JaucheCharly posted:

Mosquitos larvae live in water. No stagnant water, no mosquitos. Besides, you rarely or never get some if you live higher up.

Jonny 290 posted:

Here's China's radiotelescope



Here's Arecibo



You will notice the rather large disparity in technology at the dish focus, which is where the magic happens. Anybody can slap together a square km of sheet metal and pick up some decommissioned high tension lines. Arecibo has liquid helium cooling their focus antennas to a degree or two Kelvin. I do not believe the Chinese are neck and neck here

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

Gonna have to pass on that soup.

Accretionist posted:

SUB-DIVIDED FLATS, HONG KONG:

The Great Autismo! posted:

(...) but you should always be ready to leave...always.

Fojar38 posted:

Civilization 6 is coming out soon, and I wonder how hard their built in Civlopedia will suck China's dick this time

Third World Reggin posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1muOeJ4fBps

Away all Goats posted:

china doesn't give a poo poo about japans lovely little fleet either. There is one reason and one reason only China isn't gobbling up every little island in the pacific and why most of the world isnt complete poo poo

Grand Fromage posted:

I can't count the number of dates I've seen where both are on their phones the entire time and not a word is spoken.

I haven't lived in the US since smartphones became common so I don't have a good point of comparison, though. It didn't seem nearly at the same level when I visited last year.

Gorilla Salad posted:

This was in the AUG thread, but it's too horrifying not to share.

Grand Fromage posted:

My apartment is as sealed up as I can get it and I have a couple air filters that run 24/7. I have never gotten a monitor but there's a noticeable difference in smell/black crud in your nose between indoors and out, so it seems to be working fine. For outside I have one of these:



Which is good but more of a couldn't hurt thing, because at work it is impossible to convince Chinese people to close the windows or to get air filters for the building so you're breathing poo poo all day there.

E: Also I live in Chengdu. Pollution here is bad by the standards of like a real country but for China it isn't that severe. It's not one of those places that pegs the meter at 999 for months. The pollution is mostly during winter and like everyone else, I'll be out of the country for a month of that so that also helps.

KomodoWagon posted:

I would wear this thing constantly if I had to go to China for some reason, even as I slept

B.B. Rodriguez posted:

Naw see that would be appropriation and that's racist.

Actually isn't Vietnamese food inherently problematic because it appropriated French cooking techniques and dishes and made their own?

The Guardian posted:

But for many students, the most intimidating element is the essay in the Chinese exam. Students are given an hour to write on one of two prompts, which are often infuriatingly elliptical. Prompts in 2015 included “Do butterfly wings have colours?” and “Who do you admire the most? A biotechnology researcher, a welding engineering technician or a photographer?”. This summer, Yuan Qi’s choice was between “Old accent” and “Mysterious bookmark”. (He picked old accent.)

Vegetable posted:

What the gently caress, how is "Do butterfly wings have colours?" a valid essay question? How do you answer that other than saying just "yes"?

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

888/10


0/10 see me after class.

The Great Autismo! posted:

furthermore, when i asked them why they didn't use the hundreds of pictures and information that they paid me for and then gave me over ten thousand dollars to use to go do, the girl said "we just decided to use Baidu images"

THE PWNER posted:

I can kind of sympathise with "foreigner steal our women!" considering the one child policy left china with like 50 million more men than women. That's 50 million men who'll die alone.

rear end cobra posted:

Sounds like a mediocre Black Mirror episode

Blistex posted:

JaucheCharly posted:

We need that greentext reposted, warning not to learn mandarin.

Imperialist Dog posted:

I was really into Japan when I was young and stupider, so I learned Japanese pretty quickly. When I was in Japan I quickly became disillusioned and thought that I should have learned Mandarin instead because China had a Growing Economy. I ended up moving to Hong Kong and found I liked Cantonese instead. I still wish my Mandarin was better but literally the only use I have for it is communicating with my in-laws.