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Grand Fromage posted:You clearly weren't poor enough. If you're genuinely poor, your family has to co-sign to get a student loan and they can go after them if you stop paying. Gwar were right.
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Turns out the 11 kuai fruit knife I bought is really goddamn sharp, and I'm minus about 2mm of my thumb.
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Bout a week ago a former coworker of mine messaged me trying to recruit me to her school in Beijing. Pay was about what I'm getting in Huzhou, but with about 3 times the rent and 3 times the air pollution, so uh, no. Anyway, she started insisting that "Beijing doesn't have air pollution anymore!" Because it was in like its second day in a row of clean air. She went on to attribute this to the evictions. Basically talking about how great it was, I mean, getting rid of all those people means the air will be clean. (Despite the migrant population having been lower during Airpocalypses 1 and 2, of course.) I went off on her, pointing out that people died and that it will have gently caress all effect on the air pollution, which will be back. Blocked her. gently caress that noise. She always was an idiot. And now the AQI is 500 in Beijing again, and all is right with the world.
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Vesi posted:I checked the shittiest town near Shantou that still had baidu streetview, found a typical 5 story house at least Haier can add it to his collection of fivehouses.
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VideoTapir posted:And now the AQI is 500 in Beijing again, and all is right with the world. A friend online posted an article about China's amazing turnaround on pollution and how everything's getting so much better now that they're cracking down on polluters and I just didn't have the heart to tell him, just quietly agreed it's a good thing. China's air fresher than Canada and the US combined by 2020. Mimesweeper fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Dec 30, 2017 |
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Chengdu actually, bizarrely, did crack down on polluters (much to the shock of everyone, especially the polluters) and the pollution is noticeably better this winter than last year. It's still loving apocalyptic in objective measure, but relatively okay. Last year we were drowning in a barrel of wet, rancid poo poo, this year we're sitting on the rim with our legs in the poo poo and occasionally more poo poo pours down into the barrel and splashes on us but we don't have to actually go into the barrel.
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Well heck, if there's some truth to the original source and it's not just a propaganda piece that's great to hear. I hope they really do take it seriously.
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They claim the goal is for pollution to peak in 2030 and fall after that. It does seem like they have taken very minor steps to curb air pollution. Water and soil are still completely out of control as far as I know, air is relatively easy to fix since if you just stop dumping poo poo into the air for like, a day the wind clears it out. That's how Beijing magically has clean air every time there's a conference or some foreign dignitary visiting.
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angel opportunity posted:I asked my wife about the house and she said: It's like those murder-towers that people build in Rust.
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Grand Fromage posted:They claim the goal is for pollution to peak in 2030 and fall after that. It does seem like they have taken very minor steps to curb air pollution. Water and soil are still completely out of control as far as I know, air is relatively easy to fix since if you just stop dumping poo poo into the air for like, a day the wind clears it out. That's how Beijing magically has clean air every time there's a conference or some foreign dignitary visiting. Which is why it's completely about face. They aren't cleaning up factories or car emissions or anything that would affect the actual pollutants because the actual problem is that people are enjoying themselves by buying stuff from 串 and 煎饼 carts. Cracking down on street food is actually one of the biggest reasons I left China.
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I do VIPKID on weekends for extra money and have, so far, seen three kids take a poo poo on camera. chynar
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I do VIPKID on weekends for extra money and have, so far, seen three kids take a poo poo on camera. what, like, wuh? how?
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Dec 30, 2017 23:21
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They take their lessons in the bathroom?
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nickmeister posted:They take their lessons in the bathroom? they are Chinese and the bathroom is all around them Ceciltron posted:what, like, wuh? how? the anus dilates
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Dec 30, 2017 23:35
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Go to visit in-laws. It takes a 15 minute walk to the train station, 40 minute train, then another 15 minute walk. When about to leave given 4 full grocery bags of food I don't want. Yeah, it will be no problem to carry it.
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Grand Fromage posted:They claim the goal is for pollution to peak in 2030 and fall after that. It does seem like they have taken very minor steps to curb air pollution. Water and soil are still completely out of control as far as I know, air is relatively easy to fix since if you just stop dumping poo poo into the air for like, a day the wind clears it out. That's how Beijing magically has clean air every time there's a conference or some foreign dignitary visiting. By 2030 the eastern part of the country will probably meet all the requirements to be classified as a Superfund site.
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GoutPatrol posted:Go to visit in-laws. It takes a 15 minute walk to the train station, 40 minute train, then another 15 minute walk. When about to leave given 4 full grocery bags of food I don't want. Yeah, it will be no problem to carry it. Leave it at the first train station for hungry people.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I do VIPKID on weekends for extra money and have, so far, seen three kids take a poo poo on camera. Sounds like poo poo lessons Blistex posted:By 2030 the eastern part of the country will probably meet all the requirements to be classified as a Superfund site. No population, no pollution!
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Jimmy Little Balls posted:Yeah, my wifes parents lived in a lovely horrible run down old house for years because they were waiting for it to get knocked down for the compensation. It was a 5 or 6 storey place (I'm not sure never went above the 2nd floor since it was empty above that). It had no running water except for one random tap, so you'd have to go fill a bucket up to flush the toilet and use a wood burning stove to heat water. All the rooms were massive and they had one heater for the whole place (it's Northern China so was always loving freezing). They also had another house exactly the same round the corner where they lived before they bought this one, they just used it to store firewood. My wife took me to see it and show me her room where she grew up and it was the first time someone had been in there for about 25 years, it was like the set of a horror movie. Then a couple of years back they built her brother a house in the neighbourhood. They knew it was being knocked down soon they built it in a way to maximise compensation so it was a weird place, the living room could easily have fit a full sized basketball court in it but just had a sofa and tiny TV. How is this at all sustainable or how does it make logical sense to the people in charge of paying these monies? spoiler: it doesn't and this kind of behaviour and level of corruption is what turned a first world country like Greece into a failed state. Seriously, if you want to know what it looks like when a first world country flushes itself down a toilet, look at Greece.
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Here's a great video that really makes you ask "WEISHENME?????" https://gfycat.com/DistinctAchingAmericanwigeon CG was telling me about the new divorce rules announced in China. Many of them are the same as before, but some new additions apply. If the wife's pregnant, the man can't apply for the divorce until the kid is at least one year old. If the woman wants it, then it doesn't matter the age of the kid. No matter what their issues are, if one side of the couple does not want a divorce, they made a rule that the couple must live apart for minimum two years. Maybe they are hoping the divorcer will reaccept the other, but I think it's partially just to offer one way for one half of the couple to spite the other and gain some face. It will definitely put a damper on the guys trying to quickly ditch their wives for their mistress. Vesi posted:I checked the shittiest town near Shantou that still had baidu streetview, found a typical 5 story house at least Her parents have the house arranged as: 1th floor - Kitchen, living room, washing machines. 2th floor - Bedrooms. 3st floor - ????, but possibly for rent, but nobody will rent because no elevator and walking is tooooo hard. 4nd floor - For rent also. 5st floor - An actual factory production room full of workers. Rooftop - Should be for laundry, but too many stairs to walk up, so sometimes they just leave food and seeds up here to dry for a few months in the rain and smog.
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Bajaj posted:Here's a great video that really makes you ask "WEISHENME?????" "Have you tried standing up, auntie?"
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Gorilla Salad posted:"Have you tried standing up, auntie?" It's an ice-cold river and the old lady seems to be unconscious
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Bajaj posted:5st floor - An actual factory production room full of workers. Producing what? Depending on the answer, maybe I'll move to China and rent floors three and four.
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Gorilla Salad posted:"Have you tried standing up, auntie?" The real question is how did she get out there? If she fell in from the bank than wouldnt she have just hit the ice?
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EasternBronze posted:The real question is how did she get out there? If she fell in from the bank than wouldnt she have just hit the ice? There is a patch of land to the right that does not have any ice surrounding it
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Bajaj posted:Here's a great video that really makes you ask "WEISHENME?????" so many loving questions...
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ladron posted:so many loving questions... What are you confused about?
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angel opportunity posted:
My grandparents neighbors in West Virginia did the same thing! Down to killing chickens in there! Theirs was an older house on the property maybe 50y from the new house they built. My grandparents lived in an newer house built immediately next to an older house, but they were civilized hillbillies and only used it to store lumber.
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ladron posted:so many loving questions... Yeah, like "how much money did she demand?" He must have pushed her in. Why else would he help her out?
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:It's an ice-cold river and the old lady seems to be unconscious When you get older and you have never done anything physical in your life, it really starts to catch up to you. She probably couldn't even get out if there in any temperature.
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Dec 31, 2017 05:39
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The air in any one Chinese city will have less pollution than the entire US and Canada combined (including the pollution that arrives from China) by 2020. This seems like a reasonable goal.
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Dec 31, 2017 05:59
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The end of the One Child Policy was so that there would be more lungs in China filtering crap out of the air.
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GoutPatrol posted:When you get older and you have never done anything physical in your life, it really starts to catch up to you. She probably couldn't even get out if there in any temperature. Agree that old people tend to be physically weaker and more easily incapacitated in emergencies
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:What are you confused about? VideoTapir posted:Yeah, like "how much money did she demand?" pretty much this. Plus kudos to the guy filming an old lady drowning for future evidence against the good samaritan. this might just be a more elaborate jumping-on-the-car-hood scam.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Producing what? Depending on the answer, maybe I'll move to China and rent floors three and four. The answer is "cancer"
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https://my.mixtape.moe/uimdyq.mp4 Hard to see here but it doesn't look like the guy is making any attempt to shield his face or move at all
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Power Khan posted:The answer is "cancer" Does that make a lot of noise? Not counting the sound of lungs hacking themselves to death.
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Welp, this year’s Downtown New Year special has Hamada in blackface. Goddammit still, Japan? 
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Dr.Radical posted:Welp, this year’s Downtown New Year special has Hamada in blackface. Goddammit still, Japan? subs where?
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I’m watching it live right now. He changed into his traditional wig and skirt after the bus bit, though
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