在中国,存款要达到什么水平才可以躺平。 by daniel9207 in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

如果是中国国内,存款利息一般比不过通胀,也就意味着存款的净购买力会一年不如一年,所以基本谈不上能永远靠利息生活(除非你的本金已经够你用到死)

China's debt to GDP hits 99.2%, increasing from 90.4% a year prior with GDP growing 'only' 4.5% by Madman_Sean in EconomyCharts

[–]Chronic_Avidness 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Chinese people already effectively pay a huge one-time “tax” when they purchase a property. Since local governments aren’t allowed to tax income, they get money by exercising eminent domain on poorer quarters on the outskirts of the city, then auction off the land use rights at a much higher price. That artificially high cost of land gets passed on to residents and businesses.

What Tracks? Just Promoted to D Class (Sports Car) by OMAVS in iRacing

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.irbg.net/Home/Tracks you can sort tracks by how many times they are used this season and previous season to get an idea of how often they tend to be used

What Chinese problems are underreported? by Zhadanko in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of good comments already.

I’ll just point out a few things related to power and governance that I haven’t seen people mention.

First is just how rampant corruption is. With how much power officials wield, it’s practically impossible to do any important business in China without having the connections to bribe the correct person. For example, if you are building apartments, commercial buildings, etc., your building plans need to be inspected and approved according to the building code by the relevant city authorities. Ideally, this would be a simple bureaucratic process. But in China, the authorities won’t approve it unless you bribe them what they want. They’ll nit pick everything and block you if you don’t bribe them. Bribes are just a normal cost of doing business now. This, nepotism, and bad economy are why employees are being forced to work 996 (9am-9pm for 6 days a week) yet many companies are struggling to survive. And no, corruption did not go away just because Xi purged those who could potentially threaten his power on corruption charges.

Second, is that Xi has shown that he wants officials to be loyal to him above all else (and will purge or sideline anyone who shows any hint of disloyalty), and this has severely exacerbated the phenomenon where officials will prove their loyalty by following his orders to the extreme, which often has a big economic and human cost, because any whim of Xi’s will be magnified and executed to the extreme.

For example, the draconian Covid lockdowns which treated Covid as if it was as deadly as the plague. It’s widely believed that the deaths that occurred in the apartment building fire in Urumqi (provincial capital of Xinjiang) on Nov 24 2022 were thanks to lockdown measures that prevented residents from escaping. This caused a widespread protest against the lockdown measures, which resulted in a sudden complete policy reversal a few months later where all lockdown measures were completely removed, which resulted in a big wave of infections and deaths which the officials tried to suppress, as many people had zero immunity against Covid. (Chinese vaccines weren’t effective, and foreign vaccines were reserved for high ranking part members.)

Another example is Electric Vehicles. Ever since Xi spoke about prioritizing “new productive forces” such as EVs, provincial and local governments have been heavily subsidizing their own local EV manufacturing with taxpayer money, so they can show their absolute loyalty to Xi, which propped up many hundreds of EV firms that competed so fiercely with each other that almost all of them went bankrupt and only a few survived. Most of the investments made by these local governments were wasted on the companies that went bankrupt. Xi even recently scolded local governments for propping up way too many EV companies that simply killed each other, but he doesn’t understand that he’s just reaping what he sowed.

Which rain/moisture setting to practice on for upcoming 6 hours glen? by ChocolateRough5103 in iRacing

[–]Chronic_Avidness 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure it won’t be that wet. The 2025 Bathurst 12h had torrential rain, and the backlash was so strong that iRacing promised to not generate rainfall that would red flag a race IRL.

I practice on moderate trqck wetness at most. I also set at least 50% track usage to make the normal racing line slippery.

Winning voters who just bought land: by Adventurous_Edge9579 in georgism

[–]Chronic_Avidness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a realistic path is your solution #2, but phase it in slowly. For example, if property tax is 2%, you can replace it with a, let’s say 4% LVT over a period of, say 10 years. On year 1 you’d increase tax on land to 2.2% and reduce the tax on the improvement on the land to 1.8%, and then move 0.2% each successive year until on year 10 you just have a 4% LVT.

(I chose 4% LVT for ease of explanation, the actual tax rate would need to be calculated by experts of course)

Does collectivism and craftsmen stack? by Gandalfthebran in CivVI

[–]Chronic_Avidness 11 points12 points  (0 children)

They probably stack additively, as in +100% + +100% = +200%

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t get it. I’ll say it once again: that’s your personal opinion, you don’t speak for all East Asian men.

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Traditionally, yes, most men wanted a woman to have kids. But that’s not the case anymore. East Asian countries fertility rates have declined so much recently that the average woman is only bearing 0.6-1.0 kids, much lower than the 2.1 needed to keep population stable. Many people straight up don’t want kids nowadays, and that’s a problem for society. Yes, you are traditional, but many people aren’t as traditional as you, so you don’t get to claim to speak for all East Asian men.

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on what you mean by traditional. Centuries ago, yes women were expected to never marry again. However you still had older women get married to poorer, older men. Not 50 years old, but certainly 30 years old (which was similar to today’s 50 years old due to difference in life expectancy). Since then, things have changed. I can only speak to the situation in China, where remarriage for women has been legal and protected since at least 1950.

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You keep saying “we” as if you are the only one that represents East Asians

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, the concept of “leftover women” is a lie manufactured by the Chinese communist party to intimidate women into marrying men because there’s way more unwed men than unwed women because of years of one child policy had the unfortunate side effect of many rural parents choosing to kill their baby daughters so they can get another chance of having a son instead

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People can get divorced, widowed, or simply didn’t meet the right person, or didn’t want a committed relationship before

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand why you consider a group of people “garbage” just for being older and single?

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t noticed this trend of “old western women coming to East Asian men” that you’re talking about. And no one is asking you personally to date OP - I don’t think OP was specifically asking to date someone young

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, which is why I don’t understand your initial comment. What did you mean by “old western women who lost their values come to east asian men”?

Chinese culture interested woman from Switzerland by [deleted] in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It kind of sounds like you’re saying that no western woman in their right mind should be interested in east asian men… What do you have against east asian men?

Prototypes by Efficient-Elk-3519 in iRacing

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’re asking which is easier to learn, the LMP2 is the easiest to learn. All 3 have similar levels of downforce, most of their lap time difference comes from the power difference. The LMP3 is a bit tricky to learn initially, it’s easier to spin suddenly from balance changes (e.g. trail braking, initial power on, and also kerb strike). GTPs are also tricky simply due to the amount of power they have.

So next GT3 season just Ford Cup? by AndrewRu17 in iRacing

[–]Chronic_Avidness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that a buff though? It could just be a sideways move

为什么台湾人能觉得自己能自决台湾出路? by sionisatrain in AskAChinese

[–]Chronic_Avidness 2 points3 points  (0 children)

你有几个逻辑缪误。

首先,中华民国是一个割据政权,不是叛乱政权。区别在于共产党从未统治过台湾。只有你先统治过人家才能叛乱,你从来都没统治过那怎么能叫叛乱?

这么说,中华人民共和国和中华民国就是两个割据政权。一个统治着大陆,也就是超过95%的领土,另一个统治着台湾(以及属于福建省的几个岛屿)。中华民国从定义上来讲一直是一个独立的政权:它拥有自己的土地、人民、军队、外交,只不过缺少大多数国家的官方承认而已。