Gucci_Minh [he/him]

Well the network of spies they had back in the day were all put in the blender and now no one wants to take the risk, also you could find plenty of hanjian in China back then but life is a whole lot better now.

The real threat is letting the Shanghai liberal clique take over and do a Gorby + Yeltsin, you wanna find CIA spies you look there first.

Oh nah it’s the 350ml or 500ml bottles, so not as good of a value, but I’m sure it tastes a lot better.

They do stock that stuff but usually its some belgian monastery beer that costs 50RMB a bottle.

for reasons i can’t put my finger on

Communists tend to have principles. We die on some really dumb hills sometimes, but liberals will concede on everything all the time.

Yeah but within range to use a hellfire is within range of a lot of SHORAD systems that you were previously impervious to. I don’t know how this is somehow better than the current list of guided bombs and cruise missiles it has access to. Maybe its just because its cheap and they have a lot of them.

Any idea how hellfires fit into F-35 doctrine? What’s the point of all the stealth and standoff range weapons if you need to get into CAS range to use hellfires?

I think its fine to call it a thermobaric bomb? Its got improved persistence and yield but the basic mechanics are the same.

Its possible that since my exposure to traditional characters has mostly been in contexts where they must be aesthetically pleasing that they become associated with that in general. You do have some good examples of unnecessary clutter though funny you bring up 廣, since I always felt the removal of the phonetic element made it lose its charm when simplifying, similarly, the simplification of the metal (釒) radical to 钅 sure saved me a lot of effort in school but I did like symmetry of “gold”.

Most Mainland Chinese people still know how to use traditional characters for historical or aesthetic/artistic purposes. There’s a bit of a complex from some Taiwanese and HK elitists who think China is trying to impose simplified on everybody or that people who use simplified are dumb, but there really is no “right” script. Traditional characters definitely look more aesthetically pleasing than their simplified counterparts, but also making it easier for people to gain and maintain literacy is much more important than some notion of tradition.

It would probably be better for my health

Wait shit where’s the sorghum coming from now, how am I supposed to survive without cheap baijiu.

Turns out if you actually built factories and refineries and mines etc that even if money line go down the factories are still there, the refineries are still there, and the minerals are still in the ground to be exploited.

Compare this to the western economies which are 80% based on money laundering and embezzlement.

DPRK learning from the ancient Chinese tradition of massive screen on side of building.

isn’t a hard choice

You’d think so, but you may be underestimating just how racist europeans can be. The Greenlandic Inuit probably don’t mind, but Denmark and the EU sure might.

Yep, self sufficiency in commercial airliners is still some years away, but the benefit of being a state owned company is that its more important to build the infrastructure and institutional knowledge rather than focus purely on cost. With the kinks slowly being worked out in the WS-15/WS-20, we’ll see those techs make their way over to civilian applications soon™️. China doing import substitution to develop its own industries has proven to be extremely effective in the long term even if there’s an additional cost in the short term.

Metal storm but it actually works

Yeah lol Mao’s Hunan dialect is heavy. I always thought he kinda spoke Beijing Mandarin for some reason, then I saw the video of the proclamation of the PRC and it was jarring to hear the Hunanese come out. And yes, I’m a northeastern Mandarin speaker and can understand him (mostly) fine, but I do have to pay more attention to context since his tones are different. I think depending on your particular region in China you grew up in it may be hard without subs.

Americans love fantasizing about the mass murder of innocent civilians of geopolitical rivals. I think its a response to their own decline and increasing impotence, lashing out while they still can.

Effective in cases where you can also jam the FPV drones to fuck up the camera feed and make them harder to pilot, then you have to get lucky and hope it hits an ERA block or cage. If its a fiber optic drone, then you’re fucked as long as the operator is good at their job, since a hit to the engine bay is a mobility kill and now the crew has to abandon the tank or risk getting followed up on. Still a good idea to put them on, its a numbers game and sometimes you’ll get lucky.