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Ishmael posted:And doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this: I like pointing out that Moby-Dick took place in the early 2000s
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thetoughestbean posted:Chinese diplomats for Hirohito bingo lol Grand Fromage posted:E: Found it. After the Qing's fourth invasion of Burma got rinsed, yet again, from the commander of the Burmese military. lmao
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So what will make things better for chinese people?
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They could try to stop being giant pissbabies and getting their feelings hurt by every little thing. 
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McGavin posted:They could try to stop being giant pissbabies and getting their feelings hurt by every little thing. this hurts the feelings of the Chinese people
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Seth Pecksniff posted:this hurts the feelings of the Chinese people 
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Ups_rail posted:So what will make things better for chinese people? A government that allies could trust as far as they could throw?
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ninjoatse.cx posted:We’re talking about japan boomers, literally
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Ups_rail posted:So what will make things better for chinese people? A government that isn’t corrupt and full of liars, imo. A bit more humility and willingness to admit when things aren’t working would go far for the Chinese government, but it’s set up to encourage the opposite
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Brutal Garcon posted:A government that allies could trust as far as they could throw? for that matter the CCP doesn't trust their own citizens at all either and wouldn't give them the time of day if it didn't have to Taiwan and its political liberalization stands as an example that they (the people) don't have to settle for the CCP
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https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1562605429305122818 I know it's clickbait but lol at putting mooncakes on the same social progress level as foot binding.
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My wife's international school, which is not located in China, but does have one Chinese individual in a position of power, is demanding that all Taiwanese teachers put "Taiwan, China" on their introductory letters. This individual gave up her citizenship to get European citizenship, so it's especially disgusting. My wife is getting around it by saying she has "teaching experience in Taipei". My international school has ROC flags scattered about at random, so we're safe for now.
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Aug 25, 2022 03:02
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It's me, I'm the guy who likes mooncakes
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:It's me, I'm the guy who likes mooncakes  I’ve tried 4 different ones and two were great and I’d eat them again and 2 were just ok and I’d probably not go out of my way to eat them again. I have no clue what flavors they were because they weren’t labeled lol
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Around Chinese new year people always leave mooncakes in the breakroom at work to get rid of them and some of them are ok. A very rare few were even good. This is in the US though so I can only imagine what a real mooncake with 5000 years of history behind it tastes like.
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I've never encountered a mooncake I would take over a mediocre doughnut
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Stink Billyums posted:I've never encountered a mooncake I would take over a mediocre doughnut They exist, but as a minority.
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Yeah I will defend mooncakes every time this comes up. They're overall good, dense, but good. They're also great for hiking, maybe not as balanced as super serious hikers would want but for me they don't take up a lot of space in my bag, taste good, and they are filling. Salty egg yolk ones were a little bit of an acquired taste, I may have said those don't do it for me before but now I warmed up to them. Just salty duck eggs are good too. But what's even better and is like a whole event is salty goose eggs. Probably not great for your heart but drat do I enjoy a salty goose egg. Stink Billyums posted:I've never encountered a mooncake I would take over a mediocre doughnut I guess but it's a different thing. I don't feel like they fill the same food niche other than both being sweet, if you ate mooncakes like donuts you'd die. Might as well be saying "I'd never take a glass of chocolate milk over ice cream." Maybe but, besides both being sweet dairy products just not the same area. BrainDance fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Aug 25, 2022 |
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salty egg yolk mooncakes are the best kind
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I like the "dense herb/nut mash" type.
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I like the appetizingly named "lotus paste" ones.
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For as much as he claims to read, he must have been very selective in his choice of material. Specifically given the huge amount of online commentary since his last outing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WH8K2Wjck
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Ups_rail posted:So what will make things better for chinese people? Ditching the hukou system an independent legal system transparent and accurate economic data You don't even need democracy for those! je1 healthcare fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Aug 25, 2022 |
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As mediocre as mooncakes are, rouyuebing are inexplicable quite different and are awesome, and I’d eat them year round.
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je1 healthcare posted:Ditching the hukou system 1) should be easy 2) and 3) Both dont address the issue of face.
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BrigadierSensible posted:I am an ESL teacher with 10 years experience.... Seth Pecksniff posted:Also saw this interesting article in FA today: lol I read a Nat Geo article some years back that pointed out that north India's water table is disappearing at such a rapid rate and unable to be replenished from monsoon rains that by something like 2030 the entire region of a few hundred million people will be out of water multiple months per year, spawning a mass migration which will permanently gently caress up/ruin/implode the rest of India and the region. I forget which of India's major rivers starts on the Tibet side of the border, but China was thinking of diverting it towards Beijing to make up for their water problems elsewhere. That would be the hypothetical "water war" we've been hearing would happen, considering half a billion people in India would be hosed if China did that. Seriously, I'll never get over that loving straddle bus and how much it consumed Western media for weeks.
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Ups_rail posted:1) should be easy I get 3) potentially being hugely awkward for any regime that likes image control (see: prominent firings of Greek/Turkish government economists in the last decade), but could you please explain your reasoning on the judiciary? Genuinely curious.
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je1 healthcare posted:Ditching the hukou system Could this be a solution to the current housing market problem? Drive up demand for urban homes?
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Brutal Garcon posted:Could this be a solution to the current housing market problem? Drive up demand for urban homes? Not really. Beyond the fact that a lot of (most?) people with rural hukous couldn't afford to buy in the cities anyway, the current market problem is that the construction industry and its supporting banks were running a gigantic debt scam and none of the money actually exists to pay anything off. Plus there's the ghost house thing where people bought apartments (often with loans) that didn't exist yet and the developers just took the money then never bothered to actually build the apartments. Or half built them, so people have these bare concrete boxes that they have to pay for or they lose the apartment and all the money they've put in. Housing is insanely expensive in the major cities. Like proportional to incomes, apartments in Beijing or Shanghai are six times more expensive than in London if I'm remembering the thing I read correctly?
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People in the cities would absolutely flip their poo poo if hukous were flat abolished. Street protests, the works. There's a huge social divide between City People and Not City People, and if you erased it overnight... welp. That the divide exists is a bad thing - it is used to divert resources and stuff away from rural areas. But if you're going to fix that, it needs to be done slowly and quietly.
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Yeah getting rid of the caste system would be one thing that might genuinely endanger the government. There's nothing people in China hate more than people from a different part of China.
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i truly do not get any of the hate for moon cakes. theyre soft, mild in taste, sweet. yummie egg in the middle. theyre the only time i find green melon tolerable at all honestly, i hate it in everything else in the world. big heavy dense moon cake! i ate 8 in one sitting once. love em
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Some moon cakes have over 1k calories per piece.
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah getting rid of the caste system would be one thing that might genuinely endanger the government. There's nothing people in China hate more than people from a different part of China. This is also true of India. Only with a much more formalized caste system, and the additional schizm between north/south and Hindus/Muslims.
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Grand Fromage posted:Not really. Beyond the fact that a lot of (most?) people with rural hukous couldn't afford to buy in the cities anyway, buying an apartment in a city is one of the few ways to get your hukou changed, even
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hypnophant posted:buying an apartment in a city is one of the few ways to get your hukou changed, even There several ways, they just all require stuff a rural person typically doesn't have. Cash to buy an apartment. Cash to make a lump payment into the social security fund. The stability to work the same job and make small payments consistently for several years.
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BrainDance posted:Yeah I will defend mooncakes every time this comes up. They're overall good, dense, but good. 
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Grand Fromage posted:Yeah getting rid of the caste system would be one thing that might genuinely endanger the government. There's nothing people in China hate more than people from a different part of China. But I thought all were equal under communism 
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big time bisexual posted:https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1562605429305122818 I am not even chinese and I love mooncakes!
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