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The PRC is going to attempt a Mars mission tomorrow so be careful if you happen to be in any remote Chinese villages
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Jul 23, 2020 00:13
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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB3RgJNRxv0&t=717s
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Fojar38 posted:The PRC is going to attempt a Mars mission tomorrow so be careful if you happen to be in Manhattan
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Jul 23, 2020 01:14
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Grand Fromage posted:Another fun fact, since you aren't allowed to have that data you can't, say, know where the thousands of faults in that very seismically active region are so you can avoid building on top of them. Oh yeah, this part seems very China.
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Jul 23, 2020 01:31
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Can someone educate me or post a good link about why the three gorges dam is so unsafe/at risk of failure? I know it’s a huge dam but beyond that nothing
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Jul 23, 2020 01:47
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Fojar38 posted:The PRC is going to attempt a trash delivery to Mars
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Jul 23, 2020 02:33
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Can't have dam chat in the china thread without talking about the Banqiao Dam disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure Everybody's favorite part is when they called in airstrikes against downstream dams to relieve pressure, the guy who made that call had balls made of, well, reinforced concrete. Also I would like to see a transcript of the phone call to the airforce C/O who dispatched the bombers. "You want us to WHAT in the next 30 minutes?!"
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Jul 23, 2020 04:12
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Fojar38 posted:The PRC is going to attempt a Mars mission tomorrow so be careful if you happen to be in any remote Chinese villages Apparently the launch is in roughly half an hour. Very approximately 11:40 PM central US time. Stream from some guy on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG2t5FgALSs
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Jul 23, 2020 05:04
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Number_6 posted:Apparently the launch is in roughly half an hour. Very approximately 11:40 PM central US time. I guess it didn’t blow up?
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Jul 23, 2020 06:09
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Looks like it probably went fine, although since it's China they naturally cut the feed right around the time of a visible burst that was probably the booster separation So the easiest part is over
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Jul 23, 2020 06:15
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Can't wait for all of the inevitable shrapnel and other space chabuduo to knock out everyone else's satellites
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Jul 23, 2020 06:32
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BigSexy posted:Can someone educate me or post a good link about why the three gorges dam is so unsafe/at risk of failure? I know it’s a huge dam but beyond that nothing So I started the dam chat, and I can't even say exactly why it may be at risk of failure other than China is having historic flooding and the typical stuff about the kinds of corners that sometimes get cut in chinese construction projects. I can say that I went on a cruise down the yangtze in the summer of 2008 right before the dam was completed and it is unbelievably huge and holding back an unbelievable amount of water even when it isn't flooding. An assload of people and infrastructure are downstream of it. I have no idea if this is just dumb rumor or not, but if it were to actually fail it would be one of, if not the, largest man made disaster in modern history.
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Jul 23, 2020 06:33
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I have a friend who is an engineer who works with concrete a lot. She says that the Chinese explanation—“the dam has deformed a little but is within design tolerance”—is not a good explanation because the whole point of concrete is that it isn’t supposed to deform unless you’re putting it under more pressure than it’s rated for. The dam is also anchored by porous limestone, which could absorb the water and cause landslides.
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Jul 23, 2020 13:20
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I don't know what I'm talking about either, but it destroyed a lot of unique ecological habitat, it was supposed to control the flood risk for places downstream in perpetuity (poo poo flooded badly this year anyways), it was constructed in haste and just by being there it creates the massive risk of its failure. Altogether a bad idea that was only made because it was really big and impressive (to the CCP brass.)
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Jul 23, 2020 13:27
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By contrast, the main engineer said that the dam was build such that the concrete mixture hardens (or whatever it does) as is spends time under water, and this is just the first time that happens and the dam will be more solid going forward. And also, that that's all planned and people should chill out, because the dam can hold double the pressure it does now and is build in such a way that it becomes more solid as water pushes against it etc. etc. I have no, none, zero idea about what is true or not.
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Jul 23, 2020 13:31
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Realistically, the CCP is going to pour every resource into making sure the drat doesn't fail (at this stage anyway). But can it be just patched up in perpetuity?
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Jul 23, 2020 16:03
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I'd be more concerned with something like global warming increasing the chances of a massive deluge that either exceeds capacity or somehow exposes some other underlying weakness that otherwise wouldn't have been a problem. Certainly hope that doesn't happen though as the consequences would be not great.
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Jul 23, 2020 16:13
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Magna Kaser posted:tiktok has always been banned in china. it's like super blocked too, a VPN won't work. if you have a Chinese SIM or a like Chinese phone even with a VPN it won't work. Lol that’s hilarious I doubt many people outside China know that. I mean it makes total sense you can’t have a social media platform that’s open to both the world and China. Shaocaholica fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jul 23, 2020 |
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Jul 23, 2020 16:39
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I guess you just call that another part of the Great Firewall? I don't know that name just isn't as fun as the Iron Curtain. The Steel (with boron characteristics) Curtain
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Jul 23, 2020 16:49
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I've always wondered how they do the superbanning. I tried to install an apk of Google Play onto my Chinese phone and if you tried to install it, the phone just shut the installation down immediately without any notification. That was the only install that would do it.
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Jul 23, 2020 16:58
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Post this any time someone claims China isn't imperialist: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/china-at-sea quote:Unmasking China's invisible fleet Grand Fromage posted:I've always wondered how they do the superbanning. I tried to install an apk of Google Play onto my Chinese phone and if you tried to install it, the phone just shut the installation down immediately without any notification. That was the only install that would do it.
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Jul 23, 2020 19:02
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Shumagorath posted:I forget exactly how Google / non-Google Android works but essentially if you aren't fully complying with Google's soft monopoly on Android they lock you out of all their services. Which brand was it? It was a Xiaomi. I was doing it offline so it was something in the phone shutting it down.
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Jul 23, 2020 19:06
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Grand Fromage posted:I've always wondered how they do the superbanning. I tried to install an apk of Google Play onto my Chinese phone and if you tried to install it, the phone just shut the installation down immediately without any notification. That was the only install that would do it. I imagine it might just have a list of package names/IDs that it will refuse to install.
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Jul 23, 2020 21:50
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je1 healthcare posted:Realistically, the CCP is going to pour every resource into making sure the drat doesn't fail (at this stage anyway). But can it be just patched up in perpetuity? nah it's cheaper just to bomb their own dam and then blame <domestic minority> so china can get even MORE slave labor!
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Jul 23, 2020 22:42
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Apparently Chinese nationalists are mad at Ghost of Tsushima because it's about Samurai killing Mongols, who they think are Chinese.
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Jul 24, 2020 01:57
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Got yelled at many a time for saying Genghis Khan and the Mongols were not Chinese.
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Jul 24, 2020 02:01
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I heard on the radio that we've apprehended some of the chinese regime's spies for lying on their visa applications about being in the PLA. The risk of being the random foreigner they kidnap in retaliation has gone up!
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Jul 24, 2020 02:02
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Grand Fromage posted:Got yelled at many a time for saying Genghis Khan and the Mongols were not Chinese. It's really weird to me how they are trying to claim one of the biggest piece of poo poo empires in history as "theirs" but then again it's pretty in line with fascism where all that matters is perceived power
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Jul 24, 2020 02:05
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Anyone who conquers China automatically becomes Chinese.
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I can't believe that the British Empire was actually a Chinese Empire
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He was born in what is present day Northern Mongolia, like not even a border town or something.
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You just have to get people used to the idea that they're Chinese so that there won't be any complaining when they are helpfully brought back into the empire.
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Jul 24, 2020 03:53
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Grand Fromage posted:Got yelled at many a time for saying Genghis Khan and the Mongols were not Chinese. this also happened to me, from two university professors, no less. lol. you do you, China
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Jul 24, 2020 04:57
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So the great wall of china was built to protect the great and powerful chinese people from the barbarous and horrible chinese people?
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BrigadierSensible posted:So the great wall of china was built to protect the great and powerful chinese people from the barbarous and horrible chinese people? you're a foreigner, you wouldn't understand
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BrigadierSensible posted:So the great wall of china was built to protect the great and powerful chinese people from the barbarous and horrible chinese people? it was built to protect against the 匈奴 you simpleton. who are they? who knows! also ive seen this posted on wechat like 4000 times already and its a p good pun  "why close the chengdu [consulate]?" "because too many people there talk about trump/speak sichuanese accented mandarin." the pun doesnt work in english but the word used to describe sichuanese accented mandarin is a 1:1 homonym with one of the main accepted ways to say trump. this ends chinese corner today.
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Jul 24, 2020 07:49
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Magna Kaser posted:this ends chinese corner today. on the chinese darknet, some brave troll explains to his friends why some american forum is talking about Chicken Sandwiches relative to chinese politics
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Jul 24, 2020 08:37
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加油川普 - Jia you chuan Po (jar yo trum Po) Go Trump!
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Apparently a livestream of the three gorges with all the sluice gates fully open, it's been going for a few hours at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhddcv7p2QM
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