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Zedhe Khoja posted:lol Kabul is and Baghdad are more lit up than Istanbul or Rome. i think its funny that india is by far the biggest ufo country outside of the anglozone + belgium and the netherlands. looks like the aliens mostly live where english speaking people live. i wonder why!
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Jun 1, 2023 01:48
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maybe they are calculating unemployment differently.
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Jun 1, 2023 01:53
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fart simpson posted:i think its funny that india is by far the biggest ufo country outside of the anglozone + belgium and the netherlands. looks like the aliens mostly live where english speaking people live. i wonder why! E.T. is real and he's hindutva
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Jun 1, 2023 02:36
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yellowcar posted:E.T. is real and he's hindutva ET jai hind
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Jun 1, 2023 02:43
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fart simpson posted:i think its funny that india is by far the biggest ufo country outside of the anglozone + belgium and the netherlands. looks like the aliens mostly live where english speaking people live. i wonder why! PK is a documentary
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Jun 1, 2023 03:46
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Jun 1, 2023 04:02
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fart simpson posted:i think its funny that india is by far the biggest ufo country outside of the anglozone + belgium and the netherlands. looks like the aliens mostly live where english speaking people live. i wonder why! This thread is for the discussion of political matters we have an entire ufo thread you can ask please stay on topic
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Jun 1, 2023 04:28
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I mean it's NYT, but what the gently caress is this guy talking about. I'm in China right now and there's been no increase in surveillance compared to three years ago.
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Jun 1, 2023 04:40
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GlassEye-Boy posted:I mean it's NYT, but what the gently caress is this guy talking about. I'm in China right now and there's been no increase in surveillance compared to three years ago. he says quote:Just taking a short train ride required passports to be shown and scanned, both on entry and on exiting. which yeah three years ago you didn’t need to show id to ride the high speed train? get out of here lol
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Jun 1, 2023 04:54
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https://twitter.com/ethancpaul/status/1664033021475913733 frankly I'm amazed that anyone would still think of picking up Gordon Chang as an adviser. Like even if you were going for the Sinophobia angle surely there's some other China Watcher out there with marginally more heft, chops, gravitas?
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Jun 1, 2023 05:11
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/ethancpaul/status/1664033021475913733 you are speaking about a man who decided to announce his presidential candidacy on twitter as his first choice of platform in audio only format of all things lmao
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Jun 1, 2023 05:17
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fart simpson posted:he says I kinda vaguely remember it being worse three years ago? Because I swear the little scanners didnt use to scan passports and so you'd always have to manually do it with the guy, and then I dont think foreigners could use e-tickets back then.
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Jun 1, 2023 05:22
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BrainDance posted:I kinda vaguely remember it being worse three years ago? Because I swear the little scanners didnt use to scan passports and so you'd always have to manually do it with the guy, and then I dont think foreigners could use e-tickets back then. correct
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Jun 1, 2023 05:27
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/ethancpaul/status/1664033021475913733 making consistently wrong predictions about china for 30 years = china expert
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Jun 1, 2023 05:27
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fart simpson posted:he says so why exiting? is that normal everywhere? i've never trained feels like casually showing my id to the flight attendant as i leave the plane
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Jun 1, 2023 05:28
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Oglethorpe posted:so why exiting? is that normal everywhere? i've never trained in the olden days you'd have a paper ticket and you'd need to validate your ticket at the turnstiles when you boarded the train and also when you got off the train. and later they gave the option of using your ID as a kind of e-ticket, so you can just buy a ticket online and use your ID and you dont need to bother with printing out a paper ticket anymore because the system has your info already. so nowadays pretty much nobody bothers with paper tickets anymore because it's just more convenient to throw your id card or passport on the scanner and walk through the gates e: and the reason you show your ticket to leave the station is basically to check that you didnt stay on the train past your station. if you did that you need to pay a fare difference because going farther is generally more expensive fart simpson has issued a correction as of 05:46 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 05:41
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fart simpson posted:in the olden days you'd have a paper ticket and you'd need to validate your ticket at the turnstiles when you boarded the train and also when you got off the train. and later they gave the option of using your ID as a kind of e-ticket, so you can just buy a ticket online and use your ID and you dont need to bother with printing out a paper ticket anymore because the system has your info already. so nowadays pretty much nobody bothers with paper tickets anymore because it's just more convenient to throw your id card or passport on the scanner and walk through the gates more expensive for the train? how much fuel does 150 lbs use
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Jun 1, 2023 06:01
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Oglethorpe posted:more expensive for the train? how much fuel does 150 lbs use i dont know what to tell you buddy. thats just how transportation ticketing generally works
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Jun 1, 2023 06:03
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probably generally cumulative weight for all passengers per person per periodical distance. i guess.
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Jun 1, 2023 06:04
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More expensive in that you're taking up a seat someone else could be paying for
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Jun 1, 2023 06:05
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They have to account for fat Americans that RUIN the chairs
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Jun 1, 2023 06:07
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its never occurred to me to question whether a train ticket cost should increase as the distance traveled goes up
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Jun 1, 2023 06:08
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Delta-Wye posted:its never occurred to me to question whether a train ticket cost should increase as the distance traveled goes up me neither
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Jun 1, 2023 06:09
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It's 2023 so now that I think about it more 3 years ago was pretty much the single worst time to ride a train as a foreigner. I once took the train back from Kaifeng around one of the holidays, they let me board everything was fine. I get back to the city, I get off the train, it's COVID stuff so I had to scan the little QR code. But when I did, they had updated or changed something and for those few days the one we used in this city would only accept a Chinese ID number. Passports were no longer an option. So, without that, I couldn't just leave the little section in between the train and the rest of the station. I couldn't get back on the train, and it's not like I would want to. It would have been like that movie or something where the dude has to live at the airport except in real life that would be insane in this kind of situation. So eventually after just standing there for a while, and explaining it to the guards, and everyone else went through one of the guards was just like "Yeah that's a weird situation. Ok, whatever, just go through I guess." Not really an exciting story or anything interesting about it at all, but it just kinda sucked more than riding the train now in 2023 where I dont think getting stranded in the space in between the train and the station happens all that often.
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Jun 1, 2023 06:30
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Oglethorpe posted:more expensive for the train? how much fuel does 150 lbs use fart simpson posted:me neither and yet now im wondering how much it could cost to ferry ~1/2 a goon a few extra stops
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Jun 1, 2023 06:37
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ughhhh posted:Wonder if the youth unemployment has anything to do with all the Chinese international students in the US going back. its a country of 1.4 billion people. That isn't going to swing the needle either way.
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Jun 1, 2023 07:06
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fart simpson posted:i think its funny that india is by far the biggest ufo country outside of the anglozone + belgium and the netherlands. looks like the aliens mostly live where english speaking people live. i wonder why! We take chariots of the gods a bit too seriously.
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Jun 1, 2023 07:08
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https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3222117/brutal-us-china-tech-war-what-goes-around-comes-aroundquote:China has been looking for suitable targets. Micron is almost the lone big chip player in the US to have not only launched multiple intellectual property lawsuits but also frequently lobbied Washington against China. Oh, so this also a reason China has banned Micron products. They thought they could crush the competition by lobbying for US actions that targeted their competitors, but got swept out of the Chinese market instead.
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Jun 1, 2023 07:48
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Delta-Wye posted:its never occurred to me to question whether a train ticket cost should increase as the distance traveled goes up Trains should be free.
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Jun 1, 2023 08:17
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Orange Devil posted:Trains should be free. Walking along making choo choo noises is the sacred right of any free individual.
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Jun 1, 2023 08:54
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lmao people here asking if going a longer distance on a train costs more.
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Jun 1, 2023 09:20
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OhFunny posted:https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3222117/brutal-us-china-tech-war-what-goes-around-comes-around lol at also telling korea & japan not to sell to further incentivize domestic production in china
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Jun 1, 2023 10:06
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I rarely open twitter and barely follow anyone, so my feed is usually influenced the most by whatever twitter links were posted elsewhere I read. Today, Twitter decided to welcome me with this: https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1664064390918995968 my dad has issued a correction as of 10:13 on Jun 1, 2023 |
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Jun 1, 2023 10:10
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OhFunny posted:https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3222117/brutal-us-china-tech-war-what-goes-around-comes-around western corporation fucks around in country with a government that actually can do poo poo, makes shocked pikachu face when they find out said government doesn't just take their bullshit
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Jun 1, 2023 11:00
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stephenthinkpad posted:Also I found out this Harvard pita guy said Thailand should abandon the already under construction Chinese HSR and build hyperloop. Okay that's it, this guy is 100% a Guan Guaido. I foresee unrest in the next 2, 3 years Was this Pita's plan or this Juangroongruangkit guy? I can't find any sources saying that Pita supports hyperloop
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Jun 1, 2023 11:41
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my dad posted:I rarely open twitter and barely follow anyone, so my feed is usually influenced the most by whatever twitter links were posted elsewhere I read. Today, Twitter decided to welcome me with this: Here's the real little mermaid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VCe3Iz-ieE (warning: a bit of burning actors in a movie scene, not real, in case anyone doesn't like that sort of thing)
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Jun 1, 2023 11:45
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1662285440974733313 That's an expensive bridge! I bet there's no reason to build it.  CNN posted:Austin Strange, who specializes in Chinese foreign policy at the University of Hong Kong, said the new bridge would no doubt bring “real economic value” by drastically reducing commute times between the cities while also cutting traffic.
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Jun 1, 2023 12:13
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fits my needs posted:lol at also telling korea & japan not to sell to further incentivize domestic production in china What's stopping Samsung and SK Hynix selling to a shell company in Singapore and flip them to China? This is so stupid. Worse case scenario you have the Russian oil sanction situation, which is so leaky its legal for Greek/Indian companies to flip oil for Russia for little profit. I have a theory, US has never had effective banning of any physical product, doesn't have the culture for it. This goes back to the banning of alcohol to the modern day banning or all kind of narcotics. The government just have illegal substance law to target certain minorities. Like I can easily buy camera gears from Canada without paying custom and tax. Every non US country I know have effective charge of custom because its the easiest thing to implement but the US can't do it. So in conclusion, any US banning or sanction of physical products is completely toothless.
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Jun 1, 2023 12:39
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Yossarian-22 posted:Was this Pita's plan or this Juangroongruangkit guy? I can't find any sources saying that Pita supports hyperloop I looked around and realize it was this guy who said it, but it gets funnier the more I look into it. This guy has completely identical lore to the Pita guy. He is a different Something forward party founder, who is the son of a billionaire, who also became the head of his family's mega corporation after his dad died, who is also 40-something with US elite education. The only difference is he went to NYU instead of Harvard. So to summarize, Pita guy - Harvard - non spiky hair - divorced with a daughter guy with long name banned by the constitutional court (all political reporters breath a sign of relief) - NYU - spiky hair - married w 4 children - ethnic Chinese background
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Jun 1, 2023 12:54
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fart simpson posted:he says you still had to show your passport and have it scanned/recorded when picking up a physical ticket 3 years ago. Now foreigners can use their passport as a a ticket saving them the hassle of queuing for a ticket at the actual train station. in addition I’m pretty sure three years ago you still had to show passports to pass security check at the HSR stations.
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