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Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Holy poo poo. I guess the semiconductor industry is valuable enough to kill people over.

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Larry Parrish posted:

Holy poo poo. I guess the semiconductor industry is valuable enough to kill people over.

semiconductors are in literally everything. the first person to get the next generation of semiconductors out there will be years ahead of everyone else.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/OmeletteRed/status/1070757115088855040

Thread is wild.

I'm sold. I'm going all in and becoming a pro-PRC conspiracy theorist now.

lol communists rushing to defend a CFO

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

lol communists rushing to defend a CFO

there's nothing wrong with CFOs, Socialist countries still have money and thus need people to manage the wealth distribution within organizations. So long as surplus value goes to the worker's state.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Typo posted:

there's nothing wrong with CFOs, Socialist countries still have money and thus need people to manage the wealth distribution within organizations. So long as surplus value goes to the worker's state.

stop the gimmick

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/OmeletteRed/status/1070757136555237377

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

the people who are trying to reclaim "tankie" and "dengist" are unbelievably stupid

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

"xits" is too clever for them

Bro Dad
Mar 26, 2010


Zambian miners kill Chinese manager during pay protest

quote:

Zambian miners have killed a Chinese manager by pushing a mine trolley at him during a riot at a coal mine in the south of the country.

A second Chinese was injured, as were several Zambians, during the riot on Saturday.

The workers were on strike at the mine in protest against delays in implementing a new minimum wage.

They were angry their wages were lower than a new minimum of $220 (£140) a month paid to shop workers.

Zambia's minister of labour has gone to the Chinese-owned Collum coal mine in Sinazongwe, 325km (200 miles) south of the capital, Lusaka.

"Wu Shengzai, aged 50, has been killed by protesting workers after being hit by a trolley which was pushed towards him by the rioting miners as he ran away into the underground where he wanted to seek refugee," Southern province police commissioner Fred Mutondo told state news agency, the Zambia News and Information Services.

"He died on the spot while his colleague is in hospital."

Last year, the Zambian government dropped charges against two Chinese managers accused of attempted murder after they fired on miners at the Collum mine during a pay dispute.

Chinese firms own several mines in southern African countries, including coal and copper operations.

Copper mining is one of Zambia's main industries, providing nearly three-quarters of the country's exports; many of the mining companies are foreign-owned, and China has invested more than $400m (£250m) in Zambia.

A 2011 report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that, despite improvements in recent years, safety and labour conditions at Chinese mines were worse than at other foreign-owned mines.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



nice

AlexanderCA
Jul 21, 2010

by Cyrano4747

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

stop the gimmick

Continue the gimmick.

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop
Do you guys remember the poster PROPRCLAWAI (last part I'm not sure of) who used to post about China in D&D all the time in the old days, like 8 years ago. Is he in China now? Is he the only white running a collective farm? I'd just like to know

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

he spent some time in the us back in the 80s, but he’s no laowai, he’s originally from beijing

his job changed in late 2012, so even before he got banned he wasn’t able to post as much

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Nude Hoxha Cameo posted:

he spent some time in the us back in the 80s, but he’s no laowai, he’s originally from beijing

his job changed in late 2012, so even before he got banned he wasn’t able to post as much

Ahh okay, thank you

Spime Wrangler
Feb 23, 2003

Because we can.

didnt he go to china to flee US student loan debt collectors or was that someone else?

either way, a powerful move

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Spime Wrangler posted:

didnt he go to china to flee US student loan debt collectors or was that someone else?

either way, a powerful move

*stampede of people crossing the pacific as everyone suddenly figures this out*

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Spime Wrangler posted:

didnt he go to china to flee US student loan debt collectors or was that someone else?

either way, a powerful move


R. Guyovich posted:

*stampede of people crossing the pacific as everyone suddenly figures this out*

isn't the international standard deduction like $75k or more for US citizens? you could never pay down student loans since the taxable income on a decent salary is still zero. it'd be totally compliant

Pablo Nergigante
Apr 16, 2002

Larry Parrish posted:

Holy poo poo. I guess the semiconductor industry is valuable enough to kill people over.

Sounds like someone hasn't seen The Departed :smug::smugdog::smugcat:

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/mbrennanchina/status/1072114511212109824

The Dipshit
Dec 21, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

Dejan Bimble posted:

Do you guys remember the poster PROPRCLAWAI (last part I'm not sure of) who used to post about China in D&D all the time in the old days, like 8 years ago. Is he in China now? Is he the only white running a collective farm? I'd just like to know

IIRC the rumor mill has him married, and back in the US as a Trumpy-authoritarian weirdo. PRO PRC LAOWAI was more a strong daddy authoritarian rather than any breed of leftist.

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
.

sincx has issued a correction as of 05:27 on Mar 23, 2021

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

can't they automate this somehow or at least semi-automate it so 1-2 guys can do all the work? That way they can scale-up to generate like 1000x more clicks with same manpower.

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005

Typo posted:

can't they automate this somehow or at least semi-automate it so 1-2 guys can do all the work? That way they can scale-up to generate like 1000x more clicks with same manpower.

to quote Nixon in China:
the people are the heroes now
behemoth pulls the peasant's plow.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Typo posted:

can't they automate this somehow or at least semi-automate it so 1-2 guys can do all the work? That way they can scale-up to generate like 1000x more clicks with same manpower.

if you automate the process too much then it's too obviously fake.

sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties
.

sincx has issued a correction as of 05:27 on Mar 23, 2021

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
comrade xi is going to kidnap and personally execute elon musk

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Eox posted:

comrade xi is going to kidnap and personally execute elon musk

I want to believe

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

Eox posted:

comrade xi is going to kidnap and personally execute elon musk

I've changed my mind about the great People's Republic of China

Bip Roberts
Mar 29, 2005
I want a new cold war where countries just merciless slaughter the richest nationals of their adversaries

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Remember when zuckerberg tried to get xi to name his child, lol

Spime Wrangler
Feb 23, 2003

Because we can.

Bip Roberts posted:

I want a new cold war where countries just merciless slaughter the richest nationals of their adversaries

look, I’ll show you mine if you show me yours

just try to make sure you get the whole family at once, ok? can’t have any Anastasias running around

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Grapplejack posted:

Remember when zuckerberg tried to get xi to name his child, lol

he should name the kid jiang zeming in honor of the great proletarian statesman

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


sincx posted:

I'm honestly pretty excited about the US prosecuting Huawei's CFO. It sets a precedent that multinational executives can be prosecuted for violating extraterritorial laws, so sooner or later some country will nab a US military-industral complex exec for sponsoring war crimes, and the fireworks and hypocrisy will be amazing.

states tit for tat arresting each others rich people would own yeah

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
Congress literally passed an act allowing the US to invade the Hague if a US citizen were to be tried for war crimes so I doubt any country is gonna try to do it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
yeah... it really owns that the US has set the precedent of enforcing treaties countries didn't sign. love to watch the imperial hegemony expand once more, because you know, maybe someone somewhere will arrest an american

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Typo posted:

he should name the kid jiang zeming in honor of the great proletarian statesman

why name his kid after an old statesman when he can name his kid after the current one

i for one would be very happy for the world to have a Winnie Zuckerburg

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
just learned of this canadian-chinese comedian named dashan. i say canadian-chinese because his mandarin is better than most native speakers and he's hugely popular, and most famous for doing crosstalk: a kind of "who's on first" style comedy like abbott and costello that 700 million people would see on CCTV's chinese new year broadcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr5bvaBx6CY

one of his famous bits is with an old master-comedian type, and the joke is that the master tries to teach the pupil foreigner dashan about 5,000 years of chinese history, but through wordplay the joke is that dashan knows more about it -- and is better at wordplay -- than the master who is revealed to be a bullshit artist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbR_3snPxrw

in this interview he's asked what is the biggest misconception about china:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auC6csZ-rEA&t=909s

BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 08:53 on Dec 11, 2018

cool dance moves
Aug 27, 2018


Ace of Baes posted:

Congress literally passed an act allowing the US to invade the Hague if a US citizen were to be tried for war crimes so I doubt any country is gonna try to do it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act

quote:

The act prohibits federal, state and local governments and agencies (including courts and law enforcement agencies) from assisting the court.

lmao

quote:

Introduced by U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) and U.S. Representative Tom DeLay (R-TX)

lmao

Karl Barks
Jan 21, 1981

i would love to see them try to enforce that

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

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