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stephenthinkpad posted:You don't need to take out your thinkpad and ipad and keys and place them in different motherfucking plastic trays. And then franticly pack them back into your carryon bag. loving heaven
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Jul 5, 2022 01:51
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The situation in Sri Lanka sounds pretty bad. Crop failures, serious fuel shortages, most infrastructure paralyzed. I've been reading that the current government banned foreign fertilizer imports, which made them lose food self-sufficiency, as well as cutting taxes and building vanity projects. Anyone have good articles to recommend about the current crisis and the most likely path forward?
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Jul 5, 2022 06:14
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I love the kind of art that could probably kill a person.
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Jul 5, 2022 06:47
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I do think most of the issue with flights is just space and feeling like you can't escape the confines of either your seat or whatever space is by the bathroom. In contrast, being able to go for a walk to the dining car and hanging out there a bit does break everything up a lot. Also, flights have really gone up with the spike in oil prices. I think I would rather just spend an hour or two more in total (not to mention how many ridiculous fees there are nowadays).
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Jul 5, 2022 07:18
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On a train ordinary people can book private compartments and enjoy a privilege only reserved for oligarchs in aeroplanes
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Jul 5, 2022 07:27
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https://twitter.com/business/status/1544010918933184513?s=20&t=gqI4QakeLoYa3mtckTZR4g
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Jul 5, 2022 08:16
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gently caress yeah
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Jul 5, 2022 08:34
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Ardennes posted:I do think most of the issue with flights is just space and feeling like you can't escape the confines of either your seat or whatever space is by the bathroom. In contrast, being able to go for a walk to the dining car and hanging out there a bit does break everything up a lot. definitely this. I'd ride a train everywhere if I could
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Jul 5, 2022 08:56
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Antonymous posted:25 years ago Hong Kong was 20% of China's GDP and one of the most important economic and cultural cities in asia. the funniest part is, they got a win. the hk government tabled the extradition bill, exactly like they wanted in the initial days of the protests, but because "five demands not one less" had become the meme, nobody had any discipline or plan of action and their "friends" in the us and uk kept egging them on a fringe minority kept escalating long past the point of coherence for any ordinary person casually following these events. the real moment at which it was clear they'd lost the plot is when they starting bombing loving hospitals during the pandemic in protest of mainlanders being allowed in the city or some equally stupid grievance
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Jul 5, 2022 09:00
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i like the yoshimi guy on twitter even if he's somewhat annoying because he often writes to an audience of "china watchers" (i think... like trying to reason them into reality) but his article on the HK protests was pretty good as an example of an instant-gratification internet protest movement becoming unmoored from reality. https://lateralthinkingtechnology.w...ntion-politics/
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Jul 5, 2022 09:22
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Antonymous posted:being on a train is so much more relaxing than an airplane idk why. You can walk around more and when it stops at a station you can get off the vehicle for a minute or two. airplanes make me tense. maybe I have a phobia its the lovely legroom.
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Jul 5, 2022 14:06
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R. Guyovich posted:the funniest part is, they got a win. the hk government tabled the extradition bill, exactly like they wanted in the initial days of the protests, but because "five demands not one less" had become the meme, nobody had any discipline or plan of action and their "friends" in the us and uk kept egging them on a fringe minority kept escalating long past the point of coherence for any ordinary person casually following these events. the real moment at which it was clear they'd lost the plot is when they starting bombing loving hospitals during the pandemic in protest of mainlanders being allowed in the city or some equally stupid grievance Yea the HK situation is really funny because they 100% got what they wanted with their stupid 'HOW DARE THE MAINLAND WANT TO TRY SOMEONE WHO MURDERED HIS WIFE IN A MAINLAND CITY WHERE HE DID THE CRIME!!!!' protests, people still loving talk about HK like it's some independent nation with 'sovereignty' China was 'encroaching on'. Then they kept getting western money and support to keep 'standing up to China' so they started doing just insane poo poo like setting hospitals on fire because a 'mainlander' bringing vaccines over is 'Chinese medical experiments'.
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Jul 5, 2022 14:16
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Chamale posted:The situation in Sri Lanka sounds pretty bad. Crop failures, serious fuel shortages, most infrastructure paralyzed. I've been reading that the current government banned foreign fertilizer imports, which made them lose food self-sufficiency, as well as cutting taxes and building vanity projects. Anyone have good articles to recommend about the current crisis and the most likely path forward? It wasn't foreign fertilizer. It was synthetic fertilizer, I.e. the only reason we can feed more than 2 billion people today. The reason it was banned had a lot to do with Western organic industry lobbyists hoping to set a precedent. Mission successful.
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Jul 5, 2022 14:23
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https://twitter.com/MFA_China/status/1544334740873936898?s=20&t=uPV99wduhcM_8cGi4jTIQw China is doing "what-aboutism."
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Jul 5, 2022 16:14
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i hope China does targeted sanctions against the leaders of the Ohio regime
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Jul 5, 2022 16:23
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President Xi please sanction companies associated with police brutality
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Jul 5, 2022 16:24
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1544317344138289162
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Jul 5, 2022 16:44
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sexpig by night posted:Yea the HK situation is really funny because they 100% got what they wanted with their stupid 'HOW DARE THE MAINLAND WANT TO TRY SOMEONE WHO MURDERED HIS WIFE IN A MAINLAND CITY WHERE HE DID THE CRIME!!!!' protests, people still loving talk about HK like it's some independent nation with 'sovereignty' China was 'encroaching on'. i thought the extradition was to taiwan? or am i mixing up the literal axe murderers that the hong kong protesters like to stan for
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Jul 5, 2022 16:46
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Can’t believe an agency founded as daycare for Nazi rocket scientists would see its mission as one of establishing and maintaining supremacy
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Jul 5, 2022 16:48
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https://mobile.twitter.com/jilevin/status/1544348095835693060
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Jul 5, 2022 16:52
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google, show me the platonic ideal for English noncery https://twitter.com/kamenism/status/1544087709949370368
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Jul 5, 2022 16:52
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She's certainly not at wimbledon.
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Jul 5, 2022 17:02
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AnimeIsTrash posted:She's certainly not at wimbledon. best to avoid that diseased garbage fire of a nation for her own health.
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Jul 5, 2022 17:05
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Some Guy TT posted:i thought the extradition was to taiwan? or am i mixing up the literal axe murderers that the hong kong protesters like to stan for I think there were a couple cases that got lumped in? I think the dude who hacked up a lady was Taiwan yea, maybe the finance dude who the mainland wanted was the one who just beat the poo poo out of his wife? Real cool lines in the sand all around!
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Jul 5, 2022 17:08
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GlassEye-Boy posted:best to avoid that diseased garbage fire of a nation for her own health. That whole tournament rocks, they kicked out all the Russian and Belorussian players which means some of the best players in the world can no longer play. Medvedev is ranked #1 in the world, and can't play in one of the most prolific tennis tournaments. Lol
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Jul 5, 2022 17:23
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dumbass tennis organization banning the only 2 players i root for -_-
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Jul 5, 2022 17:27
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I loving hope china steals the american flag, wipes armstrongs boot print and set a historic 'First time a human takes a huge poo poo on a stomped out american flag on the moon'
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Jul 5, 2022 17:30
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AnimeIsTrash posted:dumbass tennis organization banning the only 2 players i root for -_- fide banned karjakin for 6 months too and caused him to miss the candidates lol
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Jul 5, 2022 17:32
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Al-Saqr posted:I loving hope china steals the american flag, wipes armstrongs boot print and set a historic 'First time a human takes a huge poo poo on a stomped out american flag on the moon'
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Jul 5, 2022 17:40
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AnimeIsTrash posted:That whole tournament rocks, they kicked out all the Russian and Belorussian players which means some of the best players in the world can no longer play. ATP & WTA took away Wimbledon's points this year because of that
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Jul 5, 2022 17:45
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mawarannahr posted:Can’t believe an agency founded as daycare for Nazi rocket scientists would see its mission as one of establishing and maintaining supremacy
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Jul 5, 2022 17:49
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The extradition case is worse than you think. HK guy killed his HK pregnant girlfriend in Taiwan and ran back to HK. HK law can't prosecute him because HK law doesn't cover crime happen outside of HK. The extradition bill was to fix this and fix the extradition law between mainland and HK. Then the guy had a change of heart and willing to go to Taiwan himself with a priest. But the Taiwanese DPP government refused to take him. This is not a problem under mainland law because mainland does prosecute major crimes committed by Chinese citizens outside of China. So unless People's Congress make amendment changes to the HK Basic Law a couple decades down the road, don't expect the gf killed does time over it. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 19:47 on Jul 5, 2022 |
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Jul 5, 2022 17:52
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stephenthinkpad posted:The extradition case is worse than you think. HK guy killed his HK pregnant girlfriend in Taiwan and ran back to HK. why did Taiwan refuse him? and how would the mainland prosecute the case without access to evidence? I guess the dude confessed at some point
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Jul 5, 2022 18:10
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mawarannahr posted:Can’t believe an agency founded as daycare for Nazi rocket scientists would see its mission as one of establishing and maintaining supremacy
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Jul 5, 2022 18:11
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indigi posted:why did Taiwan refuse him? and how would the mainland prosecute the case without access to evidence? I guess the dude confessed at some point Because Taiwanese DPP government are run by a bunch of lawyers. Lawyer politicians are the worse combo, they have no bottom-line. All they care about was not making any contact with China in state or sub-state level to create any legal precedent. Not even between HK and Taiwan. You know the inter strait offices from each side to deal with cross-strait relationship, there has been no any official or unofficial communication between them since around 2017.
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Jul 5, 2022 19:46
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Petercampbell1/status/1544206222815100929
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Jul 5, 2022 19:49
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There were also news of all 3 Germany brands (BMW, Benz and Audi) opened new EV factories in China (2 in Dongbei, 1 near Beijing) from about 2 weeks ago.
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Jul 5, 2022 19:53
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Jul 5, 2022 20:08
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Not So Fast posted:google, show me the platonic ideal for English noncery where in the world is carpeng shuaidiego?
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Jul 5, 2022 20:12
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funny enough here is a video of Musk back in the day laughing at the thought of BYD as a serious competitor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ftbRWqkj0 GlassEye-Boy has issued a correction as of 20:40 on Jul 5, 2022 |
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Jul 5, 2022 20:36
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