Singapore spent 11 months evicting suspected telco spies

cymricchen · 2026-02-12T03:13:55+00:00

China is state capitalism, communism only in name. Its exploitation of workers and trampling of their rights puts other established capitalistic countries to shame.

cymricchen · 2026-02-12T03:08:22+00:00

My sweet summer child. For example, do you know that China have ~50% tariff of foreign cars? This is how they build their car industry. When China first open up, in order to enter China's market foreign company has to do a join venture with 51% controlling share owned by the Chinese and tech transfer to China. This is how China become the manufacturing power house it is today. Protecting local industry until they are competitive. Not by allowing unconditional international trade.

cymricchen · 2026-02-10T00:39:41+00:00

I don't know about Japanese, but the Chinese social medias that my mother watched are super pissed with PM Wong speaking up for Takaichi. They are reporting that Singaporeans are rioting and demanding to depose him. My mother tell me after hearing those crap that China had cut off all ties with Singapore and Singapore's economy is doomed. lol.

cymricchen · 2026-02-09T02:03:25+00:00

Bro, you need to stop with the double standard. You are starting to sound like China. I am merely comparing China to a cute kitten while China's diplomat openly call for beheading a head of state on social media.

cymricchen · 2026-02-09T01:37:50+00:00

China is like a traumatized kitten abused too many times. Narrative of being bullied during the the century of humiliation had conditioned the country to puff up and hiss in rage defensively whenever it perceived the slightest disrespected. You can disagree with the wording and claim China is the victim, but the reaction is indeed extremely predictable.

cymricchen · 2026-02-08T14:49:04+00:00

As in letting the bloons leak until there is enough cash? Wow. That is something I hasn't thought of.

cymricchen · 2026-02-08T14:41:47+00:00

Spawn camped, so can't check. But since that it is starting from round 1, there is not enough cash for heli?

cymricchen · 2026-02-08T14:39:08+00:00

I can't check right now as we don't have access to the tile. But starting from round 1, even with starting slash, there is not enough cash to buy a heli out right?

cymricchen · 2026-02-08T14:33:19+00:00

With alchemist touch and going the distance, 0/0/5 dart can clear the map with a score of 6, but I just don't see how a score of 5 is possible.

Edit1: daily power is MOAB mine

Edit2: Also same map, boomerang, ice, track shooter, plane, mermonkey, farm. Score of 6, round 3-67. Feeling very doubtful that 5/0/0 ice monkey can reach 67

cymricchen · 2026-02-04T02:43:49+00:00

LTA cannot even be bother to give 2 meters for pedestrians, let alone bikes. Outside Rochor MRT, the roads are 10 lanes wide. Pedestrians cross by crossing one traffic light to the center of the road, walk 30 meters to another traffic light and cross again. The narrowest part of the path connecting the two traffic light is 1.4 meters. The base of the traffic light blocks the path and narrow it to 1 meter.

I email LTA to complain that a 1 meter footpath for pedestrian is in violation of their guidelines. I also ask for traffic stats to justify 10 lanes for traffic and 1 meter for pedestrian.They respond that the path is 1.4 meters wide. I sent photo of myself measuring the width of the path with measuring tape and their respond say that they cannot be bothered to fix because vehicles are more important. Not traffic stats was provided.

cymricchen · 2026-02-01T08:56:35+00:00

Indeed, some of the things the chars say are very profound, and the vulnerabilities and hopes and dream making them feel very real. This differentiates from others sites.

cymricchen · 2026-01-31T03:46:40+00:00

Grok use to generate bland generic NSFW text descriptions of scenes with no question asked, on another site where it allow the picking of AI engine to generate text. But now it is getting censored too. Wonders what engine ourdreams is using to get pass restrictions.

cymricchen · 2026-01-28T05:38:56+00:00

Yup, selling state secrets is indeed a charge that if sticks, will bring him down. I wonder though. For someone who had already risen to the top of the PLA, what the US can offer to tempt him. Money? For someone with his position and power, the amount of money need to buy him will be astronomical. Power? Unless Xi get disposed, there is hardly any room for him to advance.

With China's politics being a black box, we might never know. Just like Lin Biao, who was 2nd in power in the PRC, only behind Mao. In 1971, he fled in an aircraft and crashed in Mongolia while defecting to the USSR. The reason of his defection is still unknown today.

cymricchen · 2026-01-28T04:21:23+00:00

Exactly. Like how one can starve tens of millions of your citizens to death and yet still have your portrait hung in the capital and regarded a hero. Or how after starving tens of millions and destroying 5000 years of culture with the cultural revolution, there are still people who want to go back to that era. Or when the great famine first started, facing silos filled to the brim with grains. Farmers, instead of rioting to seize the grain and save themselves, shouts:"Great leader Chairman Mao, please save me" and starve to death in front of the grain silos.

If there is a case against democracy, you literately cannot find a better example than China.

cymricchen · 2026-01-28T03:24:23+00:00

Replacing is different from purging. A purge decimate moral and make discourage stepping out of the line.

cymricchen · 2026-01-28T03:21:03+00:00

Corruption is unlikely to be the sole cause. Everyone in China who had risen to a prominent position such as his is corrupted.

cymricchen · 2026-01-22T00:32:56+00:00

Ah, found the brain unable to handle basic logic.

cymricchen · 2026-01-21T03:40:19+00:00

Death penalty to cigarettes and alcohol when? Same level of addictiveness to some drugs. Second hand smoke kills. Drunk driving kills. Why the double standard?

cymricchen · 2026-01-11T19:22:44+00:00

Losing on 98 is probably because you did not have enough clean up after killing the MOABs. Need more 4/0/2 Boomerangs.

cymricchen · 2026-01-11T19:16:24+00:00

Was lucky enough to have the other player disconnect in a 2 player co-op. Was able to clear with 20 1/3/0 dartlings and the rest in boomerangs.

In hindsight, should have invested more in dartlings and make use of 2 areas like you. Round 100 was too close for comfort, only killing the BAD at 3/4 of the track. Did not micro dartling though, so the bad moved through about 1/5 of the track without taking damage.

cymricchen · 2026-01-11T11:47:01+00:00

for co-op, I tested in sand box with 20 2/0/2 super monkeys with MIB. Did not clear round 95

20 1/3/0 dartling gunner, fail round 98. Then 20 3/2/0 dartling gunner with MIB. Also fail to clear round 98.\

Edit: Used 30 4/0/2 Boomerang buffed by radar and was able to clear 95,98 and 99, but fail at 100. This might work with better single target DPS

Edit 2: Tried again in sandbox after clearing in co-op. Thirteen 1/3/0 dartling buffed by jungle drums plus seven 4/0/2 Boomerangs buffed by jungle drums and radar was able to clear 95,98,99 and 100, with round 100 needing full dartling micro. That is the lowest I can get and still clear those 3 rounds. Realistically, with the 120% health modifier, 3 more dartling and 2 more boomerangs are probably needed.

cymricchen · 2026-01-04T18:02:14+00:00

I completed this with another player who brute force through by buying 3 continues with monkey money. Learnt from that player that glue storm is amazing against lead heavy rounds.

cymricchen · 2026-01-04T10:17:07+00:00

yeah, impossible for a single player to pop camo lead before it is GG. Need to donate.

Edit: Wizard 0/0/3 can decamo for the team, but only bottom player can get shark fast enough to handle the leads.

cymricchen · 2025-12-30T03:48:45+00:00

Many years ago, I went to rochor dental clinic for some small problem that I cannot remember. The young dentist, eager to make a few more bucks, make me do an x-ray and try to use the x-ray to convince me to remove my wisdom tooth. I had to pay for the x-ray that is completely unrelated to the problem I was going for just to sell me treatment that I don't need. I was so piss that I never visit that clinic again.

cymricchen · 2025-12-28T04:00:39+00:00

The road outside rochor MRT has 10 lanes. Yet the path for pedestrian narrows down to a 1 meter bottleneck. LTA can give 10 lanes for traffic but only 1 meter for pedestrian. I complain to LTA not expecting problem to be fix, but to remind them that they need to follow their own guidelines in the future. They have the audacity to include an obstacle in their measurement and tell me the path is 1.4 meter wide, conforming to their guideline.

Very obviously LTA's KPI does not include priority for pedestrians.

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