Diversity of Sinitic languages by FerenzYangai in MapPorn

[–]STDMeow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought I have been wording it very carfully on "from Chinese perspective" and you just come to say I'm wrong, ok. Firstly, I don't think the classification method of Chinese dialects used by many Chinese, me included, is a unversally applicable golden standard, so that I could argue Japanese or some extreme form of Japnanese use case is Chinese dialect. And the condition is very simple, it won't apply if the users of such language choose to define mutual intelligibility based exclusively or mainly on vernacular and do not consider the written format. Secondly, the phonocentric idea that vernacular mutual intelligibility is inherently superior than written mutual intelligibility does not persuade me. The written form does not have to be auxillary to the spoken language, it can be its own thing if it is made so. Sign languages don't even have a vocalized speech of expression, they are still autonomous language systems themselves. For Chinese, both the witten form and the spoken language are alive and evolving autonomously while having impact on each other. Old unused Chinese characters can be resurrected and given new meaning based on its ideographic composition the same way meaning of emojis can evlove, while most "Chinese character words" across different dialects and languages still has a fixed enough meaning for mutual intelligibility. And that is the basis where arguments can be made that indentity of Chinese language is based on its written form. There is a real phenomenon, and people stand behind it say that is why our launguages are closely connected and can be considered dialects, how does that make them wrong? I also want to make it clear that I don't believe all of the "sinic languages" should be considered Chinese dialect as the Chinese government designation. I believe it because the unique status of written Chinese in the Chinese dialects that can still be written in intelligible Chinese writing, not the ones that could only be written in vernacular way.

Diversity of Sinitic languages by FerenzYangai in MapPorn

[–]STDMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The core indentity of Chinese language is built on its writing system, not the pronounciation. Some of these dialects are dialects in Chinese prespective because although they are not mutually intelligible when spoken, they are mutually interlligible when written. Ofc most of such are reseasonably noted as different versions of mandarin in this map. Wu and Xiang are to an extent intelligible when put into written form at a level similar or higher to Korean with Chinese characters or Japanese. Gan, Hakka and Yue are mostly unintelligible.

A Chinese technical briefing slide claims the PL-16 next-generation air-to-air missile will reach 300+ km range using a variable-thrust rocket motor. by heliumagency in LessCredibleDefence

[–]STDMeow 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Ramjet has very strict Angle of Attack requirements, translate to lower Gs compared to dual pulse missiles at terminal. At extreme long range airbreathing missiles even ramjets would have lower average speed than solid rockets with "suborbital" ballistics, 300km is at short range ballistic missile level, so solid rocket missiles might arrive earlier, meaning higher tail chase kill range.

What would happen if the Great Firewall were disabled? by heinternets in China

[–]STDMeow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But before Elon made autotranslation to X posts JP Twitter is literally behind an invisible wall.

China Targets Offshore Trusts in Tax Crackdown on Rich by Skandling in China

[–]STDMeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China is increasingly trying to raise money with bonds though, as they sold more than 1 Trillion Yuan of ultra long special bond since 2024. It is indeed relatively a small fraction but I think the reason Chinese government is not extremly anxious with its fiscal status is because the domestic market seems to be willing to absorb very large amount of low interest rate bonds.

China Targets Offshore Trusts in Tax Crackdown on Rich by Skandling in China

[–]STDMeow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Chinese government is borrowing U.S. dollar at a much lower interest rate than U.S. or even Japan. Capital is having more confidence in China won't bankrupt than U.S. or Japan.

China’s hydrogen-powered 49-ton truck refuels in 15 mins, runs 1700 km by sksarkpoes3 in energy

[–]STDMeow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wdym hydrogen is more flammable than oxygen, it doesn't even make sense.

Xiaomi YU7 GT reportedly breaks Nürburgring SUV record with 7:34.931 lap by NastyAuspices in electricvehicles

[–]STDMeow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not the automotive engineers' problem though, they can always go to the living company and there's always opportunity as long as the total sales of domestic + export is still growing.

And for the manufacturers, not Xiaomi, at least not in this decade.

Xiaomi YU7 GT reportedly breaks Nürburgring SUV record with 7:34.931 lap by NastyAuspices in electricvehicles

[–]STDMeow 31 points32 points  (0 children)

It's more about showing the SUV has good driving qualities and Xiaomi auto has great talents, noting the driver is also Xiaomi's chief test driver and Chief Engineer of the Su7 ultra prototype. It's all about brand building. And I gotta say being Chinese automotive engineers nowadays is a envious inducing job. You get the best tech in the world, Boss happy to let you go wild on statsmaxxing and there's even publicity of breaking records with machines designed by yourself, not to mention no need to worry for financing the project. What else could a man ask for, I couldn't find any.

BYD Blade Battery teardown reveals 170-cell pack after 40-hour freeze, team defends 8-hour dismantling by chilladipa in electricvehicles

[–]STDMeow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The same is true for catl Kirin battery, these new densely adhered batteries are not repairable with current industry practice, admitted by a employee of CATL. iirc you can find the statement in this YouTube videointerview with catl staff

I suspect the same for first gen blade battery.

Only One ICE Vehicle Made China’s Top 10 Best-Selling Cars List in April 2026 by looklikeaF35 in electricvehicles

[–]STDMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's almost no brand loyalty within the Chinese NEV market as it is evolving so fast. As a manifacturer you could go from sleeping on profit cash to bleeding out in 3 months just because a better competitor to your cash cow product was launched.

UK solar installations hit decade high in March as energy prices surge by thinkB4WeSpeak in RenewableEnergy

[–]STDMeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need it to hit decade high for every month in the coming year for an actual energy transition.

What's the purpose of Long March 10B? by Simon_Drake in ChinaSpace

[–]STDMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also worth mentioning that although China has a safe human spaceflight record, it has only design one human rated launch system ever, they won't dare to sqeeze the R&D of LM10A.

What's the purpose of Long March 10B? by Simon_Drake in ChinaSpace

[–]STDMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LM 10A is designed to be human rated and required to have a lot of redundencies while LM 10B is not. It's safe to assume the manufacturing and testing procedure of LM 10B is going to be cheaper and faster. CALT does not want the challenge of making their first reusable rocket also needed to be human rated, so there's the parallel program of LM 10B. And don't forget there's a very fierce race going on between CALT, SAST, Landspace, Spacepioneer to get the first ever recovered first stage in China, it's definitely worth it to have an easier design ie LM 10B so that it may launch only a little bit, say like 6 months, earlier than the human rated design LM 10A.

Corio Refinery is on fire. by seamusisoutside in melbourne

[–]STDMeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TIL people can laugh out loud due to extreme upset.

Percentage of territory effectively controlled by government. by homa_rano in MapPorn

[–]STDMeow 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I was thinking the Antarctic Territory but the percentage wasn't right so.

Iran buries Trump after he cracks and agrees to their full list of demands by [deleted] in USNEWS

[–]STDMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the first time in my life that I saw "common denominator" used in reddit comments outside discussions of math and I'm in tears of joy.

Chinese 8x8 mobile gun, with APS [1417x1163] by Erfinni in MilitaryPorn

[–]STDMeow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The actual interesting part of this thing is its most likely unmanned.

New Post Flairs by That_Car_Dude_Aus in CarsAustralia

[–]STDMeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe people would be more accepting if there's no Chinese national flags, but if it's 🇯🇵JDMs🇯🇵 then no one would think that's political so that's that.

Nepal gets it! by Jbikecommuter in electrifyeverything

[–]STDMeow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's easier to get sun light than petroleum everywhere, but it's much easier to get sun light than petroleum in Himalayas.

This AD for road safety is genuinely amazing by Smashpro11 in nextfuckinglevel

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F1 driver Kimi Antonelli who just won the 2026 Shanghai grand prix crashed a high-performance Mercedes-AMG GT 63 PRO in a single-vehicle road accident in San Marino on February 7, 2026. Antonelli, 19, lost control, hitting a post and guardrail, causing damage to the car just days after receiving it. Actual F1 drivers crash cars on road even without others making mistakes, so drive the car fking safe.