@MeganNyvold @clairekart These are 2nd hand though, not a designer outlet?
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@clairekart Yes, but the main difference is the price point. WAYYY less than anything here and they have a much more substantial range of high-end goods. For example, in the US everybody’s freaking out about Hermes and the markups are insane past retail even. There it’s way less.
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I finally found a video of the place I went in Shenzhen (and yes, China does have an industry for fake luxury goods) but the real goods are also just sitting there like landfill selling for pennies on the dollar
everybody is getting GOT in the west w/ designer goods, one shotted
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The astonishment - and even embarrassment - of the French and the Swiss, when I tell them that my language carries such a capital of memory that we still call them by their ancient names, the ones they themselves have forgotten. Gauls and Helvetii.
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@chinafutureclub @thealepalombo i dont really agree but maybe our lifestyles are different
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Important reminder: China is 0% on foreign income for 6 years. Clock resets if you spend 30 days consecutively out.
Nobody talks about this enough. You can live in Shanghai as if it were Dubai, Panama, or Paraguay.
Caillan@chinafutureclub
Top 10 travel cities in China! 🇨🇳 1. Shanghai - Endless, social, special. 2. Sanya - Tropical. Beach vibes. Pure air. 3. Chengdu - Cool energy. Food. Booming. 4. Beijing - Powerful. Historical. Unique. 5. Changsha - Youthful culture. Nightlife. 6. Shenzhen - Tech hub. Great weather. 7. Guangzhou - Canton vibes. Nightlife. 8. Hangzhou - Modern liveability. Youth. 9. Dalian - Mild summer. Coastal lifestyle. 10. Chongqing - Cyberpunk. Unique.
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@SamaHoole @may935317 white people dont have kids. like half the kids are latino/indian/etc now
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@may935317 Immigrants that are still a small share and will get the benefits of increased protein.
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China's 18-year-old males are now the same height as American 18-year-olds.
Let that sentence sit for a moment.
In 1985, the average Chinese boy was measurably shorter. Not marginally: substantially. The gap was the kind you could see in a crowd, feel at a doorframe, read in a population chart without squinting.
Between 1985 and 2019, Chinese men experienced the largest height increase of any nation studied. Boys aged 7 to 18 grew an average of 7.6 centimetres in three decades.
What happened in China between 1985 and 2019?
Economic reforms. Rapid urbanisation. And a diet that shifted, quite deliberately and measurably, toward more animal protein. More meat. More dairy. More eggs.
The traditional diet was rice-dominant: and rice protein, it turns out, is negatively correlated with height across populations. When Chinese families got wealthier, they bought steak. Their children grew.
This isn't a coincidence.
It's a controlled experiment that 1.4 billion people ran on themselves over thirty-five years.
And their children are now eye-level with Americans.
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@PlanBpassport Wouldn't it have been possible for each family member to give their citizenship to the others? Then you have four people w. three nationalities each? (without dropping $300k)
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Family of 4.
3 different nationalities.
0 passports shared amongst all of them.
$299,105 later and they all have a joint Plan B passport.
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@bourscheid @mattvanswol is the lesson here to not fuck with law enforcement?
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@mattvanswol Yes Matt, it’s definitely that & not that minorities (and everyone for that matter) watched unqualified Meal Team Six bootlickers execute two American citizens & 40% of you praised them for it, so would rather drive or cancel travel than deal with TSA lines AND potential death.
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So basically:
a) ICE deploys somewhere
b) TSA lines plummet
c) Traffic vanishes
d) ERs clear out
e) Construction sites are ghost towns
f) Class sizes shrink
...and we're still supposed to believe there are only 11 million illegal aliens in the country?!
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i like how you change goalposts yourself to bring in talking about TSA funding (solved with ICE coming in - lines are tiny now because i guess half of america is somehow illegal - amazing how you guys have let in basically everyone)
and 2nd FAA academy wont solve anything if you have like 90% people leave the academy before graduating in the first place
in comparison, the chinese system is so much more sane: quick training, no obama DEI to forcibly reject white and asians, and dont let illegals in/deport all illegals if they get one parking ticket
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@midwit_retard @MaxAdamsOnline @eclairification LMAO-whatever you need to cope through, as you move the goal posts, upon being wrong. Trump’s turned down 8 bills, one the brain child of Thune, to fully fund TSA, and FAA cuz tHe SaVe AcT (talk about stupid shit 😂)-and OK GOP solely blocked a 2nd FAA academy.
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“According to aviation insider JonNYC, he then continued working alone for over an hour after the crash, guiding remaining planes back to their gates because there was no one to relieve him until morning.”
Sam Antha@SamanthaLives1
Minutes after the Air Canada CRJ-900 collided with a fire truck on Runway 4 at LaGuardia Airport last night, killing both pilots, the air traffic controller's voice was captured on LiveATC audio. "That wasn't good to watch," a voice is heard saying on the frequency. The controller replies: "Yeah, I know. I was here. I tried to reach out. We were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up." The other voice responds: "Nah man, you did the best you could," according to Newsweek and CBC News. The controller had been working alone, handling both ground and tower operations. A United Airlines flight had aborted takeoff due to a warning light and a cabin odor that sickened the flight attendants. The controller cleared a fire truck to cross Runway 4 to reach the United plane. Seconds later, he realized Air Canada Flight 8646 was still rolling down the same runway after landing, according to CNN. "Stop, stop, stop, Truck 1, stop!" he shouted. It was too late. After the collision, the controller ordered an approaching Delta flight to go around, closed the runway, and called in additional emergency vehicles. According to aviation insider JonNYC, he then continued working alone for over an hour after the crash, guiding remaining planes back to their gates because there was no one to relieve him until morning.
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@OlsenTrini @MaxAdamsOnline @eclairification ATC staff is unchanged, as in it's unchanged by gov shutdowns
FAA funding got cut during obama so they had to shutdown the ATC academy for a year
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@midwit_retard @MaxAdamsOnline @eclairification And wtf are you talking about? ATC staff is unchanged?? Are you stupid? They’ve been 13% short of fully staffed since 2018. Guess what Hasgeth’s brilliant idea to fix it was-lower the hiring standards. 😂 DEI FTW.
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@___4o____ PyPI supply chain attack? unsure how that led to account takeover
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@Paul_provalone @hnykda so you can put the repo on your github profile and claim you contribute?
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LiteLLM HAS BEEN COMPROMISED, DO NOT UPDATE. We just discovered that LiteLLM pypi release 1.82.8. It has been compromised, it contains litellm_init.pth with base64 encoded instructions to send all the credentials it can find to remote server + self-replicate. link below
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@chinafutureclub @thealepalombo tokyo is around the same cost tbh
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@thealepalombo And the cost of living is far lower than cities like Dubai and Tokyo! Good life in Shanghai is $2k usd per month. You’re surrounded by highly educated people and lots of technology.
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@FarmerTan @micsolana i feel like comedians make fun of jews all the time
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@micsolana I would say it is far more likely to have your career finished for doing a joke about jews than for an islamic person to “mass murder all the writers”
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yeah no, we need to 100x the muslim jokes. until a comic can mock islam without *fearing for his life* we have a problem on our hands, and it isn't islamophobia.
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@Aswad_Alchemist @sunday_coach last time I checked, USA made it to the semifinals in a world cup decades before Pele came over, so actually footy was huge in USA already. is that the logic?
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@sunday_coach Last time I checked, a guy named Pele signed for Cosmos and the attendance were a lot bigger than anything Beckham did in USA
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David Beckham is the best MLS signing of all time & it’s not close.
He came here when average attendance was like 3-5K and filled every stadium he went to. He is what made it all possible for MLS. And he is the one to bring Messi to the league too.
Unmatched impact.
MLS Moves@MLSMoves
Top 5 MLS signings of all time: 1. Lionel Messi 🇦🇷 36 2. David Beckham 🏴 32 3. Son Heung-min 🇰🇷 33 4. Thierry Henry 🇫🇷 33 5. Antoine Griezmann 🇫🇷 35 This is solely based on their status/profile/age BEFORE they played a game.
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@OlsenTrini @MaxAdamsOnline @eclairification its as if the shutdowns are because the dems want stupid shit like amnesty for all illegals haha
and ATC staffing is unchanged fyi.
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@midwit_retard @MaxAdamsOnline @eclairification Did he have 3 government shutdowns and a COVID lockdown? Or did his Congress sign 2 bills into law (2012 and 2013-while the Dems had control of the Senate) to try and prevent it?
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@MaxAdamsOnline @eclairification If anyone should be charged it’s Trump and Congress-Trump’s had 3 govt shutdowns in his reigns, 3. WTF do you think happens to federal employees when they’re not paid? They don’t call in sick? FAAs been chronically understaffed 10+ yrs now. 13% > of needed ATCs and climbing.
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@ScottLikedSLS Also the road sensor had a red light which senses flight is coming and you and driver should notice and not go regardless of what atc tells you
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No offense but the ATC guy realised his mistake with plenty of time and screamed at the truck driver to stop and hold, they continued on despite 3 call outs to stop.
Human error was involved but not really the ATC, more so the driver.
Blake Scholl 🛫@bscholl
Unpopular opinion: Today two pilots lost their lives because we have an air traffic control system inherently vulnerable to human error. Even great humans make mistakes sometimes. Machines should be issuing clearances, not human controllers.
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@50ptMAE Irans satellites, Russia and China's intelligence reports and no doubt information from it's coastal guard and from other friendly countries will tell them the exact movements of the US fleet and place and time of landing. It will be a slaughter and the US media will cover it up
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Wonder how many soldiers will die because Iran knows exactly what time they are attacking, Friday or Saturday after market close.
zerohedge@zerohedge
*US MARINES SLATED TO ARRIVE IN MIDEAST FRIDAY: WSJ just as Trump's 5-day extension expires
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@midwit_retard Yes that's right! Downwards vix, upward in price value for SP500
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Monitoring the price behavior at these levels.
A major low is due on April 23 in sync with variuos sectos, so we still have time to correct.. But the relief is due also as we hit some external demand, so buyers should step in..
Wh1teSwan 🦢@CryptoSwan777
HTF long-term plan, as we see a decline in each daily phase price is likely to push up where real demand sits, as there likely buyers will step in, and we will have some a bit of rellief.. On that rellief im potentially eying Bitcoin tagging 80k but thats for later SP500 + $vix
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