gradenko_2000 posted:

BrainDance posted:

Last time I mentioned it (though, in the gpu thread so my bad) just in passing I got hit with a wave of "umm, but all companies are bad braindance!" Like people were taking personal offense to me trying to avoid that brand when I can. Which true, but gently caress man just let me avoid a brand that I have a strong personal aversion to. I know I won't be avoiding every tech they make but I do what I can.

BrainDance posted:

I try to avoid Samsung because they're evil.

Last time I mentioned it (though, in the gpu thread so my bad) just in passing I got hit with a wave of "umm, but all companies are bad braindance!" Like people were taking personal offense to me trying to avoid that brand when I can. Which true, but gently caress man just let me avoid a brand that I have a strong personal aversion to. I know I won't be avoiding every tech they make but I do what I can.

I don't even know who makes good tvs now though I got on the projector train and there's no going back. Feels like nearly all the disadvantages of a projector are just things that were relevant 5 years ago but are totally not an issue anymore.

Some Guy TT posted:

china in general seems to be really good at recycling their antique electronics because i havent seen any here except one time at an old time curio style candy shop at a hutong where they were clearly there as a bit they also had what i think was a hacked famicom mini playing a game in chinese most of the retro games here are off of these pandora boxes where you pay about a quarter per credit via qr code of course

Antonymous posted:

the plot of taiwan's greatest film partly involves the dad trying to rip off japanese videogames

fart simpson posted:

its still way more annoying to connect up a speaker system to a projector because you want your speakers in the front but the projector is in the back. thats the big issue imo

Some Guy TT posted:

really want to get down to the hangzhou electronics market before i leave to see if i can find some of their weird old junk if they dont have any stalls with stuff like that i dont have a clue where else to even look for it

Antonymous posted:

the plot of taiwan's greatest film partly involves the dad trying to rip off japanese videogames

Eminent DNS posted:

What film is that?

Punkin Spunkin posted:

What's it called?

quote:

In Yi Yi, life is a constant act of becoming. Wu's daughter (Kelly Lee) struggles with guilt as she considers taking on a friend's discarded boyfriend as her first. Wu's initially morose younger son (Jonathan Chang) comes into his own when he discovers a camera's ability to reveal the world. Meanwhile, Wu struggles with past and future as he reconnects with the first love (Su-Yun Ko) he abandoned 30 years before, while trying to persuade his business partners to ally with a visionary Japanese video-game creator (Issei Ogata).

Mantis42 posted:

I do not remember video games being part of Yi Yi at all lmao

stephenthinkpad posted:

You probably want to get the mobo on taobao. I have brought replacement screens and screens online. Pretty straight forward. These kind of stuff is hard to source in person in the electronic mall.

Antonymous posted:

its hard for me to remember but the dad wants to reconnect with his old lover in japan and that's ostensibly why he's there. and his business partner almost dies somehow who is the guy who says why not just steal it, someone in taiwan has probably already done it. and I like to think the guy he's meeting represents Kojima

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOXTrOuG5sI

R. Guyovich posted:

people on twitter and itf extrapolating from unreliable crematoria anecdotes and uncritically posting jennifer zeng videos, it's 2020 all over again

quote:

Jia Zhongwu, an official from the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said at a news conference on Friday that traditional Chinese medicine is an indispensable and irreplaceable part of the "Chinese plan" for the epidemic prevention and control.

He said the World Health Organization has affirmed the effectiveness and safety of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of COVID-19 at an expert assessment meeting.

"TCM treatment is mainly for the asymptomatic and those with mild symptoms. For severe and critical patients, we use both Chinese and Western medicine treatment," he said.

Liu Qingquan, president of the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said at the conference that clinical practice has proved that the effect of the combination of Chinese and Western treatment is remarkable, especially in treating the symptoms of fever, sore throat, cough and fatigue caused by COVID-19.

Studies have shown that traditional Chinese medicine has inhibited the virus from invading and replicating itself, he said.

mawarannahr posted:

lol http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/09/WS6392fa9ba31057c47eba3a43.html

“TCM is for when we think it doesn’t really matter”

Some Guy TT posted:

i also wanted to get a motherboard for a busted notebook but i dont have the busted notebook on me is that going to be a problem or is just the model number of the notebook and the chinese word for motherboard enough to get me what i want at a price thats not just the price of a brand new notebook

In Training posted:

idk about ranking all their work.but I love terrorizers

quote:

Michael Hudson: The idea of making fortunes by borrowing money to bid up real estate prices for debt-financed land value gains, is not really a way to get rich. Just by inflating the counters of what a house or an office building or a home is worth by going into debt is the Western way to get rich and also, to impoverish the economy. And Xi is not doing that. He didn’t specifically talk about real estate and the financial problems that are occurring there but he made it clear that he’s going to end the whole idea of the government providing credit simply to increase the price of real capital investment, housing, factories, plant and equipment that are – he’s more concerned with economic reality than the financial image of this reality that is inflated by prices. He didn’t quite say it that way but we still have a few days for him to spell out everything.

Karl Fitzgerald: Well, that’s good to hear Michael because I must say I was disheartened when it was announced earlier this year that the talk of implementing a property tax in particular regions was, even that was quashed in China and it really, for me, drove home just how powerful property interests were. But you’re saying that there is still hope that he’s going to pull into line this post-manufacturing economic model of using real estate and population growth and infrastructure expenditure to drive growth?

Michael Hudson: Well, at least, that’s what I’ve been spending all my time in China talking about. The focus of all the lectures that I’ve done in China that you’re now putting up on my website and you put some up on Patreon, are all about that. Right now, Xi has a problem in increasing the taxes that are – if he increases the taxes on housing and real estate on the rents that are now being paid to the banks, the banks will go under. How is he going to manage this? I think that he should let the banks go under because the bankers who made a lot of money will go under but fortunately, ultimately, all this banking money is owed to the government.
(19:56)

And the government can simply write down the debt. So yes, property prices that have been inflated by debt will go down but the building won’t be destroyed. It’s just the price of the building will go down and there are all sorts of ways of compensating for that by reducing the rents to reflect the actual cost of the building. This is the discussion that’s going on throughout China and the problem is especially serious in an area that really, the government has left to the localities in the past. People think of China as being a centralised, centrally-managed economy but that’s not what’s happened at all.

Localities have had an enormous freedom to let a hundred flowers bloom, let each go their own way and the result is that localities have had to finance their domestic city and local spending by selling land to developers. And that is the problem that – that has created the enormous problems that you have today because the developers have then gone to the banks, not the government of China banks, but the banks that are borrowed from are the Bank of China and there has been a whole sort of privatised financialised banking system that’s developed. That’s what they’re finally turning to in the next presidency of Xi. And obviously, everybody in China realises that this has to be done right now and that hasn’t become explicit but that’s the problem that I’m sure they’re all talking about in Beijing this week.

Truga posted:

close enough