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A124!
Jun 28, 2009

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Ah yeah, that makes sense. How long did it take them to figure that out?

They figured it out towards the end of the 19th century. The biggest problem was that in the japanese navy you only got white rice for free and had to pay for other foods (iirc) so a lot of low rank seamen got sick on longer voyages. They called it beri beri if you wanna look up more about it.

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Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



A124! posted:

They figured it out towards the end of the 19th century. The biggest problem was that in the japanese navy you only got white rice for free and had to pay for other foods (iirc) so a lot of low rank seamen got sick on longer voyages. They called it beri beri if you wanna look up more about it.

The navy was the first to figure it out because they had a western trained surgeon in charged that noticed this wasnt an issue in the west. So he was able to arrange experiments with more varied diets inside certain ships and used the regular fleet as control. Sure enough he figured it out, but the army told him to gently caress off they wont stop eating just rice and welp half of their war dead in the russo-japanese war was because of beriberi.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Cao Ni Ma posted:

The navy was the first to figure it out because they had a western trained surgeon in charged that noticed this wasnt an issue in the west. So he was able to arrange experiments with more varied diets inside certain ships and used the regular fleet as control. Sure enough he figured it out, but the army told him to gently caress off they wont stop eating just rice and welp half of their war dead in the russo-japanese war was because of beriberi.

Love armies. The biggest brains you can find.

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

A124! posted:

rank seamen

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

The navy was the first to figure it out because they had a western trained surgeon in charged that noticed this wasnt an issue in the west. So he was able to arrange experiments with more varied diets inside certain ships and used the regular fleet as control. Sure enough he figured it out, but the army told him to gently caress off they wont stop eating just rice and welp half of their war dead in the russo-japanese war was because of beriberi.

This have anything to do with how the Japanese army and navy were all but at war with each other?

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/cliffschecter/status/1509131231383932928
https://mobile.twitter.com/cliffschecter/status/1509133577316884487
https://mobile.twitter.com/cliffschecter/status/1509136245334630407
https://mobile.twitter.com/cliffschecter/status/1509137816348942336
https://mobile.twitter.com/cliffschecter/status/1509139628493791239

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Ghost Leviathan posted:

This have anything to do with how the Japanese army and navy were all but at war with each other?

Dont think they were at war, just your average component squabbling about who deserves the bathe in the radiance of the emperor more.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://verafiles.org/articles/omnipresent-lies-rigoberto-tiglao

quote:

Rigoberto Tiglao strikes again. That is with emphasis on “again” because he conjures up his conspiracy theories and repeats them over and over again like Joseph Goebbels. Either he does not read the replies to his indictments or he refuses to do fact-checking which is part and parcel of opinion writing. Either way, his accusations make for nice clickbait posts patronized by social media misinformation trolls.

Writing for his Manila Times column this March 25, 2022, Tiglao charges that four independent media organizations are funded by U.S. bankrollers and are campaigning for Vice President Leni Robredo. These four, he says, are Vera Files, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, Rappler, and MindaNews.

Tiglao claims that since they receive financing from organizations in the United States, these media outfits are defying Philippine law because, as he states it, “The Constitution bars any foreign money in media.” He has previously made similar accusations using the same argument, but this time, he adds: “In the past five years trying — unsuccessfully, obviously — to pull down President Duterte's political support and popularity, these media firms have now mobilized to campaign both subtly and overtly for Washington's candidate, Leni Robredo.”

On May 11, 2019, when Tiglao first started his tirades that he loves to rehash, Vera Files published a detailed fact sheet as a response. For the record, the charges came a year after Vera Files made an editorial advocacy of fact-checking “the false and misleading statements of public officials and figures, including those of President Rodrigo Duterte, his supporters and critics.”

Not only that, Vera Files also published a Tagalog version of the fact sheet ten days later on May 21, 2019. These two fact sheets are in addition to what Ellen Tordesillas, Vera Files president, wrote in her personal blog on May 5, 2019.

Perhaps Tiglao has run out of items on the menu of his carinderiafor troll army readers because almost three years later, he is rehashing the same opinion without providing any of the responses from these media organizations. Opinion journalism is not made of such reckless stuff.

The links to these replies of Vera Files are accessible in this article. Let us privilege readers with the answers to Tiglao’s never-ending tirades that riddle his mind, even if these have been repeatedly debunked.

But for starters, readers can check the source of Vera Files’ funds because these are truthfully stated on the About page of its website. As a non-profit media organization (notice that its website does not have paid ads), Vera Files “… relies on grants, the proceeds from the sale of its stories, and donations and contributions from its trustees and supporters to fund its operations. It screens donors, contributors and grantors carefully and does not accept funding that will compromise its independence and nonpartisanship.”

Where do these grants come from? On that matter there is no secrecy either.

The fact sheet lists 15 grant-giving agencies. Again, we shall privilege the reader and enumerate them all:
1. Transparency and Accountability Network,
2. Canada Fund for Local Initiatives,
3. Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines, Inc.,
4. United Nations Population Fund,
5. United Nations Development Fund,
6. British Embassy Manila,
7. US Embassy Manila,
8. The Asia Foundation for the project “Reporting on Persons with Disabilities,”
9. Reporters sans Frontières for “Media Ownership Monitor: Who Owns the Media in the Philippines,”
10. World Health Organization and Bloomberg Philanthropies for the project “Road Safety Journalism Fellowship,”
11. Internews’ Earth Journalism Network for the project “Earth Files,”
12. Global Road Safety Partnership,
13. Institute for Women’s Policy Research,
14. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for “Vera Files Fact Check,” and
15. Facebook, Vera Files being one of three designated third-party fact-checkers in the Philippines.

Does the Philippine Constitution prohibit media organizations from receiving foreign grants? The answer is No. This is what the Constitution states: “Article XVI, Section 11: The ownership and management of mass media shall be limited to citizens of the Philippines, or to corporations, cooperatives or associations, wholly-owned and managed by such citizens.”

Even the state, represented by the Philippine government, is not prohibited by the Constitution from receiving foreign funding. In fact, the government accepts grants from various donors, and not only from the well-known institutions such as the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the European Union (the largest donor of development aid in the world), and Australian Aid (AusAid). In fact, this list is shamefully short if we are to enumerate all the development funds the Philippine government receives as grants.

Had Tiglao done his research, he can secure the list Vera Files’ funders from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC requires mandatory disclosures, and lists several categories for foreign funding as options: public officer of a foreign government, foreign government, private institution/business/company outside the Philippines, international organizations, World Bank, and other United Nations agencies. Furthermore, the SEC allows foreign funding in the form of debts, endowments, grants, contributions, and donations.

Since it embarked on its fact-checking advocacy, Vera Files has featured and corrected misinformation on social media, including those from the political opposition to the Duterte administration. How can it be a campaigner for Robredo without betraying its journalistic advocacy?









Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1509156125236776968

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Tankbuster posted:

The algorithm shows me cooking channels instead of epic muslim rekt videos on my phone. The system works.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

The only reason to watch youtube are those very small channels with extremely high production value for no real reason.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Also kenji's gopro on head style of cooking videos.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


I'm pro Z now

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/PDChinaLife/status/1508670286094233605?cxt=HHwWisCr3bjo7-8pAAAA

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

AnimeIsTrash posted:

The only reason to watch youtube are those very small channels with extremely high production value for no real reason.

youtube is for watching Grandpa Amu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYkgEf3eWqA

GlassEye-Boy
Jul 12, 2001
lol, totally makes sense.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/facebook-tiktok-targeted-victory/

quote:


Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok​
The firm, Targeted Victory, pushed local operatives across the country to boost messages calling TikTok a threat to American children. “Dream would be to get stories with headlines like ‘From dances to danger,’ ” one campaign director said.
... ​

Catgirl Al Capone
Dec 15, 2007

pretty much all the best food in the west is carried by descendants of immigrants or slaves. even fish and chips which is like britain's meme food was contributed by jewish immigrants.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

https://www.ft.com/content/c02083b5-8a0a-48e5-b850-831a3e6406bb



weird how every time the media shifts focus back to a different Official Enemy we get a new story about how they're dangerously spying on Americans

GlassEye-Boy
Jul 12, 2001

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://www.ft.com/content/c02083b5-8a0a-48e5-b850-831a3e6406bb



weird how every time the media shifts focus back to a different Official Enemy we get a new story about how they're dangerously spying on Americans

Literally every social media company does this, the US and EU just had a big row where finally the US brow beat the EU into allowing them to store user data on US servers as opposed to local EU servers. Gee I wonder why they want to do that.

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1509222080990035975?s=20&t=eh7l-7y91WpqOYoUTM71_Q

Mayman10
May 11, 2019

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://www.ft.com/content/c02083b5-8a0a-48e5-b850-831a3e6406bb



weird how every time the media shifts focus back to a different Official Enemy we get a new story about how they're dangerously spying on Americans

I'd still rather have a foreign country spy on my data than the one I live in. What could China do with my data that would negatively impact me?

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


please betray us for china we have *algorithm whirs* peppermint ice cream and the latest season of boardwalk empire on stream

WOAH HOT drat WHO DO I MURK

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://www.ft.com/content/c02083b5-8a0a-48e5-b850-831a3e6406bb



weird how every time the media shifts focus back to a different Official Enemy we get a new story about how they're dangerously spying on Americans

I use Yandex specifically because it's Russians spying in me and not the US government. what's russia gonna do to me

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

theyll trick you into voting for trump again something that definitely only happened because of perfidious foreigners and not because our political landscape is filled with horseshit

huhwhat
Apr 22, 2010

by sebmojo

Rutibex posted:

europe is a single empire, we are just in a waring states period between emperors

the current europe is an empire if u define it as coalition in opposition to all non-whites. if hitler succeeded in creating its aryan nation maybe there would be a united europe right now

europe had its chances with rome and napoleon, maybe 3rd times the charm with the eu? or maybe its too late now that we have nation states and ppl have strong linguistics identities

china got its start (supposedly) as a confederation of feudal states resisting nomadic invasions before the first emperor bound them all to its will and introduced a common language, common measurement etc (after thousand of years that got forged into an "identity", i remember @notxiangyu talking about his grandma speaking one chinese dialect but still writing letters in "standard" chinese) so theres hope for a united evropa yet with the coming wave of climate refugees knocking on the doors of europe

SSJ_naruto_2003
Oct 12, 2012



Anyone read and know about the book "Zhou Enlai:The last perfect revolutionary" or whatever? It claims to be written with access to the CPC archives.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Jen Psaki giving tiktokers briefings and compensation to do this exact thing for the US doesn’t count as propaganda

Mayman10
May 11, 2019

indigi posted:

Jen Psaki giving tiktokers briefings and compensation to do this exact thing for the US doesn’t count as propaganda

It's just outreach when we do it :fsmug:

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


200 seems really, really low and not something to worry about.

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC
Russia, India to discuss Swift alternative for rouble payments when Lavrov visits New Delhi

Sergey Lavrov, Russia's Foreign Minister, will be arriving in India on Thursday to discuss some interesting proposals.

1: The already mentioned rupee-rouble-denominated payments mechanism using Russia’s SPFS messaging system.

2: The Russian proposal to link India's Unified Payments Interface with the Russian MIR payments system for seamless use of cards issued by Indian and Russian banks.

3. An offer on discounted oil.

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006
haha oops

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

https://twitter.com/realyoutubekids/status/1508902582487502850?s=21&t=q1g8ymuhBDURXVugzztBLA

literally any tweet with a .cn URL in it, even a fake one, gets the warning

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

wow I had no idea that the domain “news” in the top level domain “China” might be affiliated with China!

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Anime was a mistake



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsWRPJVk_LE

Is orthodoxy cool with anime these days?

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

meanwhile the literal us government news agency does not have anything on it

https://twitter.com/voanews?s=21

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

China must immediately release Cheng Lei or face obliteration.

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012

Lostconfused posted:

Anime was a mistake



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsWRPJVk_LE

Is orthodoxy cool with anime these days?

Are these people mad that he went after РПЦ??
E: like, from the left?

mortons stork has issued a correction as of 07:36 on Mar 31, 2022

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

mortons stork posted:

Are these people mad that he went after РПЦ??
E: like, from the left?

Wha? No.

The top one is a fascist, the bottom one I assume is some weebo who's also into orthodoxy.

Hedenius
Aug 23, 2007

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I think a lot of Americans grow up eating stuff like rice, tofu, and veggies without any seasoning and think it's really bad.
When it comes to tofu this is 100% the case here in Sweden. When tofu was first introduced as a consumer product it was marketed as a healthy meat substitute with stuff like tofu hotdogs and poo poo. So it’s not surprising that Swedes initially saw tofu as a flavorless alternative to meat. It was reserved for the hippies of health nuts.

But slowly it turned into an actual ingredient (very much helped by a company started in 1998 by a Chinese family that produces most Swedish tofu today). Now can find pretty good tofu in any larger supermarket and in a surprising amount of smaller towns and shops.

And as an ignorant Swede I’m curious if you could walk into a grocery store in a US town of 10-20k residents and expect to find tofu.

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Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Hedenius posted:

When it comes to tofu this is 100% the case here in Sweden. When tofu was first introduced as a consumer product it was marketed as a healthy meat substitute with stuff like tofu hotdogs and poo poo. So it’s not surprising that Swedes initially saw tofu as a flavorless alternative to meat. It was reserved for the hippies of health nuts.

But slowly it turned into an actual ingredient (very much helped by a company started in 1998 by a Chinese family that produces most Swedish tofu today). Now can find pretty good tofu in any larger supermarket and in a surprising amount of smaller towns and shops.

And as an ignorant Swede I’m curious if you could walk into a grocery store in a US town of 10-20k residents and expect to find tofu.

Part of it imo is that you have to press the water out of it, and if you're new to cooking with tofu that'll trip you up

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