the latest from lockmart's top secret skunkworks ultra blacksite: an experimental 9 trillion dollar pitot tube that's actually just a hole in the plane

so tested positive for the rona today, guessing im gonna be next in a day or two

was gonna go home end of this week, had the plane tickets and everything, stressing hard rn

interviewing for another position i'm totally unqualified for lmao

idk why these things stress me out so much, it's not like the recruiter is gonna come and personally end my career if i fail

pevear and volokhonsky are my go to

their stuff flows better and is more readable but is less literal

my galaxy brain take is to get the rest of his party in line for whatever the spooks are planning next, wild guesses being

1. reconciliation with SK and TW for alignment against CN
2. shittier economic policies in the greater APAC region to create conditions for a US spatial fix
3. idk, even more hawkish military buildup

i'm assuming he had a patronage network with which he was still pulling strings

:crab-party: :hexcrab-party: :crab-party: :hexcrab-party:

heres hoping its not the cia replacing him with some locally grown fascist freak

woke imperium

i just found out last night that you're supposed to clip the first three waves of fruit on pepper plants, otherwise it spends too much energy on fruiting the first couple waves and gets stunted overall

fml fml fml

1. he's right about the stupid real estate speculation

2. ghost cities are not ghost cities anymore

3. the demolition of buildings under construction is usually used in the context of faking gdp growth, not structural instability

4. build construction quality has gone up in recent years, 90s and 00s were the heydays of shittiness

5. you do get less bang for your buck (poor interior quality, less usable floor space) despite 4 (because of speculation)

6. that being said, there have been collapses of finished buildings with occupants inside, and peoples heads have rolled for it. remind me who got the axe for grenfell again?

7. people buy houses for speculation yes, but most people actually buy because they need a house to get married and, yknow, live in

8. superstructure also drives base: there is a culture of women requiring men to have bought a house/car before getting married as a sign of financial potential, which adds to the speculation

9. the downward spiral is a controlled detonation by the central government (because provincial governments are too compromised) that has been cheered on by those who were previously unable to buy a house

10. rent is so much fucking cheaper in china than in the states

The graduate entrance exams are more like History of Chinese Marxism/History of the CPC. Lots of dates and memorizing of what happened at which conference and where, etc

They used to go over the basics of LTV and stuff like overproduction in high school but idk if they do that anymore

p zombie apocalypse now

:lets-fucking-go:

soviets were going to do reusable with energia 2/uragan. literally on wikipedia.

the US only developed closed cycle engines after the collapse of the USSR spurred tech transfers from the soviet public sector. if it weren't for years and years of soviet investment, elon, maybe even nasa, would still be fucking around with open cycle engines like little babies

liberal faction still too powerful, xi needs to take a leaf out of putin's book and minecraft some motherfuckers but i don't think he's got it in him

like, it's been nice to see his leftward shift but i get the feeling that bo xilai woulda jumped on taiwan as soon as the SMO kicked off, to say nothing of mao himself

Albion

:ukkk:

honestly don't understand how this can be framed as a bad thing

you'd think it'd be a pretty big L for procurement if you can't even load bombs onto your plane without a specially tooled turbine powered milspec forklift

man's made an entire career out of paraphrasing one chapter of braudel

how are some people so good at this

yup! and i said 'domesticated' but i suspect that people invented sluiced paddies first and the fish just got in of their own accord and stuck around.

need to first get hypersonic cars

afaik people first domesticated carp to keep the rice paddies clear of pests, the fact that they also helped fertilize the crops was an added bonus. i think ducks were also used, might have just been in the village pond and not the paddies themselves though.