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Overbom

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Hyper said:
He is a virus that must be stopped. He will infect other countries.
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For sure he can't infect China though. If local Jack Ma got put down, foreigner Elon who knows sht about China will get chopped off the moment he moves his mouth to say any bs


Hyper said:
This forums opinion will only turn on Musk when it comes out that he has bribed some politician in Asia. Russian oligarchs brought their corruption to London, switzerland and UAE. Musk will not doubt try to bring it to Asia.
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Don't care. As long as he can't bring his virus to China, he can do whatever he likes. Bonus points when I see him in public studying for his Xi Thought exams
 
manqiangrexue

manqiangrexue

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GulfLander said:
" Medical professionals across Taiwan are urging the public, especially seniors, to stay warm as a cold wave grips the country.

Frigid temperatures were recorded across Taiwan over the weekend, with parts of Greater Taipei dropping below 6 degrees Celsius on Saturday night. Emergency services reported 78 deaths among individuals aged 54 to 89 on Saturday due to the cold snap, per TVBS.[...]"
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"Meteorologist Chang Cheng-chuan (張承傳) of the
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said the cold wave peaked early Sunday morning but will persist through Monday. Temperatures may drop to around 10 degrees Celsius in central Taiwan and as low as 7 or 8 degrees in the north."

WTF? How did they die from this? This is very comfortable weather for a hoodie or light jacket. You'd have to be naked standing outside in the rain to even seriously suffer.
 
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manqiangrexue said:
"Meteorologist Chang Cheng-chuan (張承傳) of the
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said the cold wave peaked early Sunday morning but will persist through Monday. Temperatures may drop to around 10 degrees Celsius in central Taiwan and as low as 7 or 8 degrees in the north."

WTF? How did they die from this? This is very comfortable weather for a hoodie or light jacket. You'd have to be naked standing outside in the rain to even seriously suffer.
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There was a cold snap in HK maybe 15 or 20 years ago that dropped to 4 degrees C.
Maybe around half a dozen people died. They simply do not have any warm clothes or blankets.
We were afraid for my grandmother who lived alone there.
It is especially a danger for older people as noted in other articles posted here. They go to sleep and they might not react to warm themselves.
 
Lethe

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Lethe said:
I would probably put it in more qualified and convoluted terms but, broadly speaking: yes. Australia is characterised by a combination of arrogance and anxiety. On some level we believe that we have inherited from our British forebears and American cousins both the right and duty to run the world, as shared torchbearers of the Anglo-American enlightenment that has discovered the ideal configurations of cultural, economic, and political life, a mythology that shares most of the characteristics of a religion. On the other hand, we are acutely conscious of our marginal and peripheral role in world affairs, and buried deep in the Anglo-Australian psyche is knowledge of the injustices by which our nation was established atop the ruins of its indigenous inhabitants, contributing to the feeling of being a precarious Anglo outpost in Asia rather than of Asia. Collectively, these impulses manifest in a me-too-ism whereby we seek to ingratiate ourselves with first the UK and now the USA for our own aggrandizement and reassurance. We seek to maintain a "sphere of influence" amongst the small island nations of the Pacific in much the same way as the United States does over the Western Hemisphere, both as a quasi-colonial power in our own right and as Washington's
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. Yet nations and peoples are complex beasts and the wheels of history are always turning. The immovable certainties of today may become the quaint historical curiosities of tomorrow.
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Obviously people do not come to SDF to read about Australia, but there appears to be some level of interest in this subject. For those who are interested,
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recent (January) discussion with Hugh White goes a little way into exploring the connection between these cultural narratives and our perceptions of China, how they differ from those of other nations in the Asia-Pacific region, and our alignment with the United States. I particularly appreciated the long-term link White draws between the potential China-induced retreat of US hegemonic power from the Asia-Pacific, and the potentially uncomfortable (for Australia) rise of both India and Indonesia in the decades to come, all of which connects to our basic cultural anxiety of being an Anglo outpost in Asia rather than of Asia.


(This thumbnail is very crude and misrepresents what is an altogether measured discussion. I guess it's all part of the Youtube engagement game, but it sucks nonetheless. Early in the video, White describes the US as a relatively benign hegemon, including with reference to its behaviour in the Western Hemisphere. That's a highly questionable assertion, but I suggest pushing past it.)
 
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