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brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1412769335391707138

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brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Agrajag posted:

this statement is hilarious in light of what america has been doing to the mideast for at least a decade

bringing freedom and eternal glory? :confused:

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1414994537387282441

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015



I'm always confused as to what message this sort of thing is supposed to send. Did China forget that we have some F-22's or something?

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


We could have had this big, beautiful boy

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


I know little of 20th Chinese history beyond basic Wikipedia level and would like to know more. Any recommended books, podcasts, websites or whatever?

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


"don't assign a bunch of homework; do things in the classroom" has been American pedagogy for at least a decade

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


This monstrous nation

https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1419614937324736515

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


America was scared of Japanese business/economic domination in the 80's and 90's.

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


You also had things like the big corporation who's targeted by the terrorists in Die Hard being a big Japanese company. They weren't evil or the 'bad guys' in the movie or anything, but "big Japanese corp" was in the background of a lot of things.

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Cao Ni Ma posted:

Google fed me an article from a random site about how walmart and target are having issues decoupling from evil xinjiang cotton and the picture they used (and its even provided in the caption) is of a fully automated cotton farm. Like you had machines planting and gathering the cotton while a guy looked at them.

Just amazing that a country has the means to implement that sort of automation at a large scale but still have the drive to put 5 million people into concentration camps and have them pick cotton like slaves.

those machines are all slaves if you think about it hard enough

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


https://twitter.com/CIA/status/1379437049728659459

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Didn't we know for at least a decade that this is more or less how it'd play out according to the Afghanistan papers

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Antonymous posted:

The Taliban were greeted as liberators

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015



https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1426809181433176064

e: china didn't crack 1B until three years after Mao died

brugroffil has issued a correction as of 01:47 on Aug 16, 2021

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015



https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1428567821349539845

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Oh sure if you believe those numbers :rolleyes:

They're clearly having millions of cases and just hiding it all






which, uh, I guess would speak to a level of absolute hyper-competence in information control

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


They fired a data scientist who I think started going off down her own insane rabbit hole eventually

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


exmarx posted:

we (nz) got 1 community case on tuesday, went into a hard lockdown that night. as of tonight (saturday), there are 51 confirmed cases and around 10k close contacts in isolation.

zero covid is the only moral position, and the chinese method works... simple as that

Chicago had a concert with 500k people in attendance and only got 200 cases from it :smug:




lol if you believe those claims

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


https://twitter.com/ALanoszka/status/1430530419875794944

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Park is absolutely doing a long running deadpan comedy bit and keeps finding takers

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015



Bring the mother loving AUKUS

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015



the MIC grift always gets through

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Can't believe the people itt pushing Chinese phones that spy on you

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


bane mask golem posted:

I mean, if you can find a smartphone that doesn't spy on me, I'm all ears.

So's your smartphone!

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Samsung phones wouldn't spy on you because they're not Chinese, qed

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


AnimeIsTrash posted:

epic posting my man

The first post was a joke about Android data collection

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Functionally does everything just flow down from the party anyway with those sorts of majorities? Or do local government bodies have leeway to do their own thing to some extent?

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


It's a biblical reference to righteousness I think

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


staticman posted:

JESUS loving CHRIST, FOR GODS SAKE, XI JINPING, STOP HOLDING BACK AND LIBERATE US FROM THE DEMON CRACKER, KID FUCKER SAVAGES
https://twitter.com/lakotalaw/status/1440664734571778051
https://twitter.com/lakotalaw/status/1440664738929643524

I'm going to assume they also want to traffick children

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


That's how nuclear power works too

e: some of them like Brunswick have the official name "Brunswick Steam Electric Plant"

brugroffil has issued a correction as of 16:03 on Sep 24, 2021

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Serf posted:

i remember being a kid and thinking that nuclear power like fueled things with radiation somehow and being disappointed when we went to the local nuclear plant on a field trip and they explained that it was just electricity

Nuclear power on spacecraft kinda work differently, but ultimately it's still "heat up a thing and turn it into a gas"

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Right now we build giant concrete and steel casks to hold the material onsite. An entire storage yard (isfsi) that holds a lifetime of waste might take up 2-5 acres.

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


https://twitter.com/philjvtaylor/status/1441839723614461954

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Yadoppsi posted:

What's the conspiracy theory being spread here? Stuxnet was a joint Israel/US op targeting Iran but it spread worldwide. 2% of all computers in the US were infected but it doesnt do anything unless that computer is a PLC controlling a specific process.

A specific number of PLC's running specific firmware versions doing very specific things. You could infect every single PLC controller in the world and the only real impact would be on Iran's centrifuge system.

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015



I'm mainly surprised that the MIC decided to use a well-designed, mass-produced, cheap-but-reliable input device rather than rebuilding a shittier MILSPEC version for 30x the price

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


I thought the intercept or somebody reported on that crickets thing years ago

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Guangdong Syndrome

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Argument: but this seems really bad for everyone but you

Response: actually it's good

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brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


gradenko_2000 posted:

Philippine elections update:

If you recall, back in September there was a lot of scuttlebutt over the possibility of Rodrigo Duterte running for Vice President, in order to continue to hold some semblance of power/executive privilege even if he can't be President anymore.

Then, during the official filing of candidacies in early October:

* Rodrigo Duterte did not file anything and people kinda forgot about the possibility of him running for VP
* Bong Go, his right-hand man, did file to run for VP, but with no running mate
* Bato Dela Rosa, his... other right-hand man, filed to run for President, but everyone expected that this was a sham candidacy and he'd pull out and be substituted-for later
* Sara Duterte, Rodrigo's daughter, did NOT file for either President nor VP. Everyone expected that this was also just a ruse and she would be the one to pull a last-minute entry into the race

November 15, 2021 is the last day for substitutions, and so there was a LOT of news that came up during the preceding week, and specifically within the last 48 hours.


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What is the perceived benefit for doing this last minute?

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