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What about me...Deino, Ficker22, if you guys are running low, we may need to arrange a SDF rescue package to be flown in...
Germans warned of toilet paper shortage
The energy crisis could severely affect production, an industry body warns
The crisis on the European gas market could lead to reduced production of toilet paper in Germany, according to Martin Krengel, chairman of the nation’s paper industry association, Die Papierindustrie.
“We are particularly dependent on gas for the production of tissue paper. Without it, we will no longer be able to provide security of supply,” Krengel said in a statement published on Thursday.
According to data provided by Die Papierindustrie, each German citizen uses an average of 134 rolls of toilet paper per year. “In the current energy crisis, our top priority is to provide people with this important commodity,” Krengel stressed.
Last month, the Bavarian Paper Association warned that operating paper plants may become unprofitable if they are forced to work at reduced capacity due to natural gas shortages.
Germany and the EU as a whole have recently seen a significant reduction in natural gas supplies from Russia, leading to numerous warnings of possible industrial shutdowns.
What this stupid bit@h does, it will not make a difference to the collapse of the USA and let’s see if she has the guts to speak like this then. I can guarantee that her life is basically either live in The collapsing west with all the food and energy shortages that is heading there way or be hunted down like a pig for trial should she try to seek refugee in the global south. Either way, China will make this fool pay dearly for mocking China in the coming days
Sacrifices required for AR right now is already not worth it despite PLA having "massive advantage". Mainland is more important than Taiwan. 2030 may or may not be better. Entire region is arming up.
Technology has advanced to a point that one can strike anybody, anywhere, at anytime. If you are out in the open you are dead. "War of the future will be dirty, urban, and underground." Taiwan would be smart to hid a significant portion of its assets underground. Grind it out. Neutralize PLA's "overwhelming fire power". They are already training for that. The war is lost if China has to fight a protracted war.
Never assume your enemy will just surrender (unless you are Russia).
Wrap the shipment in oil paper!Deino, Ficker22, if you guys are running low, we may need to arrange a SDF rescue package to be flown in...
Germans warned of toilet paper shortage
The energy crisis could severely affect production, an industry body warns
The crisis on the European gas market could lead to reduced production of toilet paper in Germany, according to Martin Krengel, chairman of the nation’s paper industry association, Die Papierindustrie.
“We are particularly dependent on gas for the production of tissue paper. Without it, we will no longer be able to provide security of supply,” Krengel said in a statement published on Thursday.
According to data provided by Die Papierindustrie, each German citizen uses an average of 134 rolls of toilet paper per year. “In the current energy crisis, our top priority is to provide people with this important commodity,” Krengel stressed.
Last month, the Bavarian Paper Association warned that operating paper plants may become unprofitable if they are forced to work at reduced capacity due to natural gas shortages.
Germany and the EU as a whole have recently seen a significant reduction in natural gas supplies from Russia, leading to numerous warnings of possible industrial shutdowns.
The sacrifices for an AR will be worth it in any scenario. Will the US let the PLA sends thousands of troops to fortified the Mexican border? Ask yourself that and you already know the answer. This is an existential threat and the belief that it will hurt the mainland too much to be worth it is nonsensical.
Do you think Russia should have not invaded Ukraine because it was not worth it despite it being a existential threat from NATO to destroy Russia? Do you think the US won’t react if China or Russia started building huge bases in Canada or Mexico?
The only scearnio where the US is pleased is where China is completely destroyed, split apart, and suppressed. There is no “it’s not worth it” when the other side is calling to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls.
After winter it will be cheaper to use 10 euro bills as toilet paper.
I'm curious if Germans are aware of this Chinese meme tangentially about them. Strap yourself in as I explain this whole thing.
Since ancient times Chinese society could be divided into three strata:
The ruling class (王): the emperor, the imperial household, ministers and other such near the center of power
: highly educated upper class
The people (民): everyone else
In their constant Game of Throne with the ruling class and among themselves the scholar-official class have always tried to position themselves as "the voice of the people". One mechanism they do this is a thing called "法先王" which can be translated to something like "follow the ways of ancient wise kings". They would voice social problems encounter by the common people as deviation by the ruling class from supposed ancient examples. This is not intended to be a rigorous historical fact finding despite the name, rather the "ancient wise kings" are more like imaginary utopia rather than actual workable historical solutions to new problems.
When China was defeated in 1840 in the First Opium War the scholar-official of that age realized they have to change their marketing, as the defeat of China evidently showed superiority of foreigners over Chinese tradition. Since then "法先王" has been modified to "法外国" or "follow the ways of foreigners".
The success of Xinhai Revolution greatly weakened the previous clear delineation between the three classes, and CPC's rule only furthered this. CPC's vision for China is a classless society made up of a single class called "人民“ or just The People. Hence the party slogan "为人民服务" or "Serve the People". Nevertheless even CPC cannot transform a 5000 year old social system in just a few decades and shadows of the former three classes still exist in China.
Today's counterpart to historical scholar-official are known as "公知" or "public intellectuals". They still followed the "法外国" tradition started by their fore bearers. Just as "法先王" was based on imaginary utopia so is "法外国" of today. Even as a child I felt that when public intellectuals say things like "bottom of Tokyo Bay is covered by a layer of coal deliberately bought by the Japanese government and dumped there so when there's an energy crisis their children could dig it up to save themselves, we should be forward thinking like them" it sounded pretty questionable.
Recent years two particular example of "法外国" have become memes due to how publicly they were disproven by facts:
1. The US have dozens of hospital ships already built and can redeploy them to anywhere along their coast to deal with medical emergencies like COVID-19, therefore there's nothing to be proud of being able to build those two hospitals in days
2. Germans are so rigorous and responsible that when Qingdao government tried to perform maintenance on their drainage system and could not find suitable replacement parts, they contacted Germany for help and the German said "don't worry, we thought ahead about this. Just dig around and you will find within 3m of the drainage pipe a package of replacement parts in perfect condition preserved by oil paper".
We all saw what happened in New York in 2020 with that first one, and the 2nd one received a huge amount of ridicule last year when all those flooding in Germany happened.
As people of China become better connected to the world via internet and traveling "法外国" will increasingly become untenable. I think however public intellectuals won't disappear entirely. Rather much like 1840 they will just invent a new paradigm to replace "法外国", possibly returning to "法先王" again.