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I was under the impression that burn barrels are actually a pretty crappy way to destroy documents compared to good-quality shredders (might not burn everything, unburned pieces might waft away on updrafts, etc)....unless you need to get rid of a lot of stuff in a hurry, for some reason. Edit: there's rumors they're being "evicted" in a few days but no idea how or why, since I would assume that would be quite a diplomatic incident if true.
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iirc bleach + water slurry is preferred when possible, that'll dissolve everything burn barrels what is this the loving roman empire!
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Once China owns all the large game making companies, I wonder if the games will all be as bad as the millions of YouTube ads I get for lovely mobile games with Chinese people at a restaurant speaking in dubbed English about said lovely mobile game. https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/23698
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Porfiriato posted:Edit: there's rumors they're being "evicted" in a few days but no idea how or why, since I would assume that would be quite a diplomatic incident if true. If true it would likely be related to the indictment of those two Chinese nationals for like a full decade's worth of espionage including targeting Covid-19 researchers
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falun gong sux
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Squalid posted:https://www.businessinsider.com/china-warns-uk-it-will-bear-consequences-of-defying-beijing-2020-7 Ah yes, totally consistent, just like what they've done with the nine dash line and international maritime law in the South China Sea.
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Stuntman posted:defending cults to justify my weird obsession with hating chinese people for the epic win its kinda weird to see this directed at me since if you actually look at my post history itt i come across as quite the simp for mainland china. i don't really recognize you but presumably you are just another random idiot here to troll a thread they haven't read for god knows what reason.
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HK boomers are like some of the worst boomers on the planet
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quote:The United States ordered China to close its diplomatic consulate in Houston, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Wednesday, dealing another blow to the rapidly deteriorating relations between the two countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/world/asia/us-china-houston-consulate.html
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Global Times running a poll on which American consulate in PRC to close in retaliation. Everyone write-in Lowtax.
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Shumagorath posted:Global Times running a poll on which American consulate in PRC to close in retaliation.
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How much face do you think Supreme Daddy Xi is losing right now
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So the US consulate that China has decided to make close is in .... Wuhan.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:So the US consulate that China has decided to make close is in .... Wuhan. They got us all in check.
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Jul 22, 2020 15:04
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:So the US consulate that China has decided to make close is in .... Wuhan. Well at least, they had already accomplished their mission by distributing plague-ridden bats to the local wet market. Aren't consulates and "diplomats" mostly thinly-veiled cover for government spies anyway? Also,  vilerat
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sticksy posted:Well at least, they had already accomplished their mission by distributing plague-ridden bats to the local wet market. Wuhan crew is apparently something to gently caress with. And they usually (almost always) have some spies with official cover there but I wouldn’t say mostly. Someone with diplomatic status will typically just be ejected from the country, someone with nonofficial cover can be imprisoned/executed. E:This is why I’ll never go back to China, the OPM hack had them get my SF86 from when I applied to the state department after college, and I recently worked for a construction company that’s been used as non official cover for espionage in the past, so I’m not even chancing some kind of insane overreaction to my work history. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jul 22, 2020 |
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Yeah, consulates have intelligence people but mostly it's just bureaucrats handling passports and visas. Wuhan means all the consulates are coastal except Chengdu now, so that's a pain in the rear end.
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I've got a friend who won't shut up about how the three gorges dam is going to collapse at any moment. I can't find any non-questionable news sources about this, but at the same time it is China. Is there actually a chance this happens?
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the three gorges dam will collapse at the same time as the ccp
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Houston we have a problem Just wanted to get that out here, I haven't read up, apols if I'm the 100th version of it
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I mean, there's always a chance. But there's no particular reason to think it's moments from collapse right now. There's no source for that which isn't weird, but if it were happening we wouldn't know because there's no media in China that could report on it. I don't know where the rumor started but I'm going to guess inside someone's rear end in a top hat.
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D-Pad posted:I've got a friend who won't shut up about how the three gorges dam is going to collapse at any moment. I can't find any non-questionable news sources about this, but at the same time it is China. actually, do you know USA sucks? makes you think sorry just using this space practicing for CSPAM
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D-Pad posted:I've got a friend who won't shut up about how the three gorges dam is going to collapse at any moment. I can't find any non-questionable news sources about this, but at the same time it is China. All stories are single sourced from a falun gong nut job, so take them with a huge grain of salt.
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stephenthinkpad posted:And we all know Trump polling number has been pretty bad recently. If the Trump number is still terrible come Sep/Oct I wouldn't be surprise if Trump throw a hail mary. What is a hail mary you ask? I wouldn't be surprised if Trump bomb the military structures on the SCS man made islands. Something like this place. I can't follow all these different reefs in SCS but if US want to do something militarily, I would put money on one of the rocks inside Philippine's claim. someone make this my avatar
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i'm sure the dam is hosed up somehow given what a bad idea it was in the first place but i doubt anybody not actually working on the thing knows for sure; certainly anybody who talks with confidence about when it will fall down doesn't know what they're talking about
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Mozi posted:i'm sure the dam is hosed up somehow given what a bad idea it was in the first place but i doubt anybody not actually working on the thing knows for sure; certainly anybody who talks with confidence about when it will fall down doesn't know what they're talking about Yeah basically. It probably wasn't constructed well, but you can say that about literally anything in China.
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I mean there are things like "all the engineers families have suddenly decided to live with in-laws out of town"
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If they thought the dam was going to collapse, could they not start letting the water out even if it meant widespread but gradual flooding downstream? Came into the thread because I stumbled upon this rumour, and it basically sounds like the worst thing in the history of civilisation if this were to happen.
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kaesarsosei posted:If they thought the dam was going to collapse, could they not start letting the water out even if it meant widespread but gradual flooding downstream? They have been letting water out as the water level is very, very high. The question is whether they can let enough water out fast enough. There has seemingly also been some deformation of one of the dams, but it remains to be seen how bad it actually is. Warbadger fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jul 22, 2020 |
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kaesarsosei posted:If they thought the dam was going to collapse, could they not start letting the water out even if it meant widespread but gradual flooding downstream? Warning: Not a professional damnologist engineer scientist expert You can see what happened to the California Oroville Dam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam_crisis Basically Dams have normal ways to let water through (to generate power in this case) and also other gates and openings. Then they also have 'Oh poo poo' options like emergency spillways and other things to just dump water over the side. However a few things can happen 1) The 'Oh poo poo' options are infrequently used and don't always work right 2) The pressure of water flowing through the drat can be so high that it starts to erode and tear pieces of the drat off or gently caress up the surrounding soil 1 and 2 are basically what happened in Oroville. 3) The water flow is so great that even with all the extra stuff open the water either cracks the drat or starts flowing over it and tearing it apart.
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Warbadger posted:They have been letting water out as the water level is very, very high. The question is whether they can let enough water out fast enough. what's the source on the deformation thing? i haven't seen anything about that but it sounds alarming.
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I saw an article saying the dam was 15 metres from overflowing. To be honest, given the size of the dam, that seems pretty safe to me.
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Squalid posted:what's the source on the deformation thing? i haven't seen anything about that but it sounds alarming. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3017927/no-problem-all-chinas-three-gorges-dam-warping-rumours-denied It's not necessary worrying. Dams do get deformed a bit over time.
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The Dam started exhibiting surface cracking almost immediately after it was built but concerns were dismissed that it was expected and planned for in the design. Those cracks have gotten visibly worse over time but again, same dismissal. Will the Dam fail? Probably one day. Is it a fools errand to predict when? Also probably. The thing is, without thorough survey of the drat by a team of independent engineers, it's not really possible to say one way or the other what state it's in and it's such a huge status project for the CCP, the results of any such survey would almost certainly be kept entirely within the party. I personally think rumors have gotten started up again recently because of all the rain that China has been getting hit by lately and it is just making people nervous.
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Reminds me of when the Lotte World Tower was under construction in Seoul, the foundation started visibly cracking and the builders said "oh those are decorative cracks meant to evoke 60's Seoul, don't worry about it". 
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This apartment is excellent, especially the decorative mold and atmospheric cockroaches for that authentic gilded age feel
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Probably worth mentioning that there was some sensationalist bullshit a couple months ago about how the dam was showing "severe warping" in Google's satellite images. Example: I checked it out on Google Maps myself at the time and sure enough, that's the imagery that Google had. It was pretty obviously just a bad set of photos (probably warped by vibrations on the camera), not an actual case of a large dam going full Tim Burton. If you look at the dam on Gmaps now, it's completely straight. That's not to say the dam is currently safe. All experts whose opinions aren't obviously compromised by the CCP seem to agree that it's at huge risk of failure.
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Without knowing a single thing about the dams engineering beyond "CCP Vanity Project" and "largest dam in the world" I wouldn't want to be within 20 miles of it.
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Devils Affricate posted:Probably worth mentioning that there was some sensationalist bullshit a couple months ago about how the dam was showing "severe warping" in Google's satellite images. Example: Like, do people think things compress like that?
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