Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1758672616674525394

time to experiment with boreholes

gradenko_2000 posted:

In the borehole pressure mines 100km beneath Planetsurface, at the Mohorovicic Discontinuity where crust gives way to mantle, temperatures often reach levels well in excess of 1000 degrees Celsius. Exploitation of Planet's resources under such brutal conditions has require quantum advances in robotic and teleoperational technology.

stephenthinkpad posted:

So a few days ago the Taiwanese side of the coast guard chased after a mainland speed boat and caused it to flip over and two men died.

This would have been a big deal if it was the coast guard from any other country in SCS. But it's Taiwan so I don't how how Beijing will play out yet. Still a big deal because it happened during CNY period.

This is the early response

there could be more follow up "action" targeting the Kinmen Taiwanese coastguard portion of the fleet not the military side. Latest chinese podcast spent a whole episode discuss over what should be the proper response, which led me to think there would be more push back from Beijing.

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thechosenone posted:

You know, I keep wondering how North Korea is getting along, and it made me wonder if they haven't considered joining BRICS? I don't think China is hostile to them, and I don't think the other nations would be either? I'm guessing it has to do with the west likely trying to use any opening up against them/to justify hysterical reaction against such? It seems like if they ever do it would dramatically accelerate the process of South Korea once again being the more backward of the two.

Regarde Aduck posted:

My impression is they don't trust anyone except maybe China. They probably suspect the West would try to use the new connections to infiltrate. I don't really blame them but it would be nice for them to get more support.

stephenthinkpad posted:

Are the western "economists" capable of saying IP is a viable development model? Or they are 100% mouth pieces of the capitalist class and can not touch this IP topic?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Do you really need to ask this question?

stephenthinkpad posted:

I think there are probably a couple economist version of Mearsheimer who gets shut down by the mainstream platforms and only get interview request from the smallest youtube channels. But I don't follow economic academia to know who they are.

www.rfa.org posted:

Hungry North Koreans are swooping in ahead of cleaning crews for large public events to collect the butts of filtered cigarettes, which they then sell for meager sums of cash, residents in the country told Radio Free Asia.

The cigarette butts have filters made of fibers that can either be recycled into new cigarettes or used to make clothing, sources said.

On Feb. 16, North Korea celebrated the Day of the Shining Star, the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un’s late father and predecessor Kim Jong Il. 

It is customary for every resident of every city to present flowers at statues of the late “Dear Leader,” and people can spend several hours in the town square waiting in line for their turn. 

“The flower ceremony in Chongju ended at noon,” a resident of the northeastern province of  North Pyongan told RFA Korean, speaking anonymously for reasons of personal safety. “After the event, many women came to pick up cigarette butts around the street and in front of the statue, where thousands of people had gathered to give flowers.”

He explained that men who are bored of waiting often light up a smoke, and then throw the butts on the ground when they’re done. RFA reported previously that there is a ban on smoking in public, but it is often only enforced for women. 

The resident said that most of the people gathering the cigarette butts after the Day of the Shining Star were women.

Filtered cigarettes were once a sign of wealth and status that only rich people could afford in North Korea, while most smokers used hand-rolled cigarettes with no filters.. In the 2010s, state-owned factories started making filtered cigarettes more cheaply and they became widely available, giving rise to more cigarette butt litter.

A resident of North Pyongan’s Ryongchon county reported a similar scene of women gathering cigarette butts following the laying of wreaths for Day of the Shining Star at an area monument called the Tower of Eternal life.

“You can get money for filtered cigarette butts if you take them to people who make winter clothes,” she said, speaking on condition of anonymity citing security concerns. “But, if you take them to those who make cigarettes, you can sell them at a slightly higher price. So some farmers survive by picking up cigarette butts at stations and marketplaces.”

The price of 1 kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of filtered cigarette butts is around 10,000 won (US$1.13) which is the same price of about 3 kilograms (6.6 lbs.) of corn at the market, the resident explained.

“We know that we can find lots of cigarette butts at political events such as the Day of the Shining Star,” she said. “Some of the farmers choose to pick up cigarette butts rather than participate in the event itself.”

Translated by Claire S. Lee. Edited by Eugene Whong.

stephenthinkpad posted:

To me isn't it obvious? That industrial policy works, and industrial policy is the main reason Chinese EV tech is x year ahead of competition. And this happened before in the solar panel industry, which I guess is smaller and the Brussel people were too busy to take notice.

Are the western "economists" capable of saying IP is a viable development model? Or they are 100% mouth pieces of the capitalist class and can not touch this IP topic?

fart simpson posted:

just run the government like a business. best of both worlds

dead gay comedy forums posted:

Like, you could learn accounting, cost analysis, econometrics, industrial economics (not the math models but the more in-depth discipline if you were lucky) but there was no "alright let's bring all of this together and let's try planning for a railroad as the state", which is very different than business planning.

crepeface posted:

sell all the assets, fire half the staff and make the other half work twice as hard, got it.

dead gay comedy forums posted:

In 2009, when I entered econ, the theme of industrial policy was "something that we should review its taboo status, to start a discussion". This was in a heterodox course in Brazil. It's 2024 and industrial policy is now seen as a very difficult topic with too many complications (but no longer taboo).

After the neoclassical triumph through neoliberalism and the "validation" through the fall of the USSR, the disciplines of economic planning basically fell into epistemological collapse. This might sound like an exaggeration, but I don't think there is a better way to describe what happened - the ideas of "planning" and "organization" within economics suddenly cratered and were replaced by the ideas in business administration, following the ivy league/london school of economics curricular model. Like, you could learn accounting, cost analysis, econometrics, industrial economics (not the math models but the more in-depth discipline if you were lucky) but there was no "alright let's bring all of this together and let's try planning for a railroad as the state", which is very different than business planning.

stephenthinkpad posted:

industrial policy works, and industrial policy is the main reason Chinese EV tech is x year ahead of competition.

fits my needs posted:

nice

HashtagGirlboss posted:

Funny you should mention it because I was just reading Suharto’s son is doing the Bong Bong comeback thing and I was curious if anyone in this thread had thoughts on it. Or maybe it was a bad article and he was just a general under Suharto

Soapy_Bumslap posted:

I love China bad articles, lots of chances to ask people "so they've been collapsing since 2012, when do they cross the finish line"

genericnick posted:

Pretty sure they also don't trust China. It's a there-be-dragons place, even if you're Chinese. They actually shot China's main guy there some years ago. Don't think that was fake.
Fake edit: there-be-loongs

PhilippAchtel posted:

Weka posted:

I can't find anything on this, do you mean the ambassador? Any recollection as to when?

Spergin Morlock posted:

Guam is US territory, not a country

Mandel Brotset posted:

I would like to speak to the manager of this infographic

stephenthinkpad posted:

Wasn't Brazil one of the few countries that tried to build up its own computer industry? And still have electronic appliance import tariff? Even Brazil is taking the Western economy theories almost wholesale.

fart simpson posted:

just run the government like a business. best of both worlds

PhilippAchtel posted:

PhilippAchtel posted:

BULBASAUR posted:

amazed at tiny portugal with 21 US military bases, where did they even fit them all

TeenageArchipelago posted:

Same, plus I'm pretty surprised that the US doesn't have more in France. I would think that they would like to have some on one or two on the million islands that France has in the Indian/Pacific Ocean. Probably just no point to them. Not securing/projecting anything with troops in the south Pacific

TeenageArchipelago posted:

Same, plus I'm pretty surprised that the US doesn't have more in France. I would think that they would like to have some on one or two on the million islands that France has in the Indian/Pacific Ocean. Probably just no point to them. Not securing/projecting anything with troops in the south Pacific