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by dirtyid 3y ago
Economically OK, but expect more social fissures between cultures and generations, especially when welfare and upward mobility will diminish with more bodies.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Growth =/= divident. Demographics is more than just pyramid, have to consider workforce / productive composition and actual ability to realize potential, especially when comparing polities with order(s) of magnitude difference in
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by dirtyid 3y ago
two tom7 videos in as many months, what a treat.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Checkbox for "I don't want to view or reply to comments by under 18s" for websites would be a plus. Think web will get somewhat better when adults stop getting into arguments with kids without knowing it. Wouldn't mind e
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Securitized regions like XinJiang will occasionally lock phones (including foreigners) with VPN installed, need to goto police station to unlock phone after uninstalling VPN apps. That's basically hardcore VPN/GFW enforcement mode
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Calorie restriction seemed like poor framing for transitioning then settling at lower bodyweight, otherwise where does restriction stop. IMO spirit of prescription for restriction when older is to find lowish bodyweight that doesn't st
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Don't care much for bans, but would not mind some sort of oauth system that includes age and ability for platforms/users to block interactions / content according to age range. I want to filter content a little bit like one f
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by dirtyid 3y ago
PRC family planning is like one of the few "state has 100 year plan" memes that's worked out relatively well in real life. Reduce kids, increase parent mobility + productivity to build wealth, concentrate said resources to th
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by dirtyid 3y ago
India has a large and young population most of whom will have no prospects. That's a recipe for disaster. India is now trending towards the NIGHTMARE scenario PRC family planning / one child policy was trying to avoid. India has t
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by dirtyid 3y ago
> high quality furniture that will last a lifetime Other caveat being high quality furniture rarely last a life time, restoration / repair can cost more than normal furniture. Another consideration is some luxury furniture / de
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Solid woods also elevated to more premium material due to scarcity, scarcer the wood, the higher the price.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
It's like Expedit -> Kallax, Ikea's always tweaking/value engineering their products and at some point the dimensions become different enough to warrant rename. I think Kallax shaved 1 cm off the thicker Expedit perimeter
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by dirtyid 3y ago
Some movers seem to be very good at moving Ikea furniture. Wrap it up, cinch it tight with straps. I've seen packed billy bookcases and garbage malm wardrobes moved this way without structural compromise. Saved a lot of time packing t
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by dirtyid 3y ago
The range from fairly durable/solid sheet metal getting larger and larger each year. But aesthetics not to everyones taste.
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by dirtyid 3y ago
This, low effort Chinese smart band/watchess with 2-3 week battery life that does 80% works well for my use case. Upgraded to a huawei GT because it has 1 physical short cut button I use to pull up media controls. IMO that's reall
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by dirtyid 3y ago
(e: Low) quality troll. Ex 16+1 baltic countries dish hard against PRC sovereignty issues with respect to TW recently but can't take when theirs get questioned. I don't think this is part of some new grand PRC strategy - people wh
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by dirtyid 3y ago
PRC is currently building indigenous nuclear relatively economically which appear to be performing around expectations. What happened / what PRC can't seem to do, like the west, is build _western_ nuclear tech economically. Rollou
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Article based on Q1 data when Urals was ~40. Urals to trading at 67 now (above cap), 10 days after OPEC+ cuts. Part of it is also took some time for systems/shadow fleet to circumvent cap. RU oil price looks where it should be relative
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by dirtyid 4y ago
And founding fathers owned slaves. Mao commit atrocious evil in service of greater eventual good and be acknowledged for it. Celebrated even. National history does a tally of net achievements where personal evil/vice like diddling kids
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Mao did 101 nation rebuilding on steriods, basic handbook of land reforms, creating mass cultural identity, spam primary industries to get out of agrarian economy. Progress wasn't just limited to Mao's dumbness but the peoples. PR
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by dirtyid 4y ago
@xeonmc [flagged] [dead] >So what you’re saying is, India is badly in need of a cultural revolution? Maybe 50/60 years ago post partition. But too late now, IMO India system finally built up some momentum + favourable external condi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>Disgusting Yes, but effective. Manifest some destiny. Future generations reap reward. All of sudden it's 5% bad and 95% good. Maybe 10% bad and 90% good during periods of introspection. The sins of founding father(s) are easy to cl
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by dirtyid 4y ago
I just want dedicated remote buttons for brightness
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by dirtyid 4y ago
>that wasn't how many of the other industrialization success stories Within context of modern developement, i.e. post ww2, where development is rapid industrialization in a few generations, success stories are essentially the Asian
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Also consider PRC manufacturing + secondary industry sectors roughly peaking at ~300M for both domestic and global demand. Past decades of global demand wasn't enough to lift 1.4B PRC into higher income like other Asian Tigers, and PRC
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Japan as AEGIS + SM3 with dedicated ballistic missile defense ships in the plan. Issue is BMD are really not well tested, intercept tests are very choreographed events that is not... reflective of reality, and still experiences occasional f
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by dirtyid 4y ago
> U.S. wanted to respond in kind, it could launch a missile from a ship in the Sea of Japan There really isn't a ballistic trajectory that wouldn't land in PRC or SKR waters, unless it's a (relatively) low flying cruise mi
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by dirtyid 4y ago
NK's rocketry program advancing at rapid rate. Look what where NK is, if they have to do flight tests, they're not going to fly over PRC, RU or SKR due to geopolitics. Sometimes they're sensible and do lofted trajectories int
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by dirtyid 4y ago
Official CCP position on was Mao 70% right and 30% wrong. There wasn't lack of domain experts per say, rather Mao pursued modernization agendas at aggressive rate, one that traded lives for progress. 4 pests / killing sparrows did
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by dirtyid 4y ago
VOA is also labelled as "government funded", which implies less editorial control but personally sounds worse than affliated. The labelling is all over place.

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