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As this is sorta the pan Asia thread: mass shooting in Thailand less than a year after the kindergarten massacre that left 36 dead. Suspect was 14 and apparently just up and stopped taking his meds, whatever those were. Kid walked into Siam Paragon, a major downtown shopping mall, and unloaded. Two dead, four injured, but the numbers have been revised a few times and likely will continue to be. He was taken alive. For the record, guns are legal and readily available in Thailand.
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Atlas Hugged posted:As this is sorta the pan Asia thread: mass shooting in Thailand less than a year after the kindergarten massacre that left 36 dead. Guns are legal out there? Thailand is the outlier. He was also wearing a cap with the US flag on it, so on brand.
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Oct 4, 2023 06:43
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Mons Hubris posted:I just left Beijing yesterday. Everything pretty much felt the same as I remembered in 2019. The only problem was we had a kid since then and we kept having to go to family dinners followed by my FIL’s friends taking us out, so I didn’t really get to do anything I actually wanted to do, and two year olds are really not equipped to handle the 3 hour private room dinners. We also had to go to Yangzhou for a weekend to visit a friend of my FIL’s and I swear to god we had the same dinner of boiled goose, lions head meatball, puffer fish, sea cucumber soup three nights in a row and I was starting to hope that they didn’t clean the puffer fish right and it would just kill me. If I post here enough, can I get my visa revoked? Too minor for China problems  but have a good trip!
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Oct 4, 2023 06:48
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Atlas Hugged posted:As this is sorta the pan Asia thread: mass shooting in Thailand less than a year after the kindergarten massacre that left 36 dead. 2 dead Chinese tourists
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Oct 4, 2023 06:49
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Okuteru posted:Guns are legal out there? Thailand is the outlier. They're more legal than you might think. Cambodia and North Korea are the only countries in the region that outright ban them. Japan and South Korea have tight restrictions, but you can get them if you have a reason (hunting, basically) and jump through all the license hoops. I thought China also 100% banned them but you can get hunting guns there too. Also Miao people are allowed to have muskets for cultural reasons which is kind of funny.
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Oct 4, 2023 06:55
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Grand Fromage posted:Japan and South Korea have tight restrictions, but you can get them if you have a reason (hunting, basically) i hadn't even thought of hunting. the only loophole i knew of was being part of a historical society where you dress up like samurais with antique muskets and march in parades sponsored by the city
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Oct 4, 2023 07:45
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Fur20 posted:i hadn't even thought of hunting. the only loophole i knew of was being part of a historical society where you dress up like samurais with antique muskets and march in parades sponsored by the city It's not as big in Korea but there are places in Japan that are trying to encourage more hunting since the deer and boar overpopulation problem is out of control.
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Oct 4, 2023 08:06
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I saw them trying to deter Bears too after some recent attacks.
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Oct 4, 2023 08:08
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Grand Fromage posted:deer and boar overpopulation problem is out of control. I'm am certain that a combination of spurious TCM claims, viagra and antibiotics can help solve this Harder than 1000 year old antlers. Stiffer than boar tusk
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Oct 4, 2023 08:38
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Okuteru posted:Guns are legal out there? The first thing an American I told this to said to me was, "I thought shootings only happened in America.  "No, seriously, guns are legal for Thais to own in Thailand and Thailand has a history of mass violence and civil conflict and just doesn't do anything about it. Like, a lot of reckonings need to happen, from confronting the stigma on mental health and neurodivergence and doing something about the ease to which people have access to firearms. But I don't even really like talking about it in public because I'm an expat and it's not like I can at all point to my own country as a "better example". poo poo sucks. Everything is hosed everywhere.
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Oct 4, 2023 08:41
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quote:[...] Everything is hosed everywhere. That specific thing is only hosed in a single digit number of countries tho
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Oct 4, 2023 08:54
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:That specific thing is only hosed in a single digit number of countries tho Citation needed.
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Oct 4, 2023 08:55
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MarcusSA posted:Citation needed. Citation more needed for it being a higher number, buddy
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Oct 4, 2023 08:59
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:That specific thing is only hosed in a single digit number of countries tho Real rich for John loving Wayne to come in here talking about gun violence.
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Oct 4, 2023 09:07
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Citation more needed for it being a higher number, buddy poo poo's hosed in every nation effected by climate change and the imbalance of capitalism Atlantis is safe... for now
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Oct 4, 2023 09:15
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Alot of the old Khmer blokes have an ak stashed under the house in a box somewhere tho When Otres beach still existed and wasnt 100 Chinese casino's, old man Nop would fire his into the air if someone played music past midnight
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Oct 4, 2023 09:23
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Grand Fromage posted:I thought China also 100% banned them but you can get hunting guns there too. And also for sport like trap shooting. First time I ever shot a shotgun was at the old Olympic shooting range in Beijing with some of my wife's friend's friends. Apparently it's totally cool to hand a loaded gun to a random rear end in a top hat and tell them to start blastin'. Mind you, this was like 10 years ago so maybe Xi has already confiscated those guns away.
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Oct 4, 2023 12:01
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A filo got killed in the disputed waters,
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Oct 4, 2023 16:46
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Kharnifex posted:A filo got killed in the disputed waters, The suspected culprit was an oil tanker, not a PLAN vessel.
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Oct 4, 2023 19:04
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Ok this is p funny https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67002583 Is China outsourcing its censorship to AI or is someone just that insane
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Oct 4, 2023 19:13
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free hubcaps posted:Ok this is p funny Could be either. There's no penalty to being trigger happy with the delete button but lots of consequences for missing something that the boss decides should've been censored, so.
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Oct 4, 2023 20:35
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Grand Fromage posted:Could be either. There's no penalty to being trigger happy with the delete button but lots of consequences for missing something that the boss decides should've been censored, so. idk how it works in a totalitarian regime with total media control, but is there a risk of the Streisand effect?
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Oct 4, 2023 20:47
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Rinkles posted:idk how it works in a totalitarian regime with total media control, but is there a risk of the Streisand effect? Oh yeah, happens a lot. There's not a lot of planning or thinking about consequences, just kneejerk reactions.
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Oct 4, 2023 20:54
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Gen. Ripper posted:https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1706448989493583881 yeah i love how the congolese dude is just listening to this privledged dipshit basically talk down to him.
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Oct 4, 2023 20:56
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Atlas Hugged posted:Real rich for John loving Wayne to come in here talking about gun violence. He's a god damned expert at gun violence, but like any professional he's gotta keep up his continuing education, so send him those citations!
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Oct 4, 2023 21:42
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Grand Fromage posted:Could be either. There's no penalty to being trigger happy with the delete button but lots of consequences for missing something that the boss decides should've been censored, so. Also, the censors may not really understand why they're censoring things anymore after years of those things being censored.
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Oct 4, 2023 23:41
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Giant Metal Robot posted:Also, the censors may not really understand why they're censoring things anymore after years of those things being censored. I Homer backed into the bushes when one of our office staff asked me why she had to black out mentions of Tiananmen Square in one of our textbooks, did something happen there?
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Oct 4, 2023 23:43
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The mods knew, about Tiananmen.
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Mons Hubris posted:I just left Beijing yesterday. Everything pretty much felt the same as I remembered in 2019. The only problem was we had a kid since then and we kept having to go to family dinners followed by my FIL’s friends taking us out, so I didn’t really get to do anything I actually wanted to do, and two year olds are really not equipped to handle the 3 hour private room dinners. We also had to go to Yangzhou for a weekend to visit a friend of my FIL’s and I swear to god we had the same dinner of boiled goose, lions head meatball, puffer fish, sea cucumber soup three nights in a row and I was starting to hope that they didn’t clean the puffer fish right and it would just kill me. If I post here enough, can I get my visa revoked? I'll be going there next week. I heard expressvpn no longer works?
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Oct 5, 2023 14:32
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Grand Fromage posted:I Homer backed into the bushes when one of our office staff asked me why she had to black out mentions of Tiananmen Square in one of our textbooks, did something happen there? I was talking to a Beijing local on WeChat once and she was complaining about how real local Beijing culture was being replaced by both generic international big city capitalism and internal migration from other parts of China. I was just kind of letting her go off out of curiosity about her perspective until she said in a text message on WeChat "it's just like what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989!" I noped out of that conversation pretty quickly after that.
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Oct 5, 2023 15:56
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NOT A COP
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Strategic Tea posted:NOT A COP Surprisingly she wasn't one. We're still friends, she's very skeptical of the Chinese government but was just hopelessly naive. She's since moved to Singapore for work.
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Oct 5, 2023 17:14
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Imperialist Dog posted:I'll be going there next week. I heard expressvpn no longer works? Astrill is the one to use now. I also had the ATT international thing where it’s $10/day for LTE and that somehow didn’t seem to be subject to the firewall. Google would take me to Google Hong Kong, but all my stuff worked.
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Oct 6, 2023 12:46
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VPN user getting a hefty fine and typical white glove service by the CCP https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/chinese-programmer-ordered-to-pay-1m-yuan-for-using-virtual-private-network
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Oct 9, 2023 17:03
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MrMoo posted:VPN user getting a hefty fine and typical white glove service by the CCP they confiscated 100% of his income earned overseas. And then added a tiny 200 yuan fine on top
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Oct 9, 2023 19:25
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MrMoo posted:VPN user getting a hefty fine and typical white glove service by the CCP "....relatively small number of individuals who use the technology...." heh.
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Oct 9, 2023 19:45
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Baddog posted:"....relatively small number of individuals who use the technology...." It's true though. Most foreign residents have them but that's a tiny amount of people who the government don't really care about, and few Chinese people bother. I'd be surprised if VPN use among Chinese is more than like, 5%.
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Oct 9, 2023 19:47
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Grand Fromage posted:It's true though. Most foreign residents have them but that's a tiny amount of people who the government don't really care about, and few Chinese people bother. I'd be surprised if VPN use among Chinese is more than like, 5%. Mmm perhaps. I think a lot of younger people in the bigger cities use a VPN, but that could end up being just 5%ish of the grand total.
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Oct 9, 2023 19:57
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Baddog posted:Mmm perhaps. I think a lot of younger people in the bigger cities use a VPN, but that could end up being just 5%ish of the grand total. I taught big city rich kids and only a handful were VPN users, most just didn't give a poo poo about anything outside the Chinese internet so they didn't need a way to use it. It was an issue since I was assigning research papers and most of them couldn't access English language information. Most of my friends had VPNs but my friends were college educated fluent English speakers who mostly had lived abroad and weren't big fans of the government so that's not at all representative. It would be impossible to find out a real number but 5% is 70 million. Given how rare it was in my experience that seems high. And given that Chinese people do occasionally get arrested for it there's a risk there that doesn't apply the same way to the filthy foreigners wanting to post on Instagram or whatever.
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Grand Fromage posted:I taught big city rich kids and only a handful were VPN users, most just didn't give a poo poo about anything outside the Chinese internet so they didn't need a way to use it. It was an issue since I was assigning research papers and most of them couldn't access English language information. Most of my friends had VPNs but my friends were college educated fluent English speakers who mostly had lived abroad and weren't big fans of the government so that's not at all representative. Ehhh, I think maybe they didn't want to fess up to using a vpn, especially not if it meant having to do a research paper! This https://www.pcmag.com/news/breaking-down-vpn-usage-around-the-world has 31% of china using a vpn (of internet users, so not the total, but I'm guessing even in the countryside a pretty large % are online now).
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