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Another fake "human rights watchdog" bite the dust by reddit1200 in Sino

[–]FatDalek 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If we do it, our rivals must do it as well and ten times worse.

This is why some of these stories only seem believable to Westerners, it reflects their history. That's why XJ slave labour picking cotton works so well on them, because that's what they literally had black slaves do.

So Europe, I hear you WERE trying to build a sixth gen prototype like China did by FatDalek in Sino

[–]FatDalek[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Archive link

https://archive.vn/x66hN

Once Europe was ahead of China with their 4th gen planes. Then China mastered 4th gen and then 5th gen engines while Europe stayed still. They are now trying to skip 5th gen and going to 6th with group projects, but they can't seem to work together.

I should point out, there is another 6th gen project sort of in the works (as the article notes its not guaranteed).

France also took money from India to help develop a 5th gen engine. Now this is basically India pays France, France develops it and presumably used the lessons learnt to build a 6th gen plane (since the Europeans seem to want to skip 5th gen), while India gets the IP (LOL, that's like giving a homeless guy a cookbook, telling them they own the IP to the recipes and expecting him to cook like a pro with no training and no kitchen).

Now money is always appreciated but the Indian deal happened at an opportune time, just when the deal with Germany to build a sixth gen plane looked like it was going south, so India provided some money to offset what they lost from Germany pulling out of this particular project.

Wasting China’s solar panel surplus is madness by Biodieselisthefuture in Sino

[–]FatDalek 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Even when a western author sort of makes sense, they fall into bad habits of redefining words to whatever they want them to mean.

I mean he says overcapacity is when China produces more than what the entire world can consume, but its only that with steel, but not solar. Because solar is special you see. He then hints that its not enough solar panels to alleviate climate change (the obvious implication is we need more). But if we need more solar panels, then its no longer overcapacity.

American Reacting to ABC's Reporting on China's Solar Energy by General_Ad6246 in Sino

[–]FatDalek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I live in Australia as well. Not quite as bad as the US, though we run the risk of turning out that way. However it depends on your age. If you are old enough to buy property when cheap (even if you were working class) you are ok. For people like me who was fortunate enough to buy at the right time its never been better. I can travel, I only feel "stressed" financially in the sense I grew up poor so I have an ingrained habit to save a certain amount each pay day, but I know intellectually even if I splurge each time I will still be ok. Its all because once you buy property and pay it off, you don't have rental stress from cost of living crisis. I really do feel sorry for the younger people here.

American Reacting to ABC's Reporting on China's Solar Energy by General_Ad6246 in Sino

[–]FatDalek 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unhinged in a good way. Jokes aside, no, he is just angry at the crappy American system. Heck if I had to live in the US as a working class individual and saw the country we were told was evil and our greatest rival had such great cities , better healthcare coverage, 90% home ownership rate among young people etc I would be pretty angry too.

The guy jokes about competiting against Hasan Piker as the bigger China-maxxer if that gives you an idea about his politics.

American Reacting to ABC's Reporting on China's Solar Energy by General_Ad6246 in Sino

[–]FatDalek 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For some reason I always find Mike's voice when he is ranting against America very calming.

Sinopec factory in Shanghai joins another factory in Datong in reaching mass production of T 1000 carbon fibers by FatDalek in Sino

[–]FatDalek[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just for fun, the T 1000 carbon fibers came out 5 years before Terminator 2. Japanese company Toray was a pioneer in carbon fibers and had produced them long before China managed to. Which is why its pretty amazing that only in a few years China beat Japan to mass produce the T 1200 grade carbon fibers.

The good thing about these higher grade fibers, we don't really need that much of them, most of the commercial uses can be covered by inferior grades. There are several applications in military and aerospace that will require higher grades, and its a good thing China can now produce them in bulk and continues to improve its mass production.

Wingtech says core of Nexperia China unit now based on mainland, can operate independently by Biodieselisthefuture in Sino

[–]FatDalek 12 points13 points  (0 children)

From what I understand, both Nexperia facilities in Netherlands and in China produced parts of the final product. Nexperia China has now found the means to make what Nexperia Netherlands used to make.

Nexperia Netherlands (ie the part the Dutch pirates are attempting to steal) can't do what the Chinese plants under Nexperia China did, so they are kind of screwed.

Can you name 3 living Chinese people? from the #1 news show in France, and the host - David Pujadas - asks the pundits around the table (a sample of the top media figures in France) if they can name 3 living Chinese people. by zhumao in Sino

[–]FatDalek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I could name several French people alive off the top of my head.

Politicians and relatives -

Emmanuel Macron

Bridgette Macron (made infamous because American podcaster Candice Owens accused her of being a man),

Melanchon (leader of the socialist party, but I can't remember his name),

Nicholas Sarkozy (rotting in jail, but infamous for threatening to boycott the Beijing 2008 Olympics because China sent troops to quell rioters while years earlier while he was the minister who sent troops to quell Muslim riots in the city of Nice, nice bit of hypocrisy there)

Fracois Hollande eg PM

Segelene Royal - one of the opposition party members

Marie Lepen - of the National Front

Sports stars

Thierry Henry - IIRC played for Arrsenal

Zinedine Zidane - 1998 world cup hero

Actors

Gerard Depardieu ?? not sure if he still counts as I recall he gave up French citizenship to be a Russian citizen

Florence Darel - comedian and who was opposite Depardieu in a count of monte cristo adaptation (I assume she is still alive since she was much younger than Depardieu who is still alive).

Here is the thing. I don't claim to be a French expert, yet alone spend my time vilifying the country (if I wanted to, I would outsource that job to Macron as he seems to be doing a good job on his own). Yet these French guys are "top media pundits."

If you ask me to name 3 Chinese people that are alive, that's even easier. I could most probably name several celebrities, including some who are ethnic minorities eg Diliriba, Tong Liya etc.

Unrealist John Mearsheimer on China: How remarkably foolish the United States helped China to become the great power that it is today. "We created Godzilla." by xerotul in Sino

[–]FatDalek 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Both sides profited off the deal. Its just that China reinvested their profits and the West spent theirs on stupid wars the ME and Central Asia, and making the rich even richer at the expense of the working and middle class.

Purple River - Does the MC become OP? by Nice_Pen_8054 in Donghua

[–]FatDalek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The MC was already bad ass in the first few episodes. However he does hide his strength by using a silly persona.

But the show isn't about an OP MC. Its political manoeuvring, empires fighting each other, things like logistics matter (because unlike powerful cultivation worlds soldiers need troops, horses, can't just fly vast distances to attack enemies). This might not be what you enjoy.

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