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Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
Aren't most white women going to korea for love just kpop stans? like the korean equivalent of weeaboos visiting japan?

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Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Tankbuster posted:

Aren't most white women going to korea for love just kpop stans? like the korean equivalent of weeaboos visiting japan?

If my niece goes to korea it'll probably be because of her love for kpop boys yes

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

still struggling to figure out what possible reasoning he could have for telling people to do a google search for porn instead of just linking examples he knew to be from actual respectable movies

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmiK9v6nO3I

The air part of the parade is insane.

I love North Korea.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

China: horny is forbidden
Japan: too drat horny
Korea: just horny enough

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

Some Guy TT posted:

still struggling to figure out what possible reasoning he could have for telling people to do a google search for porn instead of just linking examples he knew to be from actual respectable movies

doesn't know how to clear his search, plausible deniability

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

my uh, friend, is heh... going to asia for sex. But she's a girl and looking for men. And she's not me, no sir. so it's OK, totally understandable. Here watch some porn:

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
should submit that to https://journals.sagepub.com/home/qrj for publication

Jeff Fatwood
Jun 17, 2013

I ... what? :psyduck:

Jeff Fatwood
Jun 17, 2013
lol just doing the search brings up softcore porn. Dude finds porn and thinks it's just Korean cinema.

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

Some Guy TT posted:

still struggling to figure out what possible reasoning he could have for telling people to do a google search for porn instead of just linking examples he knew to be from actual respectable movies

we all know he would put that late japanese colonial era boarding school movie that turns into lesbiotic sex partway through.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012


This is in my top 10 whitest posts of all time

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Jeff Fatwood posted:

lol just doing the search brings up softcore porn. Dude finds porn and thinks it's just Korean cinema.

i didnt even realize you could search for porn on google video and apparently this whole time you could grab it from innocuous searches that only vaguely allude to sex

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

stephenthinkpad posted:

Lower ranking lawmaker visit is like a salami sliced many moons ago. However a top rank lawmaker visit is a brand new salami slicing, so Beijing has to slice from the other endn of the salami to get even.

A Taiwanese analyst I follow said he heard a rumor that when Republicans take back the congress in Nov, THEIR house speaker will for sure visit Taiwan too. Oh dare.

lol if true. it'll probably be president trump 2.0 to really shove it in the face of the dems and look strong on chyna

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

Mantis42 posted:

China: horny is forbidden
Japan: too drat horny
Korea: just horny enough

:hmmyes:

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

just trying to imagine some teenager trying to find a pg13 sex scene from a movie and falling dick first into pornhub its pretty absurd given all the bullshit youtube or even just a regular google search does to try to keep people away from objectionable content

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
Also this comes from an old trueanon ep about the Nth room, but doesn't South Korea ban pornography or something?

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

mostly they just have more restrictive filters im deadly curious now whether a regular rear end google video search from south korea will also list you a bunch of videos from explicit hardcore porn websites

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

aesthetically south korean porn does tend to have more plot than porn from other regions to try and get around censorship so it occurs to me that noah smith has maybe just never seen porn like that before and is astonished to learn that emotional engagement with characters in a pornographic film can improve the overall experience despite this being disastrous for the movies overall smut ratio

Seatbelts
Mar 29, 2010

Grapplejack posted:

https://twitter.com/Livermore_Lab/status/1557435615435788293

it looks like the US is catching up to China in Fusion tech, but China has focused on Tokamaks and could theoretically roll out power plants, while the US still is mostly theoretical based around laser ignition stuff. Also the livermore lab is like almost entirely focused on weapons research lmao so all of this is probably someone convincing the lab to let them fire it up again

This is loving wild; if they can reliable ignite a fusion reaction we might actually have a chance to develop fusion tech within 100 years

Terminal autist
May 17, 2018

by vyelkin
Noah definitely looks like a guy that dabbles in sex trafficking

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://mobile.twitter.com/thenation/status/1558846408765194240

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
e wrong thread

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

I do think that the US and China focusing on entirely different methods of fusion is better for fusion in general but it's a bit hollow since they aren't sharing any info between each other and also US research is entirely focused on getting weapons tech out of it rather than power generation so any discoveries they make will be accidental at best

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Grapplejack posted:

I do think that the US and China focusing on entirely different methods of fusion is better for fusion in general but it's a bit hollow since they aren't sharing any info between each other and also US research is entirely focused on getting weapons tech out of it rather than power generation so any discoveries they make will be accidental at best

Russia, the US, and China are all cooperating (still) as a part of ITER, it is just on their side projects they are going in different directions.

I would say it would heat up if fusion gave some type of geopolitical advantage.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

genericnick posted:

Enough to do what though?

to appease the more belligerent faction in china while warding off future salami slicing

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

Seems like as long as fossil fuels are more profitable than fusion we don't have to worry about whether or not the United States will ever actually do it.

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

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

Ardennes posted:

Russia, the US, and China are all cooperating (still) as a part of ITER, it is just on their side projects they are going in different directions.

I would say it would heat up if fusion gave some type of geopolitical advantage.

wouldn't it? cheap clean controllable energy seems like it'd give the developer an instant market advantage

Lady Militant
Apr 8, 2020

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

indigi posted:

wouldn't it? cheap clean controllable energy seems like it'd give the developer an instant market advantage

pretty much. you would be able to run all the heavy industry parts of your economy (the ones that draw the most power) for basically free and be able to sell power to your neighbors which is turning out to be a real important thing in europe rn

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

indigi posted:

wouldn't it? cheap clean controllable energy seems like it'd give the developer an instant market advantage

I mean, that's the thing, isn't it? There's just no way that it starts out cheap and reliable so the timeline is pretty unsure. Obviously we should throw everything we have at it to make it work, but even if it succeeds the timeline remains extremely uncertain.

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat

indigi posted:

wouldn't it? cheap clean controllable energy seems like it'd give the developer an instant market advantage

Yeah, so the current market advantage holders would murder them in the crib

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

KirbyKhan posted:

Yeah, so the current market advantage holders would murder them in the crib

exactly. see this documentary for an example: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115857

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
The current favor of nuclear energy is already cleaner than all the other energy options, but it still get blacklisted by the west that used to have technical lead in this solution.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

indigi posted:

wouldn't it? cheap clean controllable energy seems like it'd give the developer an instant market advantage

That is way down the line though, the first reactors will be ridiculously expensive. It is certainly still cheaper to burn a bunch of brown coal and leave the hard work to someone else.

That said, no one really wants nothing on the table either, so there is still work being done but all of it is incremental. That said, commercial molten salt thorium reactors much sooner and could actually make a difference with climate change.

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

Fusion will not be adopted by the west obviously but maybe after we use every last drop of oil

mossyfisk
Nov 8, 2010

FF0000

Seatbelts posted:

This is loving wild; if they can reliable ignite a fusion reaction we might actually have a chance to develop fusion tech within 100 years

If

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


Grapplejack posted:

https://twitter.com/Livermore_Lab/status/1557435615435788293

it looks like the US is catching up to China in Fusion tech, but China has focused on Tokamaks and could theoretically roll out power plants, while the US still is mostly theoretical based around laser ignition stuff. Also the livermore lab is like almost entirely focused on weapons research lmao so all of this is probably someone convincing the lab to let them fire it up again

this isnt correct (if you look outside of national labs). there are a bunch of different companies/labs pursuing different approaches in the US and MIT's SPARC will probably be the first "commercially viable" (still more expensive than solar PV) fusion plant, probably within the next 3-5 years. they're constructing it now and their physics and design are sound. inertial confinement fusion is a dead end though and lawrence livermore is strictly conducting research, they need to shoot a laser at God's Perfect Little Capsule and the capsules are far, far too difficult to mass produce since they need to essentially operate it like a machine gun shooting hundreds of capsules per day. it's not without its merit for the science though, fusion research helps other approaches too.

helion energy is another dark horse which if successful will be even better since their approach uses direct energy conversion vs steam power. If helion's reactor works it might be cheaper than solar PV, but in general fusion probably won't be commercially viable for general utility use since solar/win + battery storage is cheaper, ironically. it'll need to be subsidized by the government for mass rollout which, lol, well, we'll see

Justin Tyme has issued a correction as of 00:15 on Aug 15, 2022

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Is there feasible large storage yet

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
check your rear end!!!

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this allusion meant
Apr 9, 2006

brugroffil posted:

Is there feasible large storage yet
how large you thinking? lotta pumped hydro getting built but it’s not clear how deep you can actually cycle those things without causing problems

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