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Jose posted:I stopped reading a libertarian Why stop? They usually deserve a sizzling read, hunty. 
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MY KIDS SPEAK CHINESE is like the new packaging for I HAVE BLACK FRIENDS. Like I get how he hates the loving commies (get in line) but his way of being dismissive makes me cringe. And I grew up as a Hong Konger in Canada/USA - poo poo on anything related to the mainland yet mostly clueless about the country.
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lmao at anybody who lives in California or Texas and teaches their kid Chinese but not Spanish Don't you want that little fucker to eat good food?!
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ElGroucho posted:lmao at anybody who lives in California or Texas and teaches their kid Chinese but not Spanish Gesticulating wildly at menu with pictures while holding locally accepted currency requires no formal education
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caberham posted:MY KIDS SPEAK CHINESE is like the new packaging for I HAVE BLACK FRIENDS. communism is good m8
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Jul 18, 2018 14:47
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$20 says his new job is sociology researcher at a swanky tokyo uni
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The dude is really fixed on habits around standing in line as a proxy for whether mainlanders value human life, too
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i bet he actually reveled in the chaos and loved cutting in line
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Booty Pageant posted:i bet he actually reveled in the chaos and loved cutting in line He’s a libertarian, he doesn’t value human life So this checks out
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Booty Pageant posted:i bet he actually reveled in the chaos and loved cutting in line Ugh.
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boy of all the things i expected to trigger people in that post, the word 'libertarian' was not really one of them like he really does not come off as a GUVMINT shithead, he comes off as someone who likes fewer laws than most people, primarily. i'm sure i would find a lot to roll my eyes at him over if i had dinner with him but his primary complaints aren't the specific problems (he points out he knew most of that crap would be a problem going in), but the degree to which those problems are entrenched and the trend that's happening. the big trend he's spending a ton of time wringing his hands over is that the CCP's china was always an authoritarian, orwellian hellhole and in the last 5 years they've been doing nothing but doubling down on that and a grand total of zero people with standing are talking about it. like caberham posted:Poor people trapped in a competitive yet rigged system of crushing poverty would value money over everything else. Surprise surprise. truthfully the post, particularly the full one, reads a hell of a lot like haier's last "escape from china" post where he basically said the all-encompassing government had crushed all soul and culture that didn't directly suit them and it immersing yourself all of that was about the most toxic thing you could do to yourself. the dude would probably fit in posting in this thread since he goes out of his way to talk about the CCP being poo poo and that's the primary reason society is poo poo, rather than the Chinese just being orcs. like i don't find it at all coincidental that the chinese memes we clown on most in here are loads of horseshit the CCP instituted for its own purposes. even allopathic medicine had a lot more penetration in china prior to the concerted campaign by the CCP to promote TCM as a better, chinese-ier alternative to pig-dog western medicine (the fact that it is cheaper to provide quackery and slogans is completely coincidental, guys, for real). "hot water good for healthy" wouldn't even be a thing we could meme at each other in this thread without the CCP being pretty much objectively the most lovely group of people on the planet. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-44844937 If you thought the Montenegro highway was bad
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Coolguye posted:boy of all the things i expected to trigger people in that post, the word 'libertarian' was not really one of them It's right up at the top to tell you his opinion is worthless.
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Coolguye posted:boy of all the things i expected to trigger people in that post, the word 'libertarian' was not really one of them Is this your first time reading the forums on something awful dot com? Edit: *stumbles into thread out of breath* Randroid! Did anybody say Randroid yet???
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Pham Nuwen posted:Is this your first time reading the forums on something awful dot com? it's more that i counted a half dozen other things to trigger people more particular to this thread
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Coolguye posted:it's more that i counted a half dozen other things to trigger people more particular to this thread The lack of proofreading in the post triggered me a lot more.
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noun-verb agreement is v important this is true i found myself rereading a couple sentences because i thought i was missing something but naw the writing just kinda sucks
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Coolguye posted:he goes out of his way to talk about the CCP being poo poo and that's the primary reason society is poo poo, rather than the Chinese just being orcs. cool racism buddy
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Is it true that the Chinese successfully made a handheld laser gun that can cause second degree burns from half a mile and can fire 1000 times? I read that recently and it sounded kick rear end to finally have laser guns in the world, but I know china’s government is a dirty liar. Also I recently watched a very long series on the Vietnam War. I know the communists are still in control there these days, but I never hear anything about Vietnam. Is Vietnam an okay place nowadays? Or does it suck like China?
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Shenzhen is chatoic  If he was in Harbin, northern China, or even Beijing he would have cracked ages ago. When it comes to everyday life and dealing with bureaucratic bullshit, Shenzhen and Shanghai is nothing. Heck China changes so fast every 5 years, you can see it in the younger generation. The rapid urbanization going on in China is insane. Small quality of life things - younger people actually wear head phones, people don't litter as much (still a big problem), they line up, subways etiquette and even freaking escalator etiquette. But because the population is so big, it's still super easy to see that nongs being nongs or your blue collar diao-si being dumb.I used to hate Shenzhen, there are still parts of Shenzhen like the luohu border should be glassed and placed a lot of blames to the party. But I have seen over my life time the city improving - not because of the one party system but actually enforcing regulation, laws and bureaucracy. Funny enough each time I'm in Shenzhen with Fart simpson life is actually pretty laid back and chill. We don't see crazy Chinese uncles, crazy expat ranter, or all the China meme poo poo at all. However, when there's another friend with us we easily witness the terrible side of everyday China life - white expat sexual harassment and drunken douchebags, bitter uncles, street pissing, bad traffic accidents, the works. Coolguye posted:boy of all the things i expected to trigger people in that post, the word 'libertarian' was not really one of them Quackery also exists among the Chinese in the commonwealth, Hong Kong, Singapore, Traditional Korean Medicine, and Japan where it's called Han Medicine. Oh and it's also quite common in Taiwan, the bastion of anti-CCP where people believe hot water good for healthy. Japan and Korea gets a pass because they actually like having ice cold water. Singapore and Hong Kong still heavily fund TCM  It's more of an ignorant older generation thing, and yes CCP did stir the poo poo pot quite a bit. They get credit, but not all of it.A lot of his criticisms is just so broad and so basic I just roll my eyes. It's as reductionist as Haier's FACE CULTURE IS POISON that makes me groan. Or like a taxi driver complaining. Not standing in line (which is actually changing for the past 15 years, it's still there but not as bad) a CCP related thing? Go to South East Asia and Africa  For instance, Governments in China are corrupt and inept because the selection process is weak, opaque, the pay is extremely low so they need corruption to survive - and the CCP is being poo poo for that is a much better and convincing point than just "boogey man CCP". Yes we know it's bad (that's a given), but we should know how, why, and which areas are bad. Because we all know, the government in China is bloated as heck, pays poo poo, is sometimes super efficient and deadly and lethal, yet at other times can Cha Bu Duo through life. Even when MSS reads all your posts and records, they are unrefined brutes doing documentation. An extremely annoying reality of life people in China live through is that we know the government can solve a lot of petty crime and everyday issues, but choose not to out of laziness and contempt. The unspoken contract is that the government should and would reform day to day inane operations and maintain economic 
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The Skeleton King posted:Is Vietnam an okay place nowadays? Or does it suck like China? Life there is extremely similar to China. Vietnam was always a Chinese colony 
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caberham posted:Shenzhen is chatoic nice whataboutism
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Jeoh posted:nice whataboutism Thanks, buy me dinner pls! It's more than wumao
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caberham posted:Thanks, buy me dinner pls! It's more than wumao nice wumaoboutism
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The Skeleton King posted:Is it true that the Chinese successfully made a handheld laser gun that can cause second degree burns from half a mile and can fire 1000 times? I read that recently and it sounded kick rear end to finally have laser guns in the world, but I know china’s government is a dirty liar. they might have done but this is not technologically impressive. US and Canadian firms were manufacturing lasers that could literally cook a person's eyes out of their sockets in under 2 seconds from something like 2000 ft away in 2003. they treated skin only slightly more charitably. and then they were selling them online for 150 bucks a pop. i'd have to go back through IRC logs to get the particulars but i know a bunch of people were losing their minds over this new and dangerous way to cause grievous injury to people that was totally unregulated. of course, the catch was that these lasers were stopped absolutely dead by the revolutionary inventions in personal protection known as sunglasses and the cotton long sleeved shirt. if you really wanted to be tacticool you could also put on leather gloves. and boy howdy if you're wearing one of those dorky V for Vendetta masks then you're basically EOD. even in the context of suppressing rioting crowds it's more effective to just use tear gas and water cannons. so hey if the CCP wants to spend more of its idiot funbux on making a science fair project for face then go ahead but it's not really that impressive or helpful.
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Coolguye posted:they might have done but this is not technologically impressive. US and Canadian firms were manufacturing lasers that could literally cook a person's eyes out of their sockets in under 2 seconds from something like 2000 ft away in 2003. they treated skin only slightly more charitably. and then they were selling them online for 150 bucks a pop. i'd have to go back through IRC logs to get the particulars but i know a bunch of people were losing their minds over this new and dangerous way to cause grievous injury to people that was totally unregulated. Yeah I read that they found a way to make the laser ignite most clothing fabrics instantly. It sounds neat but I agree it’s probably not much of a game changer. From the article I read the Chinese apparently want to use it in hostage situations by using it to light suspects on fire and burn the poo poo out of them so they can’t kill hostages. Sounds silly to me.
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Over There posted:Woah what is this thread Do u know?
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lighting clothing on fire in short order like that requires a hell of a lot more energy than causing second degree burns. you would definitely have a cauterized wound with multiple layers of skin cooked off if you're throwing that much energy around. consider that the temperature at which cotton ignites is 210C. now on a super hot day you're looking at a cotton surface being, eh, let's say 60C (140F). specific heat of cotton is about 1.5 J/gC, so on the naive interpretation we're looking at 150 * 1.5 = 225 J to raise one gram of cotton enough to ignite. that's not much; there are multiple kilojoule lasers out there. this is basically where idiots who talk about laser weaponry expect people to get to, nod sagely, and stop. clearly, laser rifles are not far off. the problem is that the laser isn't some crazy syringe that just injects energy at long distances, it uses heat transference via energetic wave, and that is one loving hell of a big topic. in order not to get into an outrageously spergy science post in the china thread, i'd encourage you to just look at the first equation on that page. the constant you're working with in terms of heat transmission is expressed as 5.637 * 10^-8, and it's multiplied by the number of square meters of the radiating entity (which, as a laser pinprick, is also going to be some poo poo * 10^-a lot). remember that for the purposes of a laser rifle, small numbers here are bad. NOW consider that you also need to have this be such an overwhelming shot of energy that it needs to raise the target surface by that 150C in under 100ms or so in order to get actual effect on the target. THAT goes into the instantaneous heat transfer rate, which is another glaze-your-eyes-over topic that involves a lot more small numbers. the point here is that you need way more than 225J to set some poo poo on fire in a way that looks like star wars or whatever. even 22.5 kJ might not cut it. i haven't done the math to figure out precisely what's needed and i don't intend to , i can just plug in a few constants and know that the input power here needs to be gigantic to perform as advertised. whenever someone talks to you about laser guns, ask them to show you the battery and capacitor tech that's allowing someone to wield enough energy to light up a house.
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Piece about trade war and China's debt. Probably only interesting to people interested in economics but I am not an economist so I cannot comment. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-17/trump-s-trade-war-may-spark-a-chinese-debt-crisis
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"Economist" is right up there with "as a libertarian" in warnings to take everything written with a grain of salt.
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Sten Freak posted:Piece about trade war and China's debt. Probably only interesting to people interested in economics but I am not an economist so I cannot comment. my biggest problem with that article is this statement: quote:Many analysts point out that the Chinese government owns everything, including the banks, and can just issue renminbi to infinity to keep the economy solvent. The flaw in that argument is China’s role in the global economy: It’s the world’s biggest exporter and second-biggest importer. The currency acts as the interface between the domestic and international economies, and its value is a matter of supply and demand. until china does something that affects the status quo on that level, swallowing the economic bullshit will remain preferable to policymakers.
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Coolguye posted:lighting clothing on fire in short order like that requires a hell of a lot more energy than causing second degree burns. you would definitely have a cauterized wound with multiple layers of skin cooked off if you're throwing that much energy around. The article from CNN said they claim it uses a lithium ion battery about the size of a common assault rifle magazine. I don’t know laser engineering, but I do know enough to have a very light understanding of what you are talking about, namely the fact that you need absurd amounts of energy to do anything worthwhile with a laser weapon. So yeah, as I thought the Chinese are full of poo poo. I don’t know poo poo about laser engineering, but I was also skeptical when they said the power source was so small. Unless there’s some wizardry you can do to get more power out of less fuel I’m assuming they’re full of poo poo. But I do have a question for you, laser man. If you can start fires with a magnifying glass and sunlight, why does a laser have so much trouble doing the same thing? How does sunlight have so much power compared to a laser? It can’t just be from the light itself, right? I get that the sun is a pretty drat big energy source, but there must be more to it, right? The Skeleton King fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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took my family to Tokyo Disneyland last weekend, lots of people but had a great time. which got me thinking, "I wonder how Shanghai Disneyland is doing?" welcome to another round of TGA's "lol check out this TripAdvisor meltdown about how terrible Shanghai Disneyland is"! source: https://www.tripadvisor.com.sg/Attraction_Review-g308272-d10383031-Reviews-Shanghai_Disneyland-Shanghai.html quote:Disappointing Disney (and AWFUL Viator) experience did this guy not realize he was in china or something? lol quote:Shanghai Disneyland actually, Shanghai Disneyland is great because it offers you numerous opportunities to break the rules, unlike that horrific place Tokyo Disneyland, where rules are "strictly followed". quote:Disneyland with a serious problem person confused about china being china quote:The least magical experience we've had so far quote:Shanghai disneyland trip quote:Not Magical at all!!! as always, if you gave me a full expanses paid trip to spend two days in this park, and then paid me for my time on top of it, I would not go, lol
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Over There posted:Woah what is this thread do you read a thread.?
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Over There posted:Woah what is this thread *has hands behind back and spits a throat cold loogie directly at you then smiles gormlessly.*
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*rushes over to the side of the sidewalk (still in plain view), yanks down pants and violently shits.* "5,000 years of history. "
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