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Really not scalable though. You need industrial development to replicate that on a mass scale and whatever industrial development was happening post 2014 has stalled out completely under modi. Demonetization essentially killed the MSME economic sector outright.indigi posted:that's kind of amazing As an aside the focus of both the LDF and UDF coalitions on basically egging each other on into following the same policy but making it better essentially created a massive investment in human resources. Those stories of subcontinental/filipino worker suppression in the gulf generally doesn't apply to keralites because they work as nurses etc (skilled technical staff that require a lot of education and training). They ran the drat state like a min maxed rpg build and essentially created nordic social democracy within the confines of an otherwise economically underwhelming nation.
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Sep 6, 2023 17:50
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See I get that Kerala is being run well by the leftist government, i don't quite understand the mechanism behind it. Kerala is not a resource export region. Can you rely that much on oversea remittance?
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Sep 6, 2023 18:00
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You can when that gets invested back directly into state backed banks which then spend it on developing the state further. Kerala is about the furthest distance you can realistically scale it to because the place is a hop-skip-and-jump away from the gulf states. The current left government returned to power after managing a global pandemic with barely a scratch and preventing another global pandemic wrt the nipah virus. I don't like that they replaced their health minister for a failson-in-law though.
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Sep 6, 2023 18:04
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1699218058295079117 not the wasted renewable energy!!!!!
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Sep 6, 2023 20:48
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1699218058295079117 strong "not the wasted housing!!!!!" energy China is just playing factorio correctly; you always overprovision solar to meet your industrial needs and then figure out excess storage
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Sep 6, 2023 20:53
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10% energy wasted in summer is just about how much you need for winter when output is lower right? 
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Sep 6, 2023 20:53
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Truga posted:10% energy wasted in summer is just about how much you need for winter when output is lower right? well to be fair it's "waste" energy because it can't be delivered to people since it's not hooked into the grid rather than because they're producing more than demand. but it still isn't a problem
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Sep 6, 2023 20:59
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this is when that lunatic turns up with his brick crane battery thing, as opposed to a dam filled with water via a large screw
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Sep 6, 2023 21:04
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1699218058295079117 "the utilization rate of wind and solar power could drop below 90% this year from nearly 97% in 2021." If I were doing a propaganda I'd rephrase that as decreased by 8%, leaving the actual numbers shows it's still a fantastic amount of total energy being covered by renewables..
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Sep 6, 2023 21:17
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Jel Shaker posted:this is when that lunatic turns up with his brick crane battery thing, as opposed to a dam filled with water via a large screw kinetic batteries are cool and you might need them in places without excess water. I like train on hill batteries personally
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Sep 6, 2023 22:34
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C-SPAM China thread: China hates the ridiculous declining Yankees and mock their inferiority in every way China: https://twitter.com/twinkdefcon/status/1699263455570628810
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Sep 6, 2023 22:56
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Chairman xi, burn that down before it spreads. Deploy the tanks, knock it flat.
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Sep 6, 2023 23:01
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Maximo Roboto posted:C-SPAM China thread: China hates the ridiculous declining Yankees and mock their inferiority in every way well that about wraps up the socialist experiment. Marx was wrong
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Sep 6, 2023 23:21
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just going to start posting pictures of that place, prc flag prominent displayed, and telling cons that it really is california
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Sep 6, 2023 23:29
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they finally created commiefornia
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Sep 6, 2023 23:31
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Do they have homeless in Orange County?
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Sep 6, 2023 23:36
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It would be a pretty sweet gig to be a salaried cosplay panhandler in Communist Orange County.
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Sep 6, 2023 23:40
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Maximo Roboto posted:C-SPAM China thread: China hates the ridiculous declining Yankees and mock their inferiority in every way 
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Sep 6, 2023 23:46
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Maximo Roboto posted:C-SPAM China thread: China hates the ridiculous declining Yankees and mock their inferiority in every way we are all living in amerika.
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Sep 6, 2023 23:59
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Maximo Roboto posted:C-SPAM China thread: China hates the ridiculous declining Yankees and mock their inferiority in every way chinese real estate deflation is a positive force because it bankrupts this guy
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Sep 7, 2023 00:03
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stephenthinkpad posted:Do they have homeless in Orange County? It's been well over a decade since I was there but yes. The mild weather is a big plus if you're on the streets.
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Sep 7, 2023 00:04
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Maximo Roboto posted:C-SPAM China thread: China hates the ridiculous declining Yankees and mock their inferiority in every way It's the occ in the prc by the ccp
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Sep 7, 2023 00:06
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it looks like a nice place to live, sorry goons
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Sep 7, 2023 00:13
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Maximo Roboto posted:C-SPAM China thread: China hates the ridiculous declining Yankees and mock their inferiority in every way lol this is like a scale model of Orange County. those roads won't meet any kind of minimum width requirements  widen the streets by 3x, increase the lot sizes by 2x, and mandate 3x larger setbacks, and now we're talking
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Sep 7, 2023 00:56
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corona familiar posted:lol this is like a scale model of Orange County. those roads won't meet any kind of minimum width requirements Also make sure those speed ditches are at every intersection so the street floods every winter when it rains.
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Sep 7, 2023 01:07
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moving to china and living in americatown
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Sep 7, 2023 01:09
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corona familiar posted:lol this is like a scale model of Orange County. those roads won't meet any kind of minimum width requirements this looks like a capetown suburb but with no fences and ADT security systems.
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Sep 7, 2023 01:38
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Danann posted:not the wasted renewable energy!!!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroelectric_power_stations#Under_construction
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Sep 7, 2023 01:46
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I wonder if the Geoguessr guy would get tripped up by photos of that suburb.
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Sep 7, 2023 01:46
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1699218058295079117 solar panel scourge is a level 12 warlock summon, how did china level up so fast!?
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Sep 7, 2023 01:53
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SeanBeansShako posted:Stolen from another goon discord: Quoting from the Simpsons thread cuz drat.
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Sep 7, 2023 03:21
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On the ground floor of an art deco apartment building in Shanghai, where the Chinese writer Eileen Chang lived in the 1940s, fans stop at the Chang-themed cafe to sip coffee and read “Lust, Caution,” one of her most renowned works. Others might pick up a different volume — after all, she wrote more than 40 works of fiction, as well as screenplays and translations of Ernest Hemingway — or a Chang tote bag. On any given day in Shanghai, it’s not unusual to find fans visiting her birthplace or going on guided Chang literary tours. For 80 years, her books have pushed boundaries and opened minds in China — and almost 30 years after her death in Los Angeles, Chang’s work has become a source of solace for yet another generation of Chinese women. They are particularly drawn to Chang’s focus on the personal — love, sex, ambition — and lack of interest in the political. She is sometimes called the Virginia Woolf of China, although Sally Rooney might be a more apt contemporary analogy. “She tapped into new ideas of the time, getting married then divorced, and being self-supporting,” said Nancy Guo, who was standing on the rooftop of the building where Chang was born in 1920 to an aristocratic family whose fortunes were in decline. “She brought this female perspective, part of the women’s awakening of that time,” said Guo. In essays and posts on Chinese social media, fans regularly celebrate her defiance of patriarchal norms, her rejection of nationalism and her delight in everyday matters. Chang’s decision to be defiantly unpolitical resonates with current-day readers, said Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, a scholar of Chinese literature and culture at Duke University. “Every writer is political, but it’s a particular kind of political stance to be writing during wartime and to be deliberately unpolitical,” Chow said. Chang grew up in a period of great intellectual and political ferment in China: Japan occupied Shanghai when she was 17. Her literary talents were obvious and so she pursued them — and escaped a troubled home life — by going to university in Hong Kong. She returned to Shanghai in the early 1940s and established herself as a writer just as World War II ended and the Chinese civil war resumed. While many of her celebrated contemporaries obsessed over the affairs of the nation and the humiliation and hardship of China’s war with Japan, Chang told stories of lust, heartbreak and betrayal. “Generally speaking, I cannot write works that are ‘monuments of the times,’ and I don’t plan to try,” Chang said in an essay published in 1944. “I just write about little things that happen between men and women. There is no war in my work, there is no revolution,” she wrote. “I think it is when people are in love, more than in war or revolution that they are simpler and freer of restraint.” Back in Shanghai, she became famous, got married, got divorced, fell out of favor with the newly installed Communist Party leadership, fled back to Hong Kong and moved to the United States — all by age 35. The dizzying pace of her early years didn’t last. Her English-language novels never broke into the American market, and Chang retreated from the public eye, living out her final years in Los Angeles as a near recluse. She died in 1995. But her stature in modern Chinese literature has only risen since. She is celebrated for her vivid imagery, keen emotional sensitivity and ability to blend Chinese and Western styles of writing. Although unobtainable in mainland China until the 1980s, most of Chang’s works are now freely available, and a film or television show based on her work is released every few years. A new collection of her work will be published in English by NYRB Classics in January. Fascination with Chang in China first took off in the 1990s, as market reforms created a wave of optimism and openness. Many at the time felt nostalgic for the (often imagined) cosmopolitanism of 1930s Shanghai that they saw in her work. Today, Chow explained, it is more Chang’s cynicism in response to the vicissitudes of politics that makes her a pointed symbol for young intellectuals. “That sense of dislocation — the Chinese phrase is ‘shengbufengshi,’ to be born out of time or to be slightly out of joint — is a much more potent affiliation now,” she said. Indeed, many of her more recent readers are drawn to her defiant lifestyle and sardonic worldview as much as they are to the crispness of her prose. For young liberals uneasy about creeping ideological uniformity in Xi Jinping’s China — where everything from the school curriculum to blockbuster movies must support the Communist Party’s vision — Chang has come to represent an iconic example of resilience. She insisted, in life and in writing, on putting personal and artistic freedoms first at a time when sacrificing for the good of the nation was in vogue. In “Love in a Fallen City,” “Sealed Off” and “Red Rose, White Rose,” she told of whirlwind romances, scandalous affairs and dysfunctional marriages. Her characters were often selfish and immoral, but that is part of her allure. “Her writing is deeply feminist in the sense that she is one of the earliest female writers in China to write about sex, love and relationships in a way that isn’t a cliche,” said Na Zhong, a New York-based Chinese writer who translated Sally Rooney’s novels into Chinese and is working on a novel inspired by Chang’s life. Zhong gives the example of “Lust, Caution,” one of Chang’s later novellas, in which the protagonist betrays her country by choosing her relationship with a Japanese sympathizer. She explained that the return of male-dominated values in China today is again giving women a sense of exclusion and dislocation. “In a highly patriarchal culture a woman is without a home, without a country, and Eileen Chang definitely grasped that in her stories,” she said. Bloggers took the cue and shared a story of how Chang attended a meeting of Communist writers shortly before she left the city for Hong Kong. Dressed in a glamorous silk qipao — a traditional Chinese dress — she cut a striking figure compared with the other Mao-suited attendees. This, commentators wrote, must have been when Chang realized she needed to get out. Viewed through the harsh realities of today’s China, some fans are interpreting Chang’s decisions to leave as a form of bravery. Many tend to think her of final decades in the United States as a time of sadness and failure, but Zhong considers her acceptance of fate a kind of resilience. “She chose to live a ruthless life, and she embraced the consequences of her exile,” she said. The drama of Chang’s personal life — which has given her an aura of mystique, glamour and infamy — adds to her lasting appeal. “Of course her work influenced me a lot,” Zhong said, “but it’s way of life, her worldview and her rejection of grand narratives that really inspires me.” Chang’s work has apparently inspired other contemporary Chinese women. Cao Zhixin, a 20-something editor at a Beijing publishing house, considered Chang one of her literary idols and went on a Chang-themed walking tour in Shanghai in 2021. Those close to Cao say her admiration for the author is not unrelated to her decision to take to the streets of Beijing last November to protest the Chinese government’s “zero covid” policies — which led to her being detained for four months. “She liked how the most important thing for Eileen Chang wasn’t rational thought but being moved by what you perceived,” said a friend who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from Chinese authorities. Cao was released last month but could not be reached for comment. Megan Walsh, author of “The Subplot: What China is Reading and Why It Matters,” attributes much of Chang’s latest burst in popularity to the clarity of her mind. Readers “don’t think that she falls for anything other than what she sees and feels,” Walsh said. Young people in China today are “being told they are living through this great moment in Chinese history, but they aren’t really feeling it. Chang is offering something much more probing.”
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Sep 7, 2023 06:20
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Hole,_China
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Sep 7, 2023 08:45
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Some Guy TT posted:Some Article TT I loving love your articles even though I've never read a single one.
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Sep 7, 2023 08:49
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I'm really starting to see why people hate middle-class navel-gazing so much.
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Sep 7, 2023 09:00
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Some Guy TT posted:On the ground floor of an art deco apartment building in Shanghai, where the Chinese writer Eileen Chang lived in the 1940s, fans stop at the Chang-themed cafe to sip coffee and read “Lust, Caution,” one of her most renowned works. We're going to find out this girl bossing with Chinese characteristics was funded by the CIA aren't we? Edit: girl bossing isn't quite the right phrase. What do you call the self-absorbed Brooklyn girl writer archetype?
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Sep 7, 2023 09:19
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Jackson my neg Hole
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Sep 7, 2023 09:20
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lol found a thread quickly https://twitter.com/dylanleviking/status/1332243744125382657 https://twitter.com/dylanleviking/status/1332243748403638273 ... https://twitter.com/dylanleviking/status/1332243765629644801 ... https://twitter.com/dylanleviking/status/1347451799158968323
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Sep 7, 2023 09:23
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lol just instantly
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one of the hardest goddamn stumbles right before the finishing line i've seen in a while
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