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May 2, 2019 03:30
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It's not really that weird. Being a member brings some more benefits and more restrictions to life. It's kinda dumb that to get in you basically gotta decide when you're 8 that you want to join but it's a pretty free choice unless you got ambition for the few career paths that require party membership.
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May 2, 2019 03:51
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Modest Mao posted:It's not really that weird. Being a member brings some more benefits and more restrictions to life. What exactly are the benefits nowadays? 40 years ago, yeah sure you pretty much need CCP membership for any sort of decent job or having requests like housing/car approved/expedited. Or trying to get a job at a State owned company. One of my friend is a hydraulic engineer working for a state owned research institute. He's one of the few non party members and ends up doing extra workload for his party affiliated colleagues because of numerous party meetings all the time. He could probably join the party as well but his wife is a party member and it's so not worth joining. quote:It's kinda dumb that to get in you basically gotta decide when you're 8 that you want to join but it's a pretty free choice unless you got ambition for the few career paths that require party membership. 8 is the young pioneers which leads to extra points for the youth league, but on average people join the CCP during university. Unless you want to be a civil servant and move up, the current environment is not worth joining the party. I do think the people I meet are biased because they are disillusioned folks working in the bigger cities and can't even quit. The happier civil servant local village chiefs or in smaller towns love their extra perks and live bizzaro alternative China lives (comfortable)
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May 2, 2019 04:21
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Just curious, I just want to ask, who here actually lives and works in China or deals with party members/civil servants on a constant basis? I know one other goon but that's about it.
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May 2, 2019 04:23
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May 2, 2019 04:36
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caberham posted:Just curious, I just want to ask, who here actually lives and works in China or deals with party members/civil servants on a constant basis? You want the GBS thread for that
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May 2, 2019 05:40
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caberham posted:What exactly are the benefits nowadays? 40 years ago, yeah sure you pretty much need CCP membership for any sort of decent job or having requests like housing/car approved/expedited. Or trying to get a job at a State owned company. One of my friend is a hydraulic engineer working for a state owned research institute. He's one of the few non party members and ends up doing extra workload for his party affiliated colleagues because of numerous party meetings all the time. I have friends whose family are managers at state enterprises but beyond that and government jobs idk. Young pioneers leads to leadership roles in school, which in turn leads to etc etc. There are parents who want their kids in the party and do push their kids to do all that bullshit so they have a slight edge when they apply during college. Most young people I know who's parents are party members didn't even apply unless they want to replace their dad as manager of a regional gas enterprise or w/e. Seems like they know it's worthless. Then again I hang out with a lot of foreign educated people and artists so there's nothing in it for them
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May 2, 2019 06:11
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Darkest Auer posted:You want the GBS thread for that
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May 2, 2019 06:31
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Hello posters. Please give details of your interactions with Chinese party and government figures. Speak loudly and clearly.
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May 2, 2019 06:33
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R. Guyovich posted:Hello posters. Please give details of your interactions with Chinese party and government figures. Speak loudly and clearly. does quoting your and typos posts count
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May 2, 2019 06:41
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they bought me, the silly foreigner, a 漢堡 in exchange for precious state secrets.
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May 2, 2019 06:41
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R. Guyovich posted:Hello posters. Please give details of your interactions with Chinese party and government figures. Speak loudly and clearly. I pwned Xi in DOTA Auto Chess last night. he had it coming
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May 2, 2019 06:49
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R. Guyovich posted:Hello posters. Please give details of your interactions with Chinese party and government figures. Speak loudly and clearly. Noted CIA agent R Guy looking for tasty new spies to recruit  I actually don't think I've run into any party members, now that I think about it, but I might be wrong. I never asked, and I doubt there are many in the US anyway.
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May 2, 2019 07:09
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R. Guyovich posted:Hello posters. Please give details of your interactions with Chinese party and government figures. Speak loudly and clearly. check my post history!
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May 2, 2019 07:40
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Darkest Auer posted:You want the GBS thread for that those guys and their stories aren’t so relevant anymore. I can post stories about China during the 90s and all sorts of crazy smuggling and bribery and stuff but it’s the past
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May 2, 2019 07:43
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May 2, 2019 08:01
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If you want a managerial career in the state beaucracy you better join the party.
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May 2, 2019 08:12
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caberham posted:those guys and their stories aren’t so relevant anymore. I desire to hear more about your ‘80s action movie past in China.
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May 2, 2019 08:31
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China Is Wasting Less Solar and Wind Powerquote:The drop in wasted electricity, which industry-types call “curtailment,” suggests that the government is coming to grips with an issue that has kept cleaner energy off the grid even as policymakers try to make renewable power a greater part of the country’s energy mix. According to its latest five-year plan, the government aims to increase the mix of nonfossil power consumption to 15% by the end of the decade.
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May 2, 2019 09:11
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was just reading the same article!
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May 2, 2019 09:25
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tino posted:ASOIAF is clearly based on Chinese warring period. They just make the dragon fatter. Dany is Qin chi huang Arya is Jing Ke. and 3 kingdoms: tywin is clearly cao cao
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May 2, 2019 15:27
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This is paywalled so sorry if it answers this question, but how did that happen in the first place? The building of infrastructure in places where it isn’t working that is. Is that a common problem with solar and wind?
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May 2, 2019 15:28
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tbf this is a good if you are trying to communicate to a western audience about the intricacies of geopolitics, the closest average westerns have come to reading a polisci book is watching game of thrones. So you gotta "speak their language" I like that in China many historical dramas are very popular and thus educate the population about history and geopolitics in an entertaining fashion. Thus the average Chinese can probably name all 7 warring states. Average westerner doesn't know what the treaty of westphalia is.
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May 2, 2019 15:31
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Lightning Knight posted:This is paywalled so sorry if it answers this question, but how did that happen in the first place? The building of infrastructure in places where it isn’t working that is. Is that a common problem with solar and wind? Wasn't there a big thing with huge bitcoin rigs being built in parts of China where power was super cheap because they overbuilt power sources, including hydro? Much like with the 'ghost cities' stuff, a lot of China's development has been to throw down as much infrastructure as possible either for bragging rights or just for future development, and sometimes the development hasn't or doesn't happen. And also tends to run into problems in the long run because of graft, laziness and general half-assedness, especially when you're slapping down stuff in bumfuck nowhere and you'll be long gone by the time someone comes around to inspect it.
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May 2, 2019 15:39
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-02/chinese-surveillance-app-reverse-engineered-by-rights-group/11062670 Among the features revealed in the app used was a list of 36 different behaviours considered problematic that police could filter through the IJOP for. These included — among many other things — people who had returned from abroad, were recently released from detention, shared or engaged in Islamic activities, stopped using smartphones, failed to "socialise with neighbours", Uh oh
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May 2, 2019 15:43
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wasn't there a big thing with huge bitcoin rigs being built in parts of China where power was super cheap because they overbuilt power sources, including hydro? Much like with the 'ghost cities' stuff, a lot of China's development has been to throw down as much infrastructure as possible either for bragging rights or just for future development, and sometimes the development hasn't or doesn't happen. And also tends to run into problems in the long run because of graft, laziness and general half-assedness, especially when you're slapping down stuff in bumfuck nowhere and you'll be long gone by the time someone comes around to inspect it. Ah. Of course it’s the Bitcoiners. Well at least it’s being fixed now. Unrelated: https://twitter.com/xhnews/status/1123834855673012224?s=21 
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May 2, 2019 15:43
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https://mobile.twitter.com/YouCantWinPod/status/1123998777155751939 tHE rHizzonE bEtrayEd
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May 2, 2019 18:23
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Lightning Knight posted:This is paywalled so sorry if it answers this question, but how did that happen in the first place? The building of infrastructure in places where it isn’t working that is. Is that a common problem with solar and wind? Curtailment just means that the wind is blowing or the sun is shining and you don't need or can't use the electricity that the renewable is producing. Looks like a big part of the issue in China is that they've been building the powerplants faster than the grid infrastructure, leading to some renewables standing idle because the required grid connection cannot be made. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-solarpower/china-blocks-new-solar-in-3-nw-regions-amid-overcapacity-fears-idUSKCN1Q404G
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May 2, 2019 18:53
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Lightning Knight posted:This is paywalled so sorry if it answers this question, but how did that happen in the first place? The building of infrastructure in places where it isn’t working that is. Is that a common problem with solar and wind? from what I’ve read the big issue isn’t generation but transmission from places like gansu all the way out east to the bigger coastal cities.
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May 2, 2019 20:24
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Dreddout posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/YouCantWinPod/status/1123998777155751939 It's kinda weird that in the western world white men aren't considered subjects of authentic experiences, "I know I'm a man, but I think the way that woman spoke to me was rude." "Ugh bro please don't mansplain how woman should act" but suddenly in China we need to hear a white guy talking about What It's Really Like as real evidence of what's going on
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May 2, 2019 20:34
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Maybe that's a Healthy Suspicion that the privileged group shouldn't be trusted to hold itself accountable
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May 2, 2019 20:36
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:from what I’ve read the big issue isn’t generation but transmission from places like gansu all the way out east to the bigger coastal cities. Trabisnikof posted:Curtailment just means that the wind is blowing or the sun is shining and you don't need or can't use the electricity that the renewable is producing. thank you for your responses!
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May 2, 2019 21:07
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CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:from what I’ve read the big issue isn’t generation but transmission from places like gansu all the way out east to the bigger coastal cities. Yeah it's a problem with most if not all renewables, where transmission and storage is the big problem, since everything can fluctuate pretty heavily. I'm really interested to see if we're going to manage to figure out the next level of battery technology and where that will take us. Having a battery that can store energy without losing charge for, say, 3x as long as a li-ion battery would be enormous, doubly so if it doesn't have the risk of loving exploding or melting through the ground.
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May 2, 2019 21:15
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China will build string of military bases around world, says Pentagon quote:But target locations for military basing could include the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the western Pacific.  I wonder how the people putting out these reports can resist cursing George W. Bush and Dick Cheney every other page.
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May 3, 2019 06:51
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I think they're actually called strategic milk powder smuggling stations
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May 3, 2019 07:44
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Dreddout posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/YouCantWinPod/status/1123998777155751939 the guy who was there for three months in 2005 can definitely act as an authority on the subject
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May 3, 2019 09:32
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1124226505565822976
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May 3, 2019 09:46
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R. Guyovich posted:the guy who was there for three months in 2005 can definitely act as an authority on the subject
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May 3, 2019 09:51
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:he doesn't say that he is though. anyways it's an alright podcast. basically college radio he wrote his master's thesis on the chinese constitution without speaking or reading chinese and went on to say his time there over ten years ago gave him a strong bullshit detector.
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May 3, 2019 10:16
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fair enough but that still means he's leagues ahead of most westerners who comment about china online now i want a huawei https://twitter.com/jessefelder/status/1123978193860472833
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May 3, 2019 13:28
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