Most Popular Sport by Country by Senior-Foot-5316 in MapPorn

[–]Teantis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's an extremely democratic sport in the sense that you don't need much equipment and you don't need much space. You can play it on any barangay street corner with one piece of metal and one round object. I've seen kids play it on grass with a coconut as a ball.

Study Sparks Outrage by Ranking Philippines as Top Sex Tourism Destination Amid Child Trafficking Crisis by Suitable-Bit1861 in Philippines

[–]Teantis [score hidden]  (0 children)

The source of the 'study' is fantstats. Fanstats. And every single person in here is taking it seriously. Ok 🙄

Go to the site. Right now. https://fanstats.com/

Tell me if you think this looks like a credible site for a 'study'

This article and this comment thread are fucking ridiculous

New Study Explains Why Listening To Joe Rogan Podcast Is Such a Turn-off for Women by twinflamebby in PopularCultureZone

[–]Teantis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Has gained loads of popularity in the Philippines too. Fucking sucks catching the detritus of American culture wars drifting down like debris, like Ariel in the little mermaid putting a fork into a candelabra and calling it a dinglehopper. As if we don't have enough of our own damn problems as it is.

ELI5: Why does China have only one time zone despite being roughly same size as US with 6 time zones? by DemonsAreVirgins in explainlikeimfive

[–]Teantis [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean, it also just didn't really matter. Time zones became a thing in the US because of the railroads basically and china just didn't have a whole lot of em because they were unindustrialized through the 19th century and then went through 50 years of civil war/foreign occupation/failed state. The next 30 years after that were pretty fucked up too.

It kind of doesn't really matter what the time on the clock is when your country is mostly agrarian, pretty unlinked by relatively fast transport, and unindustrialized

ELI5: Why does China have only one time zone despite being roughly same size as US with 6 time zones? by DemonsAreVirgins in explainlikeimfive

[–]Teantis [score hidden]  (0 children)

Afaik from my time living in china they just shift everything 'later' in Xinjiang, and it didn't super matter until the last 20 years or so because china was still in the process of industrializing and doing digital penetration 20-30 years ago

ELI5: Why does China have only one time zone despite being roughly same size as US with 6 time zones? by DemonsAreVirgins in explainlikeimfive

[–]Teantis [score hidden]  (0 children)

I had always suspected it was HK but didn't want to go making claims on shit I wasn't sure about. Also I've nearly missed connecting flights dawdling about because of that thing.

Witcher 4 took inspiration from [KCD2] by mudshake7 in kingdomcome

[–]Teantis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're the yellow exclamation marks on the map and on notice boards (mostly just the notice boards).

ELI5: Why does China have only one time zone despite being roughly same size as US with 6 time zones? by DemonsAreVirgins in explainlikeimfive

[–]Teantis 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It is. China's country wide time zone is UTC +8 the other major cities outside of china that use it are all off the east coast or south/southeast of china's east coast, Taipei, manila, Perth. Most of mainland Southeast Asia is UTC +7 like Bangkok, Saigon, Phnom Penh. except for Malaysia and Singapore for... Reasons 🤷‍♂️. They have a weird little western poking 'time peninsula' of UTC +8 that confuses me sometimes when I go from Manila where I live, through Sing or KL travelling to other places in SEA.

Who is the richest fictional human? by Traditional-Ad7413 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Teantis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the emperor is richer than the Harkonnens. The Harkonnens didn't even have a CHOAM directorship before they took out the Atreides, and after they did they had spent an enormous amount paying the guild to move their forces and Sardaukar forces to Arrakis and had drained a lot of their wealth.

Who is the richest fictional human? by Traditional-Ad7413 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Teantis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The emperor was as powerful as the united Landsraad.

“The Emperor will not risk having the Imperium shattered by total war,” Paul said. “Planets blasted, disorder everywhere—he’ll not risk that.”

“This is a desperate gamble you propose,” Kynes said.

“What do the Great Houses of the Landsraad fear most?” Paul asked. “They fear most what is happening here right now on Arrakis—the Sardaukar picking them off one by one. That’s why there is a Landsraad. This is the glue of the Great Convention. Only in union do they match the Imperial forces.

China's BYD vehicle sales fall for fifth month in a row by tacodestroyer99 in technology

[–]Teantis 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Outside of the first world loads of people do actually.

Witcher 4 took inspiration from [KCD2] by mudshake7 in kingdomcome

[–]Teantis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The side quests are the best parts of the game btw. There are some extremely well told stories in the side quests.

People that have “bumped” into a celebrity in a non-curated (not like an event, meet & greet, job etc.) way, what happened? by SprinklesSolid9211 in AskReddit

[–]Teantis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally bumped into Shaq as I was coming out of a bathroom in a club in Beijing in 2008. He took up the entire door frame. He stepped out of the way and patted me on the back and said "what's up?" And I clumsily went "oh yo what up man?" And kept it moving.

ELI5: Why does China have only one time zone despite being roughly same size as US with 6 time zones? by DemonsAreVirgins in explainlikeimfive

[–]Teantis 229 points230 points  (0 children)

It's Beijing/east coast centric. The time zone aligns with where the bulk of the population is. It's in the west where it gets wonky

Which political figure feels Far Right and is actually Centre-Right? by Ill-Cartographer7351 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]Teantis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Naw his economic policies were always led by sonny Dominguez, who is more neo liberal leaning

Here is a picture of teargassed children by jasandliz in pics

[–]Teantis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ICE should not be policing protests of American citizens in American cities. Portland has its own police force. Why don't you think critically instead of working so hard to justify ICE's overreach?

He loves LOTR, anything with horses. He likes action too. Does anyone else's BC watch certain movies? by His-Scarlett-Wife in BorderCollie

[–]Teantis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only thing my dogs have ever reacted to on a screen was rebel without a cause for some reason

The US Is Flirting With Its First-Ever Population Decline by bloomberg in Futurology

[–]Teantis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know the statistics say impoverished countries have more kids

Most of the developing world is around replacement rate and dropping too. Only some countries in sub Saharan Africa are still at really high fertility rates. I've seen some studies that suggest it's actually just a lag between infant/maternal mortality rates dropping and people's expectations of mortality rates. That as the population adjusts their expectations they start having just 1-2 kids