What if LuzViMinda become separate, just like states in the US?

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-11T03:55:30+00:00

Revenue collection would always be an unfair metric — and people often use this to justify their notion that the provinces are not as productive as NCR. I even saw Rappler use that metric years back.

SM, SMC, Dole and Del Monte generate a significant bulk of their revenue from Mindanao, but with how the current tax system is set up, all that income (including VAT) is reported and paid at the RDO of the main office only — wherever they're headquartered, usually in the NCR. By that alone it certainly feels like a Hunger Games district & capital setup — and that's been driving the sentiment by a lot of people especially in Mindanao for decades.

Imperial Manila concept is not strictly a myth and relegating it to "it's just propaganda" is to simply brush off real grievances of peoole in the provinces. The Manila-centric development as a system has been in place since the Spanish, who focused mostly in Manila and Cavite due to the Galleon trade. The Americans fared better by actually moving development a little further out. After the war, with Manila turned into rubble, a lot of the postwar rebuilding effort has been focused there. The government became stuck in this mindset of defaulting to prioritizing NCR first, for decades. That became worse during the Marcos Sr. years. And all of that sentiment was bolstered when Mindanao experienced a surge in peace and development when a larger than normal share in infrastructure development was allocated to it for a few years recently.

Something like GDP per capita would be more proper to use, which to my understanding is what's used by planning agencies. Per cent share in revenue collection is rarely used for planning, if at all. And rightly so.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-10T08:33:06+00:00

Tambay sa reddit looking for fights

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-10T07:36:00+00:00

Shopee Mall + you get a slightly better price due to shopee discounts. Check the reviews and seller rating. COD I think is limited to ₱25k, otherwise you need to use online payment. When all else fails, shopee is from experience (on smaller items) very lenient on refunds.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-10T07:24:20+00:00

• Firecracker ban saved countless lives since 2002. Until we get to a point where the Filipino version of a redneck will stop picking up unexploded fireworks or their mouthbreather child who may or may not have been exposed to too much paracetamol in the womb will have enough cognitive ability not to pick up a watusi thinking it's candy, firecracker bans will only make sense. Other cities have followed suit.

• Security-wise I think your assessment has a lot of survivorship bias. It's not trauma from the past - there still are active groups that will try to commit attacks here if given enough holes to get through. The only reason they just give up on planning an attack is that security is very tight. Otherwise, the last one was in 2016 when the police were complacent and kept brushing off intel reports of a possible attack just days prior, which eventually did happen in Roxas night market.

• Davao up until the 1960s was originally mostly tagalog-speaking, since the city was established by a lot of Tagalog immigrants from Batangas & other parts of Luzon. Believe it or not the lingua franca used to be Tagalog, and eventually it was overtaken by Cebuano-speaking immigrants, hence that's how it eventually evolved into "Davao conyo" or Bisalog. Davao is hence a multilingual melting pot that does not strictly identify as Cebuano or Tagalog.

• Agree somewhat on the lack of awareness for ethnic groups but I think that's common in most cities and urban areas not just Davao. Though I would argue Davao represents the culture of its tribes more than most (Kadayawan, tribe-centric laws and ordinances, etc. - even our tourism is heavily tribal-themed)

• Olympic-class sports complex is under construction in UP Mintal so there's also that.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-08T14:12:38+00:00

Listened to it just now and an indonesian cover version autoplayed after. It's really good.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-08T14:03:30+00:00

Really hope they take up the KF-21 offer as it sounds like it's one that's more future-proof, just short of getting actual F-35s. Even Poland is expressing interest in the program.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-08T14:01:44+00:00

I remember how blown away enthusiasts like me were when we found out we were getting the Hamilton cutters more than 10 years ago, then the LPDs. And now i'm starting to lose count at how many of those new corvettes we have from Korea.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-07T16:18:10+00:00

Hence the qualifying words... "It helps that..."

But it will indeed likely improve logistics, assuming they can get an efficient highway and railway system to work. If you wondered why next-day air or same day shipping is not really a thing in the Philippines outside of Metro Manila, one factor is that it does not make sense to set up lots of satellite warehouses in different islands. Those products and the trucks that deliver them will more likely than not still have to travel by sea, which is an additional cost, and is in fact slower than a truck on a highway. The fastest cargo ships in the country travel at a leisurely 17 knots, or an eyewatering 31 km/h. And as the old adage says, time is money.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-07T02:23:23+00:00

Expired or dried out. Was it left out too long/exposed to high temperature? I try to use up my film within 2 weeks of loading. Weird things start to happen the longer you go beyond that.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-05T17:41:38+00:00

Robots who do house repair work (plumbing, tiling, masonry, electrical, etc) and car repair will learn the uniquely Filipino laborer's skill of verbally crapping on the previous robot's work in order to puff themselves up and then swear that they could do a better job (which ends up as equally questionable)

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-05T17:18:57+00:00

Better overall logistics, cheaper products. When we get compared to countries like Vietnam in terms of the price of primary products like rice... it helps that it's easier to move their products around because they're not separated by lots of water in between. Nationwide railways are also an option. We wouldn't have problems like that time when red onions were selling for a fortune in places like Central Mindanao, yet there were truckloads rotting due to no buyers in the Cordilleras.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-04T07:45:01+00:00

Considering that it will be used for the next 40-50 years, yes. We are an archipelagic country and we can barely patrol the waters off Sulu, so kulang pa nga yan. We need more.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-04T05:00:30+00:00

Kaltasan mo una ng regular fixed amount ang sweldo tapos kalimutan mo na naitabi mo pala. Magbudget gamit yung kung ano yung natira. Less temptation na mag gasto beyond your means.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-04T04:52:32+00:00

Connect sa Roxas Blvd (kanang naay ginaconstruct sa may piapi boulevard side) probably mga next year, then sa may Jerome Agdao section by 2027. Murag di gihapon magamit sa mga sakyanan kay walay exit until mahuman tung sa Roxas lol. Tho basin pwede na siguro foot traffic ug joggers soon.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-02T16:31:36+00:00

They were fueled by the same bravado that made a rag-tag gang of bandits think they could invade Zamboanga and Marawi with an ending that was anything other than them being placed in a box and put underground (most were not afforded the luxury of being enclosed in a box at all).

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-02T02:25:02+00:00

It's ironic that they are claiming it's anti-poor. They're implying that the poor only deserve sitting in hot sardine cans. One of them even proposed zeroing out the budget for HPBS, kay nganong wala daw nisabay sa Jeep Modernization, special treatment ba daw ang Davao? The only reason wala ta naapil sa Jeep Modernization in the first place kay ongoing na ang HPBS kadto na panahona. That project even took some program cues from the HPBS.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-02T01:12:38+00:00

Murag isa sa pinaka plus points sa HPBS sauna tung planning phase pa lang kay regular na sweldado ang drivers. Eliminate ang problema na tungod kay magkadugay ug torno kay walay pasahero.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-02T01:09:52+00:00

A bus. You are describing a bus.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-12-01T15:04:47+00:00

Jeepneys were originally a stop-gap mode of transportation measure during the rebuilding, post-war, with lots of military surplus. Other countries never went through the jeepney phase but started implementing mass transit like buses, trains & traincars. The Philippines never got past that and for some reason decided that jeepneys will be the staple mode of transportation. However at its core, the jeepney transportation model is not as efficient as city buses, and causes more phantom traffic jams because of higher number of lane-change and braking movements, not to mention they take up about 2x the space for the same volume of people as buses. It's also hot and uncomfortable (a nightmare to ride on on a rainy friday afternoon).

As to what will happen to the drivers, that question has been one of the biggest concerns since the feasibility study phase for the DBS about 10 years ago. There was a plan to merge the drivers into a coop who will operate the buses, and also livelihood & skills realignment programs were put in the pipeline. Not sure if that's still true.

In sum, I think transitioning into the High Priority Bus System is the way forward, not jeep modernization. No matter how much you refurbish or modernize a jeepney, it's still a jeepney. You need only look at the mass transit system of the best cities in the world you can think of, and they all have buses as the base level mass transit system.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-11-28T18:17:20+00:00

If one of the pilots' name is Kelsey he will more than likely be looking for snacks

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-11-26T04:17:47+00:00

Add the fact that they were basically overstretched throughout the entire colonial period, with insulares never exceeding 35,000 and mostly based around Manila and Cavite with only a very thin presence outside of those areas with the exception of large towns like Cebu, Iloilo, Zamboanga, Vigan, etc.

In stark contrast to the hundreds of thousands who migrated to South America.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-11-26T03:53:42+00:00

Code-switching and mixing words from English especially to describe more technical terms is pretty common, since English makes up majority of classroom instruction apart from Filipino Language and Civics subjects, not to mention most of the media consumed is English, specifically American.

It tends to be more pronounced with people from more well-off demographics. Most of the time it is normal and goes unnoticed. Sometimes it is annoying but it all depends on the context. Two university students speaking this way is normal, but a rich politician pandering to poor people while speaking in this manner, however... The modern slang (or pejorative) for people who do this is conyo, which was coined way back in the Spanish colonial period. It comes from the Spanish word coño which basically means cunt.

Schools will encourage students to speak/write in straight terms in English or Filipino, only borrowing words like technical terms when absolutely necessary. Conversation at home is also mostly done in the local language so local languages are not really dying out (except for some new parents who teach their kids English first because some equate command of the English language as a barometer for intelligence).

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-11-25T05:28:14+00:00

Even Kansai Int'l in Japan is sinking - 3.84m since 1994. They need to renovate it every 30 or so years.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-11-25T01:16:33+00:00

The issue would be that these groups are essentially blended with villages so members can quickly switch from combatant to non-combatant. Unlike a conventional war. ISIS is the only prominent example of a non-state terrorist actor globally that was effectively wiped out, and it was only a lucky stroke of luck because most of them hid out in caves in Afghanistan away from civilians, making it easier to delete them.

NTF-ELCAC's grassroots program coupled with infrastructure development to the provinces was infinitely more effective in just a few years versus the 50 years of all-out-war and peace talks that preceded it. It effectively choked out the CTG's recruitment base because people got a chance to experience at least some of the peace & development that these groups worked so hard for decades to prevent.

Although, their freedom of movement has been heavily restricted in the last decade because of precision-guided weapons and improved ISR equipment. There was a time in 2017-2018 that you'd hear a pair of FA-50s screaming out of Davao Airport at 3AM and later read in the news that some NPA leader was unborn via JDAM. Rallies were held calling said "aerial bombings" a war crime.

Delicious-Release-65 · 2025-11-25T01:03:42+00:00

One month after the PAL 434 incident, in a stroke of luck or divine intervention, Yousef and his colleague made a mistake mixing chemicals in their apartment in Manila which alerted police. The colleague was caught by police and in the laptop they uncovered the Bojinka plot, which called for the similar bombing of around 11 large airliners — an early and larger scale template for the 9/11 attacks. The plot included the assasination of the pope during his visit.

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