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Patrocclesiastes posted:Im thinking of touring the Japanese country side on a motorcycle, how much should i expect disdain as a foreigner No one cares.
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I'm conflicted. Was he a good doctor because he found a strain of some weird virus and tried to warn people. Or was he a bad doctor because he got sick with something treatable and died anyway.
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Waltzing Along posted:I'm conflicted. Was he a good doctor because he found a strain of some weird virus and tried to warn people. Or was he a bad doctor because he got sick with something treatable and died anyway. A doctor of contrasts.
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Feb 6, 2020 17:27
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This is a little long but it touches on a lot, Xi's ambitions and how the outbreak is affecting them, trade wars, Uighur camps, China-Russian relations etc.. https://time.com/5778994/coronavirus-china-country-future/
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Feb 6, 2020 17:33
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My capitalist brain is diseased. These outbreaks seem to happen every few years now. So facemask a are going to be expensive for a while until the current one blows over. So wait until a trough, stockpile a bunch in your basement and sell them during the next panic. I assume there's a bunch of dickheads already doing/planning this.
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Feb 6, 2020 17:35
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Feb 6, 2020 18:21
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Rule of Acquisition #23: Nothing is more important than your health... except for your money. I'm pretty sure Mao wrote that.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Rule of Acquisition #23: Nothing is more important than your health... except for your wealth. Fixed it.
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Waltzing Along posted:I'm conflicted. Was he a good doctor because he found a strain of some weird virus and tried to warn people. Or was he a bad doctor because he got sick with something treatable and died anyway. He was 70% good, 30% bad.
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Feb 6, 2020 19:29
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D-Pad posted:On the opposite end of the spectrum to bad chinese bathrooms I went to a club in Shanghai and the bathroom attendant started massaging my shoulders as I pissed in the urinal. I went with it and found it very relaxing. Oh drat, you must've found Phil Ken Sebben's VIP room.
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Uncle Xi is gonna deliver an whoooole lot of aid blankets to the uyghurs
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That doctor dying is the first thing I've seen break people since Xi declaring himself emperor for life. Even the most die hard nationalist brainworms person I know is loving livid at the party about it, first time I've ever seen her say anything negative about the PRC. Wechat is full of pissed off posts, I've never seen anything like it.
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Grand Fromage posted:That doctor dying is the first thing I've seen break people since Xi declaring himself emperor for life. Even the most die hard nationalist brainworms person I know is loving livid at the party about it, first time I've ever seen her say anything negative about the PRC. Wechat is full of pissed off posts. He (might) still be alive: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51403795
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Chen Qiushi may be missing according to r/china_flu. Go to hell CCP and the Pooh bear font color sea fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Feb 6, 2020 21:07
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Bronze Fonz posted:He (might) still be alive: Actually, everyone in China is already dead. They just don't want to admit it to save face.
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Feb 6, 2020 21:28
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Bronze Fonz posted:He (might) still be alive: Confirmed dead now. Dude was what, 34? Scary loving poo poo
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Bronze Fonz posted:He (might) still be alive: Yeah this was such a mess, for some time Chinese media in English would say he was dead, while the Chinese language editions of the same paper would be all like "we're doing everything we can to treat him".
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Feb 6, 2020 21:50
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Grand Fromage posted:That doctor dying is the first thing I've seen break people since Xi declaring himself emperor for life. Even the most die hard nationalist brainworms person I know is loving livid at the party about it, first time I've ever seen her say anything negative about the PRC. Wechat is full of pissed off posts, I've never seen anything like it. My wife who was never nationalist but one of the many "Yeah well the CCP isn't' great, but things could be worse, and in the end, we can't do anything about it" types of people. She is loving pissed off, I've never seen her react so strongly to news like this before. I wonder what this might result in if the virus and the incompetency drags on, or if people will just forget and go back to business as usual.
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Bardeh posted:Confirmed dead now. Dude was what, 34? Scary loving poo poo Yeah, it was quite a different article when I posted it. drat.
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fish and chips and dip posted:I wonder what this might result in if the virus and the incompetency drags on, or if people will just forget and go back to business as usual. As long as quality of life returns and people are still relatively wealthy then they will. People will only care if it’s part of a larger downfall, like the virus causing major long-term economic effects.
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BrigadierSensible posted:My little stories that add nothing to a couple of recent topics: afaict every anime ever produced has a pervert character that does perverted stuff, not to mention there's perverts on the buses feeling up schoolgirls and buying their underwear. I find it hard to believe a group of 20 year old women truly wouldn't understand that concept e: don't they just call all perverted stuff, including perverted people, "hentai"? Bardeh posted:Confirmed dead now. Dude was what, 34? Scary loving poo poo Yeah that kind of surprised me too. I guess I hadn't realized that it was killing healthy adults, I assumed it was mostly older people or people with compromised immune systems
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Play posted:afaict every anime ever produced has a pervert character that does perverted stuff, not to mention there's perverts on the buses feeling up schoolgirls and buying their underwear. I find it hard to believe a group of 20 year old women truly wouldn't understand that concept It wasn't that they didn't understand the concept, more they didn't understand the English word. And also that they associate the concept with a different word that is used to describe Westerners, (and Japanese people), who are overly into Japanese media.
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BrigadierSensible posted:also that they associate the concept with a different word that is used to describe Westerners, (and Japanese people), who are overly into Japanese media. sounds like they nailed it 
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LimburgLimbo posted:As long as quality of life returns and people are still relatively wealthy then they will. People will only care if it’s part of a larger downfall, like the virus causing major long-term economic effects. could unseat Xi though, if some of his yes-men turn out to be the type of yes-men who are only saying yes until they have a good opportunity for a knife in the back
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Klyith posted:could unseat Xi though, if some of his yes-men turn out to be the type of yes-men who are only saying yes until they have a good opportunity for a knife in the back Xi's only a symptom not a cause. As long as the CCP exists itll keep churning out little Stalin's because its only goal is to survive and only strongmen will keep it alive.
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LimburgLimbo posted:As long as quality of life returns and people are still relatively wealthy then they will. People will only care if it’s part of a larger downfall, like the virus causing major long-term economic effects. The GDP is gonna drop like a rock, and there is only so many clever ways CCP can prop it up before people realize that like 2 months of production were lost due to every factory ever getting plague ratted on a rotating basis. Given how hilariously cutthroat everything is in China, I could totally see someone deliberately infecting a rival factory a month or two after it reopens. It's not like virus cultures are particularly tricky to acquire and store, when 10% of your population has it.
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Outrail posted:My capitalist brain is diseased. These outbreaks seem to happen every few years now. So facemask a are going to be expensive for a while until the current one blows over. So wait until a trough, stockpile a bunch in your basement and sell them during the next panic. I assume there's a bunch of dickheads already doing/planning this. Baronjutter posted:Buy low, sell high. The market will provide. Wealth beyond Klyith posted:could unseat Xi though, if some of his yes-men turn out to be the type of yes-men who are only saying yes until they have a good opportunity for a knife in the back The problem with "playing along" as a yes man/useful idiot is that you have to outmaneuver the person you're trying to unseat, and Xi Jinpooh Bear is smart enough to get the useful idiots out before he gets got, so to say.
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Bangkok also has bathroom attendants who give massages and warm towels after you wash your hands. These are also legit clubs as far as anything in Bangkok is legit. The attendants expect a tip of like $0.60 per massage though.
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Friend tried to get into student exchange in China for his last semester of law school, worked hard as poo poo for the last few years and now because of the outbreak exchange was canceled. Feel so sorry for poor bastard
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RustyKnight posted:Friend tried to get into student exchange in China for his last semester of law school, worked hard as poo poo for the last few years and now because of the outbreak exchange was canceled. Feel so sorry for poor bastard ...to China or from China?
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Given how hilariously cutthroat everything is in China, I could totally see someone deliberately infecting a rival factory a month or two after it reopens. It's not like virus cultures are particularly tricky to acquire and store, when 10% of your population has it. Like they literally did with the African swine fever, except people instead of pigs.
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RustyKnight posted:Friend tried to get into student exchange in China for his last semester of law school, worked hard as poo poo for the last few years and now because of the outbreak exchange was canceled. Feel so sorry for poor bastard Baffled why a law student would want to cap off their legal studies by spending a semester in a place with an almost complete absence of rule of law or fair judiciary.
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Known Lecher posted:Baffled why a law student would want to cap off their legal studies by spending a semester in a place with an almost complete absence of rule of law or fair judiciary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1iCZpFMYd0
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RustyKnight posted:Friend tried to get into student exchange in China for his last semester of law school, worked hard as poo poo for the last few years and now because of the outbreak exchange was canceled. Feel so sorry for poor bastard Tell them to spend their summer or whatever in Taiwan and get all the good stuff and less of the bullshit.
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Known Lecher posted:Baffled why a law student would want to cap off their legal studies by spending a semester in a place with an almost complete absence of rule of law or fair judiciary. Good practice for America.
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Trump trying to be the Piglet to Xi's Pooh Bear: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1225728755248828416?s=19
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Did the CCP kill that Dr for shaming them by bringing to light a virus? Probably not. But, how does a perfectly healthy Dr die of a treatable illness, especially when he is the one who started researching it first. Contracting it makes sense. But after that, he should be okay. Does it do more than give you pneumonia?
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there are plenty of resources that document the effects of the virus generally healthy adults would be expected to survive this but some immune reactions have been noted that could disproportionately effect younger healthy people. in his specific case they probably won't release more info. seems likely to me he was overworked and exhausted, was infected, and probably just got unlucky - it's hard to imagine that the CCP wouldn't have pulled out the stops to keep him alive once his situation was serious. i'm sure the reaction by the public was anticipated if you're suggesting they killed him or let him die that just doesn't make any sense at all in this case
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Mozi posted:there are plenty of resources that document the effects of the virus The doctor's name was the most censored word on Chinese internet this past day or two. People are pissed about how that went down, mostly about the government refusing to credit his warning and even accusing him of trying to foment unrest or whatever. They'll forget about it soon enough, though
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Oh yeah for sure. It's tragic and he's a clear symbol of how the government failed the people. Whether or not he's forgotten will depend on how things go from here; there are some indications that the spread may be slowing but given the uncertainty only more time will tell for sure. If it's not slowing and the effects both heath and economic continue to worsen then it could be the beginning of a larger movement, possibly. (Probably not but I'd be happy to be surprised.) My point was just that I don't suspect foul play in his passing - the CCP would have much preferred he survive to be able to tell everyone afterwards that the CCP is just fine and dandy. Mozi fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Feb 7, 2020 |
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