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North Korea just wanted to show they still have artillery shells. Lostech in the West. So they could shell other targets, if they wanted to.
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https://twitter.com/PTI_News/status/1743260145042260310?t=71EXiKk5b2ygM9u31IG4BQ&s=19
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Jan 5, 2024 14:21
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Sancho Banana posted:https://twitter.com/PTI_News/status/1743260145042260310?t=71EXiKk5b2ygM9u31IG4BQ&s=19 you know it smell crazy in there
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Jan 5, 2024 14:37
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drat, the last time I was reading about the Marcos in the PTI was during 26/11 attacks. Life comes at you FAST. Also. https://twitter.com/halalflow/status/1743021467481047299?s=46&t=XcTQEAmVq56cJu9IKvdPKg Tankbuster has issued a correction as of 14:56 on Jan 5, 2024 |
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Jan 5, 2024 14:46
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Supposedly China dragged a platform ship as close as 3 miles from Taiwan island on Jan 1st, "for weather safety reasons". A couple naval ships were also presented to back up the civilian ships. https://twitter.com/BeijingDai/status/1742131620335992980?t=t09aM8ryTuSCtBdghjMfLQ&s=19 Here is a Taiwanese news link. https://www.google.com/amp/s/tw.new...-022848734.html stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 03:16 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Jan 6, 2024 02:58
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stephenthinkpad posted:Supposedly China dragged a platform ship as close as 3 miles from Taiwan island yesterday, "for weather safety reasons". A couple naval ships were also presented to back up the civilian ships. Chinese ships entered Chinese waters, odd
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Jan 6, 2024 03:05
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/TripInChina/status/1742789203509800995 that looks exactly like a G11 but it's been dipped in plastic, it even has the weird built in scope
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Jan 6, 2024 03:07
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I've seen Australian police use those cyberpunk bazooka looking anti-drone weapons before. I'm wondering how they work, I'm guessing they work something like handheld flak batteries or even chaff launchers?
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Jan 6, 2024 03:14
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Tankbuster posted:drat, the last time I was reading about the Marcos in the PTI was during 26/11 attacks. Amazing poo poo. Just the united states choosing when it sits around and lets countries "govern themselves" and when it needs to do violent coups
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Jan 6, 2024 03:15
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I've seen Australian police use those cyberpunk bazooka looking anti-drone weapons before. I'm wondering how they work, I'm guessing they work something like handheld flak batteries or even chaff launchers? they're generally directed jamming devices, point it at a drone to cut it off from whatever signals are operating it remotely by overwhelming its receivers with noise
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Jan 6, 2024 03:17
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3 posted:they're generally directed jamming devices, point it at a drone to cut it off from whatever signals are operating it remotely by overwhelming its receivers with noise Forget the jammer, no one's gonna mention the two handed baton/sword?
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Jan 6, 2024 03:47
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Drone gun is the range weapon, broad sword is the melee weapon.
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Jan 6, 2024 04:17
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https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202211/07/WS6368448ba3105ca1f2274552.html Well now that I thought about if China has state run canteens it seems they started on those a couple years back. Chairman Xi my people yearn for state owned competitors. Crossposting from Doomsday econ where they were talking beans and rice at home vs franken borgar and chupacabra frites, when I realized canteens serving non ridiculous food en mass would still be way better a deal than either. Turns out better minds came up with it first. Edit: actually the idea of having state run enterprise but letting private competition exist (but not letting it just snuff out it's own competitors, including the public options) sounds like a good way to prevent many of the downfalls of Soviet economic ideas at the hands of people not being able to fit in their brain that collapsing ones whole system just to get at Levi's wasn't as good a trade-off as they thought. thechosenone has issued a correction as of 04:35 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Jan 6, 2024 04:30
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mila kunis posted:"we're bored of fighting goat herders now we want to kill some other people in a different part of the world" Don't forget in the summer of 2001 Bush was setting up to pivot to Asia, till that one day where History restarted. Which kind of points to a flaw in Dengs plan, the US was never not going to treat them as a military threat. But playing around in West and Cnetral Asia and Neoliberal rot seems to have worked out for them in the long run
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Jan 6, 2024 04:43
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I think in less evil parts of india politicians love making public canteens that provide subsidized meals and put their names on top of it. Its evil populism but it gets working people food on the quick, cheap and healthy.
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Jan 6, 2024 05:02
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Tankbuster posted:I think in less evil parts of india politicians love making public canteens that provide subsidized meals and put their names on top of it. Its evil populism but it gets working people food on the quick, cheap and healthy. one of the more popular causes in liberal circles in the PH is the proposal to ban politicians from putting their names on government projects. it's really dumb
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Jan 6, 2024 05:06
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Tankbuster posted:I think in less evil parts of india politicians love making public canteens that provide subsidized meals and put their names on top of it. Its evil populism but it gets working people food on the quick, cheap and healthy. it's that old tension where reactionary poo poo heads could easily buy off enough of the working class if they were all fine with stuff like this, but even that's a bridge too far, the poor must suffer. i literally just saw a quote on twitter from a spanish fascist about how wrong it was to give the peasants a sewer system but i can't find it now, goddamnit
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Jan 6, 2024 05:12
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3 posted:they're generally directed jamming devices, point it at a drone to cut it off from whatever signals are operating it remotely by overwhelming its receivers with noise Ah yeah, I think I remember that now. Fittingly cyberpunk. GlassEye-Boy posted:Forget the jammer, no one's gonna mention the two handed baton/sword? Don't riot police in some parts of Asia use tonfas as batons? The modern day police baton might actually be descended from it. Tankbuster posted:I think in less evil parts of india politicians love making public canteens that provide subsidized meals and put their names on top of it. Its evil populism but it gets working people food on the quick, cheap and healthy. It's basic poo poo, the reason why Trump insisted his signature was on the covid relief checks. Liberals hate this because they hate nothing more than the idea that they might be expected to actually do things for the plebs.
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Jan 6, 2024 05:13
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this is a few years old but I saw it today and challenge any of you to find a more  at what cost https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/asia/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html if you needed any more proof that westerners are demons in human form: quote:But the village, one of six in Gansu visited by The New York Times without government oversight, is also a testament to the considerable cost of the ruling Communist Party’s approach to poverty alleviation. That approach has relied on massive, possibly unsustainable subsidies to create jobs and build better housing. quote:Despite the challenges, the poverty relief program may have a long-term political benefit that helps to ensure some of it survives. Gratitude for the program seems to be reinforcing the political power of the party in rural areas. 
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Jan 6, 2024 06:27
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Western lib brain thinks pork barrelling should only occur just before elections. It makes no sense to do it if you're an authoritarian one party dictatorship. Doubly so if it's pork for poors and not businesses.
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Jan 6, 2024 06:34
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It makes no sense to them because most Western politicians do not believe in what they preach, and cannot understand that most Chinese politicians do believe in what they preach (socialism with Chinese characteristcs as a stepping stone to eventual communism) and act on those beliefs.
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Jan 6, 2024 08:27
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any decent non western sources covering the gaming law changes (the second round of them, I mean)?
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Jan 6, 2024 09:02
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quote:Despite the challenges, the poverty relief program may have a long-term political benefit that helps to ensure some of it survives. Gratitude for the program seems to be reinforcing the political power of the party in rural areas. lmao can you imagine, a political party increasing its power by materially improving people's lives
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Jan 6, 2024 09:57
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But rural areas are supposed to be impoverished and neglected with no new infrastructure ever built there, aren't they? Otherwise it'd suggest we've been doing everything wrong!
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Jan 6, 2024 10:07
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BULBASAUR posted:any decent non western sources covering the gaming law changes (the second round of them, I mean)? i don’t think they’re out yet. the original announcement was that they were gathering public feedback on their proposal until january 24
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Jan 6, 2024 10:43
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BULBASAUR posted:any decent non western sources covering the gaming law changes (the second round of them, I mean)? I would recommend Caixin Global, it's the most subscribed non-English digital news service since 2022 iirc and is located in China, with a decent amount of English coverage(you need to pay tho), but as others mentioned, the gaming law change was just an announcement and is still gathering public opinion. The damage is real, but hey, it is what it is, video games in China is on a leash, for better and for worse, with existing ISBN basically untouched and no video game content rating system in sight, it's going to be just another normal day in Chinese gaming industry.
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Jan 6, 2024 11:46
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Gato posted:lmao haha (I can)
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Jan 6, 2024 12:16
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Bald Stalin posted:Western lib brain thinks pork barrelling should only occur just before elections. It makes no sense to do it if you're an authoritarian one party dictatorship. Doubly so if it's pork for poors and not businesses. doing popular things for popular demand isn't democracy, unlike
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Jan 6, 2024 12:45
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Palladium posted:doing popular things for popular demand isn't democracy, unlike doing things the general populace like is brainwashing them  quote:China’s poorest are being integrated into the national economy and trained to thank the party for it. Putting money in people’s pockets is one measure of success. The greater prize is putting ideas in people’s heads.
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Jan 6, 2024 13:18
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Jinkeloid posted:I would recommend Caixin Global, it's the most subscribed non-English digital news service since 2022 iirc and is located in China, with a decent amount of English coverage(you need to pay tho), but as others mentioned, the gaming law change was just an announcement and is still gathering public opinion. Good, gently caress video games. The Chinese are treating them like the e-drugs they are.
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Jan 6, 2024 14:01
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thechosenone posted:https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202211/07/WS6368448ba3105ca1f2274552.html I think this is the gist of that article from Learning from China by John Ross someone linked earlier, basically that monopolistic firms have the greatest division/socialization of labor and create their own conditions, are ripe, so to speak, for nationalization, and that prematurely nationalizing the small farms and small urban shops was a left-deviation from Marx (based on ch. 32 of Capital)
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Jan 6, 2024 14:06
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gradenko_2000 posted:one of the more popular causes in liberal circles in the PH is the proposal to ban politicians from putting their names on government projects. it's really dumb that is so depressing
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Jan 6, 2024 15:35
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:doing things the general populace like is brainwashing them aaaaaaa
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Jan 6, 2024 15:35
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youre not supposed to "do things" to get people to like your ideas, youre supposed to just berate them incessantly until they submit.
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Jan 6, 2024 17:36
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crepeface posted:that is so depressing why? in Turk it's annoying how everything is getting named after Sleazy E
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Jan 6, 2024 17:48
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Tankbuster posted:drat, the last time I was reading about the Marcos in the PTI was during 26/11 attacks. "We will continue to support democratic suppression" oops nice Freudian slip lol Cao Ni Ma posted:Amazing poo poo. Just the united states choosing when it sits around and lets countries "govern themselves" and when it needs to do violent coups Same as it always was
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Jan 7, 2024 05:35
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quote:A new sea shipment route connecting Dalian port in Northeast China's Liaoning Province and South America started operation on Tuesday, marking the opening of the first South American container ocean trunk line by the port, according to China Media Group. https://x.com/thonwingp/status/1743832668960367030?s=20 lol @ milei not wanting to be part of this
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Jan 7, 2024 12:53
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Trump could become emperor for life by nationalizing golden corral
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Jan 7, 2024 14:08
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crepeface posted:https://x.com/thonwingp/status/1743832668960367030?s=20 He's some kind of Yankee plant.
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Jan 7, 2024 15:28
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I hope Mr Xi appreciates my Flor de Caña 12
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