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stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Genocide Joe first got into the senate in 72, he is going to name drop Mao soon.

Has Trump come up with a new nickname for him yet?

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
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Car thread don't read this!!!

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China, hello

https://twitter.com/_mm85/status/1736354167537479938?t=BgSrfzZSMkVl0KiSQsMSZQ&s=19

Palladium
May 8, 2012

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tbf the chinese are place more emphasis on charging speed and battery discharge performance under low temperatures

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1736519181334659478

dudes rock

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Gas turbine engine? Isn't it hard to maintain AF?

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
soviet military turbines are very simple to maintain - the logbook tells you how many hours it's been turned on for, and when you reach 1000 hours you throw it in the ditch behind the shed and install a new one from the shed

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
overview of the people in apple news daily (pro-west HK newspaper)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lLca4-Z2fc

Engorged Pedipalps
Apr 21, 2023
Why are defector articles always like this

https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2023/dec/12/my-doomed-career-as-a-north-korean-novelist

I can't believe nobody was lining up to praise this guys talent as a b tier pulp novelist

Engorged Pedipalps has issued a correction as of 16:24 on Dec 18, 2023

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

because defecting is a grift

"i defected because the kim regime wouldn't let me have an onlyfans."

Deadly Ham Sandwich
Aug 19, 2009
Smellrose

hell yeah

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Engorged Pedipalps posted:

Why are defector articles always like this

https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2023/dec/12/my-doomed-career-as-a-north-korean-novelist

I can't believe nobody was lining up to praise this guys talent as a b tier pulp novelist

Why did I have to read about a party official's daughter's hot body and how charming she thought the author was?

Engorged Pedipalps
Apr 21, 2023

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Why did I have to read about a party official's daughter's hot body and how charming she thought the author was?

Lamenting that I'm not being properly rewarded for my merit as I write paragraph after paragraph about hot young women who are totally into me and the cool things I like

In this 47000 word love hina erotic fanfiction, I will expound on the deficiencies of the North Korean State

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

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The Intercept: Secret Pakistan Document Undermines Espionage Case Against Imran Khan

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A crucial document from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, undermines a major plank in the high-profile prosecution of the country’s former prime minister, Imran Khan.

Khan remains behind bars while he faces trial for allegedly mishandling a secret document, known as a cypher, which the prosecution claims compromised the integrity of the encrypted communication system used by the state’s security apparatus. But according to an ISI analysis leaked to The Intercept, that claim is entirely false. Internally, the agency concluded that the leak of the text of a cypher could in no way compromise the integrity of the system, an assessment contrary to public claims made repeatedly by prosecutors.

The main charge against Khan relates to his handling of a diplomatic cable describing a key meeting in March 2022 between U.S. and Pakistani officials in Washington. Khan, while prime minister, had repeatedly alluded to the existence of a cypher that outlined U.S. pressure on Pakistan to remove him from power in a vote of no confidence. Though he never disclosed its full contents, at times, in public speeches, he quoted statements recorded in it from U.S. officials promising to reward Pakistan for his ouster. At one rally, Khan even waved what he said was the printed text of the document, without revealing its exact contents.

Prosecutors assert that Khan damaged Pakistani national security by exposing the text of this encrypted document, contents they say could potentially be used by rival intelligence agencies to crack the code of a wide range of other secret Pakistani communications. A criminal complaint against Khan alleges that he “compromised the entire cypher security system of the state and secret communication method of Pakistani missions abroad,” through his alleged mishandling of the cypher. The former prime minister faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty under Pakistan’s Official Secrets Act and could face the death penalty if charged with treason in the case.

On August 9, 2023, The Intercept published the text of the cypher outlining U.S. pressure against Pakistan to remove Khan. Shortly afterward, Pakistan’s own intelligence agency issued an assessment addressing the very question of how damaging publishing such a text would be.

The internal conclusion of the ISI was crystal clear: No threat to Pakistan’s encryption existed.

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/darrion_nguyen/status/1736192545271804363

quote:

Interesting thread about cashew processing and export. The author did not explain why processing can be developed in VN (we used to export raw cahsew and other things too) and NOT in Cote d’Ivoire. It has a lots to do with our socialist government.

Vietnam wanted to move our position in the global supply chain, so the govt spent lots of money, technology on processing technology (not iust cashew but other argriculture products), organize and plan the type to grow, research on new seed, manage supply, enforce GAP, etc

All of this is done without profit benefits. In certain cases short-term profit is traded for long-term benefits. That’s why in 20 years we have seen our export value grows exponentially while volume only grow linearly (or not at all)

All of this cannot be done if capitalist is allowed to roam free for maximum profit. That’s a major different between our socialist oriented market economy vs “free market” economy

Another great example is rice export: our rice is used to be cheapest in the world (like India today), so even as 2nd biggest exporter, the total export value us low. We focus on transitioning to higher value type, and our export reaches recorded high (4B) this year

Now we even need to import india rice for feedstock and other processing purpose why importing our high price rice outside. Such a turn around from a country which needs to import rice 35 years ago

And coffee, durian, mango, etc. Everything you read into will have the same story.

And here is another reason why

Amin Dada - Emu Cavalry Advisor posted:

@kambrone64
While Côte d’Ivoire is the typical french pawn with war criminal ex IMF president has been put in power by France & still supporting the circus

And for those who dont know, agri lamd in Vn is given to farmer after land reform so they can farm and harvest the fruit. They are encourage to form coop (many such coop exists) but large scale purchase of farm land to one individual is forbidden.

It can be done because land is belong to all people, so famrer only own the right to farm, not the land itself. Usage of lamd (for rice, for others) are tightly controlled and planned by govt, so it is not easyto just convert to whater land type that you like

It is also why we build our own refinery to process our oil, and refuse to extract rare earth (we have the 2nd highest amount after China) for export until the point we have yhe tech to do so without impctung to much on the environment

Read here if you want to understand a little on our socialist market economy. One great example is VN stopped rice export during pandemic even though it brings great profit to exporter - because we need food security instead
https://twitter.com/darrion_nguyen/status/1359515641066131458

Uplifting thread of Vietnam building her own food processing industry from the ground up.

Sancho Banana
Aug 4, 2023

Not to be confused with meat.
Incredible things are happening

https://twitter.com/nknewsorg/status/1737003814564032667?t=NVk10i-ZnoVHEAfERnLyBQ&s=19

FuzzySlippers
Feb 6, 2009

he'd send a better message by giving one to Ansarallah

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)
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Palladium
May 8, 2012

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edited coward

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

That better be running off a PS2 or else I'll be very disappointed.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
https://twitter.com/glazedFPS/status/1737015270454235175?t=t86pmz4OpK5EcdvCvVqLbg&s=19

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

I hope Doc Brown was okay.

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


:hellyeah:

Rudeboy Detective
Apr 28, 2011


Mr. President, we must not allow an animorphs gap with the see-see-pee!

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Palladium posted:

edited coward

Was just me saying Ansar Allah's missiles likely already share DNA with a lot of DPRK's given the history of cooperation between Iran and the DPRK in space and missile technology. But it wasn't really relevant to the point that, yes it would be cool if the DPRK just gave Ansar Allah an ICBM

ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010
Chinese embassy officials are interfering in our democracy by monitoring Australian citizens who protest the treatment of Chinese political prisoners

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...ocuments-reveal

US officials monitored pro-Assange protests in Australia for ‘anti-US sentiment’, documents reveal

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They show the embassy’s regional security office (RSO) monitoring and reporting on pro-WikiLeaks rallies held across Australian capital cities, feeding information to Washington via the embassy.

“The demonstrations have all been peaceful and generally numbers in the range of a few hundred persons. Embassy RSO notes the rallies have featured very little, if any, anti-American sentiment,” the US embassy cable, dated 17 December 2010, reads. “Wikileaks supporters held a recent demonstration in Canberra’s central business district and made no attempt to march to the US Embassy or direct any ire at other American interests.”

:negative:

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1736604703960486217

even the vegetables will take train rides in the people's republic of china

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

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Tessie Sy-Coson is one of the daughters of Henry Sy, the founder of SM Malls, the largest mall developer in the Philippines and who was once arguably the richest Filipino. Tessie is currently chair of the SM firm's board of directors, along with her siblings, since her father's passing.

Recently, she made a comment regarding the foreign policy of the Marcos administration, and specifically the disputes that the country has been having with China:

quote:

“China is very close to us, we cannot be too antagonistic,” Bloomberg quoted her as saying, as she urged the Marcos administration “not to be hostile towards its neighbor and steer clear of the US-China competition.”

in response, liberal media has decided to fire up the racism machine:

https://twitter.com/rapplerdotcom/status/1737384558427836801

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But does Ms. Sy-Coson consider the Philippines her country? She was certainly born and raised here, but her allegiance seems to belong to the People’s Republic of China.

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If history were the basis, the Philippines has the greater claim. Studies made by paleoanthropologists, linguists, and geneticists show that the inhabitants of Hawaii, Guam, New Zealand, and all the islands in between and beyond are descendants of seafarers from the Philippines.

It is inconceivable that these Austronesian colonizers, the ancestors of today’s Filipinos, should settle in these far-away islands without reaching the islets and shoals only a hundred miles away from their coastal homes. In all probability, they’ve been using the whole South China as fishing grounds for millennia.

It is understandable that Ms. Sy-Coson should leave the Philippines in the lurch, given the financial interest at stake.

SM founder Henry Sy came to the Philippines penniless. He made his billions, his family claims, by dint of hard work, so any suggestion that he owes something to the country is not wholly accurate. Labor unions have said that he became rich by allegedly exploiting Filipino workers.

Since she is ethnically Chinese, it is not surprising that Mrs. Sy-Coson would cast her lot with China.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
well, straight to the point

Gildiss
Aug 24, 2010

Grimey Drawer
Hyundai got Hyund0wned

Hyundai Motor offloads Russian plant for grand sum of 100 bucks

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Hyundai Motor said the selling price for the factory would be 10,000 rubles, or around US$107. Based on the factory’s accounting situation, the value of the company’s stake is 287.34 billion won, but Hyundai Motor concluded that it had suffered a loss of 1.13 trillion won in light of the two years the factory has been unable to operate because of the war.

The facilities that are to be sold off include the Saint Petersburg factory, which was built in 2010, and a General Motors factory acquired in 2020.
They are respectively capable of producing up to 200,000 and 100,000 vehicles per year.

Hyundai Motor also said it had included a buyback option in the contract, which would allow it to repurchase its stake in the Russian plant at a later date.

“According to guidance from the Russian government, [Hyundai Motor] can exercise [this right] within a two-year period,” a Hyundai Motor official said, adding that it was “not clear whether it can be recovered.”

Gildiss has issued a correction as of 09:55 on Dec 20, 2023

Palladium
May 8, 2012

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Gildiss posted:

Hyundai got Hyund0wned

wouldn't have happened if they tried cucking harder for the americans

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

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so Hyundai built two factories in Russia, then they didn't run them for two years because they participated in the economic sanctions against Russia, and now it's cost them so much money that they'll have to sell off the factories?

doesn't this imply that Russia is about to gain two car factories that it can use with a bit of retooling and refurbishing?

Gildiss
Aug 24, 2010

Grimey Drawer

gradenko_2000 posted:

so Hyundai built two factories in Russia, then they didn't run them for two years because they participated in the economic sanctions against Russia, and now it's cost them so much money that they'll have to sell off the factories?

doesn't this imply that Russia is about to gain two car factories that it can use with a bit of retooling and refurbishing?

Russia gained a lot of factories actually.

quote:

Other automakers such as Nissan, Renault and Mazda have similarly withdrawn their assets from Russia, handing them over to the Russian government, state-run enterprises, and local joint ventures on the condition that they may be repurchased within a certain timeframe. Renault transferred its assets for the equivalent of US$20, while Nissan and Mazda transferred theirs for US$1 each.

Since early this year, many reports had indicated that Hyundai Motor was coordinating with a Kazakh business on the factory’s sale. But the Kazakh sale fell through after the Russian Ministry of Finance insisted that investors from “unfriendly” countries would have to pay taxes of up to 10% of the market value for business entities they sold off.

Palladium
May 8, 2012

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gradenko_2000 posted:

so Hyundai built two factories in Russia, then they didn't run them for two years because they participated in the economic sanctions against Russia, and now it's cost them so much money that they'll have to sell off the factories?

doesn't this imply that Russia is about to gain two car factories that it can use with a bit of retooling and refurbishing?

make cars so bad that nobody wants them in china while proudly proclaiming the perfidious chinese will never threaten their premium brand

*looks at 2023 car exports and growth rate by country*

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

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Regarde Aduck posted:

well, straight to the point

not to belabor the point, but the sentiment here is reflective of broad public attitude towards the SCS: any sort of talk of restraint, or negotiation, is cast as treasonous and traitorous. There's no room for maneuver, no room for discussion save "China has to back down from all of its claims, and the Philippines gets all of theirs, and we're entitled to it, and the UNCLOS backs this up"

it's fundamentally poisonous to discourse because even if you believe that China's claims into the SCS are excessive, or that they shouldn't be water-cannoning other ships as a means of steering them away from waters that they claim to be theirs, a totalist mindset with respect to the claims on the Philippine end means that there's no good way for this to end: if the PH isn't willing to budge on anything, then it ultimately comes down to what the PH can physically defend, which isn't much, and is likely to cause the country to lose more of the SCS than if they'd be willing to give up some of it in a diplomatic negotiation.

and then if they do lose it, that just forms the basis for revanchist sentiment, which is not good for a country that America is trying to leverage as a bulwark-slash-flashpoint against the PRC

Gildiss
Aug 24, 2010

Grimey Drawer

Palladium posted:

*looks at 2023 car exports and growth rate by country*

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

gradenko_2000 posted:

so Hyundai built two factories in Russia, then they didn't run them for two years because they participated in the economic sanctions against Russia, and now it's cost them so much money that they'll have to sell off the factories?

doesn't this imply that Russia is about to gain two car factories that it can use with a bit of retooling and refurbishing?

Yeah basically, if anything it has been the fact that factories like this have been idling has been one of the key factors slowing the recovery in Russian car production, even though the other factories have come back online. Russia may have been a little more patient with Hyundai because it is a South Korean company.

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

I wonder if South Korea makes more money selling tanks and 155mm shells to Poland and other NATO countries, or ends up losing money with their Russian business all zeroing out.

Also GM offloaded their Russian plant in 2020, I wonder if they heard something.

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

ethnic clashes between han majority and muslim minority in henan

https://x.com/TripInChina/status/1737470898041475083?s=20

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Mantis42 posted:

ethnic clashes between han majority and muslim minority in henan

[Asia/Oceania] ethnic clashes between han majority and muslim minority in henan

crepeface has issued a correction as of 12:28 on Dec 21, 2023

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ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010
Building infrastructure and housing... but at what cost???

It's in Australia, not China, so the cost is "too much".

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/big-build-or-housing-crisis-victoria-has-to-choose-industry-says-20231220-p5est8.html

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Victoria has been warned it must choose between a target of building 80,000 homes every year to fix the housing crisis or forge ahead with the state’s massive big build infrastructure scheme that is vacuuming up available workers and materials.

Failing to meet the government’s target of adding 800,000 homes in a decade could cost Victorians almost $3 billion a year in extra rent by 2034, according to new modelling by the Grattan Institute and provided to The Age.

The modelling predicted that meeting the target could relieve rental prices by 12 per cent by 2033-34. The September 2023 Domain rental report showed Melbourne’s house rents are at a record high, rising at the second-fastest quarterly and steepest annual increases in the city’s history.

Brendan Coates, the Grattan Institute’s economic policy program director, said building 800,000 homes over the decade was feasible, but the pace of major projects was making it increasingly difficult.

“The government may have to choose between housing and building the Suburban Rail Loop,” Coates said. “I struggle to see how we’re going to do both.”

He said achieving the home-building target, and its potential to relieve rental prices, was a greater public benefit than the infrastructure projects. While he said it was theoretically achievable to do both: “The question is, at what cost?”

building houses and railways is now lost technology for western liberal democracy. we should just surrender to china immediately

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