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Arglebargle III posted:The point is, whose fault was it that the fleet sank? The empress blamed the Japanese and the admirals and the sailors. Bouyancy, or lack tehreof, in conspiracy with gravity.
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When this whole coronavirus debacle kicked off, Finland were supposed to have a huge stockpile of PPE for a crisis like this, but nobody had kept the stockpile up to date, so most of it was years past its use by date. As an immediate solution, Finland ordered two million euros' worth of PPE stuff from China. When the equipment turned up, it became apparent that it did not meet the EU's standards for medical equipment (it was advertised to), but the hope was that it could still be used in non-medical fields like elderly care. Well, the shipment was distributed around Finland and it turns out that using it gives the user "severe" skin conditions, rashes and itches, so it's literally unusable. I feel like most people in this thread could've seen this coming.
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Der Shovel posted:When this whole coronavirus debacle kicked off, Finland were supposed to have a huge stockpile of PPE for a crisis like this, but nobody had kept the stockpile up to date, so most of it was years past its use by date. It's actually far weirder than that. Those failed masks came from a Finnish woman who runs an operation in Estonia-based beautician, and she sourced the masks from even shadier folks. All those failed mask may have come from the Hells Angels, who found them after falling off a truck in China. So those useless mask are Chinese, maybe, sort of, it's weird. Agency boss admits paying out millions of euros without getting hospital-grade PPE https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/agency_boss_admits_paying_out_millions_of_euros_without_getting_hospital-grade_ppe/11302278 Hells Angels and a reality TV star: How Finland’s mask shortage got weird https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-finland-hells-angels-and-a-reality-tv-star-how-mask-shortage-got-weird/ Trash-masks scandal: the 5 million paid by Finland ended up in a bank account in Belgium https://www.foreigner.fi/articulo/c...2807005239.html
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This is so convoluted they could only have been made by Kevin Bacon at this point
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golden bubble posted:All those failed mask may have come from the Hells Angels, who found them after falling off a truck in China. Yeah this is just a normal thing that happens all the time, probably half the stuff you own is from boxes that fell of a truck in China and were then discovered by the Hells Angels
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I can't believe the CCP is so desperate they've resorted to claiming they were outwitted by the Hell's Angels
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Grand Fromage posted:China has plenty of domestic demand to meet too. Judging by the air pollution a lot of the factories are definitely running again. Are these the factories that were running while empty? Not saying it's entirely showmanship(possible they were doing maintenance while the place was empty), but the fact of showmanship in that "we're already up and running, look at our electricity consumption" scenario is something you'd expect them to consider speaks to the level of government distrust that's already present. BrainDance posted:The point is, Windows is still for suckers. You're not wrong, but then again, if you think you can educate the lay people the language of computer touchers in any meaningful capacity, I have an all-in-one Windows enterprise system I'd like to sell you
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Mistle posted:Are these the factories that were running while empty? No, the air pollution has increased quite a bit over the past few weeks so they are ones that had been shut down. What capacity they're at is hard to say but the pollution doesn't lie, there's definitely more industry running than there had been. There's a lot more car traffic too which contributes some.
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Fojar38 posted:I can't believe the CCP is so desperate they've resorted to claiming they were outwitted by the Hell's Angels Those two criminal elements have been in cahoots on the West Coast for years. HA and the Big Circle Boys do bidness all the time.
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BrainDance posted:Yeah this is just a normal thing that happens all the time, probably half the stuff you own is from boxes that fell off an after-hours factory line in China and were then discovered by AliExpress sellers
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The 'trying to rule a world it refuses to understand' comment from before in the thread was real good. The times has an article about how "Beijing finds that messages that work at home can backfire abroad." The CPC's extreme mouthiness these days is so tone deaf. They can pretend at home that they aren't responsible for the virus they spawned and spread around the world, and all the tragedy and catastrophe it continues to cause for everyone, but it doesnt work outside their domestic totalitarianism and it just reminds people of what they did, and upsets them because people don't like being treated like that. Hopefully the rest of the world can work together to reduce China's GDP significantly year by year until they reform their ways.
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hakimashou posted:The 'trying to rule a world it refuses to understand' comment from before in the thread was real good. it's like the quote about conspiracy theories and nobody actually being in charge. I would love to be a fly on the wall at a politburo meeting. I bet they are a room full of headless chickens who don't know wtf to do and nobody know who is taking orders from whom. As it were but this time there won't be money to grease every palm
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Alan Smithee posted:I would love to be a fly on the wall at a politburo meeting. I bet they are a room full of headless chickens who don't know wtf to do and nobody know who is taking orders from whom. As it were but this time there won't be money to grease every palm I know this is not the most important part of this, but how loving smokey and disgusting must that room be?
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hakimashou posted:Hopefully the rest of the world can work together to reduce China's GDP significantly year by year until they reform their ways. Didn't know you advocated command economies
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Der Shovel posted:Well, the shipment was distributed around Finland and it turns out that using it gives the user "severe" skin conditions, rashes and itches, so it's literally unusable. That is sort of impressively bad. It hadn't considered it was also toxic angle. I am wondering what is the next step. Are they radioactive? Spontaneously combusts as it ages? Filled with cancer? Who knows! Speaking of tone death, headless chickens and fake numbers  .https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52321529 quote:The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus originated last year, has raised its official Covid-19 death toll by 50%, adding 1,290 fatalities. Even the BBC analysts who are usually pretty soft is starting to  .quote:Wuhan's death toll increase of almost exactly 50% has left some analysts wondering if this is all a bit too neat. GotLag posted:Didn't know you advocated command economies I am thinking more in the lines of sanctions and joining the trade war that Trump botched from the start by pissing everyone off. Re-examination of every relationship with China. Limiting China's influence in existing international institutions and isolating theirs. Openly endorsing Taiwan to either join or observer status and cleaning house out of top level WHO would be a start.
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Pretty soft? The beeb's generally candy floss until it gets to targets that don't have a history of shrieking the walls down when questioned.
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I remember back with Hard Talk where he would rip into the interviewee. It was down right brutal once blood was in the water. The comment sections without fail not matter how disconnected the subject is are full of Leopard Voters screaming liberal bias or pro EU. I am like do you even read?
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I miss that old lady on NPR who sounded like a reanimated corpse
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d0s posted:I miss that old lady on NPR who sounded like a reanimated corpse Diane Rehm is, surprisingly, still alive. I think she does podcasts now
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Der Shovel posted:Well, the shipment was distributed around Finland and it turns out that using it gives the user "severe" skin conditions, rashes and itches, so it's literally unusable. Do you have any source for this claim? The sourcing of the shipment was definitely hosed up and involved a bunch of comically shady figures, but I can't find anything on it actually being harmful as opposed to useless
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Atopian posted:It's very unlikely that anyone but a professional can maintain information security in China over long periods. Oldest one in the book. Drive an tank down a high street, you will be met with force. Hide in plain sight, you won't. It's a gamble, they have an unlimited budget. Guerrilla suggests you play to your strength and their weakness.
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Shumagorath posted:Your choice of OS doesn't matter if you end up getting questioned in the land of No Why. It barely matters in the west. For gently caress, look, it's not the app, it's not the fire wall. It's the predictive loving text, it's in the keyboard. The Chinese typewriter guy nailed it best with his click bait title: 600 million hacked (or whatever) https://youtu.be/G7gN9cRUUwo
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GotLag posted:Do you have any source for this claim? The sourcing of the shipment was definitely hosed up and involved a bunch of comically shady figures, but I can't find anything on it actually being harmful as opposed to useless https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/sub-standard_masks_cause_allergic_reactions_removed_from_use/11311098
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What am I missing here? Looks like the chords attached to her ankle when she jumps.
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Aren't bungee jump lines attached to the ankles? I would hope that line is the operator's safety line, albeit a joke of one.
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The bungee cord is already over the edge, it doesn't "Spool" out. It's hidden by the feet and the plank. Neat bit of suggestive editing zooming on to the foot like that. It's a numbers go down meme and not China centric.
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gently caress! gently caress! loving! FUCKFUCKFUGKCUGKFUGK! Expedia just sent my wife an email, and my mother in law's May 23rd flight back to China has been cancelled. I've been looking at alternative flights from Calgary to Changchun (or really anywhere nearby) and I would have to spend literal thousands of dollars to have her go from Calgary, to Vancouver, to Tokyo, to Shanghai, to Changchun. (I'm talking like $4-15k for a 27 hour flight). Or try and send her through the states (which is not an option). My plan was to send her back May 23rd. Fly my wife and son back June 16th, and I drive back June 30th with the car loaded to the gills after shipping all of our stuff back to Ontario. Looks like we're all going to be piling into a car together and almost everything we own will have to be shipped. Pretty minor "pandemic problems" compared to most. . . but gently caress this sucks.
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At least you're able to get out, my dude. Sucks though.
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Shumagorath posted:...unless you just urgently want MIL out of the house? She's been here since Dec 26th. . . so yeah, but it also throws my plans out of whack (although they were pretty much that way before I got the email). Now I have to take her back to Ontario for god knows how long, and I was really looking forward to her not having to navigate Pearson International by herself.
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Blistex posted:She's been here since Dec 26th. . . 
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hakimashou posted:Hopefully the rest of the world can work together to reduce China's GDP significantly year by year until they reform their ways. You....do know that China's 6% GDP Growth per year has more or less been bullshit since like Bush Sr. was president right?
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:You....do know that China's 6% GDP Growth per year has more or less been bullshit since like Bush Sr. was president right? China has wealth beyond measure, 6% is just an estimate.
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