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Stringent posted:that's interesting. i've actually got a couple friends from spain that have lived here for quite a while and, at least according to them, economic prospects are a lot better in japan than in spain. always worth considering that migrants have a skewed perception of economic mobility and opportunity. people who have the option or means to move to a different continent and learn a different language tend to come from higher socioeconomic strata than the general population. also if your friends genuinely believed that spain offered better prospects and a higher standard of living, they'd want to move back.
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Oct 17, 2022 11:24
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webcams for christ posted:always worth considering that migrants have a skewed perception of economic mobility and opportunity. people who have the option or means to move to a different continent and learn a different language tend to come from higher socioeconomic strata than the general population. also if your friends genuinely believed that spain offered better prospects and a higher standard of living, they'd want to move back. There's also the fact that the police/local and national governments are hard at work hiding any visible poverty for the big cities as they also happen(ed) to be major tourist spots. Homeless people get evicted from "hot spots" periodically and police patrols then get installed to prevent them from coming back. There used to be tons in the parks here. Due to prior volunteer work with these people and due to quite some members of my hobby-group being marginalized working-class (think line-cook for a soba joint), I see a lot of what the government is trying to hide - and let me tell you it's not pretty. Especially for those, who lose their familial "fall back" position... On the have-side there's (still) a lot more social cohesion and people are willing to help each other in order to prevent them from falling through the cracks entirely. I assume that also serves as a sort of society wide palliative. Edit: That said, even if you travel a tiny bit outside of the city core, there is a shocking amount of dilapidation, crime and poverty like right here in Tokyo. The place is simply too large and they can only perform so many "clean up" (read throwing the homeless into another district and making it their problem) actions... VomitOnLino has issued a correction as of 11:32 on Oct 17, 2022 |
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Oct 17, 2022 11:29
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So uhh, why?
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Oct 17, 2022 11:35
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lmao cnn only supports the wettest and most perpetually lubricated leaders
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Oct 17, 2022 11:40
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Orange Devil posted:So uhh, why? Standard policy for Western reporting. If you present things as something that needs to be interpreted, and then use the omnipresence of your messaging to impose yourself as the only valid interpreter, you don't really need to do censorship, you can convert anything whatsoever into "and this proves I'm right". Gets really silly when it's this obvious, admittedly. 
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Oct 17, 2022 11:42
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Orange Devil posted:So uhh, why? Something something stamina, micromanaging, apparently https://twitter.com/thelongwallz/status/1581841954073370626
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Oct 17, 2022 11:45
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Goon Boots posted:everyone makes the same silly observation about this picture of hildawg actually vampires can't enter a house unless they have already been invited
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Oct 17, 2022 11:52
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a new way of reading tea leaves
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Oct 17, 2022 11:54
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https://twitter.com/markets/status/1581926030981607425?s=20&t=iFWLncoPjwSA2D2gf1MhdAquote:China told its state-owned gas importers to stop reselling LNG to energy-starved buyers in Europe and Asia in order to ensure its own supply for the winter heating season. https://www.dw.com/en/is-china-reexporting-russian-gas-to-europe/a-63146922 quote:So far this year, Chinese companies have sold 4 million tons of LNG on international markets. That represents about 7% of Europe's gas consumption for the first half of the year. Evidence of this came from China's JOVO Group, an LNG broker, which said it had sold an LNG cargo worth as much as $100 million (€103 million) to a European buyer.
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Oct 17, 2022 12:28
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but dumbasses in the cspam Ukraine thread have been telling me the gas situation will be fine in Europe?!?!
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Oct 17, 2022 12:35
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crepeface posted:but dumbasses in the cspam Ukraine thread have been telling me the gas situation will be fine in Europe?!?! what
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Oct 17, 2022 12:39
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my dad posted:Standard policy for Western reporting. If you present things as something that needs to be interpreted, and then use the omnipresence of your messaging to impose yourself as the only valid interpreter, you don't really need to do censorship, you can convert anything whatsoever into "and this proves I'm right". Gets really silly when it's this obvious, admittedly. Yeah no I get that, I just wanted to have a hearty lol at whatever bullshit CNN thinks they can read in Xi's uhh, tealeaves. ACES CURE PLANES posted:Something something stamina, micromanaging, apparently Ohh yeah, that's the stuff. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 13:08 on Oct 17, 2022 |
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Oct 17, 2022 13:03
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Orange Devil posted:Yeah no I get that, I just wanted to have a hearty lol at whatever bullshit CNN things they can read in Xi's uhh, tealeaves. if they stared it long enough they can see afterimages of biden fondling young kids
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Oct 17, 2022 13:08
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Do you think "China Experts" and "Kremlinologists" see each other as colleagues and exchange bullshitting techniques, or rivals who secretly root for their chosen country to be more succesful/threatening to secure their dumb jobs?
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Oct 17, 2022 13:11
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In all the CPC's 100 year history no leader has taken a sip of delicious tea placed in front of him, this is an historic moment.
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Oct 17, 2022 13:13
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Grevling posted:In all the CPC's 100 year history no leader has taken a sip of delicious tea placed in front of him, this is an historic moment. now lets talk about his apparent lack of kidney function
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Oct 17, 2022 13:21
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Goon Boots posted:a new way of reading tea leaves xi leaves, if you will
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Oct 17, 2022 14:22
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Xi had the queen killed and now he's dabbing all over us.
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Oct 17, 2022 14:33
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Bear Retrieval Unit posted:Xi had the queen killed and now he's dabbing all over us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZveA-NAIDI
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Oct 17, 2022 14:47
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lumpentroll posted:what Germanysnreserves are 90% full, everything will be fine for the garden protagonists of the world
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Oct 17, 2022 14:53
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lumpentroll posted:what Crymetimeboys posted:Europe energy prices are already falling, though. Russia may not be able to weaponise their gas supply against the EU countries after all. cncgnxcg posted:German goverment claims that tanks are at ~90% full, and still growing with the target being 95% on Nov. 1st. And stores only covering 2 months assumes that no new gas is coming in at all.
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Oct 17, 2022 14:58
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crepeface posted:but dumbasses in the cspam Ukraine thread have been telling me the gas situation will be fine in Europe?!?! it will be "fine" in that it won't do anything but hurt the poor
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Oct 17, 2022 14:59
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genuinely deranged stuff coming out of white media over Xi Jinping drinking tea
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Oct 17, 2022 15:10
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his refusal to drink red tea means that he will abandon communism within the week
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Oct 17, 2022 15:13
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This sounds like someone who didn't read or understand any of the speech was forced to write an article.
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Oct 17, 2022 15:22
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB2LxMRrG4I I got around to listen to it when I was doing a day hike. It's a very frank academic view of the Sino-US competition. He straight up said the US is hollowing out the "One China Policy". That's exactly the phrase China diplomatic officials use. That's why the Washington blob doesn't hire or have dialogue with China experts in US academia anymore, because the academic will say it like it is and call the US China policy hypocritical and the State Department can't have that. The guy was also frank on US trying to contain China. He told a story that when Hilary went to China in 199x, the media asked her, will you raise issue about the oppressed minorities, Hilary answered "no, because it doesn't help". And it got a big fuzz from the media. So the DEM never made the argument of "no it doesn't help" ever since and just pretend they care about foreign minorities. There is one thing I don't agree with him, around the one hour mark he commented that the Russians have been laying low in the far east because the far east population is vastly smaller than the Chinese and they "let China do whatever they wanted". No this is wrong. The CPC settled all border disputes with Russia under Jiang, since then they have been very careful about expending their influence in far east and in the central asian coutries. China only wanted to expand economic influence and didn't want to touch the Russian political and cultural stakes. Russians historically has been very touchy about border land ownership. One thing China will never do is go around Russia and have military cooperation with other stan countries. This is what the Americans don't get.
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Oct 17, 2022 15:29
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/MarxistHeathen/status/1581128432011780096 Why didn't anyone tell me that part 2 was out. https://twitter.com/MarxistHeathen/status/1581126442653343745 Wasted my weekend watching Adam Curtis instead 
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Oct 17, 2022 15:29
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KomradeX posted:Germanysnreserves are 90% full, everything will be fine for the garden protagonists of the world Note that 100% full reserves corresponds to 2-3 months usage. Winter temperatures can last 5 months.
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Oct 17, 2022 15:57
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fart simpson posted:i dont think you need to keep paper records for this. you can just go to the tax office and request a copy of their records, it takes like 10 minutes and it's free Yeah, my impressions may be due to a weird tax situation with my company and the Shanghai lockdowns around that time.
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Oct 17, 2022 16:45
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I bet that mf drinks earl gray or some trite poo poo smdh
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Oct 17, 2022 16:47
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Malleum posted:his refusal to drink red tea means that he will abandon communism within the week black tea in chinese is 红茶 which literally translates to "red tea". owned
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Oct 17, 2022 17:04
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the inscrutable oriental can only be understood by their subtle gestures. we have yet to decipher their complex pictographic language
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Oct 17, 2022 17:07
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R. Guyovich posted:black tea in chinese is 红茶 which literally translates to "red tea". owned china also has 黑茶 which translates to black tea. they just have more types of tea 
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Oct 17, 2022 17:10
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lollontee posted:you... did not. i told you i didn't know how you read my posts from two years back. you said it didnt matter, that i had to give a yes/no answer, and when i tried to explain my political position with regards to a loving ongoing political conflict, that what i believed was that it was likely that the CIA, in coordination with the Saudis and the turkish grey wolf neo-ottoman fascists, organized a jihadist insurgency in Xinjiang, you told me to evacuate in 18 hours. azothoth explain yourself
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Oct 17, 2022 17:16
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fart simpson posted:china also has 黑茶 which translates to black tea. they just have more types of tea reminds me i gotta buy some more tea from https://verdanttea.com/
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Oct 17, 2022 17:21
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The key metric to look at with Japan is GDP per working age person. Japan went through a very large demographic shift where the population of retirees is proportionately now much larger than it was at the end of the golden era. The other concept to keep in mind is the consumption share of GDP. Japan's earlier growth model mean that capital investment was a higher share of GDP growth than consumption. Eventually this was going to have to reverse because the amount of productive capital investment opportunities will run out, and also an aging population will necessarily mean the population will shift more from saving to consumption. So in conclusion, watch out for how demography affects GDP. There was also a thing where Americans had completely crazy ideas about how Japan was going to develop. Japan was ultimately a country the size of California with about 120m people. It's a big country with a lot of people but there was no plausible way it was going to actually exceed the US in terms of sheer economic size and heft. I don't know if Japanese people in Japan read the same crazy Tom Clancy/Bladerunner poo poo about how Japan was going to take over the world but I doubt it because that was just crazy projection by white people. The Chinese government is well aware of this trajectory and are aligning the Chinese economy around it, so absolute GDP growth is going to fall as GDP is reallocated from capital investment to consumption. So real estate is going to go down, they explicitly said it would. But there's going to be breathless western commentary about how some bank in Henan failing is going to result in civil war.
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Oct 17, 2022 17:24
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oh man, when did sexpig get permabanned
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Oct 17, 2022 17:29
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crepeface posted:oh man, when did sexpig get permabanned when he said dnd was moderated by nazis iirc azathoth admitted it was a mistake but never took corrective action
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Oct 17, 2022 17:36
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crepeface posted:azothoth explain yourself lol just dont post politics anywhere else but cspam and honestly probably not even here really
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Oct 17, 2022 18:01
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crepeface posted:azothoth explain yourself lmao. brilliant
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