how the ‘‘might’’ is in this article :

For the first time, Canada is ahead in this Chinagate game

First Blood

AOE2 music playing

Dune noble houses conflict

no idea, we have a housing crisis bubbling rn here

from what i remember, he was more like loanshark but the dude was reformed after 49

Depends really, my family relative in China don’t really complain about a lot to the degree about toppling the government. A lot of stuff we perceive as unthinkable in the west (a functioning public transport, low cost of living, etc) are taking for granted.

They do have complains about the bureaucratic aspect of the government and also the healthcare system (especially important for my parent’s and grand parent’s gen as they get older).

There is also a lot of generational gap that influences opinions. My grand parent’s generation are very mixed towards the party (from uncritical support to very negative) (my mother side were bandits prior 1949 and my dad’s side are landlords). My parent’s generation are more positive as they were the one benefitting the most of the reform and opening up. My generation is apathic as competition is very fierce to the point that some people don’t see career advancement as something that is doable (less interested into the governance aspect of the country)

There is also a lot of gap in opinions depending of where you are from (ei. Urban vs countryside). Since my family moved to cities throughout the generations due to the five years plans I can’t really comment on the countryside aspect of stuff

Barbarian Khan

yes the culture that happens to adapt/improve/recruit tech, culture and people from all over the place is the ‘‘barbarian’’

Kind of make sense that Opium is eradicated since there is an embargo preventing export, causing an economy collapse. Any government regardless of their ideology leanings that wants to preserve power would switch their cash crops into sustenance crops.

See Cuba and the DPRK after the 90s or China post-split

Again this is not a pro-Taliban statement, this is just how insurrection happens to take over a country by building a parallel economy and governance within the country or global economy (see 1st Chinese Civil War until the defeat of the KMT by the communist force)

‘‘I can’t vote because I am not a citizen and I am not going to swear allegiance to the British crown to be a citizen’’

This ghost in the shell adaptation looks promising

I have been seeing a lot of life-hacks about how pensioners move to south east Asia with their cash because the low cost of living and also to bulk buy properties and live on passive income.

You are going to have that problem with countries with questionable economic sovereignty (look at the Philippines in particular) instead of becoming a state with possibilities to do local development, you have oversea entities coming there to suck out the resources, labour, wealth and talent out of them and leave the place to die

Not responding to e-mail when i clock out

Basque Khanate

China’s foreign policy was shit since the sino-soviet split and blaming on Deng for shit foreign policy is kind of silly consider that a lot of it started in Mao’s time

Lol this article is a nothing burger. It is mostly an article on AdF than the whatever ‘‘official invitation’’(which is probably some private firm in China but apparently every firms in China are controlled by the government) that China sent

If self check is too hard to use, just take the items for free

I got into a situation where a cashier came to debug an issue and she wasn’t able to.

It just ended up with her letting me go with the item for free because ‘‘she isn’t paid enough to fix this shit’’

claims to be pro natalist

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