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Pirate Radar posted:Yeah but did you check out the four floors of whores? The prostitute institute. The multi-level muff market. Mods name change please
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GotLag posted:The pooniversity The street with the biggest concentration of massage parlors in Taipei has the nickname "Fivewood University" because its actual name has the character for "wood" in it five times and there are a lot of young women there.
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Just to point out, Ochard Towers is next door to the Thai Embassy for Singapore ... which is unfortunate in its connotations. Also stick to floors 1 (meat market) and 4 (Russians), unless your tastes include the exotic.
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Jul 24, 2018 14:09
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Avoid floors 1 and 4, gotcha.
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Sonderval posted:Just to point out, Ochard Towers is next door to the Thai Embassy for Singapore ... which is unfortunate in its connotations. What’s on floor 2 and 3?
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Jul 24, 2018 14:32
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Or don't encourage the sex trade and the exploitation of humans.
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Ceciltron posted:Or don't encourage the sex trade and the exploitation of humans. Or dont shame sex workers?
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See thats the weird thing, it is a sleazy weird place with very in your face ladys selling themselves etc. but then you see familys with kids walking around it like a tourist attraction. Very out of place for Singapore which like to keep these things restricted, Geylang is the "designated" red light area where the locals and labourers can be found. Orchard Towers is very much for the tourists, which again is a bit weird considering the laws in SG and how they like to portray themselves.
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Too late now but definitely recommend Battlebox which is also on Orchard Road. British HQ during WWII and the Fall of Singapore. Fort Siloso as well for more milhist.
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A. Beaverhausen posted:Or dont shame sex workers? I love watching you guys trying to out virtue signal each other.
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Glenn Quebec posted:I love watching you guys trying to out virtue signal each other. 
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guys it's fine i got stabbed today so i'm literally holier than thou we don't need to worry about it
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Glenn Quebec posted:I love watching you guys trying to out virtue signal each other. 
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This morning the BBC (BBC World channel on sirius) was reporting on the vaccine scandal. They interviewed some people talking about how they try to support made in China but keep getting poo poo on basically. Also the segment ended with a bit about how this would derail China's plans to become a global world supplier of vaccines by 2020 
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And then you read articles like this: China Will Always Be Bad at Bioethics which has the opening paragrath quote:This April, potential sperm donors at one of Beijing’s top hospitals found themselves facing a set of tough new standards. Listed as the first criteria, before any mention of infectious or hereditary diseases, was the requirement that potential donors have “a love for socialism and the motherland” and be “supportive of the leadership of the party.” China's medical industry is just going to wilder and crazier.
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The idea that China would unironically proclaim themselves as socialist is possibly the biggest double think yet.
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Western scientists struggle to show that vaccines cause autism, meanwhile China has developed a tried and true solution proving that such is possible
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The "vaccine causes autism" thing was invented in the 70s by a man who wanted to promote his own business venture. It was debunked a long time ago, but people still take it seriously.
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it's largely because autism's still not very well understood. it's unusual but far from unheard of for a completely normal child to suffer some sort of huge processing setback when very young and suddenly start failing to meet social milestones in a huge way. well if that happens in the week or so after your kid gets shot up with a cocktail of 50 different vaccines in their first immunization round then you'd be forgiven for saying "huh, wonder what changed" and reaching the obvious answer. the obvious answer only looks more obvious when the doctors start saying you're insane, there's no way this could be true, this isn't our fault, blame yourself or god. that doesn't mean the obvious answer is CORRECT, but it's no mystery why people end up there. multiply that story a few thousand times from sheer weight of numbers and amplify those thousand stories a few million times thanks to noisy social media and rear end in a top hat journalists scenting clickbait and would you look at that you've got a movement.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Mods name change please multi-level muff market.
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nickmeister posted:The "vaccine causes autism" thing was invented in the 70s by a man who wanted to promote his own business venture. It was debunked a long time ago, but people still take it seriously. Specifically, his own line of autism-free vaccines
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Glenn Quebec posted:I love watching you guys trying to out virtue signal each other. lol
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I was in Singapore recently and it was totally OK. I saw a Buddha tooth, argued with an Australian teen about which rollercoaster we had just ridden (while standing under the sign), and ate some loving great Singaporean Indian food. I stared at the fancy hotel and took some photos of the fish-cat. I would recommend.Coolguye posted:it's largely because autism's still not very well understood. it's unusual but far from unheard of for a completely normal child to suffer some sort of huge processing setback when very young and suddenly start failing to meet social milestones in a huge way. well if that happens in the week or so after your kid gets shot up with a cocktail of 50 different vaccines in their first immunization round then you'd be forgiven for saying "huh, wonder what changed" and reaching the obvious answer. the obvious answer only looks more obvious when the doctors start saying you're insane, there's no way this could be true, this isn't our fault, blame yourself or god. Kids don't get 50 vaccines at a time and they start getting vaccines from a very, very young age when the social milestones are things like "existing" and "has continued to exist" so this has always been dubious reasoning. Counterpoint: CHEMICALS~~~~
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Atlas Hugged posted:Kids don't get 50 vaccines at a time and they start getting vaccines from a very, very young age when the social milestones are things like "existing" and "has continued to exist" so this has always been dubious reasoning. the social milestones are way more notable and specific than that. by 6-9 months old kids are expected to be doing a bunch of stuff like giggling when they see mom, responding to their name, smile at themselves in the mirror, etc. the thing is, kids can hit these milestones and then STOP doing them for no apparent reason at all, even if vaccines are withheld. nobody really knows why. it could be a thousand reasons, exactly like 'failure to thrive', which is an entire other bag of poo poo that nobody wants to think too hard about. and while 50 is definitely an exaggeration because i wasn't caring to be precise here, kids do get over a dozen different vaccines in the first 6 months of life on the standard schedule. it's really no surprise to me that if a kid stops responding to their name, a parent might be inclined to blame the needle with, from their perspective, gently caress-only-knows-what in it that happened to go into their kid the week before.
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“The obvious answer only looks more obvious when experts explain that it’s clearly wrong” is a notable cognitive shortfall that happens way too often, yeah
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Sten Freak posted:This morning the BBC (BBC World channel on sirius) was reporting on the vaccine scandal. They interviewed some people talking about how they try to support made in China but keep getting poo poo on basically. Ah, the beeb. Tech and Science news bits are still fairly okay though. And yeah, the 'tism hits people hard enough that they need to vent it onto something that isn't their now-broken child. I can understand their need for a scapegoat, at least. poo poo, you should've seen my mother when I was diagnosed. She thought it was due to a snakebite, of all things.
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Coolguye posted:the social milestones are way more notable and specific than that. by 6-9 months old kids are expected to be doing a bunch of stuff like giggling when they see mom, responding to their name, smile at themselves in the mirror, etc. the thing is, kids can hit these milestones and then STOP doing them for no apparent reason at all, even if vaccines are withheld. nobody really knows why. it could be a thousand reasons, exactly like 'failure to thrive', which is an entire other bag of poo poo that nobody wants to think too hard about. My point was that children start receiving vaccines as early as at birth where again there are no social milestones and rarely receive more than a couple of vaccines at any specific time regardless of how many they receive over a X weeks or months. Saying that parents see these big numbers and correlation between receiving the vaccines and backsliding or missing milestones and come to the wrong conclusions is just playing into the narrative of the anti-vaccine crowd which is loving dangerous even if your goal is to refute it. The narrative doesn't exist. The real issue is that people know poo poo about childhood development and less about CHEMICALS and we need to get back to a place where expertise is valued over gut impressions because: Pirate Radar posted:“The obvious answer only looks more obvious when experts explain that it’s clearly wrong” is a notable cognitive shortfall that happens way too often, yeah
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Counterpoint: Chinese kids don't need vaccines because being force-fed various unnecessary antibiotics from birth to old age means the huge increase in likelihood of cancers and illness, and all resistant strains of every kind of bacteria and so on, means they will just sick and die from something later anyway. Autism is also part of 5000 years of culture, so nobody would even notice.
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Babies are stupid as heck guys.
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Bajaj posted:Counterpoint: Chinese kids don't need vaccines because being force-fed various unnecessary antibiotics from birth to old age means the huge increase in likelihood of cancers and illness, and all resistant strains of every kind of bacteria and so on, means they will just sick and die from something later anyway. Autism is also part of 5000 years of culture, so nobody would even notice. Is autism a thing in china? I once hooked up with a mainlander via tinder who did research on altheizmers care/dementia, and I recall the chinese word for altheizmers translating to something literal like "stupid old" or so
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Also US airlines have caved on listing Taiwan as part of China.
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My Imaginary GF posted:Is autism a thing in china? I once hooked up with a mainlander via tinder who did research on altheizmers care/dementia, and I recall the chinese word for altheizmers translating to something literal like "stupid old" or so lol, it seems that the Chinese word for dementia is 癡呆/痴呆 which are characters that translate to idiot and fool. Alzheimer's is 老年癡呆症/老年痴呆症, "old-age dementia". I looked up the etymology of dementia to see how it compared, and it's a pretty straight forward "de-"->"out of" + "ment"->"mind" + "ia"~stem to make it a noun. The word "demented" shows that the usage of that term probably hasn't been so clinical, but the contrast with the bluntness of the Chinese is a hoot. Japanese just use a loan word for Alzheimer's (アルツハイマー病 arutsuhaimaa sho) usally, with 認知症 ninchisho (cognitive syndrome) being the the more general term for dementia. I don't think you can make any conclusions from the different words, tho, aside from guessing that there's not really been much scrubbing of the Chinese languages for potentially offensive terms or awareness that's something that could/should be done, and that the Japanese are loving pros at coining the most banal sounding terms for anything. I'm looking at you, East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (大東亜共栄圏)
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its not just the rabies vaccine that was dodgy https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1021956778358124544 also https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1021995566597853185 https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1021982257568010242
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Jose posted:its not just the rabies vaccine that was dodgy one of the subheaders read: A recurring issue
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Autism is 自閉症。 People know it exists but support is minimal
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Atlas Hugged posted:Also US airlines have caved on listing Taiwan as part of China. Incredibly trash.
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WarpedNaba posted:Ah, the beeb. Tech and Science news bits are still fairly okay though.
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caberham posted:Autism is 自閉症。 I think there's only one school in HK that openly accepts kids with autism
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Imperialist Dog posted:I think there's only one school in HK that openly accepts kids with autism There’s a special EFS one for SEN with full support. Other ones do exist but services are hit and miss
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Atlas Hugged posted:Also US airlines have caved on listing Taiwan as part of China. Somebody should grow some balls and just offer $56.89 one-way tickets to Taiwan until they get banned.
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