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so the norwegian news broadcaster nrk has discovered that the nokia 7 plus has been sending packets of data to someone in china which includes information such as the phone's geographical location, sim card number and the phone's serial number. after this was revealed today, the finnish data protection agency has started to look into it. the owners of nokia, hmd global, did not want to answer questions about whether the phones are required to do this in order to be sold in china, or about who owns the server the data are being sent to. i couldn't find an article about it in english, but here's the original report on it that you can run through google translate or something: https://nrkbeta.no/2019/03/21/norske-telefoner-sendte-personopplysninger-til-kina/
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Another chemical plant just exploded
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Mar 21, 2019 15:27
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Imperialist Dog posted:Another chemical plant just exploded Watch Xi start a war. Atlas Hugged posted:It's just like "You can see the Great Wall from space". If someone with authority says it enough times, people start to assume it's true and repeat it without doing any due diligence. Our grade 1 elementary teacher read us a book about different landmarks from around the world and when we got to the Great Wall, it said, "Can be seen from Space". I put my hand up and asked her if there was a part of the wall that was super, super wide, like wider than a town. She replied that there wasn't to the best of her knowledge, and then I asked how that was possible, since it was hard to see one of our barns which was over 90' wide from a jet (I had flown over it the previous year). The class had a debate, and we came to the conclusion that it was either bullshit, or you could see it with a telescope from space, so therefore you could see anything the size of a small house or larger, which didn't make it special.
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Mar 21, 2019 15:33
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Imperialist Dog posted:Another chemical plant just exploded https://i.imgur.com/zIcPaPB.mp4 EDIT: Click for sound.
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Mar 21, 2019 16:58
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That looks like a Strange Things hellgate.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:14
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Didn't Japan have a whole thing where on the first visits of European sailors they marvelled at chairs? They should've been familiar with chairs from China. But knowing how Asia still tends to be today it could've just been shock at the concept of foreigners knowing how to sit down.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:25
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i'd need more details on the specifics of that particular story, but certain daimyos/clans, when confronted with the portugese, were taken aback by how much they recognized from them rather than everything that was different. oda nobunaga was one of those cats; to him it was really loving cool that someone he hadn't even conceived existed could show up and be so weird in a lot of ways and so recognizable in others. the chair story sounds like something that would have been a neat shock insofar as "oh man, those guys from across the loving world make chairs that look almost exactly like the ones the chinese and koreans make, how cool is that." rather than "SORCERY" that fascination led to him being pretty drat chill with the christians, and ultimately is a large part of the reason we have a very good idea of what he looked like. a jesuit priest did a portrait of him which was in the realistic western style rather than the more symbolic and flat style favored in japan at the time. the rest of his contemporaries never liked the jesuits that much and would never consent to be painted in a similar way. ultimately this relationship is ALSO part of what caused the christians to get forcefully evicted from japan for hundreds of years after nobunaga got nutsacked at honnoji temple but i digress. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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Mar 21, 2019 17:52
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Megillah Gorilla posted:https://i.imgur.com/zIcPaPB.mp4 So basically the PRC is Taiwan as directed by Michael Bay?
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Mar 21, 2019 19:33
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Who wants to relieve the opening of Half Life 2? https://twitter.com/JidanVideo/status/1108391676274311168
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Mar 21, 2019 20:49
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Everyone outside of the Universal Union likes to criticize the "17 hour war" but did you know in the west they had a 30 years war, even 100 years war? Think about that next time you want to say things that hurt the feelings of our benefactors.
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Mar 21, 2019 21:13
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IfAmerica became majority nonwhite, would Chinese still be interested?
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Mar 22, 2019 02:41
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nickmeister posted:IfAmerica became majority nonwhite, would Chinese still be interested? Does this future America still have idiots who outsource their tech to China for no benefit?
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Mar 22, 2019 03:26
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In fresh don't-do-business-with/in-China news, [large china company]'s gaming division had a major reshuffle of its execs and they put a deal they made with my company in review. I mean, that's all normal stuff, except since it's China the likelihood of any penalties for reneging actually getting paid out are slim to none. woohoo
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Mar 22, 2019 04:23
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Idiocracy but it's China
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Mar 22, 2019 06:50
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This dude seems cool, at least SCMP: Confucius-quoting Shanghai tramp becomes online celebrity ... then tells well-wishers to go away and read more books
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Mar 22, 2019 08:01
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barbecue at the folks posted:This dude seems cool, at least SCMP: Confucius-quoting Shanghai tramp becomes online celebrity ... then tells well-wishers to go away and read more books
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Mar 22, 2019 08:11
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Poor guy, labelled as a mental case for reuse reduce recycle
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Mar 22, 2019 11:47
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Kharnifex posted:Poor guy, labelled as a mental case for reuse reduce recycle Well, it is every citizen's last duty to become one with all the people.
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Mar 22, 2019 12:29
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Didn't Japan have a whole thing where on the first visits of European sailors they marvelled at chairs? I think I remember reading something on how chairs were pretty rare in the West until a couple hundred years ago. Chairs in old paintings were mainly just thrones I think. This could be complete bullshit though.
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Mar 22, 2019 12:45
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Coolguye posted:that fascination led to him being pretty drat chill with the christians, and ultimately is a large part of the reason we have a very good idea of what he looked like. a jesuit priest did a portrait of him which was in the realistic western style rather than the more symbolic and flat style favored in japan at the time. the rest of his contemporaries never liked the jesuits that much and would never consent to be painted in a similar way. On the other hand if anything it more proves that the Japanese style wasn't so bad at capturing likeness after all. Looks pretty accurate! 
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Mar 22, 2019 12:53
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:I think I remember reading something on how chairs were pretty rare in the West until a couple hundred years ago. Chairs in old paintings were mainly just thrones I think. This could be complete bullshit though. No, I'm pretty sure they've been around since forever. They're very useful in cold climates to stop your arse from freezing to the floor.
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Mar 22, 2019 13:28
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:I think I remember reading something on how chairs were pretty rare in the West until a couple hundred years ago. Chairs in old paintings were mainly just thrones I think. This could be complete bullshit though. This sounds about as well researched an accurate as "A World Lit Only by Fire" claiming midieval people didnt understand the concept of time
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Mar 22, 2019 14:23
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like you're telling me there's a culture somewhere where someone hasn't sat on a rock or log or something and gone "whoa this owns"
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Mar 22, 2019 14:34
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Monkey Fracas posted:like you're telling me there's a culture somewhere where the concept of face doesn't exist and gone "whoa this owns"
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Mar 22, 2019 15:17
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japan is a very traditional society. if sitting on the floor was good enough for my ancestors then it's good enough for me!
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Mar 22, 2019 15:26
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Japanese people don't sit on the floor, if you try it you learn pretty quick that it fuckin sucks, especially if you're old/injured/just plain tired.
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Mar 22, 2019 16:13
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:I think I remember reading something on how chairs were pretty rare in the West until a couple hundred years ago. Chairs in old paintings were mainly just thrones I think. This could be complete bullshit though. Chairs are real easy to make and its an obvious way to sit, the cavemen were probably rolling rocks into their cave corners to sit on
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Mar 22, 2019 16:18
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Though all the Japanese media has more traditional or space-starved households (of which there are many) kneeling on mats to eat, but I get the feeling that's just one way of doing things, like it's not weird for someone to sit on a chair or a bench or a stool or a couch and do so differently. I get the feeling stuff like that is mostly because only posh people could even afford chairs, or a house big enough to fit them in.
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Mar 22, 2019 16:19
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Korea is more of a floor sitting society than Japan in my experience (still blew my mind when friends would sit on the floor using their nice couch as a back rest), but thisGotLag posted:Japanese people don't sit on the floor is nonsense you will be disabused of if you spend more than like, an hour in Japan. Most restaurants in Japan have chairs though, which is nice. Korean restaurants are a crapshoot on that.
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Mar 22, 2019 16:24
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I spent over two months living with Japanese people in Kyoto and Osaka and they didn't sit on the floor.
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When I was in great Nippon everything I did took place at an onsen (Japanese for hot spring) and I kneeled in every room I was in and an elderly Japanese woman gave me food without asking or saying anything and left the room slowly without turning her back to me.
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Mar 22, 2019 17:39
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Wow chair chat today eh? Wheres the daily meltdown????
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Mar 22, 2019 17:43
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Glenn Quebec posted:When I was in great Nippon everything I did took place at an onsen (Japanese for hot spring) and I kneeled in every room I was in and an elderly Japanese woman gave me food without asking or saying anything and left the room slowly without turning her back to me. This happened to me in Korea but replace all those experiences with me covered in blood and a random person dabbing it off my face. Good times, good times.
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Glenn Quebec posted:When I was in great Nippon everything I did took place at an onsen (Japanese for hot spring) and I kneeled in every room I was in and an elderly Japanese woman gave me food without asking or saying anything and left the room slowly without turning her back to me. Was she keeping the eye contact when she did it?
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Mar 22, 2019 19:18
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I wouldn't know because I kept my stern male gaze out to the horizon wistfully, nostalgic for high school
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What an utter croc of poo poo, I lived in Japan for two years, and travelled the country extensively. Not a single chair in sight, pillows, tatami etc were the only things to sit on. Even on the train it was either sit on the floor or stand. Bicycles have a mat. This conspiracy of "Chairs" is insensitive and racist.
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Mar 22, 2019 20:00
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Japanese have an extra bone in their feet that make it impossible to sit in chairs.
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Mar 22, 2019 20:20
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What is even happening in here Japan has chairs. They also have kotatsu and those short rear end tables and stuff for sitting on the floor. Weirdest thing is the restaurants/izakaya where you sit on the floor but there's a hole under the table, so your legs have somewhere to go. Much appreciated and far more comfortable, but seems needlessly elaborate when you could just... use chairs.
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Mar 22, 2019 20:23
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I believe it's "Taking the piss". Gotta say I am laughing.
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Baronjutter posted:Japanese have an extra bone in their feet that make it impossible to sit in chairs. this is just called digitigrade
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