Translation of the words: 标兵就位! biao1bing1 jiu4wei4 (Command) Parade guards take your positions! 同志们辛苦了 tong2zhi4 men5 xin1ku3 le5 (Xi Jinping calls) You comrades have toiled (Well done, comrades) 为人民服务! wei2 ren2min2 fu2wu4 (Response) Serve the people!
Pretty heartwarming story. I’m not sure what the exact details are but it seems like basically after October 7th 2023 he flew over because they wanted to see each other in case she passed during the war. She ended up moving back with him to China in November, pretty nuts!
azanra4 4w ago • 100%
These are fair points. Thank you for the response!
azanra4 4w ago • 100%
Why should we listen to alarmist doomers who believe in near-term human exctinction? Climate change could take down industrial civilization and billions of lives within the course of a few decades or even years, but the idea that in about 1000 days the earth will look like venus and all humans will die strikes me as unhinged. this guy lowballs it, but I think there’s good reasons to be skeptical about the clathrate gun hypothesis
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
Based
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
Inshallah
This 抖音 video goes over how Kigala, Rwanda is starting to look a lot like cities in China. It's really interesting to see how strongly China is (positively) influencing Rwanda's development
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
here's a video with english subs to explain why 云南 is so special. here's another video that's more about 昆明 tourism
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
It's sad to see 苏州 (suzhou) characterized by its relationship to 上海 (shanghai), when 上海 is merely a city invented by China within the last 100 years to interface with the capitalist west. 上海's culture draws from the original, ancient cities of 杭州 (hangzhou) and 苏州. If history had played out slightly differently, 普通话 (common speech) would probably be their 吴语 (wu chinese) due to 南京 (nanjing)'s influence.
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
Chinese people I've heard from generally say 昆明 (kunming) is the best place to live, at least from a natural scenery and weather perspective. Here's a map, where 昆明 is outlined in the 四季如春 (four seasons as spring) area, meaning the weather year-round is like spring. Beyond the climate, 云南 (yunnan), where 昆明 is located, is a mountainous province that is also a biodiversity hotspot. There's bountiful microclimates and many local cultures as well. Definitely not a "Max GDP" sort of place, but the other factors are incredibly good.
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
Yes because they didn’t build enough townhomes
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
The largest urbanized areas are all in the states, with cities of 7 million like Boston having more built-up area than 37 million tokyo-yokohama. Nobody can hold a candle to <1000person/km2 density in statesian cities. It’s absolute madness. I guess prodigious consumption of resources makes the economy looks good though.
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
I can’t wait until australia and new zealand are kicked out of the imperial core through economic warfare. Demographically, it’s already well on its way to becoming an asian country. The west can play in the north atlantic.
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
wow, that’s awesome, thank you for sharing! I’m guessing in 广西 you’re seeing a lot of 庄族文化. Whatever you’re up to 我祝你万事如意
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
Even some billionaires seem perfectly content with one home lmao
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
ooh have you been before? what was it like?
Literal translation of Chinese title: "At great cool mountain, for Yi People in rural village selling goods is what personal experience". Wholesome video of man bringing tasty food to villagers in a border region inhabited by Yi people in China.
I’m curious what you all think about this. There are definitely some hot takes from this Chinese prof this guy is translating. The hottest take imo is that multipolarity is a worse system, on the balance. It’s also an interesting take that assassinations and hybrid warfare is more likely than nuclear war is more likely than mechanized war among superpowers.
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
No, the author is not an anticommunist. This book would not be so widely promoted in China if it were anticommunist. His depictions of the cultural revolution are focused on the suffering people went through in a neutral way. I don’t think it’s controversial in China to say that there were issues with the cultural revolution that led to suffering for some. Here’s an official narrative to summarize the cultural revolution on Chinese internet:
文化大革命全称“无产阶级文化大革命”,发生于1966年5月至1976年10月,是一场由领导者错误发动,被反革命集团利用,给党、国家和各族人民带来严重灾难的内乱,留下了极其惨痛的教训。[1][3][4]
The full name of the Cultural Revolution is the “Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, which took place from May 1966 to October 1976. It was a civil unrest that was wrongly launched by leaders and used by counter-revolutionary groups to bring serious disasters to the Party, the country and the people of all ethnic groups, leaving an extremely painful lesson.
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
I have no idea tbh
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
It is true that there are many hotels across NYC that have been repurposed to house newly immigrated people. The people living there are mostly from Latin America, but also there are hotels of people just from sub-saharan Africa, so it’s a diverse mix.
I am in contact with someone who works directly on managing new immigrants for NYC. From what they’ve told me, it is a serious crisis for the city, since they are constantly looking for increasingly creative ways to house everyone. Their allocated capacity would run out and they’d have to scramble to accommodate new arrivals.
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
I’ve heard good things about dreaming spanish
azanra4 2mo ago • 100%
Maybe we’re both just biased, but it’s crazy what you said about rude airport security because i swear that was the first thing i also noticed when getting back to the USA. Maybe they just hide it better in China, but i swear the workforce in the us is in a state of visible desperation. it’s really sad seeing alternative realities firsthand
Kind of long + language barrier but I thought it was really incredible how these wind turbine blades make it from inner mongolia to xizang. It's crazy to see how narrow the roads are and how careful the drivers must be. The mountain roads even have a special tool to transport the blades at an angle. Bonus points for the neat food + lodging over the multi-day journey and the random guy playing CS:GO lmao
This isn't exactly Earth-shattering news but I thought it was neat and this community might enjoy it
A good read. It’s an accurate treatment of what the second law of thermodynamics means and how it relates to how life itself functions and what that means for humans. Entropy is not really disorder