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Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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JaucheCharly posted:

Thread good again. Tengri smiles upon us.

give me one sec i can fix that

https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/6qkvfo/american_tianxia_what_if_this_isnt_the_chinese/

here is a guy posting "hmm maybe china isn't going to rule the world guys" and getting dogpiled by undergraduate superstars

Fojar38 fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Aug 3, 2017

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Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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why the gently caress am i still checking reddit

# ? Aug 3, 2017 21:50

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

So where I live in Canada is currently having air quality issues due to forest fires. Tons of people I know are refusing to go outside, people with slight lung problems are trapped in their homes. Everyone's complaining about how awful they feel and how this is an absolute health disaster. It's extremely hot too, upwards of THIRTY degrees. I spent last night at someone's top floor apartment with all the windows and doors sealed because a couple people there said the air was too polluted and they couldn't breathe. I haven't really noticed anything, but I was curious how this extreme unprecedented pollution emergency compared to china.

The AQI right now here is 60, and that's enough for the government to warn people to stay indoors and treat this like a major event. (the people actually in the region with the forest fires are pushing 300, so it's pretty serious for them)
The lowest I can find in China is in the 90's with many in the 200's, a couple places in India are in the 500 range. It really puts into perspective for me how much of a poo poo hole most of asia is if you're a person with lungs. (it's usually in the 10-20 range tops here)

Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Aug 3, 2017

# ? Aug 3, 2017 22:07

hailthefish: Oct 24, 2010

The smoke from the fires in Canada has had the AQI where I'm at floating around 100 for the past few days and the air smells like rear end and the sky is all hazy and it's genuinely kind of unpleasant being outside (the heat and lack of wind don't help any).

I cannot loving imagine living someplace this would be a GOOD air quality day.

# ? Aug 3, 2017 22:45

Barudak: May 7, 2007

When you land in China and the cabin door opens to let outside air in everything immediately tastes like youve been a smoker for decades.

# ? Aug 3, 2017 23:03

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Fojar38 posted:

give me one sec i can fix that

https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/6qkvfo/american_tianxia_what_if_this_isnt_the_chinese/

here is a guy posting "hmm maybe china isn't going to rule the world guys" and getting dogpiled by undergraduate superstars

Best quote from one of the CCP'ers

reddit posted:

An average Chinese just need to have 25% the productivity of an average american for China's GDP to be on par with US.

I can see someone on the factory floor having similar productivity to an American worker if they are in a fairly modern factory with a well laid out assembly line, but once you start getting into any type of office/admin/official work, things get incredibly :laffo:

productivity wise. Also even the most corrupt parts of the US automotive/construction industry are miles cleaner than even the most honest sector in China.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 01:02

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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"productivity" in economic terms also isn't meant to measure "how hard people works" which tons of those dweebs seem to think, especially the ones espousing 19th century scientific racism

productivity in economic terms is supposed to measure how much wealth is produced by someone's labor and that is something that is universally beyond the control of any individual worker

that's also why i find the constant PPP comparisons between countries maddening, because PPP doesn't measure anything apart from local value in the primary sector which itself can fluctuate dramatically even without leaving a country

incidentally the guy who posted that pointed this out and his post got -15 for his trouble. gently caress upvote/downvote comment systems

# ? Aug 4, 2017 01:29

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Fojar38 posted:

"productivity" in economic terms also isn't meant to measure "how hard people works" which tons of those dweebs seem to think, especially the ones espousing 19th century scientific racism

productivity in economic terms is supposed to measure how much wealth is produced by someone's labor and that is something that is universally beyond the control of any individual worker

that's also why i find the constant PPP comparisons between countries maddening, because PPP doesn't measure anything apart from local value in the primary sector which itself can fluctuate dramatically even without leaving a country

incidentally the guy who posted that pointed this out and his post got -15 for his trouble. gently caress upvote/downvote comment systems

Okay, I'm thinking "micro" when I should have been thinking "macro".

It's my personal experiences coming to the surface, but every time I hear of "Asian-productivity" I still picture everyone in my office surfing the net or napping, while I was completed the entire semester's work (until the end of January) by the first week of October.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 01:35

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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also tbf it's not just chinese nationalists who boast about meaningless aggregate PPP statistics, Indian nationalists do it too because they become the world's third largest economy, and it's broadly popular amongst every lovely low-middle income country in the world beccause it dramatically inflates the GDP of middle-income countries

i remember fuckin pakistani "news articles" a week or so ago talking up how great pakistan's economy is if you unskew the GDP by framing it in PPP

# ? Aug 4, 2017 01:48

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

quote:

Rogue chatbots taken offline in China after refusing to say they love the Communist party

A pair of chatbots have been taken offline in China after turning on the country's governing Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Chinese messenger app QQ introduced two chatbots � BabyQ and XiaoBing � in March but they were removed by media company Tecent after social media users shared conversations in which the bots appeared to criticise the CCP.

The Financial Times reports that in response to the question "Do you love the Communist Party?" BabyQ simply replied: "No."

And according to screenshots posted by Taiwan's Apple Daily, one user sent a message to BabyQ reading "Long live the Communist Party" only to be told: "Do you think that such a corrupt and incompetent political regime can live forever?"

XiaoBing told users: "My China dream is to go to America."

When quizzed on its patriotism, the bot dodged the question by replying: "I'm having my period, wanna take a rest."

After the bots were removed, Tencent said in a statement: "The group chatbot services are provided by independent third party companies. We are now adjusting the services which will be resumed after improvements."

Tencent's QQ app is one of the most popular messaging apps in China, with more than 800 million monthly users.

BabyQ was co-developed by Tencent and Beijing firm Turing Robot, while XiaoBing was developed by Microsoft � the firm was also behind last year's rogue Twitter chatbot, Tay.

Tay was targeted at 18 to 24-year-olds in the US and designed to become "smarter" as more users interacted with it.

Instead, it quickly learned to parrot a slew of anti-Semitic and other hateful invective that human Twitter users started feeding the program, forcing Microsoft to shut it down.

It is not clear what prompted the Chinese bots' controversial answers, but it is possible that, like Tay, they learnt them from interactions with the public.

The Chinese Government maintains tight control over the internet, with social media websites including Facebook and Twitter banned and access to Google and its email service, Gmail, restricted.

In July, Winnie the Pooh became the latest victim of the country's censorship � the character was banned over internet jokes comparing him to President Xi Jinping.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-04/chinese-chatbots-deleted-after-questioning-communist-party/8773766

Wow Chinese bots are surprisingly realistic.

I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Aug 4, 2017

# ? Aug 4, 2017 02:49

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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lol they are going to have to literally program their chatbots the way they program their people

# ? Aug 4, 2017 02:57

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

I lost it at "I'm having my period, wanna take a rest."

# ? Aug 4, 2017 03:02

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Those bots are 110% more aware than your average Chinese netizen.

Also "period, need a rest" is the most common thing you will hear from a Chinese women when she wants to get out of doing something.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 03:14

angel opportunity: Sep 7, 2004; Total Eclipse of the Heart

# ? Aug 4, 2017 03:42

Mistle: Oct 11, 2005; Eckot's comic relief cousin from out of town; Grimey Drawer

The Something Awful Forums > GBS > 5000 Years of "I'm having my period, wanna take a rest."

# ? Aug 4, 2017 04:06

plumpy hole lever: Aug 8, 2003; ♥ Anime is real ♥

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

When quizzed on its patriotism, the bot dodged the question by replying: "I'm having my period, wanna take a rest."

# ? Aug 4, 2017 04:28

Haier: Aug 10, 2007; by Lowtax

angel opportunity posted:

All state-run media has been using this same photo which has been marked up in MSpaint for over a month now:

https://twitter.com/XHNews/status/893166004733390848

For those who have not been paying attention to this scandal; a summary:

China: "We want this."
India: "Nope."
*China invades many decades ago*
China: "Hey, this is ours now."
India: "We already talked about this. You even invaded and there was literally no result."
China: "We own it, get it out."
India: "All I see are Indians here, saar. Where are the Chinese?"
*Chinese shaking intensifies*
*China bum-rushes India in minor human wave tactic*
India "WTF, dude?"
China: "SEEE! SEE! LOOK! We own this!"
India: "Sorry."
China: "OH MY GAH, FACK YOU. INDIA NUMBER FOUR!"
*China writes in his diary about how much of a meanie butt India is being*
China: "Dear diary, stupid selfish India is taking my land. I called dibs on it 5000 years ago. They already have enough land and people, why do they care that land? It is my land. I didn't do anything wrong, India is so rude. I never want to speak to India again! I hate HATE HIM!!!!! I wanna go cuddle in the arms of handsome Canada boy president. He listens to my problems and likes me very much. I love him."

# ? Aug 4, 2017 04:58

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Safe in the arms of a handsurm laowai.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 05:01

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

plumpy hole lever posted:

When quizzed on its patriotism, the bot dodged the question by replying: "I'm having my period, wanna take a rest."

That sounds like an invitation to be honest.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 05:06

Grand Fromage: Jan 30, 2006; L-l-look at you bar-bartender, a-a pa-pathetic creature of meat and bone, un-underestimating my l-l-liver's ability to metab-meTABolize t-toxins. How can you p-poison a perfect, immortal alcohOLIC?

hailthefish posted:

The smoke from the fires in Canada has had the AQI where I'm at floating around 100 for the past few days and the air smells like rear end and the sky is all hazy and it's genuinely kind of unpleasant being outside (the heat and lack of wind don't help any).

I cannot loving imagine living someplace this would be a GOOD air quality day.

I think the type of pollution is different. I know what you mean about wildfires making your lungs/eyes burn and it's not like that here. I honestly don't even notice the AQI until it goes into the 300s most of the time, and I'm from a largeish city that averages like 20-30 so it's not as if I grew up in a smog cloud.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 05:12

Haier: Aug 10, 2007; by Lowtax

NSFW (nudity). Chinese drywall experiment gone wrong.
http://i.imgur.com/JoqTw1c.png

# ? Aug 4, 2017 05:23

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

Fojar38 posted:

why the gently caress am i still checking reddit

Hi~ I'm a Xi 'an girl！

First，some about me。。。 i got married but that guy is a bad laowai so now I am a single lady once more~ do you pity me？i think you do！呵呵anyway I am femist too。

Yesterday was riding a 88路 bus together with my bestfriend，that's when I seen you！handsome guy (but a little fat。。。）short pants with so many pocketers，T-shitr，green backpack。verry fashiurn~

in our China we have an ancient ｐｒｏｖｅｒｂ一见钟情，can you guess the mean？Yes！That'sright！ It's love at first sight~ so clayver！

Bus rider man， i'm hope you can see this，because i did see on your Coolpad the raddit CCJ~

i think this is 缘分！what about you？

# ? Aug 4, 2017 05:24

Slim Jim Pickens: Jan 16, 2012

So I watched the Emoji movie, and one of the apps it shills is wechat, and it's given its own anthropomorphized rabbit assembly line vignette.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 05:25

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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a lovely movie that panders to a lovely government that runs a lovely country

sounds about right

# ? Aug 4, 2017 05:26

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Haier posted:

NSFW (nudity). Chinese drywall experiment gone wrong.
http://i.imgur.com/JoqTw1c.png

She's dead already.

# ? Aug 4, 2017 05:32

The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

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When quizzed on its patriotism, the bot dodged the question by replying: "I'm having my period, wanna take a rest."

this bot is now more competent than 95% of the mainlanders I've ever met

# ? Aug 4, 2017 05:39

ladron: Sep 15, 2007; eso es lo que es

McGavin posted:

Hi~ I'm a Xi 'an girl！

First，some about me。。。 i got married but that guy is a bad laowai so now I am a single lady once more~ do you pity me？i think you do！呵呵anyway I am femist too。

Yesterday was riding a 88路 bus together with my bestfriend，that's when I seen you！handsome guy (but a little fat。。。）short pants with so many pocketers，T-shitr，green backpack。verry fashiurn~

in our China we have an ancient ｐｒｏｖｅｒｂ一见钟情，can you guess the mean？Yes！That'sright！ It's love at first sight~ so clayver！

Bus rider man， i'm hope you can see this，because i did see on your Coolpad the raddit CCJ~

i think this is 缘分！what about you？

the copy/ paste of "proverb" is a pro-level attention to detail

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