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KirbyKhan posted:The 20 year olds of 2010 who pioneered vaping technology in strip malls and parents garages are still alive or dead because of the usual reasons. But mankind has only had like 15 years max of individual dragon clour ripping so it is to early to tell. the funny thing is we are talking about intellectual property and segued to Vaping Vaping is a chinese technology that was popular in China about 5 years before it hit western markets. it's chinese culture bro
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 19:11 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 22:34 |
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white male teachers in asia should be presumed awful, though not all of them the bad ones are so bad it's not worth the risk. There's white guys who live there doing business or because their spouse is Chinese/Taiwanese and they want to raise their kids somewhere less hostile so I get that. Generally just avoid australians, english or americans unless they speak really good Chinese. They are just on a long vacation or whatever, they are there for themselves only.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 19:15 |
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Antonymous posted:
I'm thinking about the DIY Syringe lipstick dude posted upthread and the dudes who hooked me up with my first ego battery a decade ago in rural Utah. Just... there's so little fundamental difference between those two souls worlds away, united in the rituals involved in maintaining a smoke shop.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 19:20 |
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Chinese people are more than willing to criticize their government in private. People are typically supportive but not blindly, except maybe on a few big issues like Taiwan. If you show chinese people an anti-chinese propaganda documentary I've found that they generally agree with it, because they don't see it as threatening them personally. Like, there's so many documentaries and films that go "china is oppressing minorities, killing babies, enslaving workers" etc and my friends are like "yeah we should be better". they don't sense it's an existential threat to have US films turn the world against them and make them ok to bomb in a hot war - destroy empathy - the actual purpose of those films. The question of "why does the US keep giving awards to films that critize china" doesn't immediately pop out. Does china have a cottage industry of films criticizing india or south africa? Of course some people get buttmad but that's "patriots" of any country. they just get mad at being criticized
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 19:21 |
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Antonymous posted:Like, there's so many documentaries and films that go "china is oppressing minorities, killing babies, enslaving workers" etc and my friends are like "yeah we should be better". your friends legitimately believe that China is killing babies? the other two examples are obviously ongoing issues (if exaggeratedly phrased) but that one seems hosed
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 19:29 |
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i mean we kill babies too or at least we used to until those jerks at the supreme court said we couldnt anymore
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 19:30 |
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america kills fewer babies relatively speaking. cause we focus on killing elementary school kids over here
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 19:32 |
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In China when you gently caress around with baby formula you get executed. In America when you gently caress around with baby formula we all just kinda forget and let you keep your baby killing margins.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 19:40 |
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 20:21 |
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Business Basics more like Basic Bitch Business
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 20:31 |
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indigi posted:your friends legitimately believe that China is killing babies? the other two examples are obviously ongoing issues (if exaggeratedly phrased) but that one seems hosed presumably in reference to one child policy era
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 20:42 |
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In Training posted:presumably in reference to one child policy era late term abortions yeah. the documentary One Child Nation goes into that and asks if there wasn't infanticide too. And then segues into rural families being punished for having large families, and foreigners adopting Chinese orphans. Somehow the documentary maker scolds everyone in her family for having abortions despite spending the entire documentary showing that this was the best choice edit: there are a lot of chinese and chinese descended documentary filmmakers who, if they can show something negative about China, can have a career boost. it's highly rewarded Plastic China - Nominee Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2016 One Child Nation - Nominated for primetime Emmy, 2020 American Factory - Nominated for oscar 2020 The Exiles - Grand Jury Prize - Sundance 2022 Ascension - Nominated for oscar 2022 and it goes way back before that Antonymous has issued a correction as of 21:23 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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Antonymous posted:late term abortions yeah. the documentary One Child Nation goes into that and asks if there wasn't infanticide too. they consider late abortions baby killing, or do you mean the conjectured infanticide
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:15 |
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indigi posted:they consider late abortions baby killing, or do you mean the conjectured infanticide sorry, the documentary opens with a doctor who said she gave abortions where the baby came out crying and she killed it in her hands and that's sorta projected by the documentary to be what "abortion" means in a chinese context. It's blatantly a very politically motivated documentary. I'm just talking about it in the context of, a chinese person will see themselves in the footage and so have empathy but it is actually a 'white gaze' movie in that it was made so to dehumanize chinese people as immoral baby killers. Like the farewell, an insanely "white gaze" movie that makes no sense if you watch it as a chinese person in china
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:26 |
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Antonymous posted:The Exiles - Grand Jury Prize - Sundance 2022 i really hated exiles because it bends over backwards to avoid explaining what the protests were even about the entire premise is just THIS THING HAPPENED WHY DONT WE TALK ABOUT THE THING THAT HAPPENED
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:30 |
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I'm working on a feature documentary about chinese immigrants who came over to Los Angeles in the 1970s. Basically when china had the cultural revolution, students started to go abroad, and the USA warmed up to china. So I'm watching all of these documentaries as reference and the director, producer, editor are also chinese immigrants. Anyway our film is from a chinese-born-american perspective, rather than an outsider one, and it's positive and uplifting and I get a sense that the US culture will not tolerate it. China also probably doesn't have a market for it, no one cares about expats. edit: the actual topic of the documentary is that these 18 or so 60-80 year old women who moved to the USA in the '70s have a dance team and they're winning competitions. "coming of golden age" story Antonymous has issued a correction as of 21:39 on Jul 22, 2022 |
# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:35 |
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Antonymous posted:sorry, the documentary opens with a doctor who said she gave abortions where the baby came out crying and she killed it in her hands and that's sorta projected by the documentary to be what "abortion" means in a chinese context. oh ok that makes sense and is extremely upsetting. woof. Antonymous posted:I'm working on a feature documentary about chinese immigrants who came over to Los Angeles in the 1970s. Basically when china had the cultural revolution, students started to go abroad, and the USA warmed up to china. So I'm watching all of these documentaries as reference and the director, producer, editor are also chinese immigrants. drat that sounds interesting. do you have like a kickstarter or any more info
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:40 |
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we're still doing private fundraising, we've actually been shooting for 8 months and will do another year. If we exhaust all the grants and so on we'll do crowdfunding. Learning about documentaries, its an insane job. We were in a sundance lab and another team has an amazing film where they followed a honduran family across the US border, all the way finally getting asylum, finding where they will live in the US etc. There's no way, setting out, to know if a family will even make it across the border so it's pretty incredible. and they have $750,000 in debt and got told "we have enough immigration films, and your liabilities mean no one will touch it". I think their total budget was 1.5. psycho poo poo
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:45 |
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Antonymous posted:we're still doing private fundraising, we've actually been shooting for 8 months and will do another year. If we exhaust all the grants and so on we'll do crowdfunding. wow that stinks for them. there are so few slam dunk documentary subjects, everything else is crossing your fingers. I guess that’s why so many documentaries start out about something else then realize in the middle of production they found a way better story to tell
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:52 |
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Antonymous posted:
The only television show I watched when I went to China was a horrible drama called "my dad came with me on study abroad" and was explicitly about Chinese expats. They ran a marathon of it. And my wife watched some super depressing show about expats coming home to bury their parents and feel ennui. So I guess there's some appetite for content about expats.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:54 |
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indigi posted:wow that stinks for them. there are so few slam dunk documentary subjects, everything else is crossing your fingers. I guess that’s why so many documentaries start out about something else then realize in the middle of production they found a way better story to tell My favorite is Sherpa which turned into a doc on the worker protests on the mountain that happened while they were there filming. Absolutely incredible doc I recommend to everyone. It really shows how loving terrible almost all of the white people involved are
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 21:59 |
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vietnamese flag
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 22:43 |
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Orange Devil posted:There's a complete and utter failure in Western decision making to see non-western foreigners as people. its not a failure, read Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History proposing government by supposed universal while keeping 'who counts as people' a moving target to the benefit of the rich is the founding principle of the enlightenment and every western government
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 22:52 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:vietnamese flag lmao
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 22:56 |
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Samog posted:RRR is about as subtle as the battle at lake changjin RRR is the best anti imperialist shonen ever made
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 22:58 |
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all u flags look the same to me
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 23:06 |
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RRR takes the "Mel Gibson british bad" genre and the "Snyder retarded comic" genre, hammer them together 10000 times inside an active volcano and turn it into a masterpiece.
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# ? Jul 22, 2022 23:20 |
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The bromance was refreshing as well. You never see two dudes being supportive best buds in western media like they were in RRR.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 00:25 |
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Antonymous posted:lmao
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 00:30 |
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i dont think anyone in the west gets that being friends is a bit more nuanced than one guy is a complete rear end in a top hat and the other one just puts up with it honestly for all the flak it gets for the other bullshit the thing that bugs me the most about the new trek movies is that none of the characters even like each other original flavor star trek is a great depiction of mature male friendship plus uhura
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 00:37 |
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wait poo poo this isnt the pop culture thread uhhh which famous names from the three kingdoms era were the most bromantic
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 00:38 |
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updates on free asia new database will help American businesses pit people over profit: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/serena-oberstein-07212022183907.html posted:Interview: ‘You have to put people over profit’ i wish them good luck. elite North Korean county officials do self-care, ignore famished masses: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/dangogi-07212022163826.html posted:Hungry North Koreans bristle as elites feast on expensive dog meat would this happen in a free society? probably not.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 00:52 |
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Some Guy TT posted:wait poo poo this isnt the pop culture thread Peach Garden Bois ez
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 00:57 |
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atelier morgan posted:its not a failure, read Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History It’s a failure in that it is one of the reasons the US empire is collapsing.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 01:21 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AskAKorean/status/1550540002257317888 it isnt lol
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 01:32 |
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Bring back smoking in hookahs.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 01:45 |
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Ah so the current government wants to reunify and then use the nukes on Japan.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 01:46 |
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Tankbuster posted:Bring back smoking in hookahs. Victims of Erdogan https://twitter.com/kwasylewsky/status/1534164903145230338
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 01:47 |
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Marenghi posted:Is vaping really that much safer than cigarettes? That was from vitamin E oil (honeycut) used to cut black market THC vape carts, because it gives the vape juice the same consistency as actual THC carts but is cheap poo poo. It's pretty much the same deal as any adulterated black market drugs. It didn't show up outside of THC vape carts. The whole thing was a wild ride and this article tells the story pretty well https://www.leafly.com/news/health/toxic-vaping-vapi-evali-lung-injury-rise-and-fall-of-vitamin-e-oil-honey-cut Vapes haven't been around for 50 years to know for sure, but we do generally know the safety of inhaled PG and VG. There's a possibility that there's something wild that everyone just missed and will turn up in decades but it seems very unlikely especially when compared to the known dangers of cigarette smoking. The biggest risk is likely the (already known) cardiovascular impact from nicotine itself, although people who vape generally end up with lower amounts of nicotine floating around in their blood than smokers (absorption of freebase nicotine in vapes is actually low.) The exception to that is nicotine salts, either from increased absorption or because devices that use nicotine salts are much higher concentration. Juul and stuff are nicotine salt devices. And after October 1st these will be the only legal devices in China, prefilled pods that contain ~25mg of nicotine salts per ml of juice. Those prefilled pods also make a lot of plastic waste too, and in that "think of the kids" way are gonna appeal to kids a lot more than "big nerd device that takes loving around with" but those are whole other things.
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# ? Jul 23, 2022 01:52 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 22:34 |
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HiroProtagonist posted:wait, really????? expats who only ever interact with expats or something?? apparently, it's very easy. you associate mostly with other expats and the type of local person who speaks english really well and want to hang out with the expats who complain about the country all day. and then at work your coworkers are either upper middle class people who complain about taxes or they don't talk about political stuff with you at all. then you can start projecting your office's specific organizational dysfunction onto the entire country ("have you ever noticed how chinese people are always 5 minutes late to meetings?") and then you run into this and fail to understand the part where even though they have criticism, they are still broadly supportive of the government. so you walk away thinking they totally agree with you and hate the government: Antonymous posted:If you show chinese people an anti-chinese propaganda documentary I've found that they generally agree with it, because they don't see it as threatening them personally. i recently had an american coworker, who's lived here for 6 years and is married to a chinese woman, tell me that he "feels something under the surface here is very wrong" and "just walking down the street, whenever i see a chinese person, i am filled with hate"
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