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Tankbuster posted:Head of government visits part of the country. This is big news. I'm trying to understand why this wasn't said without a contrived comparison.
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Jul 15, 2022 20:44
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Some Guy TT posted:im reading an old larry niven story where he makes reference to the two province system of china where if youre having a famine you look at two provinces and manufacture a reason to take all the grain from one province and give it to the other destroying the first and guaranteeing the loyalty of the second The main larry niven thing I remember is he said the behavior of human women could be explained by the fact that they were the only animal where the female has orgasms. You should not take seriously anything he says.
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Jul 15, 2022 20:47
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all larrys are unreliable
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Jul 15, 2022 20:49
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Breakfast All Day posted:all larrys are unreliable free larry parrish, lock up larry niven
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Jul 15, 2022 20:49
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30.5 Days posted:free larry parrish, lock up larry niven
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Jul 15, 2022 20:50
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larry niven wrote an entire sequel to ringworld only because some MIT nerds did some math that said it couldn't exist because it'd fall into the sun so he wrote an entire book where was like NO IT HAS HUGE ROCKETS ON THE SIDE THAT KEEPS IT STEADY I JUST DIDN'T MENTION IT LAST TIME BECAUSE THEY WERE BROKEN BUT THEY'RE TOTALLY THERE
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Jul 15, 2022 20:53
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just put windows on your giant rotating drum,
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Jul 15, 2022 20:57
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:Why, the biggest cult of all ... this dude kinda reminds me of Jijii from Ichi the Killer, not sure why
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Jul 15, 2022 21:11
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Larry Niven also wrote a story where a guy goes to the year 1,000,000 and gets chased around future wasteland earth by an immortal cat lady
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Jul 15, 2022 21:12
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I'm trying to understand why this wasn't said without a contrived comparison. indigi made the comparison, I pointed out the categorical error with an analogy more familiar to english speakers (AmericanS)
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Jul 15, 2022 21:13
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Antonymous posted:its more like visiting oklahoma, a state with an oppressed native population under the thumb of the central government, and the national ethnic majority, not native to the region, making up half the population. the big difference in this comparison is that China’s anti-poverty campaign is real and getting results, while natives in Oklahoma are left to languish in the poorest states parts of the state. in Oklahoma all development is dictated by oil & natural gas, and the telecoms operating out of Tulsa.
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Jul 15, 2022 21:17
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:the big difference in this comparison is that China’s anti-poverty campaign is real and getting results, while natives in Oklahoma are left to languish in the poorest states parts of the state. in Oklahoma all development is dictated by oil & natural gas, and the telecoms operating out of Tulsa. there are towns in eastern OK where the average life expectancy of a Native American resident is like 56 years
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Jul 15, 2022 21:27
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https://mobile.twitter.com/snlyngaas/status/1547575872995020808
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Jul 15, 2022 21:35
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breaking: in intelligence circles, some suspect china encouraged trump to run as a "pied piper" candidate
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Jul 15, 2022 21:40
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President Xi please send Xinjiang lamb skewers and some of that frozen ice stuff they make to Oklahoma it's hot outside and my people yearn for treats
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Jul 15, 2022 21:44
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Mister Bates posted:there are towns in eastern OK where the average life expectancy of a Native American resident is like 56 years is biden doing a genocide on christians??
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Jul 15, 2022 21:57
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Oh my god, those monsters were googling us!!!!
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Jul 15, 2022 22:04
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stephenthinkpad posted:Using cults to ""influence""" other countries right wing/conservative parties is an angle I have never considered before, but it seem so obviously in retrospect. have you ever seen Mormon missionaries wandering around talking to people? there's a decent chance their mission president is a CIA officer lol
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Jul 15, 2022 22:40
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mawarannahr posted:Since 1999, Gülen has lived in self-exile in the United States near Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania.[18][19][20] kinda weird that mehmet oz, a turkish citizen, is trying to become a Senator for that state when he doesn't even live there
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Jul 15, 2022 22:40
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Spergin Morlock posted:kinda weird that mehmet oz, a turkish citizen, is trying to become a Senator for that state when he doesn't even live there 
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Jul 15, 2022 22:41
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president Xi please rescue Arizona https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/14/arizona-cities-would-collapse-without-prison-labor/10062910002/
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Jul 15, 2022 22:44
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just gonna scream into the void that if your community is dependent on slave labor to survive your community should be destroyed but everybody knows that lmao i lived in california, california's the same loving thing
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Jul 15, 2022 23:21
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atelier morgan posted:just gonna scream into the void that if your community is dependent on slave labor to survive your community should be destroyed but everybody knows that lmao You only call them labor camps if theyre scary foreign prisons
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Jul 15, 2022 23:23
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30.5 Days posted:The main larry niven thing I remember is he said the behavior of human women could be explained by the fact that they were the only animal where the female has orgasms. Every single sci fi author has a weird sex politics thing.
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Jul 16, 2022 01:51
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ikanreed posted:Every single sci fi author has a weird sex politics thing. In a bizarre twist this is also true of fantasy writers
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Jul 16, 2022 01:52
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https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1548044735893622784?s=20&t=D9cFRXpeX2ufQPQYH47P0A
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Jul 16, 2022 01:58
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fits my needs posted:https://twitter.com/ChinaDaily/status/1548044735893622784?s=20&t=D9cFRXpeX2ufQPQYH47P0A ... lmao
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Jul 16, 2022 02:06
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Toph Bei Fong posted:I wish protecting queer people was his motivation... so he's an anti-communist crusader right?
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Jul 16, 2022 03:17
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GlassEye-Boy posted:president Xi please rescue Arizona lol i saw some figure that california has the 50,000 slaves doing the equivalent of 40hrs a week
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Jul 16, 2022 03:18
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incidentally xinwen lianbo had a segment in a recent broadcast on native american boarding schools in the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kyYydN9xn0&t=1589s
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Jul 16, 2022 03:25
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https://mobile.twitter.com/snlyngaas/status/1547615183295508481
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Jul 16, 2022 03:35
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Antonymous posted:its more like visiting oklahoma, a state with an oppressed native population under the thumb of the central government, and the national ethnic majority, not native to the region, making up half the population.
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Jul 16, 2022 03:39
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TenementFunster posted:what "native population"? surely you don't mean the tribes displaced via the trail of tears. you're right, it was resettled forcibly in the 1830s. much like Urumqi was resettled with Uighurs forcibly by the Qing in the 1750s The qing forced out the buddhists and resettled Xinjiang with muslims, a win for Islam
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Jul 16, 2022 04:42
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Some Guy TT posted:im reading an old larry niven story where he makes reference to the two province system of china where if youre having a famine you look at two provinces and manufacture a reason to take all the grain from one province and give it to the other destroying the first and guaranteeing the loyalty of the second this is literally oppositeofreality.txt   ...  
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Jul 16, 2022 04:58
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That is pretty neat, but skipping all the way from western zhou to qing policies does gloss over just a few thousand years in between
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Jul 16, 2022 05:06
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Antonymous posted:you're right
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Jul 16, 2022 05:37
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The one thing I like about Niven is he wasn't afraid to get really weird with it. Like in the first ringworld book there was a lady who was bred to be the luckiest person ever in a government program because he decided luck was genetic. The entire deal was that there was a worldwide one child policy but there was a lottery to be able to have a second child that existed purely so they could breed the luckiest person ever. The lady in the book was the 13th generation in a row to be born purely because their parents won the lottery.
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Jul 16, 2022 06:17
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idk I really liked that strain of 1970s sci fi where it would be like "Dak Landor was the greatest pilot in the entire galaxy! He was defended by Strixis, the warrior queen of Kalnor VII. And James, who could talk to ghosts."
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Jul 16, 2022 06:21
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30.5 Days posted:idk I really liked that strain of 1970s sci fi where it would be like "Dak Landor was the greatest pilot in the entire galaxy! He was defended by Strixis, the warrior queen of Kalnor VII. And James, who could talk to ghosts." This is just a RPG party
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Jul 16, 2022 06:29
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xi in xinjiang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_inMsbrjdWI
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Jul 16, 2022 16:02
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