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Grand Fromage posted:I'm increasingly confused and a little intrigued. think of it as, "something so common that you'll get it anywhere," attack choppers flying all over the place for practice is something you're as likely to see in developed free world countries too 
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Fur20 posted:think of it as, "something so common that you'll get it anywhere," attack choppers flying all over the place for practice is something you're as likely to see in developed free world countries too Okay? I don't see the connection to my post though. I posted a cool helicopter I saw, that's it.
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Mar 26, 2021 19:40
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yeah it's a funny picture man i don't mean to be a downer or anything
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Mar 26, 2021 19:42
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Fur20 posted:yeah it's a funny picture man i don't mean to be a downer or anything It's been A Week, I'm probably just oversensitive and feeling accused for no reason. No worries. I always liked that the big air force base in Chengdu is hidden on all the maps. Nobody knows where it is! Especially the US, which built it in WW2!
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Mar 26, 2021 19:45
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GPS skew in China just reminds me of those PLA orienteering videos where the infantry don't know what the gently caress
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Mar 26, 2021 20:52
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Dont Touch ME posted:cotton isn't even a "top quality" material to begin with. high quality textiles are made from linen or wool. cotton is a crappy economic middle-ground between cheap hydrocarbon-based fibers and the actual good stuff. ..abuh? Cotton absolutely is a "top quality" material if you're going to be grouping it with linen and/or wool. You can't substitute it with wool or (flax) linen for anywhere near the same effect or properties. It's not a global textile staple because "we can't afford to produce anything better."
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Mar 26, 2021 22:51
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Yeah for many textiles cotton is the ideal material, and very high quality cotton is an expensive premium material, the best material available for many purposes.
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Mar 27, 2021 00:01
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Wool or linnen underwear thanks but no.
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Mar 27, 2021 00:04
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Mar 27, 2021 00:21
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Oh yeah, I've seen a bunch of those brands in China. New Balance is weirdly popular to rip off, I've seen several versions. Never thought of it as a big enough brand to bother with.
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A question: The Chinese 'backlash' against companies boycotting Xinjiang cotton got me thinking about it, but I suppose it could apply to other ethical corporate decisions. Has anyone crunched the numbers on the purely financial benefits of making an ethical decision? i.e. You boycott Xinjiang cotton, and do so publicly with a press release saying "slave labour is bad so we won't buy poo poo off of the people using it". CCP shills get pissy, and you lose a percentage of Chinese customers. But you gain a bunch of loyal "woke" lefty customers, who will choose your company over others, often at a higher price point. Is there a universal beep boop financial algorithm that covers this, or do the bean counters have to weigh it up on a case by case basis? Because, pretty much anywhere in the world an anti-CCP statement by a brand/company done on humanitarian grounds, (or at least phrased that way), is positive publicity. And positive publicity is what corporations want. I suppose the issue is, is that positive publicity worth the actual physical problems that being anti-CCP cause in the Chinese market.
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BrigadierSensible posted:A question: The Chinese 'backlash' against companies boycotting Xinjiang cotton got me thinking about it, but I suppose it could apply to other ethical corporate decisions. There are a very large number of people in China to sell things to. If all of them decide that the honor of the vicious racist imperialism of their communist government and racist ethno-state is worth boycotting your products over, there might not be enough good people in the rest of the world to make up for it.
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hakimashou posted:There are a very large number of people in China to sell things to. If all of them decide that the honor of the vicious racist imperialism of their communist government and racist ethno-state is worth boycotting your products over, there might not be enough good people in the rest of the world to make up for it. This is true. But in my limited experience in China, most people don't give that much of a poo poo as to what brands the CCP tells them to buy/not buy. So I suppose I am wondering if the percentage of lost customers is that great. It's also true though, that the CCP itself can gently caress companies by banning them from the market entirely, thus denying them access to all of the Chinese people as you say. So I suppose the mathematical financial equation isn't as complicated as I initially thought it to be.
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Mar 27, 2021 01:25
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The 200 IQ play is to do what Hugo Boss was doing and tell everyone in China you're using Xinjiang cotton, and tell everyone outside of China that you don't. 
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Grand Fromage posted:Oh yeah, I've seen a bunch of those brands in China. New Balance is weirdly popular to rip off, I've seen several versions. Never thought of it as a big enough brand to bother with. New balance has been really popular with the youths recently makes sense. I got called the cool teacher for wearing expensive dad shoes so my fat rear end didn’t make my feet hurt lol. They call em newbies lol
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Mar 27, 2021 01:34
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Grand Fromage posted:Oh yeah, I've seen a bunch of those brands in China. New Balance is weirdly popular to rip off, I've seen several versions. Never thought of it as a big enough brand to bother with. Who is Mik? His name seems to carry a lot of weight, at least in the cookie sector.
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:New balance has been really popular with the youths recently makes sense. I got called the cool teacher for wearing expensive dad shoes so my fat rear end didn’t make my feet hurt lol. They call em newbies lol At least they correctly identified you   Also don't forget China's most famed convenience store brand.  I always shop at SCSHHSYYXZRGS
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Mar 27, 2021 01:50
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Grand Fromage posted:I always shop at SCSHHSYYXZRGS It's like the inverse of how people in the West will put random Chinese or Japanese letters on things in order to make them look "asian"
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Mar 27, 2021 01:56
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Fojar38 posted:It's like the inverse of how people in the West will put random Chinese or Japanese letters on things in order to make them look "asian" Oh yeah that happens constantly in East Asia. It's a lot of fun. I enjoy all the knockoffs too, especially when they're funny.
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Mar 27, 2021 01:57
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I enjoy my big bulge while getting tag teamed by two circles
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Mar 27, 2021 02:00
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Ah, the infamous dildo-cycle. To meddle while you pedal.
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Mar 27, 2021 02:04
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Considering this whole this about the atrocities against Uighurys this logo is especially hosed up
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Mar 27, 2021 02:06
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Grand Fromage posted:Oh yeah that happens constantly in East Asia. It's a lot of fun. I enjoy all the knockoffs too, especially when they're funny. My all-time favorite (pic not mine but I had identical): 
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Mar 27, 2021 02:07
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The logo looks like one of those Ai generated images that resemble a real object but are totally indescribable
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Mar 27, 2021 02:09
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Gaius Marius posted:The logo looks like one of those Ai generated images that resemble a real object but are totally indescribable local goon baffled by jeans
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Grand Fromage posted:Oh yeah that happens constantly in East Asia. It's a lot of fun. I enjoy all the knockoffs too, especially when they're funny. I had a Chinese teacher who had said he was proud of how he had translated his surname into English so foreigners could easily say his name, until he went to the US and found out that "Bark" (汪) was not a real name.
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EngineerJoe posted:What choice does he have? Give up everything or toe the line. Sure it would be nice to have integrity but its hard to blame someone for making this choice. my girlfriend is super disappointed since basically everyone she admired in her childhood are just gone, but she understands that even if you've made enough money to afford integrity they can still go after your family, send in the wumao armies or disappear you from a foreign country
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Don Gato posted:I had a Chinese teacher who had said he was proud of how he had translated his surname into English so foreigners could easily say his name, until he went to the US and found out that "Bark" (汪) was not a real name. He just has to change the spelling a little. Bach works fine.
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HugeGrossBurrito posted:New balance has been really popular with the youths recently makes sense. I got called the cool teacher for wearing expensive dad shoes so my fat rear end didn’t make my feet hurt lol. They call em newbies lol Did you ever teach in China? Don't recall reading any of your stories.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:.... that's wang.... Have you never experienced the attitude of people assuming Chinese is some kind of unpronounceable language to foreigners before? I've also encountered it to a lesser extent with Korean and Japanese. Makes no sense to me since it's not like there are any sounds there that are foreign to English but it's fun asking people what their Western names are.
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Dongsturm posted:He just has to change the spelling a little. Bach works fine. He could just use Bark. I went to church with someone who's last name was Bark. It's an uncommon name but my surname is more uncommon.
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Mar 27, 2021 03:23
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My best friend in China's english name was "Migga" which he insisted was in fact an english name
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hakimashou posted:My best friend in China's english name was "Migga" which he insisted was in fact an english name this is not at all related to your post but gently caress me whenever i see an image of a pickaxe i cant help but imagine the feeling of the pointy end being driven through my skull it's starting to worry me a little ngl (future readers, their avatar was a pickaxe when i wrote this)
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hbag posted:this is not at all related to your post but gently caress me whenever i see an image of a pickaxe i cant help but imagine the feeling of the pointy end being driven through my skull Trotsky, is that you?
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Wool or linnen underwear thanks but no. If I could afford it, I'd wear merino underwear all the time. I've got a merino base layer I use for cold weather backpacking and hunting and it kicks rear end.
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Teketeketeketeke posted:My all-time favorite (pic not mine but I had identical): A boxing centaur squats and shits a dead goose while dropping their GIANT KEY
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