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Some Guy TT posted:can you tell me more about this car like how much it cost you and what exactly a key safety feature is like does the car keep my keys safe or something $29,000 AUD new, so really affordable given it has some extra functions not usually seem at that price point. The safety report shows that occupants neck, chest and legs take significantly more damage in frontal off and full width collisions. The features such as seatbelt pre tensioners and dynamic load tensioners, leg protection panel, they've announced they're going to add them sometime this year. This is to address the bad results for the aforementioned. Soon as I saw the occupant safety results I cancelled the contract. They didn't include things like blind spot monitoring in the Australian cars. Bald Stalin has issued a correction as of 00:16 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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genericnick posted:I think that's diameter at ground level? You take DBH which is diameter at breast height, and it seems to be logged. So I'm guessing root flare. It's an important part of checking tree health. looking at the way the tree pits have metal grating, it should be regularly checked to make sure the root flare isn't being choked.
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Jan 22, 2024 00:31
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genericnick posted:I think that's diameter at ground level? yeah it’s this
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Jan 22, 2024 00:38
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1stGear posted:assuming the west doesn't collapse politically and economically immediately, no the west wins. this is great because 'as long as they retain the will to fight they will always win' could describe almost any country in almost any hypothetical conflict, since waging war to annihilation isn't exactly the norm and most wars end when one side decides continuing to fight isn't worth it anymore. 'assuming the west doesn't collapse politically and economically, the west wins', is more or less a tautology; you can simplify that statement to 'if they lose, they lose', which is technically true but completely meaningless also love that in every one of these hypothetical fantasies the US is always presumed to be waging a defensive war, even though the last time that happened (unless you count the ACW) was over two hundred years ago in that specific context it isn't exactly wrong, either, there is no other country on the planet that has the means to actually threaten the US metropole through conventional military means, but it commits an even worse sin than being wrong, namely being irrelevant. that scenario is never going to happen, that is not a war the US is ever going to have to wage; the fact that China would never be able to invade California is offset by the simple fact that they have absolutely no reason to, even in a hypothetical world war
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Jan 22, 2024 01:20
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There's also the factor that just as China could only enforce maximalist goals in a conventional total war by an absurd presence in California and opening a wide front while cutting off critical materials, America could only enforce maximalist goals in a conventional total war by an absurd presence in Siberia and opening a wide front while cutting off critical materials. The entire point of US foreign policy from Kissinger on was to prevent Eurasia from being just as secure a continental island as we are, and in the past two years we've blown that completely--I always hated he was still alive, but in retrospect I'm glad he lived to see his life's work burned in the name of Hillary's honor and reflexive anti-Slavism by his equally evil but significantly dumber disciples.
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Jan 22, 2024 02:13
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Mandoric posted:There's also the factor that just as China could only enforce maximalist goals in a conventional total war by an absurd presence in California and opening a wide front while cutting off critical materials, America could only enforce maximalist goals in a conventional total war by an absurd presence in Siberia and opening a wide front while cutting off critical materials. The entire point of US foreign policy from Kissinger on was to prevent Eurasia from being just as secure a continental island as we are, and in the past two years we've blown that completely--I always hated he was still alive, but in retrospect I'm glad he lived to see his life's work burned in the name of Hillary's honor and reflexive anti-Slavism by his equally evil but significantly dumber disciples. yeah putin practically begging to join the west and successively dumber leaders forcing him to heal the sino-soviet split will go down as an all time lol way to squander an empire
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Jan 22, 2024 02:26
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Eminent DNS posted:The amount of fundamental changes American society would require to (re)industrialize to that degree would be such that it would be no longer recognizable as "American" (as we understand it) and wouldn't necessarily be at the mercy of the current broken decision-making system. In that case, it's hard to believe that this new society would begin or continue this war you're envisioning. 
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Jan 22, 2024 02:37
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it was mentioned earlier but I’ll try again: anyone know a great book on the Sino Soviet split?
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Jan 22, 2024 02:48
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I've read a biography about Deng, and a book about the Sino-Vietnamese War, and there's been some excellent posts in this thread, but I don't know of a book dedicated to the Split specifically
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Jan 22, 2024 02:53
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yeah, i don't know a definitive source. most of what i've seen about it is from a peripheral perspective like "china's foreign policy history" or "here's what was going on in china and the ussr during the korean war" (blowback).crepeface posted:I just finished listening to a 6 hour podcast (7 parts) about China's foreign policy from 1949 to the present while assembling some furniture so obtuse and diabolical that I'm convinced that this is China's revenge strike for the century of humiliation.
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Jan 22, 2024 03:14
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I don't think there is a deciding moment of the Sino-Soviet split. It's just a lot of small doses bad blood and reconciliations and the two sides just grew further and further apart. I would try to group them into these stages so you know its hard to put them into 1 book. Pre-communist era, the Tsarist Russia had been pushing into the Manchu ancestral homeland in far east over the span of the later half of Qing dynasty, they got as south as the Luhsun harbor until Russia lost it to Japan in the Russo-Japanese war. The Chinese civil war era, which started roughly the same time as the Russia civil war after WW1 but lasted much longer. Stalin wasn't always the biggest supporter of the Chinese Communist Party and Mao, he was sometimes more supportive to the KMT and other more orthodox faction of CCP. Stalin only threw all his support to the CCP side after the defeat of Japan. Mao era before Stalin's death. There were a lot of geopolitical issues Mao didn't get satisfactory resolutions from Stalin but he never publicly clashed with Stalin. One was turning the Outer Mongolia province into a bufferzone country, Mao and other CCP leaders went to Moscow a few times to try to prevent this. Another issue was the defensive formation in Northeast Asia after the Korea war. There was very little detail of the inner negotiation over this but you can sense the disagreements between PRC and Soviet. Just ask yourself this, why was there US troop station in S Korea but no Chinese troops station in N Korea; why was there no East Asia version of the Warsaw pack; why didn't the Soviet navy leave Lushun after the founding of PRC in 49 but in 1955. The next era is the more famous sino-soviet split ear. There are alot of info you can find online. Personally, I am still not sure how much was due to the Khrushchev/Mao personality clash, how much was due to the underlying geopolitical conflict of interest between the two countries. I just want to highlight the 156 heavy industrial projects Soviet helped PRC established during the foundation of the country, many Chinese still consider this was as important as the Marshall plan to Europe. The next era is the Kissinger visit. Assuming you know the main chronology of the events. I think there hasn't been enough discussion of what Soviet's countermeasure was at the time immediately after China and US walking close. I would definitely like to read more history from this part of the global realignment. The clipnote version of Nixon visited China was, after nearly 10 years of China and the US haggling it over, US kind of helped China got back into the UN and kicked ROC out; US and China agreed on the "One China Policy" after many rounds of negotiation; China secretly helped Afghanistan fought Soviet; and Soviet funded Vietnam to started trouble in China's backyard. I am not sure whether PRC could have gotten back to UN especially back in P5 if US was insistent on cockblocking PRC. OTOH, If Sino-Soviet split didn't happen, they probably could have gathered enough third world support to roll their alternate UN. I am skipping over a ton of details but I just want to write down the parts thats interesting to me. stephenthinkpad has issued a correction as of 05:13 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Jan 22, 2024 05:05
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Donald the Dove https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1748871427850166429
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Jan 22, 2024 06:35
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during the last US elections i said you could do a good troll by suggesting that trump was the peace candidate but it's probably unironically true now
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Jan 22, 2024 07:40
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he was an aberration by not starting any new wars, a first in my lifetime
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Jan 22, 2024 07:46
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I was so pissed when Trump tried to start a war with Iran but since then genocide Joe has tried to start ww3 on multiple fronts
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Jan 22, 2024 07:48
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the horrors of hypothetical war
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Jan 22, 2024 08:09
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gradenko_2000 posted:Donald the Dove drat he keeps getting stuff right
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Jan 22, 2024 08:10
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Brains are going to explode when he wins again. Nobody here believes me when I tell them.
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Jan 22, 2024 08:18
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Bald Stalin posted:Brains are going to explode when he wins again. Nobody here believes me when I tell them. i believe you bald stalin
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Jan 22, 2024 08:26
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Bald Stalin posted:Brains are going to explode when he wins again. Nobody here believes me when I tell them. The only way he could not win is to die first.
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Jan 22, 2024 10:05
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lol @ germany destroying volkswagen parallel imports from china priced at 1/3 versus their domestic made
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Jan 22, 2024 10:11
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comedyblissoption posted:he was an aberration by not starting any new wars, a first in my lifetime the only reason he didn't is because of Iranian restraint
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Jan 22, 2024 11:40
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mark immune posted:i believe you bald stalin <3
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Jan 22, 2024 12:18
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comedyblissoption posted:the horrors of hypothetical war
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Jan 22, 2024 12:44
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People in 2001 - mad at bush for starting a war People in 2025 - mad at trump for ending a war (ukraine) and not starting one (taiwan)
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Jan 22, 2024 15:47
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Cao Ni Ma posted:People in 2001 - mad at bush for starting a war People in 2001 - frustrated with growing corruption in the state. But at least they're not involved in any wars. People in 2025 - extremely happy with their government and hope that their president serves another term. There continues to be no wars.
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Jan 22, 2024 16:39
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Votskomit posted:People in 2001 - frustrated with growing corruption in the state. But at least they're not involved in any wars. But at what cost?
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Jan 22, 2024 16:59
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North Korea has apparently been talking about finalizing a nuclear submarine and are looking to roll out nuclear drones so they've got a complete triad now
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Jan 22, 2024 17:38
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Grapplejack posted:North Korea has apparently been talking about finalizing a nuclear submarine and are looking to roll out nuclear drones so they've got a complete triad now Wtf is a nuclear drone. Like a nuclear reactor on an unmanned helicopter? Or a predator drone that carries a nuclear bomb?
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Jan 22, 2024 18:01
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a weapon to surpass metal gear...
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Jan 22, 2024 18:45
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North Korean nuclear drone swarm is already on my vision board
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Jan 22, 2024 18:50
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Votskomit posted:Wtf is a nuclear drone. Like a nuclear reactor on an unmanned helicopter? maybe like the one Russia has? It's a giant unmanned nuclear torpedo that can just cruise around the ocean before irradiating a coastline
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Jan 22, 2024 19:44
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Jan 22, 2024 20:01
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crepeface posted:during the last US elections i said you could do a good troll by suggesting that trump was the peace candidate but it's probably unironically true now Anyone got the article or book page that had Trump asking why he couldn’t use the military aid to Israel as leverage to force Israel to negotiate with Palestine lol.
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Jan 22, 2024 21:08
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/KFACambodia/status/1747517969864003913?t=eN6nctltywnpuUbe-1FJKA&s=19 ehhh only in the same sense that trump greatly accelerated the decline of the united states the timing of the election makes him an easy figure to blame but functional countries dont collapse just because they had one stupid election
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Jan 22, 2024 21:21
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Votskomit posted:During COVID one of the new variants was identified in South Africa because we have good virology departments. Everyone called it the South African variant, even though our researchers indicated that the variant had not originated here. despite any cursory analysis of the relevant reporting showing that the variant didnt originate in africa that notorious science hating racist trump still issued a travel ban on african countries that didnt even have any confirmed cases of it oh wait did i say trump i meant biden sorry im always mixing those two up
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Jan 22, 2024 21:36
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stephenthinkpad posted:China secretly helped Afghanistan fought Soviet; Could somebody expand on this? crepeface posted:during the last US elections i said you could do a good troll by suggesting that trump was the peace candidate but it's probably unironically true now Trump has always been the peace candidate. It was a big part of his messaging in 2016, attacking Jeb over George's wars etc. Biden had better messaging than Killary "no fly zone over Syria" Kkklinton but anyone with half a brain knew he would be a continuation of the Obama administration's policies but worse. ughhhh posted:You take DBH which is diameter at breast height, and it seems to be logged.
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Jan 22, 2024 21:55
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Honestly I think it's part of why Trump was so popular in China. Every buzzcut rolls his shirt up in the morning dreaming of being Trump some day. syq
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Jan 22, 2024 23:01
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everyone should aspire to be the coolest and funniest president
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Steering the controlled decline of the America empire with Twitter. King.
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