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Atopian: Sep 23, 2014; I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.

low key sex master posted:

Mandatory sex for all married citizens

You will comply, or you will die

Look, there are two ways to solve the problem "more old people than young people", and one of them is "have more babies".

Help one way or help the other.

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His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

What do chinese people think about potatoes anyway?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02230-1

quote:

China�s ambitious plan to make the potato a staple crop could slash greenhouse-gas emissions � if the country�s diners sacrifice some of their rice consumption.

# ? Sep 10, 2021 08:06

His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

*were

still better than swedens tho

# ? Sep 10, 2021 08:07

Nothingtoseehere: Nov 11, 2010

Ailumao posted:

this was actually one of the reasonable claims of why china just annihilated all training schools and after school classes for kids. theyre also supposedly cutting back on homework. i got no idea what will actually happen here or how long it'll hold or any other various side effects and other things that may happen.

of course 2 weeks ago they also made it so kids can only play video games 3 specific hours a week so idk what they want kids to do with all the free time?? maybe sports or smth idk.

If you wanna get kids to gently caress, making sure they aren't just stuck inside playing games or doing homework but instead spend time hanging out in person (possibly with alchohol) is one way to do it.

Does sound like they are squashing the negative aspects without giving guidelines on positive replacements though, so they'll probably just spend their time on streams or social media instead.

# ? Sep 10, 2021 08:13

ThisIsJohnWayne: Feb 23, 2007; Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!

His Divine Shadow posted:

still better than swedens tho

# ? Sep 10, 2021 08:14

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His Divine Shadow posted:

still better than swedens tho

The most aggressive antivaxxer on my Facebook feed is Swedish so I guess this tracks.

# ? Sep 10, 2021 08:31

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Devils Affricate posted:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58506598

Welp, these people are hosed. Honestly this didn't happen earlier, though.

Every time this happens, I'm glad we didn't return those artefacts from the British Museum.

# ? Sep 10, 2021 09:31

Don Gato: Apr 28, 2013; Actually a bipedal cat.; Grimey Drawer

Grand Fromage posted:

Let's not be crazy, South Korea has like, eight megacorps that run everything.

I love how the Korean word for their giant corporations, Chaebol, is literally just the Korean reading of the characters for Zaibatsu (财阀/財閥cái fá if you're curious). Not even pretending to be anything less than a megacorp.

Also related but reading Samsung in Japanese is funny, unless my Japanese is completely gone then I'm pretty sure the Hanja are read as Mitsuboshi, or Three Stars.

Don Gato fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Sep 10, 2021

# ? Sep 10, 2021 10:42

Ailumao: Nov 4, 2004

Don Gato posted:

I love how the Korean word for their giant corporations, Chaebol, is literally just the Korean reading of the characters for Zaibatsu (财阀/財閥cái fá if you're curious). Not even pretending to be anything less than a megacorp.

Also related but reading Samsung in Japanese is funny, unless my Japanese is completely gone then I'm pretty sure the Hanja are read as Mitsuboshi, or Three Stars.

Doesnt Samsung just mean "three stars" in Korean so isn't that what it should be in Japanese if they use characters? The Chinese name is 三星 which is also three stars.

A weird company naming thing I found out only recently is how Panasonic is called 松下电器 in China and that's cuz "松下" was its Japanese name until like a decade ago when they lost the old Japanese name to just be Panasonic, but it lives on in China~

Ailumao fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Sep 10, 2021

# ? Sep 10, 2021 11:07

LimburgLimbo: Feb 10, 2008

Ailumao posted:

Doesnt Samsung just mean "three stars" in Korean so isn't that what it should be in Japanese if they use characters? The Chinese name is 三星 which is also three stars.

Yeah it's all just literally the same, and probably used 三星 in Korea more often as well when it first opened, esp since it was opened during Japanese occupation so the Japanese name was maybe the primary name it used? Dunno so much about how thoroughly they suppressed using Korean during that era.

# ? Sep 10, 2021 12:16

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

His Divine Shadow posted:

still better than swedens tho

Swedish schools suppress Finnish. Finnish schools don't suppress Swedish. So you're wrong.

# ? Sep 10, 2021 12:22

Don Gato: Apr 28, 2013; Actually a bipedal cat.; Grimey Drawer

LimburgLimbo posted:

Yeah it's all just literally the same, and probably used 三星 in Korea more often as well when it first opened, esp since it was opened during Japanese occupation so the Japanese name was maybe the primary name it used? Dunno so much about how thoroughly they suppressed using Korean during that era.

Samsung is basically the only chaebol from the colonial era and the name is a deliberate reference to Mitsubishi, which means 3 diamonds. In modern times both aspects are downplayed. I wasn't commenting on the meaning i was commenting on how it basically is pronounced the same in Japanese as Mitsubishi, my kanji is just really bad so i forgot exactly which pronunciation of 星 was the right one.

Also the era that Samsung was born was also the beginning of greatest repression of Korean culture during the entire colonization period. So basically no one is learning Korean in official schools and everyone needs a Japanese name. Also the era when future Korean dictator Park Chung Hee joined the Imperial Japanese army and learned about how military dictatorships under a veneer of democracy is the best system of government, which he took to heart when he ruled South Korea.

Don Gato fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Sep 10, 2021

# ? Sep 10, 2021 13:09

Okuteru: Nov 10, 2007; Choose this life you're on your own

Ailumao posted:

this was actually one of the reasonable claims of why china just annihilated all training schools and after school classes for kids. theyre also supposedly cutting back on homework. i got no idea what will actually happen here or how long it'll hold or any other various side effects and other things that may happen.

of course 2 weeks ago they also made it so kids can only play video games 3 specific hours a week so idk what they want kids to do with all the free time?? maybe sports or smth idk.

I'm working at one of those bullshit private schools and the new regulations are affecting how I teach the failsons and faildaughters of China.

We can give homework, but it somehow has to add up to one hour, tops. Oh, and no grades below second get homework.

Atopian posted:

It seems pretty clear that many people in charge of educational policy in China are aware that the standard approach hasn't been helping, and that the current "race to get better results on bullshit standardised tests" isn't working.
But it seems equally clear that they can't or won't fix the problem themselves, instead just trying to shuffle pressures around so that others fix their problem for them.

That is the essence of Chinese Management. It's always someone else's problem.

Nothingtoseehere posted:

If you wanna get kids to gently caress, making sure they aren't just stuck inside playing games or doing homework but instead spend time hanging out in person (possibly with alchohol) is one way to do it.

Does sound like they are squashing the negative aspects without giving guidelines on positive replacements though, so they'll probably just spend their time on streams or social media instead.

I know a few Chinese folks who don't have a partner because, "they don't have the time."

Is Hihikimori a thing in China as it is in Japan?

# ? Sep 10, 2021 15:47

The Great Autismo!: Mar 3, 2007; by Fluffdaddy

Atopian posted:

But it seems equally clear that they can't or won't fix the problem themselves, instead just trying to shuffle pressures around so that others fix their problem for them.

welcome you to China

# ? Sep 10, 2021 16:55

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His Divine Shadow posted:

What do chinese people think about potatoes anyway?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02230-1

Unironically one of the top five things I ever ate in China was this fried potato thing from a local chain in Chengdu called People's Cafeteria. I had to ration myself to avoid eating it seven days a week.

# ? Sep 10, 2021 17:44

ThisIsJohnWayne: Feb 23, 2007; Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!