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Acebuckeye13 posted:2, 11, 14, 22, 41, 42, 87. Not including sub-highways like 840 around Nashville or 165 in Kentucky, or ongoing expansions to existing highways like I-69 and I-86. I mean I could've, but what's the internet for if not confidently asserting poorly researched, incorrect opinions?
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Discendo Vox posted:The article discusses how several of the programs are ripping material from at least facebook and twitter in ways the companies deliberately do not sell or permit in their agreements because even they think it's too prone to abuse. The article refers to Twitter indicating that it is not authorized, but Facebook never responded to whether or not they had provided authorization for the data collection, so it's incorrect to state that even Facebook believes it's too prone to abuse. They very well may have authorized it but don't want to go on the record publicly as having done so, but we don't know.
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It kinda sounds like they're just scraping public API data . All of the domestic stuff in the article sounds interesting and not good, but anytime they pivot to "and they're bringing it OVERSEAS" it kinda just sounds like major international power information gathering. Which isn't great, but nothing exactly new. quote:The purchases range in size from small, automated programs to projects costing hundreds of thousands of dollars that are staffed 24 hours a day by teams including English speakers and foreign policy specialists. This bit in particular is kinda funny. What major country doesn't do this poo poo, probably? The idea that they're bringing Big Censorship anywhere outside of their own borders is kinda laughable, but the article wants me to scared about it for some reason
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SourKraut posted:The article refers to Twitter indicating that it is not authorized, but Facebook never responded to whether or not they had provided authorization for the data collection, so it's incorrect to state that even Facebook believes it's too prone to abuse. They very well may have authorized it but don't want to go on the record publicly as having done so, but we don't know. I stand corrected, thanks
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A fascinating essay containing a ton of great commentary about China: https://danwang.co/2021-letter/ It's very long, but also very good.
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:A fascinating essay containing a ton of great commentary about China: Dan Wang's end of year thoughts are always excellent, but this one is especially rich and tinged with obsessive madness (notably the long essay on the appreciation of Italian opera wedged in the middle). I find it funny that he rates The Three Body Problem as the greatest cultural export of the last forty years, which I think basically just outs him as a sci-fi nerd, which is fine of course, but the standard response at least to the translation seems to be "what's all the fuss about?". Worth noting however that we can say that about all translations of Chinese literary fiction, from Mabel Lee's terrible hash of Soul Mountain to Goldblatt's rather pedestrian treatment of Mo Yan. Stay for the comments at the bottom of the piece, where two Cspammers complain that Dan's fascination with opera makes him a stooge of the west, alongside an obligatory "what about the Uyghurs?" comment from a reader who obviously didn't read closely enough. Good stuff!
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Three Body Problem is legitimately a good piece of science fiction and honestly the first innovative cultural work I've seen come out of 21st century China.
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Morrow posted:Three Body Problem is legitimately a good piece of science fiction and honestly the first innovative cultural work I've seen come out of 21st century China. Probably a good emphasis here on "come out of" as opposed to "has been produced by", even the author himself has been producing stuff ignored by the west for years. I personally loved the books because I couldn't tell if the strangeness was a cultural thing or just the author being super weird and hosed up. Haven't had to deal with that fun conundrum since I picked up combloc scifi years ago and all that entails I definitely think it's a joke to consider it the biggest cultural export of the last 40 years. Even Fortnite supersedes it by like 10x
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Epic High Five posted:
I don't think we can count something as coming out of China just because Tencent is in some way involved. And that's the only connection China has to it, right? Be like saying, I dunno, Squid Game is American cuz they put it on Netflix. But I might be wrong I'm no Fortnite expert.
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Jan 2, 2022 07:09
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yeah fortnite has literally nothing to do with china?
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I was mistaken, I thought it was wholly owned but it's clear from some googling that it is more complicated than that with all parties involved, apologies.
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Epic Games, it's literally the entire reason they tried to make their own Steam like service, they've functionally made infinity dollars off Fortnite and can afford to just burn hundreds of millions trying to get people to use their service. Nothing at all to do with China.
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Dan Wang has afaik been consistent on the perspective of semiconductors > consumer platforms; my unease is not so much that this is necessarily wrong (I would say it's debatable: something can be essential without necessarily benefiting proportionately from additional capital and labour input) but rather that not very long ago Beijing was confident that the 智慧国土 (smart cities) project emphasizing big data and management platforms (AI-guided social harmony at its most bullshit, GIS urban planning and e-government at a more practical level) would be the key to the future and myriad privileges were handed out to Tencent et al on that basis. This has not survived what is relatively minor political blowback. Now it's German industrial metro clusters as the wave of the future. One group of technocratic theorists have pushed out the other. How long would that last? Short attention spans and long-term indicative planning don't mix well... The most obvious problem of the manufacturing-heavy outlook is the requirement for wage repression, which is inconsistent with the desired pivot to domestic consumption. Only it's harder to back out of a national strategy after putting up all those factories with a 30-year payback period.
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Jan 2, 2022 11:52
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china stopped trade with Lithuania because they said Taiwan is real. As an EU country I think EU should side with Lithuania and stop trade with china. EU should also instate One Taiwan Policy and if needed help Taiwan to conquer china back. Let china drown in their own produced garbage no one wants to buy anymore https://www.politico.eu/article/china-trade-attack-on-lithuania-exposes-eu-powerlessness/
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Jan 4, 2022 07:18
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i personally don’t hope the eu starts literal world war 3
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fart simpson posted:i personally don’t hope the eu starts literal world war 3 Maybe I read too much CSPAM. But it sounds like everything is going tits up so why not go with a bang instead of a whiff. I should probably go back to CSPAM though. Sorry.
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Ihmemies posted:china stopped trade with Lithuania because they said Taiwan is real. As an EU country I think EU should side with Lithuania and stop trade with china. EU should also instate One Taiwan Policy and if needed help Taiwan to conquer china back. Let china drown in their own produced garbage no one wants to buy anymore You realize whole economies need consumption, so that garbage is pretty integral to the places they're sold in.
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Jan 4, 2022 07:38
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Ihmemies posted:china stopped trade with Lithuania because they said Taiwan is real. As an EU country I think EU should side with Lithuania and stop trade with china. EU should also instate One Taiwan Policy and if needed help Taiwan to conquer china back. Let china drown in their own produced garbage no one wants to buy anymore
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Jan 4, 2022 15:45
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Cant recall if this has already been brought up here, the Eastern Europe thread, or the Eurasia thread, but in any case consensus was basically "The EU isnt going to let one member intentionally agitate outside partners and drag them all into it". Which makes sense because the EU is about trade, neoliberal reform, and siphoning talent from poorer states. It's not a channel for sanction/trade war diplomacy, and I dont think anyone but Lithuania wants it to be that. E: And I suppose Lithuania's also grown cold to the idea. https://twitter.com/taiwanplusnews/status/1478370632471613441?s=20 Neurolimal fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Jan 4, 2022 |
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Jan 4, 2022 16:31
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14,000 Chinese Game Companies Have Gone Out Of Business Due To Regulation Freeze Regulators in China have not released a list of approved new titles since July 2021 https://kotaku.com/14-000-chinese-game-companies-have-gone-out-of-business-1848299632 quote:China’s freeze on video game licenses continues. South China Morning Post notes that the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) has not released a list of newly approved titles since July 2021. Because of this, state-run newspaper Securities Daily reports, approximately 14,000 small game studios and video game connection companies, including those involved in merchandising or publishing, have gone under.
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Jan 4, 2022 18:48
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Somehow I don't think this concerns the Chinese government much, what with their current observable tendency to stigmatize gaming or otherwise restrict it
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Silly question. Does Xi smile? I can't recall official pictures of him smiling. Why? Is he trying to project strength and seriousness? Does he just have a goofy/bad smile? Is it just part and parcel of his all round stiffness and awkwardness? And how is this unsmiley-osity perceived by the Chinese people/the party/etc.? It is a silly petty question, but I will ask it anyway.
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you could try typing in something like “xi jinping smile” into google image search and find out he does!
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BrigadierSensible posted:Silly question. Simply wake up in the morning and look to the East, friend.
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fart simpson posted:you could try typing in something like “xi jinping smile” into google image search and find out he does! To be fair, the Chinese Han phenotype is a foreign enough to most westerners myself included that even those pictures of him "smiling" still have me doubting. Are there any experts in here that can confirm if Chinese people have emotions? I'm still doubting the veracity of these alleged smiling pictures of Xi.
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How are u posted:14,000 Chinese Game Companies Have Gone Out Of Business Due To Regulation Freeze The wumaos are out in full force in the comments for that article. One of the higher rated ones: comments posted:Let’s not pretend video games are little more than a flashy escapist distraction with a capacity for gambling addiction in a nation where 70% of Chinese millennials own a home (not rented, not owned by a bank). And it's like mate, you realise you're posting on a videogame gossip website, right.
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Private Speech posted:The wumaos are out in full force in the comments for that article. To be fair, he is right. Perhaps he is just keeping things in focus.
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Detained, missing, close to death: the toll of reporting on Covid in China Activists say crackdown is driven by Xi Jinping, who has ‘declared a war on independent journalism’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/04/detained-missing-close-to-death-toll-reporting-covid-china quote:Chen Kun was living in Indonesia with his wife and daughter when he learned from his brother Mei’s boss that he had been “taken away for investigation” by Chinese police.
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Judakel posted:To be fair, he is right. Perhaps he is just keeping things in focus. Yes I'm sure it's because of their evil videogame decadence that western millenials can't afford to buy a house.
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Judakel posted:To be fair, he is right. Perhaps he is just keeping things in focus. Yes, videogames are the reason western millennials don't own houses. e:f,b
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I read that as more 'well, videogames aren't that great anyway and the otherwise enlightened rule in China lets people own houses so it's a good tradeoff'
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Daduzi posted:Yes, videogames are the reason western millennials don't own houses. No, that is just the sedative that helps drown their sorrows.
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Does that stat have any basis in reality? (70% of Chinese millennials own a home (not rented, not owned by a bank) Every Chinese millennial I know that owns an apartment was married and financed by 4 parents, 8 grandparents, and as many other extended relatives they could guilt into lending them money, too.
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Judakel posted:No, that is just the sedative that helps drown their sorrows. So the comment was just yet more whatabboutism, cool.
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Smeef posted:Does that stat have any basis in reality? (70% of Chinese millennials own a home (not rented, not owned by a bank) That figure is from a 2017 HSBC study (https://www.businessinsider.com/properties-overseas-uk-millennials-ownership-2017-4). According to that same article you're right about the family loans but it still counts. China's home ownership rate is somewhere around 90% now IIRC.
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Desperation as China’s locked down cities pay price of zero-Covid strategy Reports emerge of fatal hospital delays and food shortages as more than 14 million people are confined to their homes in the cities of Xi’an and Yuzhou https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/05/desperation-as-chinas-locked-down-cities-pay-price-of-zero-covid-strategy quote:Strict lockdowns in the Chinese cities of Xi’an and Yuzhou are taking their toll on the population and healthcare systems, according to residents, with complaints of food shortages and dangerous delays in accessing medical care.
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Daduzi posted:So the comment was just yet more whatabboutism, cool. Why would it matter? It's true and it's good China isn't allowing for much of that.
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BBC has been putting out articles about the quarantine at Xian and how residents are getting very worried about food shortages and trying to escape quarantine to buy food. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59824916 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59855689 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59864266 Which honestly I'd say the idea of the government providing all the food directly to people's houses sounds pretty daunting and has lots of chances for people to fall through the cracks or the government to miscalculate.
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Smeef posted:Does that stat have any basis in reality? (70% of Chinese millennials own a home (not rented, not owned by a bank) Plus they have a 20 or 70 year lease, not ownership.
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karthun posted:Plus they have a 20 or 70 year lease, not ownership. the 70y lease is effectively perpetual now since a renewal is mandatorily granted upon request and a precedent has been set that this renewal is free; both China and Hong Kong have (separately) quietly surrendered the residential land lease system for privatization Singapore is the only case which has meaningfully realized the long-term lease by taking back expired leases with no compensation and no tenant's option to extend as socialisms go, sometimes it's not the countries you'd suspect to be really seeing land nationalization through as a concept
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