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Fojar38 posted:surprised Nature had the balls to publish that
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Mistle posted:Is that just Shanghai, or are other regions/cities following that order? I remember there was a very obvious march of infection going toward the ultrametropolis areas for a while, but then all the news stopped and only the random unverified mobile videos of "building door welding", "barriers hiding people" and "death wards" managed to get around the Great Wall without going past Uncle Xi. I live in a small city outside Shanghai and I've been dead for weeks.
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Atopian posted:Even if it did nothing reproductive, it'd still be funny.
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Mistle posted:NASCAR was originally about using stock-looking cars to evade the law when running bootleg alcohol. People being showoffs, wanted to show them off. Eventually, alcohol was allowed again, but people really liked turning out to watch these souped up cars tear a line down a track(the bootleg alcohol they also served at events was a tasty bonus). But do they turn right?
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oohhboy posted:But do they turn right? That's RACSAN
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Arven posted:I'm on the third of the very long books after only a month (lots of time to read in quarantine), so it's actually hard for me to think of specifics now, but here goes- This is way back, but I knew the book's perspective was twisted and decided to read it anyways. It was baffling how many choices the characters make that don't make sense. The takeaway for me was backstab and go full cannibal asap because that's how you survive in space china. It was one of the most depressing books I've read. It was verging on a hate-read by the end. My kids love the "fairy tales" though. Prince Needle-Eye is up there with Rothfuss' The Golden Screw as my kids favorite stories.
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What's with the poo poo stuff? I flew to asia a few times and every single time the bathrooms would be actually shut down permanently one by one as they became so covered in poo poo the crew couldn't keep them clean. The ones they kept open would have visible poo poo on the floors and seats and even poo poo handprints and smudges on the sink and faucets. You were lucky to have a working toilet by the time you landed at your stop over point if there was one, where they would often try to clean at least a few for the last leg of the flight. These were my first times flying so I assumed humans in a cramped tube just went a little crazy and started making GBS threads all over the floor and their hands after 12 hours. But then I went on flights nearly as long to places in Europe and the bathrooms would stay nearly totally clean throughout the entire flight. Talking to a few friends who also did long haul flights to Malaysia and China to visit family every year reported the exact same thing, that the last 4-5 hours of the flight is always unbearable due to the poo poo smeared bathrooms and piss soaked floors. Do the longer nature of flights across the pacific vs Atlantic push humans over the edge to the point of trashing the bathrooms? Do longer flights not allow staff to clean the bathrooms or airlines serving asia just not clean them as much? Cultural factors on toilet use? All it would take are a few people trying to stand on the toilet or just not quite understanding how to safely use a plane's toilet to produce messes like that.
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oohhboy posted:But do they turn right? Cars go left, fans go right.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Where's Haier? Bring him back. reeducation center, dining on the finest of chicken burgs
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you mean the finest peanut brittle
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oohhboy posted:But do they turn right? Yeah, there are always a few road courses every season. They purposefully keep it low because stock cars are really just really lightweight muscle cars. And I'm not talking about a modern muscle car where you have things like power steering, traction control, ABS, any of that modern stuff. No it's more like a muscle car from the 1970s but with 750 horse power. They don't do well on twisty tracks. The few road courses that are in the NASCAR roster see exponentially more accidents than on oval courses.
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Khorne posted:Nature is held in very high regard. I'm glad they published it. For the past decade Nature has had a problem riding the PRC's dick in its editorials
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popewiles posted:That's RACSAN *ЯAↃƧAИ
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Grand Fromage posted:Cars go left, fans go right.   Well Jilin is under "Martial Law" (as opposed to the massive amount of freedom they enjoyed previously?) Father in law said that there were some blockades going up, soldiers running around, and announcements that everyone is extra-staying inside. The official excuse was a laundry lady apparently infected 11 people (that they know about), but word on the street was that some of the smugglers coming back from Russia (big legit trade and smuggling with Russia in Jilin province) didn't self-isolate and infected like a lot of people, we're talking a few hundreds of people in one of the little "underground" distribution centers/factories. I can see the Gov saying it was one person infecting under a dozen people to save face, and I can see something like "hundreds infected from smugglers" being the Chinese equivalent of a facebook rumour. The truth is probably somewhere in the m. . . dammit South Park!
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There was some discussion of Cixin Liu a while back and how weirdly unsettling the books were in terms of narrative structural differences. IMO it's less weird if you look at them as simultaneously hard commentary on the hosed up nature of modern China and how the revolution created it, but also propaganda for the gloriousity of modern China. They've got a new one out "of Ants & Dinosaurs", in which that propaganda part has never shined brighter. Hooo boy, that novel is less subtle than a knife in the eye. Award-winning popularity hasn't altered the translation to make the structure any less alien, either.
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Well? Give us some of the juicy bits!
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Nah, I legit gave up reading it quickly and went to finish off Bone Silence instead. After struggling through 3BP and the sequels I know better than to waste my time hoping it improves at all now. Bone Silence disappointed, Alastair is losing his touch. 
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Asiana Airways opened up two direct flights to Australia at the end of this month. So I can head home and, (after my mandatory 14 day quarantine stay in a Sydney hotel), be an unemployed middle aged man in his parents spare bedroom, as opposed to being technically employed but hasn't been paid for the last 3 months over here. It's a lateral move at best. I mean, the footy isn't even going to be on.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Asiana Airways opened up two direct flights to Australia at the end of this month. So I can head home and, (after my mandatory 14 day quarantine stay in a Sydney hotel), be an unemployed middle aged man in his parents spare bedroom, as opposed to being technically employed but hasn't been paid for the last 3 months over here. I hear that soon you will be able to watch the AB's smash the wallabies again
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i read three body in english and chinese years ago and the first 2 books are fine, but probably get way more praise then they deserve. they are interesting if you've only ever read western sci-fi cuz theyre so different. the third book is complete nonsense but legit has some cool ideas. it felt like liu had those ideas and wrote a lovely book as a way to get those ideas out, cuz they're never referenced in the first two books. even within china the 3rd book gets a lot of flak for having sudden strongly misogynistic tones after the first two books didn't really have much in the way of that (not that they were feminist or anything). basically and idk if this worth spoilering one of the superweapons they encounter from an alien race is some device which collapses 3D space on itself into 2D space, but does it pretty slowly and gradually from the point of impact in a star. the characters find out this is basically the ultimate weapon that all civilizations develop if they develop enough and that the whole universe will eventually collapse onto itself and become 2D due to constant use of this weapon, but it would take millions of years to happen, cuz it spreads so slowly on a galactic scale. they also discover that originally there were far more than 3 dimensions but this has been a constant cycle that has been widdling it down. the book itself makes no sense and is sorta bad but i did like that concept, esp cuz it's not plainly described and the characters just have no loving idea what is happening at first.
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Baronjutter posted:I flew to asia a few times and every single time the bathrooms would be actually shut down permanently one by one as they became so covered in poo poo the crew couldn't keep them clean. The ones they kept open would have visible poo poo on the floors and seats and even poo poo handprints and smudges on the sink and faucets. You were lucky to have a working toilet by the time you landed at your stop over point if there was one, where they would often try to clean at least a few for the last leg of the flight. Lol
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I thought the second one was excellent just due to the Wallfacer problem as a neat story concept, sci fi or not: how do you plan to beat an entity when every thing you do or communicate to other humans is known to them. The only safe space is in your own head. And the titular realization was cool also. The pacing was a bit weird but it was a wild ride and award worthy I thought. Agreement in the first being solid but maybe gaining more traction due to being so different culturewise. It did make me want to continue seeking out stories coming out of different culture groups, I've read a lot of Russian and some amount of African literature but basically nothing from China and only short stories from Japan.Magna Kaser posted:
It was definitely part ofany weird tonal shifts from the first two. First book's most powerful character is a woman who single handedly sells out the human race. Probably not feminist but definitely a fun moment when it happened. Slightly off topic but I have tried to read more "diverse" literature especially in sci fi which led me to Three Body Problem, and along with that was the Ancillary series by Ann Leckie whose second book lost to 3BP (brought it back on topic), and is definitely feminist or in a weird way beyond feminism mattering and maybe one of my favorite book series in a while, so go read that too. threelemmings fucked around with this message at 14:47 on May 11, 2020 |
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three body problem was kind of interesting I guess? idk, I gave it 3/5 stars or whatever. it was ok, I don't understand why it got so much praise I had zero desire to read the next two books
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He was the first Chinese sci-fi author to break out in English as far as I know. Getting there first means more than quality. Maangchi's food largely sucks but she was the first to get big doing Korean recipes in English so she's the go-to now, teaching thousands how to make bad Korean food.
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Magna Kaser posted:basically and idk if this worth spoilering one of the superweapons they encounter from an alien race is some device which collapses 3D space on itself into 2D space, but does it pretty slowly and gradually from the point of impact in a star. the characters find out this is basically the ultimate weapon that all civilizations develop if they develop enough and that the whole universe will eventually collapse onto itself and become 2D due to constant use of this weapon, but it would take millions of years to happen, cuz it spreads so slowly on a galactic scale. they also discover that originally there were far more than 3 dimensions but this has been a constant cycle that has been widdling it down. This sounds incredibly stupid
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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:https://news.yahoo.com/researcher-verge-making-very-significant-030320409.html Lol never believe a university press release about the impact of someone's unpublished research
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Fojar38 posted:This sounds incredibly stupid My first thought was 'Wait, it's an intergalactic conspiracy to turn the universe into an anime?'
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ill have you know that anime now incorporates-
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Grand Fromage posted:He was the first Chinese sci-fi author to break out in English as far as I know. Getting there first means more than quality. Maangchi's food largely sucks but she was the first to get big doing Korean recipes in English so she's the go-to now, teaching thousands how to make bad Korean food. maangchi figured out how to exude ajjuma-ness on english language youtube w/o being racist on screen or having an accent too strong to understand. thats the secret, not the recipes
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Her kimchi recipe is really good though.
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Her japchae is spot on. That's why I said largely sucks, not entirely sucks. There's a few decent ones.
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Something actually cool instead of bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQwGlMEeOE
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The world would be much cooler if more places were like Bhutan and big into their traditional dress, instead of everyone everywhere dressing like they are british or americans.
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I do wish I could somehow have traveled the world safely in like, 1850. See it all when traveling to somewhere like Korea was going to a completely different reality.
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Grand Fromage posted:Something actually cool instead of bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQwGlMEeOE This is fuckin sweet
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hakimashou posted:The world would be much cooler if more places were like Bhutan and big into their traditional dress, instead of everyone everywhere dressing like they are british or americans. yeah we can be happy that western people didn't ruin the food in a lot of places the way they ruined most other things.
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Grand Fromage posted:Something actually cool instead of bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQwGlMEeOE I appreciate the effort this person went through but interpolating 60 fps from 24 frames looks so drat bad and artificial.
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McSpanky posted:I appreciate the effort this person went through but interpolating 60 fps from 24 frames looks so drat bad and artificial. Looks realm friggin good to me. The colorization is much more off-putting and I wish he's just not do that.
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Grand Fromage posted:Something actually cool instead of bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQwGlMEeOE This is really cool and I’d love to see a video on how it actually works.
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Sort of neat but bad. Running this without the source is pointless and "4k" is a joke. The "AI" has no idea how to deal with the lighting and the interpolation is distracting as it adds no real information. It's butchered and I rather just watch the original. They Shall Not Grow Old is the gold standard if you want to see something like this actually work.
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