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by dirtyid 5y ago
I wadger a lot of collectibles become valuable if they can be preserved for a couple hundred years.
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by dirtyid 5y ago
I wish Wiki could associate same articles from different languages in a sidebar, perhaps sort by length and last update. Sometimes other languages have better/recent writeups.
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by dirtyid 5y ago
You should be more amazed DoD plans to sail it through the Himalayas strait through terrestrial India.
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by dirtyid 5y ago
On flavour, I've had my share of OG scrawny chickens raised in rural backyards in developing countries that I assume aren't Scientifically Manufactured Frankenbirds and TBH I prefer the latter in terms of dark meat. I don't c
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Which translates to less than 2% in public security and policing, i.e. less as % of GDP relative to US. All this number shows is PRC doesn't spend much on military and about EU levels on policing but gets misconstrued as PRC overspendi
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by dirtyid 5y ago
PRC's been fairly prescient around regulating/managing the internet/tech, folks here whine, but west increasingly adopting PRC censorship and filtering, and eventually we will see sense in regulating algos. Tech was already i
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by dirtyid 5y ago
"actively threatens the use of nuclear weapons, offensively, against its neighbors and enemie" Citation needed. NK nuclear policy is No Preemption understood to be borderline No First Use. Until last month when Japan and South Kor
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by dirtyid 5y ago
I remember convincing friend to build unicode pokedex extension that collected all the unicode symbol he was exposed to via cansual web browsing. Never followed up but I think it'd be neat, or something along the lines of rare unicode
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Sufficiently bone headed US military analysis that major TW media responded with "leave TSMC alone". TSMC doesn't major factor into PRC TW invasion plans since production relies on inputs US origin tech. Destroying TSMC is a
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by dirtyid 5y ago
>USA doubts China IMO misplaced doubt since forceful integration is as old has human civilization. US/west did it with indigenous peoples, and modern CCP has done it with fragmented post civil war China. People criticize cultural re
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by dirtyid 5y ago
As someone who has problems remembering dates or names to events, I always assumed my brain had poor summary ability. Other aspects my mental compression likes to make fuzzy, clothes people are wearing, hair styles. But memory for locations
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by dirtyid 5y ago
> don't oppose it. Formally they actively support it - they endorse PRC "deradicalization" policy since they suffer from extremist problems themselves. This isn't complicated, plurality of the world does not buy US&#x
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by dirtyid 5y ago
At end of the day repressing restive frontier minority that accounts for less than 1% of population for domestic security (especially terrorism) is the "correct" political decision for CCP. There isn't any feasible calculus f
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by dirtyid 5y ago
> hypocrite ... > just talk about people suffering Talk all you want, PRC's position is the hypocrisy is moving beyond talk into sanctions and other actions that undermine XJ development for counter-insurgency actions. Same reas
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by dirtyid 5y ago
More Victim's of Communism funded drama, "during executions" is a funny way of saying "after execution" just because they didn't verify brain death. PRC didn't establish formal transplant system until rece
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by dirtyid 5y ago
PRC vaccines work almost as well on severe cases. The significant advantange of mRNA was preventing breakthrough/spread which is has failed post delta, ergo countries resign to living with covid exposing all those who can't/w
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Force elders to vax. Build up antiviral stockpile. Maybe wait for milder strain. Roll out phased living with covid experiments by region. Take a few extra years to spare millions of deaths.
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Western mrna vaccine proven equally useless at preventing spread which overwhelms underdeveloped PRC medical system. Living with covid wasn't a choice after vaccines failed 1 of 2 epidimeology goals. Second being preventing severe dise
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Zero covid seems to be working in Jilin an Shenyang lockdowns - about 15m after a month. SH fucked up by thinking they could pull of dynamic zero. Too many financial interests and tier1 entitlement thinking not to tempt it. Not mandating va
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by dirtyid 5y ago
SH miscalculated/mananged trying to live with covid in the first place. Jilin (5m) and Shengyang (9m) both coming out of lockdown after month - seems like new stealth strain is still broadlycontainable. Whether cost is worth it medium
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Govs get to determine propaganda/narratives within their borders via legal instruments. TikTok follows domestic laws to continue operation. As it should be versus Twitter/FB caving to US foreign policy pressures / propaganda
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Unless substantial price increase, I don't see this changing behavior much. Third world landfills will have slightly more durable textiles with better stitching.
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by dirtyid 5y ago
https://www.darpa.mil/program/underminer Concept art suggest tunnels networks a few inches wide, not for moving bodies but for resupply in urban environments. Looks like horizontal directional drilling rigs for wells,
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by dirtyid 5y ago
>My Chinese social media posts reach 100k to 200k people a day vs... >Take two of my blog posts as an example. The post has [...] garnered 30k views as of May 2021 "Good tweets" disseminates to more eyeballs faster than &quo
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Security guarantees between blocks and nations =/= international community.` NATO art5 if anything was triggered to conduct war in Afghanistan after 911 and cut both ways.
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Learn some history. This is about par for Russian performance for large scale wars for past 100s of years. They're a huge land power with chronically underfunded military where corruption cause initial stumbling but they tend to hammer
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Seems like a gross exaggeration. Larger RU experiencing some difficulties annexing one her smaller neighbours with foreign support is history rhyming, down to both sides thoroughly entrenched in their own propaganda. This is regression tow
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by dirtyid 5y ago
Wonder if most of the washing advice applies to buying from wet markets, there's some pretty sus sanitary environments out there.
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by dirtyid 5y ago
By the accounts I've read, EU were the ones who rallied around harsher sanctions that surprised even US, after getting emotional over Zelensky address. Policy makers forget that they are watching a literal professional performer to the
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by dirtyid 5y ago
>I don't see how nuclear proliferation is in the long term security of any country on earth PRC and India are already in rough nuclear neighbourhoods, while they don't want any more regional proliferation, it's not exactly

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