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supersnoop

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azn_cyniq said:
In my experience, the top 1% students at the top American universities are roughly 60% Chinese, 10% Jewish, and 30% European/Korean/Indian/Pakistani/Iranian/Arab. There are definitely a lot of brilliant Muslim students, but I agree that Chinese students are truly exceptional. I remember going to my friend's graduation ceremony at a top American university and almost all of the engineering Summa Cum Laude graduates were Chinese.
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My dad attended my engineering graduation (way back) and said “There are a lot of Muslim names, they need more people to build bombs to blow up Americans!”
 
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manqiangrexue said:
Surely, when Muslims were winning wars against Christians, their technology could not have been bad, but technology got way more complicated.
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French are kickout from Africa by Gulf Arabs despite French giving citizenships and marriages. Those privileges are not offered by Gulf Arabs. so where is that complicated French technology to avoid this debacle?. If Gulf Arab did not create division of India by this time there Wealth and Soft Power would be practically unlimited and you wont be discussing this half backed engineering from the likes of Iran and Turkey.
or this one in Georgia. The same Saudi technocrat in pics but 8 to 10 years apart.
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manqiangrexue said:
It's a completely different level of immersion between a man who makes swords or designs catapaults from one who is a rocket science engineer.
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This Tatarstan which is essentially Muslims built best bomber Tu-160M (not participate in Ukraine) and chopper Mi-38 and longest range special mission narrow body Tu-214. and than this Samara based UEC Kuzentov that do the engine work. where it get the fresh blood.
 
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supersnoop said:
My dad attended my engineering graduation (way back) and said “There are a lot of Muslim names, they need more people to build bombs to blow up Americans!”
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The Muslims are actually too good at blowing things up, and not much else. The famous three "
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" were Ottoman empire (Turkey), Safavid empire (Iran), and Mughal empire (Muslim India) were excellent at blowing things up, conquering lots of territory, vast empire. Too bad they didn't have a robust economy (after Europe bypassed them to directly access Eastern markets) and too bad they didn't really cultivate science and technology. So just blowing things up is actually their one-trick pony forte.

Muslim "Gunpowder Empires" at their peak
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Bellum_Romanum said:
The new motto for Boeing has been found: "IF IT'S BOEING, IT AIN'T GOING."


A very straightforward explanation as to what caused the unfortunate delay/scrub to the Starliner mission.

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If Chinese media were as autistic as Western propagandists, they would relate how the failure of Boeing is a symbol of the rot and decadence and decay of Western civilisation and that there is just something fundamentally wrong with western values in general and how americans must sinocise and adopt Chinese Folk Religion and Confucianism for salvation; they would say the failure of Boeing planes is testament to the white americans having lost God's favour and how the senile Biden is indicative of the arthurian legend of the fisher king and how the Land And The king Are One as revealed in the 1982 film 'Excalibur' not unlike how christian zionists and jews refer back to their favoured work in the torah and rabbinic literature.
 
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Minm

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Phead128 said:
Too bad they didn't have a robust economy (after Europe bypassed them to directly access Eastern markets) and too bad they didn't really cultivate science and technology.
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You mean they had great cultural achievements but got overtaken technologically by the west, just like all other countries in the world including Ming/Qing China? It seems a bit rich to criticise others when they developed roughly the same as China did at the time.
 
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Orange juice makers consider using alternative fruit as prices skyrocket​

A global shortage of oranges that sent prices soaring has prompted some orange juice manufacturers to consider turning to alternative fruits to make the breakfast staple.

Global prices for oranges hit $3.68 per pound in April, up about 33% from the $2.76 figure recorded one year ago, according to International Monetary Fund data. That also marks a stunning 210% increase from January 2021, shortly before the inflation crisis began.

"There are three main factors driving the soaring price of orange juice, and it's drought, disease and demand," Ted Jenkin, oXYGen Financial CEO and co-founder, told FOX Business.

The spike stems from declining output in Florida, which is the primary U.S. producer, and disease and extreme weather events in Brazil, which accounts for about 70% of global production.

Orange trees in Brazil have been suffering from a disease known as citrus greening. Once infected, citrus trees produce fruits that are partially green, small, misshapen and bitter. There is no cure, and trees typically die within a few years of infection.

The disease, along with severe heat waves and drought that occurred during the pivotal phases of flowering and early fruit formation, have put Brazil on track to register one of its worst orange harvests in more than three decades, according to a new report published by Fundecitrus and CitrusBR.

In fact, the citrus growers organization forecast that the South American nation is set to produce 232.4 million boxes of oranges in the 2024 to 2025 season — a marked 25% decline when compared with the previous cycle.

"Should this production forecast hold true, this will be the second-smallest crop since 1988-1989," the report said.

On top of that, Florida has been hit by a series of hurricanes as well as the greening disease, which is spread by a tiny insect called the Asian citrus psyllid.

"This is a crisis," Kees Cools, president of the International Fruit and Vegetable Juice Association (IFU), told the Financial Times. "We’ve never seen anything like it, even during the big freezes and big hurricanes."

As a result, orange juice prices are also skyrocketing. A 12-ounce can of frozen orange juice concentrate soared to $4.25 in April, up 41% from just one year ago.

In the past, orange juice makers have avoided long-term shortages by freezing juice stock, which can be preserved and used for up to two years, according to the Financial Times. However, even that frozen stock is dissipating because of a three-year shortage build-up.

Cools said that manufacturers may have to consider using a different fruit, like mandarins, because their trees are more resistant to the greening disease. However, that could be a lengthy process.
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Reminds me of that post about Terry’s Chocolatey Orange. It use to be called Terry’s Chocolate Orange but it no longer contains enough chocolate to be legally called chocolate. So they used the word Chocolatey. Coming soon to US shelves. Orangey Juice.
 
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