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oohhboy posted:FFS. loving running around coughing and sneezing. Labour costs vs the (nearly nonexistent) cost of sea freight. It's cheaper to find cheap labour than local labour, in many cases.
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Budzilla posted:I find this more of a damnation of Australian foreign policy. PNG is almost a colony of Australia and we allow this to happen. We’ve dropped the ball in a big way. It’s astounding how little we’ve worked to defend our geopolitical power in our backyard. We could’ve supported all of the pacific islands with aid to directly counter Chinese interests but we’ve pissed away whatever home ground advantage we had through inaction and forcing them to look elsewhere.
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The worst part is that since the US is basically imploding and won’t be paying any attention to foreign policy, we’re hiding behind a wet tissue.
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Fojar38 posted:This is a pretty big misreading of the situation. The US is a clusterfuck domestically and Trump is a bad diplomat but US hard power is fine and isn't going anywhere. The executive has an outsize role in US politics from a public perspective. Especially overseas, you rarely hear about what the Congress is doing, it’s pretty much only ever Trump. Given he is clearly just flailing around trying to do whatever he can to increase his re-electability, I don’t see the US (through him) being able to provide a consistent narrative that will unite countries in an effort to push back. Sure, the gears of the US foreign relations will continue to turn but that’s not the same as a rallying call of leadership that I think’s necessary for dealing with this. I’ll concede I phrased it fairly poorly and made it sound like the US is worthless diplomatically. They’re absolutely not, but I don’t think they’re currently doing a great deal of leadership either.
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The junk collector posted:It's going to own their rear end too I loving love that the only e: well done you loving goons there's only 10 left now
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E: Never mind I realised I was overwhelmingly stupid once I actually applied thought
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Oct 15, 2020 16:41
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I managed to convince the hotel to let me deliver a microwave to my mate’s hotel quarantine in Sydney, and then she ordered microwave meals and did poached eggs and stuff like that because yeh the food was... ordinary. Similar quality to that in some cases, maybe slightly better. Exact same price too, AUD$1500 = RMB7200. Then I tried the same trick with another mate in Brisbane and the hotel refused to take the microwave, but they instead gave far better quality food, would deliver snacks too, and did single-room-at-a-time police escorts out to the rooftop pool for some fresh air. So those sorts of luxuries weren’t as necessary. Small poo poo like a microwave + letting you do grocery deliveries goes a long way to helping get through the quarantine.
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 My worst baijiu experience was on this stuff. The timestamps between the this photo from the start of the business dinner and the photo of me having 5 empty bottles in front of me is about 2.5 hours. Would not recommend. I'm glad there was a toilet ensuite off the dinner room. I probably came out with a mild level of permanent brain and/or organ damage from consuming it. I'm a baijiu business dinner newbie in the scheme of things, but my tactic is to use snow beer or some other basic lovely lager to help wash out the flavour. It's functionally close enough to water when it comes to adding additional booze to the night, but it's got flavour unlike water so it helps mask the hellscape that is your taste buds after that horror. Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 07:37 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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Feb 2, 2021 07:33
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poopnanners posted:BBC has already been blocked in China for years This is the BBC World News, their international news show. It was indeed still available as I used to watch it whenever I was in CN. It'd occasionally just go black for minutes at a time whenever the censors decided it was doing a Naughty Thing, such as covering the HK protests. However, it was the only thing I bothered to watch in the hotel as background noise unless some good sport was on.
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Feb 12, 2021 03:08
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Taught myself how to pangzai a beer. I’m now totally ready to head back. This is gonna be a great party trick to pull at the first baijiu dinner.
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Feb 27, 2021 12:22
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WarpedNaba posted:Reminds me of Anhk-Morpork with the rat farms. My DW memory is way too rusty, but that I think parodies the so-named cobra effect.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I think that was them misunderstanding the bundle of sticks/fascism thing for bundle of sticks/word we don’t use here. Maybe. The hot take thing in the probation reason doesn’t line up with that. That’s my thought. I remember reading that post and knowing someone wouldn’t understand it.
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Apr 24, 2021 04:26
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Porfiriato posted:I can't figure out what the deleted tweet was but I would guess it's about more Chinese shenanigans in the Spratly Islands/South China Sea. Bonus is that he's getting into it in the comments with the reply guys and wumaos who are fainting about He posted another giving clarity. No surprises, it was China loving around in the South China Sea https://twitter.com/teddyboylocsin/status/1389184835491536905
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May 3, 2021 12:57
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Yeh I've been following the silvermine for a couple of months now (probably since that exact article in the ABC) and absolutely love some of the poo poo they're finding.
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May 12, 2021 14:04
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Collateral Damage posted:Point of order: All four of those countries are islands which has been a huge advantage for them in terms of controlling the spread. I love this argument because it implies that there's simply no way to control land borders.
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May 25, 2021 12:45
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I maintain that Snow beer is lightly flavoured water that exists solely as a chaser to wash down a baijiu ganbei.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-07/australia-china-trade-tensions-official-economic-punishment/100273964 It was nice of him to admit it, at least. I wonder what it'll do to their chances at the WTO hearings about this?
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Jul 8, 2021 05:47
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Does WG still work or did that only work back in 2019 due to the novelty of it?
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Tnuctip posted:Isn’t this the weird confusing system where a bachelors is basically super high school, and only a masters and PhD are at a “university”? If Australia, no. University occurs after 12 years of schooling, with 'high school' referring to the last part of this. You'd leave this at 17 or 18 years of age typically, but people may choose to leave at 15-16 years of age and pursue a trade (though it's common to finish it before doing a trade anyway). At uni, you do a 3 year 'base' bachelor degree and then may optionally choose to do honours (with a good enough GPA), which involves writing a thesis (or equivalent) in a 4th year and which if you pass confers a bachelor with honours. In some subjects (e.g. engineering) there is a mandatory thesis and 4th year, and you get honours based on your GPA. Upon finishing your bachelors, you can then choose to do masters, which is typically 2 years, but may only be 1 year for certain degrees if you roll the honours part into it and do a straight 5-year blob of a degree. PhD is then separate and you generally need a masters. As mentioned, it's variable length but 3 years minimum. Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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Oct 19, 2021 03:31
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Pistol_Pete posted:Advance warning that I'm totally not going to read any post that tries to explain to me how you do add fractions together. Just make up the answer and rely on your colleagues not knowing any better, duhh
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Holy poo poo that's my favourite story in a long time. This is truly the auspicious Chinathread.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:its miserable to exist outside in spore, hk and much of thailand, tho. altho it's also miserable to exist outside in korea 3/4 the year That said, all the Singapore hawker centres I can think of are just covered but open, not airconned. E: 2am turbodrunk old-lady reganmein in the desperate hope it’ll make me more able to front up to my 8am factory start the next day is one of my favourite work travel memories. Nam Taf fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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AHH F/UGH posted:I find Tim Tams to be rather bland I'll fuckin' have my pet cassowary disembowel you mate.
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Dec 4, 2021 12:58
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The only time I've ever had food poisoning was in Germany of all places, go figure.
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Dec 10, 2021 14:39
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Had horse in the middle of Brussels, and it was ok but by the end of it the gameiness was becoming a bit overwhelming. And this is coming from someone who routinely eats kangaroo which is particularly gamey. I think the issue was that it was an undressed steak with some sides so it was just very rich to work through, whereas with roo I'm usually marinating it in some way or form so the flavour is tempered (to me, that's the main benefit of a gamey meat).
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The factory south of Wuhan where I worked had street dogs that lived in it and were fed by the labourers who lived on site. They'd wander around outside and sit on the driveways in the sun. I never saw any in the city though, come to think of it.
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Feb 9, 2022 08:07
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I’m almost certain they’ll recover the black box and cockpit voice recorder. They’re designed to survive that sort of impact and they know exactly where it crashed. What led to the brief recovery before second descent is the million dollar question. That shows the plane was still operable at that point.
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Mar 21, 2022 15:53
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I can still find first-gens like promethazine in Australia but they’re relegated to now basically just being sleeping pills. Anyone chasing allergy suppression will use fexofenadine, loratadine, etc. I’ve taken fexo in combination with drinking for 20 years now when I know I’m gonna be exposed to allergies. Thinking of allergy meds as sedative is so foreign to me now that it tripped me up at first when reading this convo.
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Herstory Begins Now posted:They haven't really been dropping though? They've been going down like a percent a day and then popped back up to 25k. You do a lockdown you expect to see them plummet rapidly because vectors of transmission should be hugely minimized It doesn't rapidly plummet. Things like household contacts give it a surprising amount of staying power, and there are other avenues for infection between households and between the people who do have to go outside. Australia (esp. Melbourne) had some pretty harsh lockdowns (albeit not as harsh as Shanghai now) and it took ages to drop down.
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Forceholy posted:It was the Sinovac vaccine that was rejected by NK, right? Still, it's better than nothing. So was the AZ one.
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There is no way they possess testing capability to find 850k cases in 3 days. Like, they simply don't have enough to process that many tests even with a 100% positivity rate. They have to be just assuming that anyone who has a fever, cough, etc. has covid.
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May 15, 2022 14:16
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Just today I reflected on the water trucks with the little gunner cages on the front. I miss them.
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freelop posted:What's the clear alcohol this guy has, is it an actual drinking spirit or cleaning alcohol?
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That reminds me of the “south eastern Australian” wine that the really bougie Wanda hotel I used to stay in had laying around in their restaurant. I assume it was just the blended dregs of whatever mega-wineries they could buy on the cheap, sold under some arbitrary brand. 
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Grand Fromage posted:That's the soju or bottom shelf baijiu experience for sure. I got told off by my handler for buying this as a birthday gift for my cousin 
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Vegetable posted:Honestly a lot of the problems you guys are describing are pretty… normal. Plenty of bureaucracies are staffed with people dodging responsibilities and avoiding the limelight and communicating poorly. It’s not just an East Asian thing. Using face as a proxy for it is a fairly uniquely-Eastern thing, though. There’s different motivating factors behind it.
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quote:“But I will not join another server because I don’t want Blizzard to get their way.” They needed to show Blizzard that Chinese gamers “have backbones, and cannot be disrespected,” Xinyuan Chen, another gamer from the Chang Sheng Tian guild, told Rest of World. my brother in taoism this was caused by your government not Blizzard
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The lychee on the left of those 3 is what I’m familiar with in Australia.
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Mons Hubris posted:When I visited last September we were able to link an American card to both WeChat and Alipay, but WeChat was not super reliable. I think that changed with WeChat in like July or August. Back in 2018 I was able to link my Australian Amex card to WeChat, but not add money via it. But at least it added the wallet functionally and then colleagues could send me red packages to give me credit to spend and I could give them cash in exchange.
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