CertainlyWorse
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CertainlyWorse
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1mo ago
"If your project has any industrial application of interest to the CCP, assume that any Chinese national is legally obliged to share any information they have access to or can easily obtain with the CCP"
Western govts have the capacity to create a basic screen like this, but for some reason they don't. I wish they did and had even a clown HR'ish rep to run research students through a basic process screen like this and send it up the chain for further analysis if it gets complicated.
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1mo ago
Mainland Chinese students (and some ethnic Chinese 2nd+ generation residents/citizens) have been doing Industrial Espionage for the CCP for ages. This could be justified on that alone if they don't have the state capacity to vet them for access to certain research projects.
I can't see how Chinese students in particular are involved in the latest Israel/Gaza 'terrorist support' fiasco. They usually keep a low profile regarding politics. Ethnic chinese students are often monitored by the CCP in foreign countries for support of Chinese related stuff (Taiwan, Falun Gong, Tibet, Uyghurs, Hong Kong etc). Haven't seen any of that flare up recently.
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1mo ago
Usually there's more social cohesion in rural areas. Your anecdotes aren't a good sign.
This is great. If they can provide the receipts that this has led to economic growth, other countries MUST follow. The naysayers will face incredibly strong pressure against a (relatively) cheap increase in nationwide QOL.
Edit: Aww Man!
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1mo ago
Still on The Fortune of War. The American upstarts are fighting His Majesty's Navy. How dare they?
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1mo ago
You're allowed to be upset. I would as would most of us.
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1mo ago
All good points. Why not give it a go then? If its low risk (you've done a credential check) and affordable you can give it a trial and see if you like the results.
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1mo ago
I'm not particularly keen on semi-annual injections into my face, but I think it's worth a shot.
I'd consider getting a second opinion to make sure there isn't some 'one and done' permanent surgery available rather than this SaaS (Surgery as a Service) ongoing maintenance payment.
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1mo ago
You could use a site or script to edit all your comments with nonsense and then delete everything (I've done this). You'd keep the karma.
The only issue is entering your password into a third party free site. A script with open code would be better.
Last issue is that many subreddits will ban you for mass editing and deleting your comments. They have bots watching out for this.
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1mo ago
I'd actually consider cutting down on coffee and seeing if that helps. Could be a caffeine crash.
Yes. There's a whole sub branch of my fantasy that involves me getting chased down as a warlock (male witch) representative of Satan because of failed Galileo things.
Edit: there's no weird arse fetish about this. I just expect that this is how this sort of thing would go down.
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1mo ago
Axis of Time which is WW2 focused.
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1mo ago
I've had this fantasy of traveling a thousand years into the past and trying to teach monks and engigneors modern technology with just my layman's understanding. I was pretty much going to try experimenting with feeding moldy bread to dudes with the bubonic plague.
Welp... if I ever get a time machine I guess I won't be doing that.
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1mo ago
I'd like to do some of the small ones to cut down on the mental overhead of remembering my To Do list.
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1mo ago
I have a friend that volunteers as a firefighter. One of the disappointing stories he told me was that they were recently told they needed to comply with newly invented needless bureaucratic safetyist paperwork that the regular firefighters have to deal with. Except those guys are paid for it. He said it was really taking the shine off their volunteer work.
I don't blame him for reconsidering. People volunteer because they enjoy what they are doing. Knowing bureaucrats in the public service that have mandated this extra paperwork, they would not know or care about the downstream impacts on manpower that their decision will make.
At least until there's a volunteer manpower shortage and they either pay someone to comply with the onerous amount of boring administration or they wind the requirements back.
So frustrating. High trust, community focused volunteering that contributes to social cohesion and the govt is taking it for granted. Mindless.
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1mo ago
I'll add Eurovision to my list of awards requiring the 'correct' ideological adherence.
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1mo ago
Not exaggerating. You're about 1/3rd through on the way to the final 'true' endings.
The 2nd 3rd is probably doable solo without being too frustrating. The final 3rd is incredibly pedantic (and was mostly crowdsolved on discord/steam forums). Some streamers like CohhCarnage ostensibly managed to complete the whole thing solo, but I suspect Cohh and those like him get fed hints behind the scenes to allow relatively smooth progression.
I pretty much fizzled out after getting 2/3rds of the way through as I'd gotten most of the lore by that point and was frustrated at the obscurity of some of the puzzles/solutions and increasingly narrower RNG windows for progression.
I really enjoyed Blue Prince (Blueprints... get it? get it? aha). If anything I would love to see more games like this despite its flaws. It took 8 years to create the interlocking lore and puzzles. Unfortunately this means we're unlike to see a puzzle game of this quality any time soon.
The game has some frustrating quality of life problems and grind related to getting the right combination of elements through RNG. The later is terrible when you want to test obscure theories of interactions between rooms and items, or worse, a particular reading of a possible clue. While up until the first 'ending' (which is were they roll the credits and probably marks around 30% of the games content) this isn't a huge problem as there are multiple leads to investigate on any given day. If you don't get the RNG for a particular combination of elements you are likely to have another that will allow you to make progression. Later on in the game progression really slows down while you wait for the correct RNG combination which is very frustrating.
For all the above, the game was like crack to me, particularly in the early game up until the first ending. I'm glad to see someone talking about it as I think it would be a good fit for a lot of the gamers on here.
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1mo ago
He really is the ur-example of the bimbo fetish.
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1mo ago
Hef really dodged a bullet considering the stories I heard about what he got up to.
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1mo ago
I think its a victimless crime too when undiscovered, but once the girls find out about it it will likely give them the ick/make them feel unsafe.
Guy should just make a public apology, delete everything and keep training until things blow over. In the meantime I hope he broke up with his girlfriend to make a clean start. She torpedoed his career out of jealousy even if she makes some public feminist argument about keeping the girls 'safe'.
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2mo ago
Luckily finding a cheat code by learning and not getting caught doing so is a perfectly acceptable strategy towards mating success.
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2mo ago
Correct human mating rituals are covertly initiated by the female. She signals interest or, at the very least, availability. But she does so in a plausibly deniable way. He then perceives the hint, and decides if he wants to pick it up. If he does not, she avoids embarrassment because she can pretend there was no hint. If he does, he can approach with confidence because he has been invited. That's how it actually works. But for this to work, young men need to know how to pick up a hint. And young girls need to know how to drop one.
This was probably the most important lesson I gained from the PUA community (replace 'aerial combat' with pick up and fighter pilots with 'PUA'). Not just the words of it, but the experience of it in repetition to truly grok it.
Learning what Indicators of Interest looked like was critical. In generations past there was all sorts of weird things girls could do to show interest, like dropping a handkerchief, but luckily most can be done with nothing at all and are just as relevant today.
Eye contact was pretty much rule zero for getting a warm opener when approaching a woman. There were a lot of other minor behaviours to notice, like a girl standing in proximity or brushing past you, but at the end of the day, eye contact was always the go-to. What was funny is that I think some girls would instinctively look at you in a particular war and be genuinely surprised when you approached them, but would still be warm. And that 'particular way' is difficult to explain, but I think many people know it when they see it. Some girls knew exactly what they were doing ("took you long enough") and others really believed 'it just happened'.
There's something twisted about the whole 'We want you to know how to approach women. No not like that. You aren't meant to learn, you're just meant to know.' thing.
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2mo ago
This is my read too. There is an anti-SJW undercurrent, but it can't be accessed by apeing Trumpism. Someone in Australian politics may eventually figure out how to tap that vein and I hope they do.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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