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Mozi posted:https://twitter.com/ChasMorrison/status/1239655709681299458?s=20 Also, to stop doing poo poo like this: Trump 'offers large sums' for exclusive US access to coronavirus vaccine
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The debate on what to call the drink is quite clear. If you consult the ancient Chinese texts where it's first referenced, you'll see that the Chinese have been calling it "bubble tea" for millennia.  The Americans, however, became confused and unable to pronounce this foreign word and started referring to it as "boba tea" - obviously in reference to the distinctively American word "boba."
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Shadow0 posted:The debate on what to call the drink is quite clear. didnt a taiwan national make it popular in the us and he called it that?
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Mozi posted:https://twitter.com/ChasMorrison/status/1239655709681299458?s=20 It would be vastly entertaining if the psychopathic elite were drawn into helping the poor survive this in order to say that they beat China.
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Bubble tea chat is giving me flashbacks to when I lived in MA and the town I lived in had an inordinate amount of bubble tea shops. Like, places that only did bubble tea. There were something like three on Main Street. I think they’ve died back down to a sustainable level but it was so weird.
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Mar 17, 2020 15:48
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i'm within a half hour walk of 5-7 places that i know of which specialize either in burble tree or froyo and this is only possible because the three colleges which are my neighbors can only suvive economically by bulk importing rich international students. mass is wacky like that. doesn't even matter which kind of international. if you want to hold court with literal sheiks while enjoying some cake batter froyo i know just the place. there's an illegal hookah lounge and nightclub in the basement. it's up the street from a private albanian coffee club, which somehow manages to always have live soccer playing, even at 4AM.
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Mar 17, 2020 16:03
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Football is always live somewhere.
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Mar 17, 2020 16:13
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Since when do only international students like bubble tea and froyo? Frozen yogurts great probably gonna get some tomorrow now just cuz you mentioned it.
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Mar 17, 2020 16:18
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the only folks i see in these shops are international students or otaku trying to date them. why the hell would someone be an otaku for poland? poltaku. pierogi aren't even originally polish. polka sucks. now, Korea on the other hand, that's the thinking dweeb's obsession.
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BrigadierSensible posted:I assumed it was a stupid American thing. Like calling coriander 'cilantro', chick peas 'garbanzo beans' and affordable healthcare 'socialist heresy'
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Mar 17, 2020 16:23
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Nutmeg and mace should both be called nutmeg imo
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Mar 17, 2020 16:28
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Chinese internet is actually turning against Sun Yang after his trial video or whatever. Did not expect that.
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Mar 17, 2020 16:50
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Bubble tea is the drink, boba are the things inside the drink. That's how it was in Singapore.
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Mar 17, 2020 16:53
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Megillah Gorilla posted:You mean kombucha? no i mean something like this:  which i guess is thai but I think there are similar things around Asia, like chaga/reishi tea. Or maybe those are just an American abomination?
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the packages sold in asian markets are labeled anything from "tapioca pearls" to "boba pearls" to "tapioca boba." is there a special name for the juice-filled bubbles? those I only see at White People Froyo joints.
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Mozi posted:https://twitter.com/ChasMorrison/status/1239655709681299458?s=20 They have a "friendly" history with China, but I'm betting they very recently accepted a large donation from the CCP. Megillah Gorilla posted:Also, to stop doing poo poo like this: That would have been a nice reelection coup for Trump. "I personally created the vaccine that cured America! YUUUUUUUGEEEEE!"
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:the packages sold in asian markets are labeled anything from "tapioca pearls" to "boba pearls" to "tapioca boba." is there a special name for the juice-filled bubbles? those I only see at White People Froyo joints. popping bubbles they are made via a complicated (for cooks, not like actual difficult synthesis) chemical process and last like a day or so so you gotta buy constitutent chemicals
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Blistex posted:They have a "friendly" history with China, but I'm betting they very recently accepted a large donation from the CCP. Didnt America shwack the embassy there?
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Blistex posted:They have a "friendly" history with China, but I'm betting they very recently accepted a large donation from the CCP. The money is not even hidden as donations. The Serbian government is openly stating that they depend on Chinese investment to prop up economic growth https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...r-idUSKCN1U71VG quote:The Serbian government hopes that infrastructure deals will give a boost to country’s economy. It is expected by the IMF and central bank to grow by 3.5% this year, down from 4.4% a year earlier, and around 4% annually between 2020 and 2022. The Montenegro highway project mentioned cost around $1 billion. If that debt level was too much, then surely 8 billion euros is more manageable.
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https://twitter.com/carolyujiayin/status/1239583581325778944?s=12 This is some thick astroturf. Does no one realize the surveillance apparatus was in place for decades before this virus, failed to stop it and won't be turned off when it's run its course? Imagine having the gall to leverage on your own plague to normalize one of the worst things about your society.
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The current phase of the outbreak in the West has prompted an embarrassing amount of "China number 1" rhetoric from morons. It's only been a few weeks and these dumbasses have forgotten that all of this was caused by China in the first place and it is frankly outrageous that China would so opportunistically take advantage of a crisis that they caused. And because this outbreak has had the side effect of making everyone scared and stupid, it's working. It's the Paris Accords all over again
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BrigadierSensible posted:Like calling coriander 'cilantro', chick peas 'garbanzo beans' "Cilantro" is specifically a Spanish loanword iirc, and more people know it as cilantro than coriander here because you typically see it in the context of Latin American food. I believe "garbanzo bean" might be a similar situation, but I'm less sure on that one.
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I was always under the impression people said boba tea because that's what they call it in taiwan. At least that's what someone from HK told me
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Mar 18, 2020 01:21
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show bobas and vaccine
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Wow, the CCP kicked out pretty much all the NYT / WaPo / WSJ journalists. Won't be able to work from Hong Kong either. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/business/media/china-expels-american-journalists.html
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They should all go to HK and force Beijing to kick them out. Not that I think many people in HK believe China respects their sovereignty anymore, but still. Make them violate their own agreements to do it. E: Then move them all to Taiwan and report on China from there.
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Mar 18, 2020 01:32
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MyronMulch posted:show bobas and vaccine thread title please
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Jeoh posted:Wow, the CCP kicked out pretty much all the NYT / WaPo / WSJ journalists. Won't be able to work from Hong Kong either. I wonder what big thing the chinese communist regime is planning to lie about, where they wouldn't want foreign journalists around to say otherwise.
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a lot of uk/us food word differences are due to stuff becoming popularized after the americas were colonized by the english. usually it is England being lazy and using a French word while North Americans use some other thing. cilantro is the Spanish word, coriander is from French. Aubergine is just the french word for the thing, eggplant is an original English word for the same plant courgette is french, the US decided to be wacky and use zucchini which is italian on this one!!! etc... Shumagorath posted:https://twitter.com/carolyujiayin/status/1239583581325778944?s=12 If you live in China this poo poo is like barely a half step forward from the amount of surveillance they already do so no one gives a poo poo because it makes them feel marginally safer and is close to 0 extra work on their part. 99% of expats here don't really care about this cuz we all assume the gov. is already watching us all the time anyway. I'm not saying this makes it right but it's why no one who has lived in China for any period of time is even blinking at this stuff. Also I don't really think that video is saying "hey wow look how great this is!!! It's not bad at all guys!" it's way more just explaining the system???? I was more weirded out when I had to download a special app to track me from the Korean government when I transferred through Incheon cuz while I expect that stuff from China I did not from Korea.
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It's not meant for mainland viewers though; the video is in English to make the communist party's brand of authoritarian surveillance look good and necessary. It exports that model to other cultures and squelches human rights arguments.
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It's funny how rights in every country vanish when there is a problem.
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MyronMulch posted:show bobas and vaccine
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A beautiful world with beautiful places to visit
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Barudak posted:This talk of the thread title not having always been show bobas and vaccine is disharmonious 
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ded posted:It's funny how rights in every country vanish when there is a problem. But there's always been a problem in Chi- Oh. Oh I see. Well played.
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This whole article by Michael Auslin is great. Just some snippets below https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/18/beijing_fears_covid-19_is_turning_point_for_china_globalization__142686.html quote:Beijing Fears COVID-19 Is Turning Point for China, Globalization
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Sten Freak posted:Those concerned with global health issues may wonder why it is that China is wracked regularly by viral epidemics in addition to coronavirus, such as SARS, African Swine Fever, and avian flu (another outbreak is happening right now) I never actually stopped and thought about this, mostly just chalked it up to population density. Are there actual structural reasons that makes China more vulnerable (beyond stuff like certain climates helping disease prosper and wealth/lack thereof like you can see in Africa)? Does the slightly racist "Chinese medicine = exposure to weird animals" actually contribute or is that coincidental, given that people world-wide eat basically all animals and so should be getting exposed there too?
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threelemmings posted:I never actually stopped and thought about this, mostly just chalked it up to population density. Are there actual structural reasons that makes China more vulnerable (beyond stuff like certain climates helping disease prosper and wealth/lack thereof like you can see in Africa)? Does the slightly racist "Chinese medicine = exposure to weird animals" actually contribute or is that coincidental, given that people world-wide eat basically all animals and so should be getting exposed there too? Noting the existence of some communities in China having exposure to more and a greater variety of wild animals (including known disease vectors) due to TCM, wet markets, etc. is a fact and not inherently racist, though certainly some people leverage that fact to make statements that are racist or racist dog-whistles.
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LimburgLimbo posted:Noting the existence of some communities in China having exposure to more and a greater variety of wild animals (including known disease vectors) due to TCM, wet markets, etc. is a fact and not inherently racist, though certainly some people leverage that fact to make statements that are racist or racist dog-whistles. Yep. It is a legitimate factor, though the majority of why China spawns diseases so often is that the southern half or so of China is an excellent climate environment for disease and China is crazy densely populated compared to most places. Outbreaks are also more dangerous in China because it's so well connected to the rest of the world.
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