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also since this is the unofficial SEA thread as a whole here is an apology for the 2am stream of consciousness rambling at the bottom of the last page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkYkIiEPIi0
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Coolguye posted:if you're plugged in, the most useful thing you can be is horrified and outraged full time because that's what brings in those sweet clicks and the sweet ad revenue. it's no wonder people end up so angry and scared when it's in internet commerce's collective best interest for them to be angry and scared. it's also no wonder that bleeds over into their daily lives and makes them more likely to be curmudgeons about good fortune, or, in your case, generalize a bad experience into a bad universal truth. i thought i noticed there was a point where you became a markedly better and good poster and now i know why congratulations on finding a measure of peace
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to be fair part of that was also the loving oppressive moderation era of SA ending. i registered during a time when, particularly in Games, where you had to post constantly thinking of what was going to happen when someone flamed and reported you 10 minutes after you posted anything. triple-thinking yourself constantly will make you a stilted and awkward poster at best. being able to just post something and it being acceptable to roll your eyes when someone comes in and tortures your post into some poo poo you didn't say is still a relatively new state of affairs for my tenure here. e: also, not having to fear being chain probed for not using my shift key makes it a lot of communication easier in a lot of ways. hell, without caps it's simple to read my last big post as what it is - a rambling meditation at 2am - rather than some fartsniffing psuedo-intellectual dissertation on my own galaxy brain perception (which is definitely what it would look like if i wrote it like a blog post) Coolguye fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Jun 24, 2018 |
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Bajaj posted:First of all, I would like to say I am glad that opening the forums in China means I get a Chinese version of the captcha before I load the page. Last time I was here, it was a Google-only captcha, and I couldn't get on here without a VPN on. Now I can do it locally, and Imgur also doesn't require a VPN so I get a mostly-fine forums experience without Express VPN constantly dropping my connection. Express is alright, but about every hour it drops and I have to reconnect. On my phone, the app is somehow much slower on WiFi than on data while also burning my battery life at an alarming rate. Being like 1km from the HK border now, I randomly get notifications from blocked apps, but when I open them I can't get enough signal to get them to load. Holy poo poo PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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# ? Jun 24, 2018 08:16 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Holy poo poo the most shocking part of that image is that the flaming car is, somehow, not hit a second time in the same "oops" kind of way
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# ? Jun 24, 2018 08:46 |
If only because the video ends too soon.
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# ? Jun 24, 2018 08:59 |
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Bajaj posted:That would be the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals. She's a wonderful friend, but we are both smart enough to recognize how fast that would crash if we had to spend every day together. Seperate apartments, seperate lives, three nights a week together on a permanent probationary period.
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Outrail posted:Seperate apartments, seperate lives, three nights a week together on a permanent probationary period. That sounds more like a divorce settlement.
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# ? Jun 24, 2018 10:44 |
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JUST poo poo POST
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# ? Jun 24, 2018 11:50 |
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Im in greece right now, and I have to say, the Chinese tourists are actually extremely well behaved. The only obnoxious thing about them is the size of their groups, and everyone needs a solo photo with every monument then they have to take groip pics where everyone has a turn on the camera (and turn down people offering help) gently caress all american familes and 18-20 year old americans god dam
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# ? Jun 25, 2018 11:00 |
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Lol are you sure those aren't Japanese tourists, loooooord how those group photos take forever. Just let me email it to everyone, you assholes.
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# ? Jun 25, 2018 11:54 |
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I'm pretty surprised that most of the Chinese your groups in Barcelona this year have been pretty relaxed and not obnoxious, at least when they're not after a picture of something famous. Last year, I saw some mainland tourists picking up the stuffed animals and toys that people put on the Ramblas as part of the post-terrorist attack memorials and I lost my poo poo. It's weird, but they're still always in Decathlon. It's the exact same stuff and it's no cheaper. The worst tourists here are British stag/hen parties. Absolute loving animals. I've never heard anything louder than when a bachelor party comes down my street.
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# ? Jun 25, 2018 13:38 |
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...e-idUSKBN1JL12U "Global Superpower by 2050". Here we go folks, 2020/2025 dates officially slipping.
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# ? Jun 25, 2018 13:59 |
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http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/0622/c90000-9474096.html
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# ? Jun 25, 2018 14:37 |
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I went through Kuala Lumpur airport again, and mainland travelers were obnoxious as always, harking, spitting, and blasting their lovely dramas at full volume in the terminal. I wonder how moving home will be. When I left six years ago, my home country was not very popular with Chinese tourists. Recently it's become very popular. Wild nature, quietness and clean environment have always been selling points, so I hope it still is. Although there were some news articles about the large increase in tourists (Chinese weren't mentioned specifically) is already putting a strain on the nature in certain places. Edit: In the winter there was also an article about how Asian (again Chinese not specified) tourist drivers can't handle winter conditions, crashing cars and being a nuance to the locals. The local police wanted them off the roads, but a govt spokesperson shrugged it off saying something like "we have to allow them as long as they have international drivers licenses", yeah, since it's soooo easy for foreigners to drive in China, right? fish and chips and dip fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Jun 25, 2018 |
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fish and chips and dip posted:I went through Kuala Lumpur airport again, and mainland travelers were obnoxious as always, harking, spitting, and blasting their lovely dramas at full volume in the terminal. This reminds me of some issues with the opposite situation in northern Japan, where there’s a number of US military facilities, which would inevitably get staffed with a lot of people from the southern US, who combined inexperience with driving outside of the US and on the left hand side, with having no idea how to drive in the snow, leading to a fair number of problems for the local government.
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# ? Jun 25, 2018 15:05 |
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Coolguye posted:
Love how my first probes were stuff like this, a strange time
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# ? Jun 25, 2018 18:01 |
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Back before most people used their phones to post.
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# ? Jun 25, 2018 18:10 |
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:The worst tourists here are British stag/hen parties. Absolute loving animals. I've never heard anything louder than when a bachelor party comes down my street.
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# ? Jun 25, 2018 19:41 |
evil_bunnY posted:A friend of mine had a stash of gallon size water bombs by the sink to chase them off and he'd always have time to fill them up between hearing them and being in range. Englos are the absolute worse. He should have filled them with piss
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 00:06 |
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https://twitter.com/SCMP_News/status/1011284133073465344?s=19
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 02:19 |
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hope this guy gets hit by a tram full of tourists eating hotpot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDbYGf7IPak
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 02:26 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Back before most people used their phones to post. My phone’s auto-punctuation and capitalization means my phone posts are often more properly written than my desktop posts
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 02:33 |
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Really? It took you a few moments to understand that, but you're being a condescending rear end and dongsplaining basic history at people? Wrongly, even. The US doesn't actually use the Imperial system, which was developed after US independence (check out the US vs UK definitions of a pint for example).
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 02:34 |
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Imperialist Dog posted:hope this guy gets hit by a tram full of tourists eating hotpot I lasted maybe 8 seconds. Death to all "youtubers"
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 02:59 |
Imperialist Dog posted:hope this guy gets hit by a tram full of tourists eating hotpot He’s a self hating Asian man.
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 03:02 |
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Imperialist Dog posted:hope this guy gets hit by a tram full of tourists eating hotpot lmao 49 subscribers
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 03:22 |
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that guys good i subscribed
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 03:25 |
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Are you joking or? The guy who made the compilation has 49, Ricegum, very unfortunately, has 10 million
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 03:30 |
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Imperialist Dog posted:hope this guy gets hit by a tram full of tourists eating hotpot I hope he ends up in one of Logan Paul's forest videos.
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 03:31 |
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LimburgLimbo posted:Are you joking or? idk anthing about youtubers, i thought that was the guy doing that for 49 people
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 03:54 |
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Haha, I hate ricegum but it's funny cos it's China
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 03:54 |
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Kharnifex posted:Haha, I hate ricegum but it's funny cos it's China it's Hong Kong And I put up that video because like gently caress am I giving rice bum clicks
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 04:28 |
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https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/104541/persistent-issues-with-salary-pay-as-a-postdoc-in-china-what-can-i-dohttps://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/104541/persistent-issues-with-salary-pay-as-a-postdoc-in-china-what-can-i-do posted:I will try to summarise below as best as I can. It is really complicated, and everyone tells me "not to worry".
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 04:29 |
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The next education super-power.
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 04:34 |
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quote:Researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have noticed an unexpected and persistent increase in ozone-destroying chemicals, called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) AND YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT COUNTRY IS POSSIBLY PROBABLY RESPONSIBLE!!11!+
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 04:37 |
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I love how many employers over here just straight up don't pay the salary and then act confused when you ask why you haven't been paid and get offended if you get angry at them for not paying you. Happens in Korea too.
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 04:38 |
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Grand Fromage posted:I love how many employers over here just straight up don't pay the salary and then act confused when you ask why you haven't been paid and get offended if you get angry at them for not paying you. Happens in Korea too. My last stint in Korea I found out that they had not been paying into the retirement fund/social security, and they were also trying to not pay me my end of contract bonus. My friend is a Barrister in England who teaches at a Korean university, and he had one of his Korean lawyer coworkers write a quick letter. I guess there was some sort of mix up because it was mailed twice, with a 4 day gap in between. In that time the school paid both my social security (which I then withdrew) and my end of contract bonus. When the letter arrived again, someone at the shady school messed up and paid me my end of contract bonus for a second time. This was within the same 3 months that Sears Travel forgot to bill me for my flight home to Canada, and the Bank of China messed up a money transfer and refunded me 2000RMB that they never actually withdrew. I told everyone who would listen that the owner was about the do a runner, and 6 months later he took every cent he owned to run the Korean-only golf course he and a friend started in New Zealand.
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# ? Jun 26, 2018 04:57 |
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Fresh from the FDA RSS feed https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ContactFDA/StayInformed/RSSFeeds/TDS/rss.xmlquote:Public Notification: XXXPlosion contains hidden drug ingredient I would blow Dane Cook fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Jun 26, 2018 |
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Update from NYT, but no surprises! quote:In a High-Stakes Environmental Whodunit, Many Clues Point to China https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/world/asia/china-ozone-cfc.html
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