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AEMINAL posted:What's the bed-bug situation in china like? Guessing it's pretty hellish For the bed bugs. They use sprays and poisons that we outlawed back when we were still dusting babies with DDT.
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Sep 23, 2016 00:28
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yeah i was about to say it's actually probably better because there's no laws against using industrial toxins on peoples beds or whatnot you actually don't see many in the former warsaw pact for the same reason
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Sep 23, 2016 00:44
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Good job on the Great Wall restoration work. quote:"Repairing it like this has wiped out all the culture and history.” i'd say they did a pretty good Modern China job then
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Sep 23, 2016 01:36
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https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/53xtzo/does_anybody_else_teaching_ielts_find_they_have/quote:Does anybody else teaching IELTS find they have to actively fight against what the students are being taught by their Chinese IELTS tutors?
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Sep 23, 2016 02:32
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Yeah I don't teach IELTS but I do essay writing in my history classes, and a lot of their lovely writing is taught to them by their Chinese teachers and I have to constantly try to undo the damage. The Chinese teacher at my school who teaches English writing has no idea how to write in English, as far as I can tell from the results. It also doesn't help that the TOEFL test appears to require lovely writing. Everything they write for it is godawful garbage.
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Sep 23, 2016 03:00
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the cockroaches would take care of any bedbugs, never seen one only china I saw bedbugs in was Singapore
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Sep 23, 2016 03:04
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I've never been in this forum. Whoa.
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Sep 23, 2016 05:08
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http://ahtribune.com/world/asia-pacific/1198-rise-of-china.html lol  paging fojar quote:Ninety-nine percent of Westerners cannot accept the fact that today, China is a communist country, economy and people. Until I researched and wrote 44 Days Backpacking in China: The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States, Europe and the Fate of the World in Its Looking Glass and then China Rising: Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations, I was among this huge majority. The experiences and knowledge I gained in China, since 2010, allowed me to deprogram the Western avalanche of Pavlovian propaganda about the evils of communism and socialism. Sounds reasonable
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Sep 23, 2016 05:13
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I was worried about bedbugs in China, since many places in the US have infestations (especially Honolulu, where I first met a bedbug and have been terrified ever since), but like other posters said they spray the rooms with some chemical cocktail and bedbugs are a thing of imagination. Maybe my apartment radiates some sort of dire poisonous warning, because even with the windows and balcony door open I don't even get mosquitoes despite there being huge trees outside. Now I'm kinda worried.
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Sep 23, 2016 05:14
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The Great Autismo! posted:http://ahtribune.com/world/asia-pacific/1198-rise-of-china.html I just blew my load, this must be what sex feels like.
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Sep 23, 2016 05:16
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The Great Autismo! posted:http://ahtribune.com/world/asia-pacific/1198-rise-of-china.html I read most of it, but skimmed the real jerking. This guy is so wumao that he must bleed gutter oil. His diatribes read exactly like the way highly-religious people reply to questions regarding their religion. "Look, you've got it all wrong. You guys are drinking the Kool Aid, not me." The dude calls it "Baba Beijing" for fucks sake. LMAO. quote:Western moral ground? This is a racist, rapacious, raping, plundering, pillaging, genocidal, war and slave mongering, environment destroying, expansionist, colonial, imperial and deeply criminal civilization.
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Sep 23, 2016 05:25
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quote:Western moral ground? This is a racist, rapacious, raping, plundering, pillaging, genocidal, war and slave mongering, environment destroying, expansionist, colonial, imperial and deeply criminal civilization. I can't tell if he's talking about China here or not
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Sep 23, 2016 05:55
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Haier posted:I was worried about bedbugs in China, since many places in the US have infestations (especially Honolulu, where I first met a bedbug and have been terrified ever since), but like other posters said they spray the rooms with some chemical cocktail and bedbugs are a thing of imagination. Maybe my apartment radiates some sort of dire poisonous warning, because even with the windows and balcony door open I don't even get mosquitoes despite there being huge trees outside. Mosquitos larvae live in water. No stagnant water, no mosquitos. Besides, you rarely or never get some if you live higher up.
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Sep 23, 2016 06:24
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The Great Autismo! posted:http://ahtribune.com/world/asia-pacific/1198-rise-of-china.html what is his lf username
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Sep 23, 2016 06:29
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JaucheCharly posted:Mosquitos larvae live in water. No stagnant water, no mosquitos. Besides, you rarely or never get some if you live higher up. No stagnant water. China.
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Sep 23, 2016 07:10
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Boiled Water posted:No stagnant water. China. "Water"
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Sep 23, 2016 07:19
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JaucheCharly posted:Mosquitos larvae live in water. No stagnant water, no mosquitos. Besides, you rarely or never get some if you live higher up. Boiled Water posted:No stagnant water. China. There's tons of it, especially on the roofs of nearby buildings. Mosquitoes enjoy the shade of trees during the day. It's rainy season still and mosquits gonna squit. I'm glad they don't want to enter my home. I just wonder why. My last house was a floor higher than this place and it was like living in the Florida Everglades when the rains came. I had to sleep with the sheet covering my head and every inch of skin because it was impossible to control the buggers from getting in and swarming me at night.
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Sep 23, 2016 07:30
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How bad are the water shortages in China right now? Anything you've noticed day-to-day?
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Sep 23, 2016 07:57
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AEMINAL posted:How bad are the water shortages in China right now? Anything you've noticed day-to-day? In Sichuan my response is "what water shortages?" I have no idea what you're talking about. The long term picture isn't great but that's true in a lot of the world, unfortunately.
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Sep 23, 2016 08:09
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Grand Fromage posted:In Sichuan my response is "what water shortages?" I have no idea what you're talking about. The long term picture isn't great but that's true in a lot of the world, unfortunately. The long term picture is we need a better way of purifying water. There isn't a shortage of water, just a shortage of potable water. Just spitballing here, but maybe bigger pots would help? I'm sure someone will think of something.
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Sep 23, 2016 08:42
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Yeah it's all about cleaning water, it's not like we don't have plenty. If someone figured out a cheap way to clean fresh water or desalinate then the problem would be solved. Hell if we just had good enough solar to make electricity essentially free then desalination would be fine as-is, who cares how much energy it takes if the sun's doing it all. Moving the water around is another problem but is fairly solvable, we know how to build pipelines and canals and stuff.
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Sep 23, 2016 08:47
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I'm honestly pretty disappointed none of those middle eastern countries with lots of money and no water haven't solved this yet. Like Dubai. Come on Dubai, stop with the dumb fake islands and invest in water tech. Oh well. Maybe China will save us.
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Sep 23, 2016 08:53
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Cheap, high efficiency solar is the key tech of the 21st century, I'm more and more convinced. Having energy be extremely cheap and effectively infinite solves so many problems at so many levels.
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Sep 23, 2016 08:52
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Not contaminating your fresh water sources is less convoluted though.
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Sep 23, 2016 09:39
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Boiled Water posted:Not contaminating your fresh water sources is less convoluted though. Ain't nobody got time for that.
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Sep 23, 2016 10:20
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There was a US company (I think) that developed and sold some sort of machine you could use at home that sucked humidity from the air and then condensed and purified it and made it potable. Based on the size of the machine you could get 4-15 liters of water per day if you lived in a humid environment. They were the size of mini-fridges and you would place one on your porch or balcony to get maximum humid air exposure. I don't know what happened to them, but I thought it was a really good idea and something would solve problems for a lot of people. Sure, you need electricity to run the machine, but if it were solar or wind powering it then it would basically be a free clean water machine. Meanwhile, I am scared to make soup at home with the stuff coming out of my tap. It's not the bacteria, but the fine particles of mystery metals and minerals that are probably in it.
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Sep 23, 2016 10:34
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Imagine all the way things in the air also condensed along with the water.
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Sep 23, 2016 11:31
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Boiled Water posted:Imagine all the way things in the air also condensed along with the water. That machine would be making GBS threads out bricks of coal dust regularly.
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Sep 23, 2016 13:01
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Facebook Aunt posted:I'm honestly pretty disappointed none of those middle eastern countries with lots of money and no water haven't solved this yet. Like Dubai. Come on Dubai, stop with the dumb fake islands and invest in water tech. Pretty sure they just burn oil to power desalination plants.
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Sep 23, 2016 13:07
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JaucheCharly posted:That machine would be making GBS threads out bricks of coal dust regularly. Free winter fuel!
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Sep 23, 2016 13:50
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Haier posted:There was a US company (I think) that developed and sold some sort of machine you could use at home that sucked humidity from the air and then condensed and purified it and made it potable. Based on the size of the machine you could get 4-15 liters of water per day if you lived in a humid environment. They were the size of mini-fridges and you would place one on your porch or balcony to get maximum humid air exposure. Are you talking about dehumidifiers?  If humidity is high you can get about two gallons of water per day from one of those.
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Sep 23, 2016 14:39
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UltraRed posted:Are you talking about dehumidifiers? Very similar, but it's purpose was to be put in an exposed area (like a porch) and it will purify the collected water and make it suitable for all uses, including drinking and cooking with. I guess you could use it indoors, but it wasn't meant to function as a typical dehumidifier. EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_water_generator Haier fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Sep 23, 2016 |
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Sep 23, 2016 15:09
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Boiled Water posted:Not contaminating your fresh water sources is less convoluted though. There's still a limit to that though. There's too many people and too much agriculture consuming too much water. Not contaminating is good but without efficient cleaning the available fresh water will still run out eventually, we consume it faster than the water cycle can replace it. Especially since even if we took drastic action now, the already too late to do anything about climate change is going to end a whole lot of the mountain snow and glaciers that supply the water.
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Sep 23, 2016 16:17
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The Great Autismo! posted:http://ahtribune.com/world/asia-pacific/1198-rise-of-china.html He hasn't replied to this yet? Do you think he read the article and had a brain aneurysm? The author:  "I've proven the inevitable rise of China by spending 44 days checking out tourist attractions and occasionally venturing 50-100m from the beaten path. This in-depth research has lead me to believe that China is an unstoppable juggernaut that will rule the world. It also has nothing to do with women back home not wanting to talk to me, me having no friends, and all of my colleagues thinking I'm a useless twat who has no concept of economict or politics, just because I actually don't. . . CHINA #1."
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Sep 23, 2016 17:28
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Lol Goldman Sachs is cutting 30 percent of its investment banking jobs in Asia (Read: China)
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Sep 23, 2016 17:58
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Blistex posted:He hasn't replied to this yet? Do you think he read the article and had a brain aneurysm? the reasons they said he is able to report on China is that he lives in China and speaks Chinese and went to Oklahoma state university Not a very high bar for writing about the inevitable rise of the glorious Middle Kingdom
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Sep 23, 2016 21:40
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Blistex posted:He hasn't replied to this yet? Do you think he read the article and had a brain aneurysm? i did reply he reminds me of one of those tankies who occasionally shows up in d&d except for china instead of the ussr
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Sep 23, 2016 22:58
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Fojar38 posted:i did reply Ahh, the Tankie. Somehow more repulsive than the Maoist, but not by far.
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I'm the guy with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth riding the Ebike with three GOING TO PROs on wooden dowels attached to the front of it. I'm also going the wrong way in traffic and am having a loud phone conversation on speaker phone.
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