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corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Cerebral Bore posted:

i can see the western media headlines already: "china raising inhabitants of xinjiang solely so they can kill them for profit at a later date"

now this: underwater holding pens in Xinjiang revealed in damning aerial footage

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corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Stairmaster posted:

why the gently caress do the subs here keep saying social democracy

seems like a translation issue. it sounds like they're saying 社会主义国家 shèhuìzhǔyìguójiā, which would be "socialist nation/country"

corona familiar has issued a correction as of 08:19 on Sep 4, 2023

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Centrist Committee posted:

can china put a third, fourth, or fifth camera on its phones? can it switch from a proprietary charging port to usbc? can it deliver moderate adjustments to its phones user interface every single year???

please, comrade Xi, my people desire devices with modern performance and user replaceable batteries

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

oh no I have to convey cultural context and that makes it harder for me to slip foreign vocabulary nonchalantly into conversations to make me seem more worldly

Ytlaya posted:

Reminds me of when Easterners are like "the ancient American concept of vibes," like it's some complex and obscure concept that can't be fully translated

or like treating 差不多chàbuduō as some inherently Chinese cultural philosophy or moral failure when "good enough for government work" exists

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

gradenko_2000 posted:

I agree, and it's going to be interesting when that happens, because a good third (or whatever) of humanity deciding to move away from x64 may well break its stranglehold on the industry, and I'd love to see what happens next

if you want to count phones, most computing is already non-x86. on top of that, people are starting to switch to ARM for server workloads since the power efficiency and therefore cloud computing cost is better

based on the way the various transitions are going in Apple, Microsoft, and :yaycloud: land, imo by the time ARM or RISC V becomes a large enough user base the cross platform emulation of x86 will be good enough for it to not matter for most people, or there will be native binaries

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bifurcation where America-aligned countries settled on ARM for non-phones and other countries settled on RISC V for non-phones though

gamers and people who use legacy programs will continue to suffer, but they always will

Intel, on the other hand, must be destroyed

corona familiar has issued a correction as of 07:11 on Sep 5, 2023

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


strong "not the wasted housing!!!!!" energy

China is just playing factorio correctly; you always overprovision solar to meet your industrial needs and then figure out excess storage

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Maximo Roboto posted:

C-SPAM China thread: China hates the ridiculous declining Yankees and mock their inferiority in every way

China:
https://twitter.com/twinkdefcon/status/1699263455570628810

lol this is like a scale model of Orange County. those roads won't meet any kind of minimum width requirements



widen the streets by 3x, increase the lot sizes by 2x, and mandate 3x larger setbacks, and now we're talking

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

indigi posted:

imagine creating something that will almost immediately become a global cultural and historical touchstone, and also contribute a significant amount to your country's economy... 4000 years from now

and then someone uses your creation as an example of a bad investment

that's 16,000 quarters! think of the opportunity cost!

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

fart simpson posted:

is 22% of chinas market a big deal?

probably the same size as the entire US smartphone market tbh

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

stephenthinkpad posted:

They keep dumbing down this war game expertise level I hope I can buy a box set eventually.

Or license it to Tencent to make a phone game.

ender's game but it's a Roblox mod

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

right wing "hygiene" enthusiasts falling in love with china

right wing hygiene enthusiasts love nice functional well-maintained public infrastructure abroad but don't want to pay for nice functional well-maintained infrastructure at home :thunk:

corona familiar has issued a correction as of 17:58 on Sep 10, 2023

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Mister Bates posted:

isn't literally every country resource-constrained lol

'China's economy is dependent on things which actually physically exist, unlike the American economy which runs entirely on wishful thinking, this makes us clearly the stronger of the two'

as kashkari put it, there's an infinite amount of money at the federal reserve, so as long as we keep pumping it into the economy to fund said wishful thinking our future is limitless

hang on I'm being handed a note

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

Lol

Good job president xi, keep it up

lol $135 per diem for meals in China

was this guy eating at Michelin-level restaurants for every meal? a meal at a place like https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g308272-d8261321-Reviews-Epices_Foie_Gras-Shanghai.html is like 200-500 RMB

corona familiar has issued a correction as of 04:01 on Sep 13, 2023

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

continuing the trend of "people being good at portraying a fictional character" getting elected

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


well yeah, as the chips get more advanced they get smaller

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


I want to meet this group of people still wearing N95s

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Tankbuster posted:

Its because I am ugly.

:hmmno:


:sadpeanut:

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

ikanreed posted:

The intended reading is "global warming is a hoax to install communism"

Man I want to live in that world.

through a constant shifting of rhetorical focus, communists are both gormless NEETs with weirdly colored hair who collect genders like Pokémon cards and also an omnipotent shadowy cabal represented ironically by rich people who have the terraforming technology equivalent of the "disaster" button in simcity

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


gently caress I want Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic to get a China expansion so we can do the equivalent of Stellaris megastructures in that game :allears:

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

fizzy posted:

Bad news for China - Prices of hogs and pork in China, which usually rise in anticipation of shoppers opening their wallets, have actually fallen. It’s a troubling sign for an industry that has yet to recover from the constraints imposed by the pandemic. Even relatively well-off households are watching the pennies as the economy slows and a protracted property crisis saps confidence..

“This round of restocking for the holidays is basically over and demand didn’t really kick off,” said Zhu Di, an analyst with GF Futures Co.

Demand for cured pork usually rises toward the end of the year and that could give the market a boost, according to Zhu. “But I’m not sure how much it will be,” she said. “There’s too much supply. We are quite pessimistic about prices in the fourth quarter.”

lol nominative determinism even in Chinese (no I will not be looking at the tones or the character)

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


where are they getting the water from? genuinely curious

additional coverage

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-02-24/How-Xi-s-initiative-transformed-China-s-most-uninhabitable-areas-Y8SS9b18ti/index.html

http://english.scio.gov.cn/m/in-depth/2020-12/11/content_77001384_2.htm

corona familiar has issued a correction as of 00:33 on Sep 30, 2023

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

celadon posted:

source- i am californian

:same: :negative:

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

gradenko_2000 posted:

there is no way to "ethically climb out of hell", because the people that put you in that hell, also get to determine the parameters of the discourse such that anything you do is, by definition, unethical

:agreed:

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

gradenko_2000 posted:

Shut the gently caress up


must be great to be this guy, always taking everyone at face value and in good faith

corona familiar has issued a correction as of 09:36 on Oct 11, 2023

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


:golfclap:

corona familiar has issued a correction as of 07:53 on Oct 28, 2023

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Blarghalt posted:

It's like building a house out of bricks but for some indeterminable reason you decided every fifth brick should be made out of TNT

why would Hamas do this??

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/9DashLine/status/1719526671022260644

Gamemaster Marcos: bring it in, guys!

*all the colonizers of Asia come in for a HUGE freedom of navigation patrol*

wow, they're sending 1/5th of their navy

e: 1/4 if they're sending a patrol boat and not a frigate

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


kinda worried China's gonna get car brain from all this

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

GlassEye-Boy posted:

Too late for that, but they are equally train and mass transit brained which is good.

i'd honestly argue those are mutually exclusive with car brain. you can't reach car brain without the extensive car-focused infrastructure that prioritizes driver comfort and convenience, and that infrastructure destroys things that make mass transit viable

just the parking requirements alone would dwarf cities

corona familiar has issued a correction as of 09:30 on Nov 10, 2023

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Orange Devil posted:

Walking in a Chinese city sucks rear end because the streets are so goddamn huge and traffic lights are not a given.

Like it’s better than some of the horror I hear about the US because at least there are proper sidewalks but it’s still miserable. That was my experience last month anyway.

yeah, from what I remember the newer parts have ultra wide roads but also adjacent-but-separated motorcycle / bicycle / slow traffic loading streets and ultra wide sidewalks so it really was a mixed bag. the older parts of cities were dense as hell though and very walkable

its been a while and I didn't get a chance to go to brand new areas so hopefully there are some new developments that improve on those

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

how do the chinese use "AI" to make more fish and we use AI to make fake online girlfriends

so you're saying we should use fish to pilot fake online girlfriends :shuckyes:

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


does disinformation come with the 1s and 0s filter or is that a pre-order bonus

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

is Xi even spending that much time in SF? I read they were having talks all the way out in filoli gardens in woodside

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


xi is all :chloe:

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

all humans should go back to the oceans, where we originated

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

stephenthinkpad posted:

You guys want to play capture this photo?



Xi Jinping: If a machine, a terminator, can learn the value of human life, Maybe we can, too.

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

stephenthinkpad posted:

I don't think Xi went to any other country except Russia and San Fran this year.

The Democratic People's Republic of Haight-Ashbury

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

Truga posted:

in both countries

:liberalism:

corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021


:hellyeah:

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corona familiar
Aug 13, 2021

fart simpson posted:

what im trying to say is those 30-50 people can figure out a real business strategy or they can get real jobs

30-50 f2p hogs

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