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China will have a Mars base by 2020 https://twitter.com/cnspaceflight/status/951700575015419904
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Devils Affricate posted:s in the news this morning. Apparently Marriott today set off major alarm bells in China for possibly violating cyber security/advertising laws and causing public outcry. Their offense? They had a questionnaire on their bookings app that accidentally listed Hong Kong, Tibet, Macau, and Taiwan as separate countries. Chinese netizens predictably lost their poo poo, and Marriott's website and app were shut down. An investigation is underway. Would I be correct in assuming that "listing Chinese-claimed regions such as Tibet and Taiwan as separate countries" refers to a drop-down list that included those localities as well as other countries? Edit: found this with regards to Taiwan's status: "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then maybe it's hurting the feelings of the Chinese people." GotLag fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Jan 12, 2018 |
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Jan 12, 2018 12:25
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Yeah. I once was given a video to show in some dumb substitute class that had school lunches around the world and one was from Taiwan, and that was a whole week long incident.
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Jan 12, 2018 12:53
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Chomp8645 posted:Fun Fact: For those in the gaming world, it's been announced that the next main line Total War title is going to be "Total War: Three Kingdoms". Looking forward to play as the nomads.
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Gonna play Goguryeo and own China 
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I went to update my phone internet package at the store today and noticed something a little bit off about all of the clerks' laptops.
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Imperialist Dog posted:China will have a Mars base by 2020 All those people are going to die from inhaling hydrazine and whatever else China puts in their LONG MARCH rockets.
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Jan 12, 2018 14:10
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FAT CURES MUSCLES posted:All those people are going to die from inhaling hydrazine and whatever else China puts in their LONG MARCH rockets. lol the replies Fall into the designated area as planned. Some internet folks just made the unnecessary fusses over the little remains. The ease of keyboard or other small screen devices convenience has made possible all the excess remarks. They forget to see the bigger pic and be mean instead!
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Jan 12, 2018 14:42
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd2J5nNDu4P/?taken-by=natgeo Haha...hahahaha.
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Jan 12, 2018 14:43
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FAT CURES MUSCLES posted:All those people are going to die from inhaling hydrazine and whatever else China puts in their LONG MARCH rockets. I'm surprised someone was able to upload this picture before their lungs liquified https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/951718600192110592
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah. I once was given a video to show in some dumb substitute class that had school lunches around the world and one was from Taiwan, and that was a whole week long incident. so, just for my understanding, the taiwan situation in china is akin to the dokdo situation in korea, in that everyone pitches a violent frothy fit whenever you mention it?
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Baronjutter posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsBd5FJ9teA wow this is really good. everything is just sooooorta slightly off. it's like a super low key tim&eric sketch
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ladron posted:so, just for my understanding, the taiwan situation in china is akin to the dokdo situation in korea, in that everyone pitches a violent frothy fit whenever you mention it? I had a student in one of my classes who would constantly try to get me to call Dokdo Takeshima. Like for several weeks he kept trying to trap me.
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ladron posted:so, just for my understanding, the taiwan situation in china is akin to the dokdo situation in korea, in that everyone pitches a violent frothy fit whenever you mention it? No. Koreans flip their loving poo poo about Dokdo way more, but Taiwan is an actual issue since people live there and it's a real place instead of a couple poo poo-covered rocks and the dispute is a real thing rather than just being a crazy figment of the collective han. The government/government-related people like to throw shitfits about Taiwan but I've never met an actual Chinese person who cares.
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Jan 12, 2018 18:04
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I've met plenty of Chinese people who actually care about Taiwan
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Do they care care or do they repost Wechat memes when they're going around? None of the border disputes here seem to have the same pure, incoherent rage that Dokdo elicits from Koreans. I don't like quiz everyone I meet but every conversation I've had was: Chinese Person: Do you think Taiwan is an independent country? Me: Of course it is. CP: Yeah, it's dumb.
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Jan 12, 2018 18:10
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It may help that the only Chinese people I know are fluent English speakers and have mostly lived abroad at some point. I'm not talking to Zhou Buzzcut.
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Grand Fromage posted:pure, incoherent rage that Dokdo elicits from Koreans. heh Grand Fromage posted:Chinese Person: Do you think Taiwan is an independent country? that's how you get on the list, man
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Jan 12, 2018 18:19
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Grand Fromage posted:The government/government-related people like to throw shitfits about Taiwan but I've never met an actual Chinese person who cares. Back when I lived with Chinese students one of them got shouting mad when I said Taiwan was an independent country. He was fresh off the boat at that point though, and in the following years mellowed hugely.
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Jan 12, 2018 18:32
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Baronjutter posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsBd5FJ9teA Similarly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3XuhMJQ28
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Jan 12, 2018 20:02
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When I first started working at my university they got me an one of the other teachers to do a voice over for some marketing video. They'd already had a professional do one the year before but they wanted to change one tiny piece of useless information in it and didn't want to pay so much again so got us to do it. Even if I had a proper script, time to prepare and a year of acting lessons I'd still be completely loving terrible but we got shoved in a room and given a terrible Chinglish script which was handwritten badly so we struggled to even read it. They did one take and just said ok that's fine since they wanted to go to lunch. I've never bothered to try and find out what actually happened with it, I'd feel too embarrassed.
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Jan 12, 2018 21:05
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Grand Fromage posted:Zhou Buzzcut. i loled
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Imperialist Dog posted:China will have a Mars base by 2020 This is why countries with space programs designed for more than just face abort launches if there is even a slight possibility that maybe something is only 99.9% perfect instead of 100%.
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Jan 12, 2018 21:47
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It would really help if they launched over the ocean rather than turn the country into an impact zone or use hydrazine. Haven't they figured out how to light a rocket without hypergolic propellent? The Russians solved that with a burning wooden stick, no joke. Weak sauce not having a self destruct.
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Jan 12, 2018 21:57
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I would love for them to pursue this angle of attack, only to be utterly confused by the complete lack of butthurt other countries exhibit when it comes to such issues. That said, as a Californian, secession would be pretty sweet. Oregon and Washington can come too I guess.
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Devils Affricate posted:I would love for them to pursue this angle of attack, only to be utterly confused by the complete lack of butthurt other countries exhibit when it comes to such issues. Go live with Hawaii. (Alaska can come too)
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Devils Affricate posted:That said, as a Californian, secession would be pretty sweet. Oregon and Washington can come too I guess. Just lol if you think Oregon and Washington wouldn't take the opportunity to team up & fortify Oregon's southern border if given the opportunity to keep Californians contained. Colorado would probably help fund Nevada's wall.
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Can confirm, the gravest insult one can make to a fellow Washingtonian is to imply they're a C*lifornian.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Just lol if you think Oregon and Washington wouldn't take the opportunity to team up & fortify Oregon's southern border if given the opportunity to keep Californians contained. Colorado would probably help fund Nevada's wall. Yeah that's fine too
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Devils Affricate posted:Yeah that's fine too The population of WA and OR would just be a speed bump to CA if things came to a head.
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Ahahaha Marriott's Chinese website has been shut down
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Mameluke posted:I had a student in one of my classes who would constantly try to get me to call Dokdo Takeshima. Like for several weeks he kept trying to trap me. Was he a Korean student? You should have sent him to the head master with a note saying he was being pro-Japanese and unpatriotic.
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-blasts-own-lazy-military-and-prepares-for-war/ar-AAuAPcO?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=ientp2quote:The People’s Liberation Army has criticized its own military personnel for being paralyzed by peace as China ramps up preparations for war.
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  It's gotten to the point where I now grin or chuckle whenever someone mentions "2020".
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Ups_rail posted:http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-blasts-own-lazy-military-and-prepares-for-war/ar-AAuAPcO?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=ientp2 Blistex posted:
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Blistex posted:
lol good luck with that. Like even if they were competent that would be 100% impossible. Making 600 million people not poor in two years who the gently caress do they think they're kidding?
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Grand Fromage posted:lol good luck with that. Aside from the BBC?
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