red-eye flight if I can't bring a bottle of Captain Morgan?
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Jul 26, 2017 09:32
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real talk: airlines should be giving discounts to passengers who carry on their own booze
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A friend in Korea asked me to bring him some baijiu, so I did what one should and found the most awful, paint thinner poo poo I could. It came in a 100 ml bottle and cost 2 kuai, about 30 cents. I don't check bags but I had a 100 ml bottle so all was good. Nope. They took it from me at the airport. I guess they expect me to get shitfaced and angry on the flight but I was incredibly annoyed. I followed all your drat rules! If we want to get into dumb airplane rules in Asia though, the Chinese one where you can't use electronics at all during the flight is the height of bullshit.
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Grand Fromage posted:A friend in Korea asked me to bring him some baijiu, so I did what one should and found the most awful, paint thinner poo poo I could. It came in a 100 ml bottle and cost 2 kuai, about 30 cents. I don't check bags but I had a 100 ml bottle so all was good. If most people on your Chinese flights don't ignore the flught attendants repeatedly then I'm going to question whether you've ever taken one at all. My flight to Harbin was the first where I saw people making semicircles in the aisle around a row and the standing there an hour in everyone's way
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