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callum c
@CaledonianCamel
destination: the planets or peking
Katılım Ekim 2016
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Single grain of enriched long rice : $0.000043
Is Gen Z stupid?
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@KarenFactsLover is it really surprising that Chinese people living abroad move their money abroad?
of course they do, they live there!
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I love how a white guy that has made a few quick bucks in China feels he's equipped to lecture Americans about what freedom means to Chinese people. Bill Maher is spot on about freedom. Opinion polls show that the overwhelming majority in the Chinese diapsora, the richer they are, the more inclined they are to move their money to the US or Singapore precisely because China is not free. The Chinese government can cease and desist your assets illegally at the drop of a dime.
Mitch Presnick 柏力@mitchpresnick
One of the hardest things for highly ideological pundits like Bill Maher is moving beyond outdated, binary, cartoonish frameworks when trying to understand China. Maher has never even been to China, yet confidently speculates that Chinese people must be “brainwashed” if many of them do not share American assumptions about freedom, including its importance and definitions. But a civilization-scale system with thousands of years of continuity, a Leninist political structure, market dynamics, techno-industrial strategy, and deep historical memory cannot be reduced to simplistic “freedom vs. oppression” narratives without sacrificing both analytical clarity and credibility. The Owl View 🦉: I doubt many who hold these views fully understand how detrimental these constricted frameworks have become to U.S. interests, strategic adaptability, and America’s ability to evolve and compete more effectively in a changing world.
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Just got exposed for my role in the coverup of a major scandal and had to resign in disgrace. My legacy and political future are completely tarnished. I’ll forever be remembered as a crook. Pineapple with cottage cheese and warm milk.
constans@constans
Gen Z treatlers— “lunch is $28! There’s no way we can afford this!” The US president, 1974 having lunch:
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@Kore239391 @xmaterialism @p4tchmade @warmpeeinballs i don't think i quite get your point - are you suggesting that having any preference at all is a result of patriarchy? or one of the preferences i mentioned in particular?
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@CaledonianCamel @xmaterialism @p4tchmade @warmpeeinballs sure but the preferences are forged under patriarchy. it requires men to reject that stuff, kind of. but a lot of them would reject out of laziness too lol which i understand
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@US_Macauley @Mike_from_PA @SirBadOpinions yeah i agree that it's not especially useful, but by any reasonable definition far-right is objectively and obviously incorrect for China
i also think they made some other silly claims in their original post, so not a serious thinker regardless haha. guess their name is true
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@CaledonianCamel @Mike_from_PA @SirBadOpinions See the "or". My question was ehich position @Mike_from_PA was disputing. If it is whst you mean by "right wing," i don't think that is a particularly useful debate, imo. These terms are generally poorly defined.
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The support for China by leftists is honestly the most confusing thing I've ever seen because the country is a fully hard right, authoritarian, imperialist nation. They support conversion therapy and treat their LGBT population like shit. They oppress minorities on the daily.
lucy 🚩🇺🇦🇵🇸@leftwingpeony
The way some communists and leftists talk about Taiwan is repellent. If you were truly anti-imperialist, you would support ALL victims of imperialism, not just Western. Y’all believe in nothing except “America bad” and it shows.
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@Kore239391 @xmaterialism @p4tchmade @warmpeeinballs i think it's more likely there are just different groups of men with different preferences.. some men must want a partner who is dependent on them, some men must want a partner who they are dependent on, and most probably just want someone in the middle.
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@xmaterialism @p4tchmade @warmpeeinballs and they seek femininity which is, handing him the jar so he opens it. i dont believe men seek competence and confidence in women in general.
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@US_Macauley @Mike_from_PA @SirBadOpinions authoritarianism isn't exclusively hard right. it's a neutral description of how power is distributed in a society, and should not be inherently taken as positive nor negative, just like the word "democratic". china could definitely treat LGBT better, but i expect future progress
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@Mike_from_PA @SirBadOpinions Do you dispute the OP's claims that "They are authoritarian, they support conversion therapy and treat their LGBT population like shit." Or do you think those things are "in no way hard right"?
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@ST4RRDUUST @mas_cabeza91 @navic_ular 100% agree - it's mega difficult to learn swiss german anyway, so helps to have an understanding of high german first.. plus you can start to fake it if you speak decent high german, they'll just think you're from a different village hahahaha
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@mas_cabeza91 @CaledonianCamel @navic_ular if you’re new in switzerland i‘d advise you to learn high german first, dialect will come naturally over time
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@flagada713 @navic_ular does that not include that there have perhaps been issues with intelligibility in the past? if people could typically understand them, they wouldn't feel the need to do so...
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@CaledonianCamel @navic_ular But somehow the Swiss got it into their heads that they all speak a secret language. I've had customers speak to each other in dialect and then repeated it to me in stilted standard German, as if I didn't hear every word.
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@flagada713 @navic_ular yep, but not all are mutually intelligible; not even all swiss german dialects are easily comprehended in other parts of switzerland (e.g walliser/berner dialects)
since a hochdeutsch interpreter seemingly can't get the job done, i would guess it's a pretty difficult dialect!
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@CaledonianCamel @navic_ular Around 8 million Germans speak dialects of the Alemannic group. That's pretty much the same size of Switzerland.
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@ST4RRDUUST @navic_ular bernese swiss german was always a difficult one for me 😭
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@CaledonianCamel @navic_ular ehh we do understand most dialects even the harder-to-understand ones like berner- or walliserdeutsch should work because their speakers know how to tone it down
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@flagada713 @navic_ular true, i suppose some people from the border regions might be able to manage. i think even your average e.g. bavarian would struggle though!
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@CaledonianCamel @navic_ular You think Alemannic speakers from Germany, Austria or France don't understand Swiss people because they don't have tge right passport?
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@navic_ular oh i see! even then, it's very tricky because there are lots of different dialects...
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We're Buffering Britain, and we're going to fix the country's phone signal. Join us.
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@leap_dog Why is 320km/h necessary? Couldn't 260 or even 240 km/h suffice?
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sorry i refuse to believe there is a significant cost difference between building it to 360kmh spec to 320kmh spec. the route is completely decided and actively being built. changing the speed spec now seems almost absurd.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s flagship high-speed rail line has gone “disastrously wrong” because of the decision to “gold plate” the project and political pressure to “keep things moving” despite spiralling costs, an official review has found Sir Stephen Lovegrove, a former national security adviser, said that the “original sins” of the project included a decision to focus on the “highest possible speeds” in an attempt to make it the “world’s best railway” The government opted to “begin construction at the hardest points of the route”, the first phase between London and the West Midlands He concluded that there was also particular confusion over “the changing objectives and political priorities”, with a conflict between the “mission” of ushering in a “new age of high speed rail” and the task of delivering “within time and budget” On Tuesday Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, is expected to confirm that the speed for the line will be reduced to 320km/h to reduce costs, while delivery of the project will be further delayed from previous plans to get trains running by 2033 The first trains between London and Birmingham are expected to run from 2035 at the earliest HS2 was originally designed to run between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds It will now run only as far north as Birmingham on new tracks, at which point HS2 trains will connect to the West Coast Main Line. Latest estimates suggest that this line alone could cost as much as £100 billion, the equivalent of £1 billion a mile thetimes.com/article/2940e8…
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@rustybumhole81 @AvaSantina he's been voted for in free elections, bozo
if the people want him 4 times, why shouldn't that be allowed? it's not like he's holding a gun to their heads
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EXCL: Dawn Butler to announce run for Mayor of London
Announcement expected this Wednesday.
Sadiq Khan *still deciding* whether to run for fourth term. joe.co.uk/politics/dawn-…
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