Yeah, exactly.
That is what I have been saying all along. Oppression works.
Although that does not really apply to China, for historical reason.
Chairman Mao said it best, "A single spark can start a prairie fire."
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Yeah, exactly.
That is what I have been saying all along. Oppression works.
Although that does not really apply to China, for historical reason.
Chairman Mao said it best, "A single spark can start a prairie fire."
Honestly it’s not whether they’ve been colonized - most of Africa and the Middle East were Western colonies - but whether their modern societies are modeled after the West & infiltrated by Western media & organizations.
Compare North and South Korea. Liberal democracies even failed ones tend to worship the West, communist societies much less so.
Yes, written by evil CCP wumao Noah Feldman AKA PLA Senior General Luo Feiman.
Along with Jakarta, Bangkok, Venice, Lagos & others...
New York City is subsiding by up to 2mm every year under the weight of its own buildings, a recently published study has claimed. The authors warned that this slow descent will be exacerbated by rising sea levels.
More than eight million people live in New York, and the city’s five boroughs are home to more than 1.08 million individual buildings, from single-family houses in Queens to the towering skyscrapers of Downtown Manhattan. In a published in the Earth’s Future journal this month, researchers at the University of Rhode Island calculated that all of these structures combined weigh 1.68 trillion pounds, or 762 million metric tons.
All of this mass is causing the city to subside by between one and two millimeters per year, the researchers claimed. While some of New York’s largest buildings are anchored to the solid bedrock beneath Manhattan, others are built on loosely compacted soil and clay. Some buildings in the latter category are subsiding twice as fast as the former, the scientists explained.
While a subsidence rate of a millimeter per year may be imperceptible to those living in New York, the entire eastern seaboard of the US is subsiding much faster as glacial deposits put down during the last ice age continue to retract. According to earlier research cited by the latest study, this glacial retreat could cause the east coast – including New York – to subside by as much as 1,500mm by 2100.
Combined with a 220mm rise in sea levels recorded around the city since 1950, some of Lower Manhattan, which sits between 1,000mm and 2,000mm above sea level, could be underwater by the end of this century.
More frequent storms and hurricanes, which some scientists attribute to climate change, could also speed up the erosion of soil and damage to buildings, the study noted.
“It’s not something to panic about immediately but there’s this ongoing process that increases the risk of inundation from flooding,” Tom Parsons, a geophysicist at the US Geological Survey, told on Friday. City authorities, he added, “have to get planning for this. If you get repeated exposure to seawater, you can corrode steel and destabilize buildings, which you clearly don’t want. Flooding also kills people, too, which is probably the greatest concern.”
New York is sinking – study
The weight of the Big Apple’s skyscrapers is slowly pushing the city into the sea, American researchers have foundNew York City is subsiding by up to 2mm every year under the weight of its own buildings, a recently published study has claimed. The authors warned that this slow descent will be exacerbated by rising sea levels.
More than eight million people live in New York, and the city’s five boroughs are home to more than 1.08 million individual buildings, from single-family houses in Queens to the towering skyscrapers of Downtown Manhattan. In a published in the Earth’s Future journal this month, researchers at the University of Rhode Island calculated that all of these structures combined weigh 1.68 trillion pounds, or 762 million metric tons.
All of this mass is causing the city to subside by between one and two millimeters per year, the researchers claimed. While some of New York’s largest buildings are anchored to the solid bedrock beneath Manhattan, others are built on loosely compacted soil and clay. Some buildings in the latter category are subsiding twice as fast as the former, the scientists explained.
While a subsidence rate of a millimeter per year may be imperceptible to those living in New York, the entire eastern seaboard of the US is subsiding much faster as glacial deposits put down during the last ice age continue to retract. According to earlier research cited by the latest study, this glacial retreat could cause the east coast – including New York – to subside by as much as 1,500mm by 2100.
Combined with a 220mm rise in sea levels recorded around the city since 1950, some of Lower Manhattan, which sits between 1,000mm and 2,000mm above sea level, could be underwater by the end of this century.
More frequent storms and hurricanes, which some scientists attribute to climate change, could also speed up the erosion of soil and damage to buildings, the study noted.
“It’s not something to panic about immediately but there’s this ongoing process that increases the risk of inundation from flooding,” Tom Parsons, a geophysicist at the US Geological Survey, told on Friday. City authorities, he added, “have to get planning for this. If you get repeated exposure to seawater, you can corrode steel and destabilize buildings, which you clearly don’t want. Flooding also kills people, too, which is probably the greatest concern.”
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The upcoming neo-liberal meltdown..... grab your popcorn
Play territorial and boycott games with China. China can do the same to you. Anyway the G20 is a Western-led initiative. It's no longer productive to attend such events. The last G20 event in India was proof of that.
India's problems are bigger than just China. It had pissed off the Muslim world with Kashmir. Not even Western efforts to slander China on Xinjiang is working at all.
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Lower GDP per capita and lower average wages than the US. You need data for this basic knowledge too? Google it.
Most of this conversation can be summed up by you being an idiot by:
1. Attempting to assert that Mexico and the US have roughly the same average standard of living. It's wrong and if it were not for your other comments, it would be the stupidest thing anyone has posted on this thread.
These aren't exact or without bias, but literally no one except you has ever put Mexico's living standard on par with America's:
2. You attempting to debate about soft power despite failing multiple times to even define it. Wanna try again? As far as I see, this whole thing could stem from your misunderstanding on what constitutes soft and hard power.
Yeah, by common classification, I am right. By an imaginary classification you made used by only you, you can pretend that what's obviously true cannot be proven, in which case you pretend to be right.
This is your definition only. Cite me a source where anyone other than you defines national competency by the abiilty to handle air traffic.
What??? Construction worker's labor rates in the US are well about software engineers outside?? How is that relevent?
Doesn't matter. They came for the money. That's the point.
You can't even define "soft power." Demographics is in your population being able to do work. Work and doing things is hard power. This is why you're confused all the time.
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It is considerably cheaper to live in Mexico than in the United States. While there are more and less expensive cities in Mexico, you’re likely to have an objectively better lifestyle in Mexico than in the U.S. given the same level of resources. Overall consumer prices are nearly 100% lower, not including rent. And if you add rent into the mix, they are almost 140% lower. Rent alone is a whopping 275% lower. Restaurant prices and grocery prices both hover right around 100% lower as well.
However, local purchasing power — meaning, what you can buy with what you can earn locally — is also quite a bit lower than in the U.S. (nearly 165% lower, in fact). So the expats who will fare best are those with incomes from outside of Mexico. These might be U.S. or European retirement pensions, investment returns, passive income from royalties, or remote-work salaries."
LOLOL That's exactly what you do.
Mexican GDP per capita is lower. US pay is higher. That's all there is to it for why Mexicans come here.
5% emigration is enormous, you imbecile.
It's Mexican culture, values and soft power, which is why Americans need armed guards 24/7 by the border to prevent immigrant hordes charging through?
That's not a reply to a survey that said exactly what you wanted to pretend wasn't true. They literally surveryed Mexicans why they want to enter the US. The top answer by far was economic reasons. And you still pretend that Mexico has a better economy than the US and they are moving for American soft power? You really can't shut your mouth and be graceful about being wrong, can you?
Because there is no demonstrable difference. No difference = soft power means soft power is useless. The way you argue, everybody can always say they're gaining soft power everyday but it has absolutely no meaning. And Airport expansion is money, hard power again.
This is diarrhea. The entire paragraph literally means nothing. I asked how you figure, or by what measure you term Kuwait's soft power as lower than Qatar's and your answer is that Kuwait is not Qatar. You're an idiot.
No, do you? Or you just guess soft power everything?
You can say soft power everything but you connect nothing. You can't even define soft power but you say it is responsible for everything like a Christian says God controls all. This is just more diarrhea.
So the German president "warned" US president about climate change and he did what? Fire up all coal plants and "unleash US energy" which is all fossil fuels. German soft power = nothing. US hard power dictates what happens.
You have never provided any evidence for soft power; just show that an event happened, and say soft power caused it. None of your arguments are ever supported.
Not different. All people who side with their own country and people do it from natural instinct.
LOLOL No, you don't know hard power. Your words are valued by your hard power. You can say the same thing but if you are weak, you are ignored. If you are strong, people follow. Words are soft power but they are carried and given meaning only by hard power.
The only evidence here is that you got dropped on your head as a baby. All the Russians who died in battle, all the heros who sacrificed their lives, needn't do so if Russia had only built up and unleashed its full hard power from the very start. And now you are making "soft power" excuses for why a nation known as the "combat race" has retreated almost as much as it advanced against a country a third its own size.
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Another self imposed redline passed. Why do they even bother playing the PR spin every time. We all know it was going to happen sooner or later. Now the question is when did the training start. The British cruise missile were used almost immediately after the announcement. So either NATO operators fired it or they were trained well before the announcement. Didn’t someone mention a rumor pilots were being trained several months ago.
Shanghai is in trouble as well. The Sino-Soviet friendship building has already sunken by a meter and half since construction. There are faults with the structure though.