Devils Affricate posted:

China may have won this round but let us not forget that Korea is the undefeated champion of the Alphabet Olympics

The White Dragon posted:

i learned to do rice in a pot in boarding school, because we had kitchenware with no rice cooker, and an extremely high demand for rice.

i think it's an interesting skill to have and like you say you can do some fun poo poo with rice when you make it on the stove, but i'm fuckin lazy. i'd much rather have a cooker do it for me, or preferably 7 & Holdings did it for me nine hours ago and now i'll get diarrhea from the petri dish that is refrigerated rice

Mr. Nice! posted:

every little podunk 100 person community in america has a church in it.

Arbite posted:

I thought no Cokes had sugar anymore, it was all cornsyrup?

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

When people talk about sugar in sodas, they mean cane sugar specifically, you pedant.

Porfiriato posted:

Wolf Warrior diplomacy paying dividends as always

Fojar38 posted:

IIRC it also gained something of a reputation for being an island filled with insane heavily armed hermits

Grand Fromage posted:

A freespace?

Fur20 posted:

the kind of person who has the money to fund a project like this is too shortsighted and coke-addled to see that there's a hypermassive long-term profit to be had from green infrastructure development if only they could see further in front of their noses than the next quarterly report

Grand Fromage posted:

Yep. Chinese healthcare is also completely privatized like the US and has the same problems of medical bankruptcy and most people not being able to afford treatment if they get seriously ill. There are fairly cheap public hospitals, but literally no one wants to go to those because you're going to be waiting absolutely forever for terrible care, in the best case scenario. There are also fun China-specific things like a lot of hospitals (most?) don't really have nursing staff the same way as a US one, so if you're in the hospital for a while, someone from your family has to be there to take care of you because nobody else is going to do it.

Chinese universities have different problems. They do cost money, but most of them are really bad and what university you can attend depends on a lot of factors you can't control like where you're born. My ex from Henan couldn't go to any of her top choice universities because she's from Henan. No other reason. You could compare that to being stuck in a lovely school system due to your residency in the US and missing out on opportunities, I suppose. The "good" part of university in China (and Korea and Japan, not sure about other East Asia countries) is the difficulty is all front loaded. The exam to get into college is absurd and you spend your entire high school life prepping for it, but if you pass and are admitted, you are 100% guaranteed to graduate with your degree no matter what level of effort you put in. Which is why undergrad degrees from those countries are completely meaningless. My understanding is graduate school works more or less like the west, but a bachelor's from a Chinese university just means you passed the gaokao, it has no relation to what you did in college.

Grand Fromage posted:

That looks to be on the nicer side for rural China. The buildings all look to be intact and that road is crazy good.
Yeah, the US military has not done well in counter insurgency/police action type poo poo not because the US military sucks, but because that type of conflict is almost unwinnable by anyone throughout history. If the other side just doesn't give up then there's nothing you can do short of killing literally all of them, which isn't going to happen. In an actual state to state, military on military conflict, I would not want to take the US on. The last time that happened was the Gulf War, and I think people forget that at the time Iraq had like the fourth biggest army in the world that had been hardened by their war with Iran and was considered a major regional power, and they got completely rinsed by the US in three days. It was actually a big wake up call for other countries that thought they might fight the US at some point and set off a lot of the modernizations we've seen.

Stink Billyums posted:

China bans men it sees as not masculine enough from TV

The war on kpop has begun.

http://www.nrta.gov.cn/art/2021/9/2/art_113_57756.html

ili posted:

For most people yeah you just hold it with your chopsticks and eat the meat off it, you can briefly hold the piece in your mouth while you reposition them too. If you're some giant weirdo though you just have a meltdown about bones in your meat, then probably storm off to hoover up a plate of tendies.

Bum the Sad posted:

I think this idiot is confusing giant weirdos with reasonable people who don’t enjoy bone shards.

Atopian posted:

I thought it was Korea

cat botherer posted:

It looks like an industrial area in the winter. Are we just upset they have industry or something?

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

You seem very angry about nothing in particular.

Seth Pecksniff posted:

Citizens, do not control your urges to get freaky

Meme Poker Party posted:

Imagine WW3 starting because China shot down a plane carrying Nanci Pelosi.

WarpedNaba posted:

Didn't he outlaw such quaint concepts as 'limits on uninterrupted rule' a while back

Grand Fromage posted:

MarcusSA posted:

Do we even want to know what this says?

ronya posted:

handsome, daring, patriotic and multilingual elite fighters who dodge bullets while remaining loyal to their women and families

Koramei posted:

That honestly describes my friend group to a T as well, but fair enough. As with all things I’m sure there’s a diversity of opinions.

Porfiriato posted:

https://x.com/HindenburgRes/status/1724156663572172955

Xakura posted:

It's not like USA forgets the topo data they've already collected, shooting down the satellites doesn't help with that.

Xakura posted:

Again, not what was argued. China loving with their own maps doesn't matter when satellites have been mapping them for years.

Running a modern military without gps would suck poo poo, but it's not like maps and compass is an unknown technology, INS doesn't work, or that nobody in the entire us mil haven't thought about what they would do in a gps denied environment.

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

Yes. It all sucks. It's dumb they're being weird about tiktok alone

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I amazes me that what Modi's doing doesn't get more press, but I think most news outlets and people, aren't prepared to change their preconceptions about India from "great food, wonderful people" to "It's Moditown - let's get purging!"

Shumagorath posted:

I don’t think it’s what you’re describing so much as low-effort “fair’s fair / being a boat anchor on north american public health is cool and good”.

Herstory Begins Now posted:

look at the lepers colony entry for moist von lipwig