|
Cefte posted:Does domestically manufactured American honey proclaim loudly on its label that it's been ultra-filtered? Because that's a pretty strong piece of evidence that it's been adulterated, since adulteration shifts the pollen count within the liquid, which can't be measured after filtration. Not the stuff I have, but the stuff I have is definitely no-pollen honey. Well, the Inter-American Foods bear-shaped plastic bottle honey anyway. Not the giant mason jar full of honey with some of the wax still in it, pretty sure that's fine.
|
#
¿
Apr 30, 2013 22:53
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 17, 2024 12:39 |
|
|
cafel posted:Well guess that means the administration is going to raise the number of petitioners required for a response yet again. I thought it was a neat system when it was announced, but I've never heard any petition addressed which wasn't the result of internet humor or internet stupidity. It's all bullshit designed to feed in to the whole social media slacktivism thing anyway, even when used as envisioned. Why actually get involved in the political process or, you know, learn anything when you can just upvote random poo poo on the internet and then pat yourself on the back for 'doing something'? Or, more realistically, when you can  something funny.
|
|
#
¿
May 8, 2013 10:05
|
|
|
GuestBob posted:Herp derp. Natural human sex ratio at birth is pretty much 1:1. Current estimated average for the world sex ratio at birth is 107 boys to 100 girls.
|
|
#
¿
May 9, 2013 09:40
|
|
|
GuestBob posted:Yeah I get that much, what I was wondering was whether, after a child of one gender has been born, is it slightly more likely for subsequent children to be of the same gender. Not naturally. It's basically a coinflip. Intuitively, we think, well if the ratio of heads to tails is 1:1 and we just flipped heads, the next one is more likely to be tails. This is not the case. Previous outcomes don't have any impact on future ones, and AFAIK there haven't been any studies to show the human body to automatically stack the deck based on past outcomes, either. So, without intervention, over the long term and averaged across the entire population of the planet, it's 1:1. In the 'short' term some people get all daughters some get all sons, some get a mix. It requires human intervention of some variety to noticeably tweak the ratio, and interventions that don't specifically target one outcome or the other won't noticeably alter the ratio. To get noticeable ratio changes requires targeted intervention of some sort or another. I.E.: If you only count coinflips that land in your hand as being valid, it won't change the heads-versus-tails results.
|
|
#
¿
May 9, 2013 10:42
|
|
|
VideoTapir posted:It isn't "pretty much 1:1." Meh. Close enough for 5 minutes of midnight wikipedia browsing. The point I was getting at is that anything much further off than 1.07:1 is probably being deliberately selected for, and refuting the gambler's fallacy thinking that the second-if-the-first-is-a-girl policy would lead to 1.5:1 all on its own.
|
|
#
¿
May 9, 2013 22:30
|
|
|
sincx posted:Lol, it's like something on newgrounds from 2001 Wouldn't be surprised if it WAS on Newgrounds in 2001, just minus the Diaoyu-themed start screen.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 6, 2013 08:43
|
|
|
Fojar38 posted:Basically, we're not going to see Real Life Call of Duty here, although I would bet that when Western developers and production studios grow more ballsy we'll probably see fictionalized versions of such a war more frequently. Doubt it, since such a game wouldn't be able to be sold in China.  A proxy war of some sort in Africa is somewhat plausible, though. Possibly in the form of another civil war but with the sides funded and equipped by the US and China under the table?
|
|
#
¿
Jul 27, 2013 02:16
|
|
|
Vladimir Putin posted:I honestly wouldn't take any chances with my kids and I don't blame Chinese parents who would be concerned. Also not everybody can breast feed, for example if you had a C section. ...You can totally breastfeed after a c-section. Apparently it sucks and is hard, but it's not like it's impossibly more difficult than ~the natural way~.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 28, 2013 04:01
|
|
|
caberham posted:China goons know this, but each time I go back to the mainland and see street making GBS threads or peeing, I just whip out my camera and take pictures. Yes, it's vulgar behaviour and sometimes the parents get mad at me. I'm sick and tired of looking the other way when I see street shitters. Heck this country is always looking the other way, maybe that's why it's so freaking corrupt and disorderly. Somehow I get the feeling that such a tumblr would attract a very different audience rather than the one you're hoping for.  
hailthefish fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Aug 30, 2013 |
|
#
¿
Aug 30, 2013 11:20
|
|
6 year olds just dropping their pants out of the blue is not cool
|
VideoTapir posted:This is also the best excuse for why the Chinese bubble will never stop. People buy houses with cash, so when everyone runs out of cash, they can just start taking loans. Problem solved. We need  but for economics and finance.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 28, 2013 10:40
|
|
|
Bloodnose posted:The government is really making GBS threads its pants. This was just posted an hour ago: I imagine the 28 views accumulated since then are all readers of this thread.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 5, 2013 13:40
|
|
|
Dux Supremus posted:This is a pretty good point, and frankly PLAN's carrier ops are going to be poo poo for a long time based on USN's experience. I think you've stumbled upon their solution for their demographic imbalance.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 24, 2014 09:58
|
|
|
Dr.Zeppelin posted:And Lockheed Martin stuck an accelerometer on a probe upside down so the parachute didn't deploy and its samples were lost on re-entry. At least it was only the sample return accelerometer that was backwards and not the angular velocity sensors for first stage guidance. 
|
|
#
¿
Jan 28, 2014 00:26
|
|
|
It is for China.
|
|
#
¿
May 4, 2014 02:45
|
|
|
WarpedNaba posted:So Chinese life is filled with hardship, struggle and pain to the point that the rest of the world is relatively coasting along, but it's still the product of a superior and more sophisticated society? Well, you see, it WOULD be so much better, China would be the richest and most powerful country, as the product of the superior and sophisticated society that's been around the longest, except those drat western imperialists sabotaged China's future during the century of humiliation, obviously.  
|
|
#
¿
May 4, 2014 20:12
|
|
|
Not saying it's invented out of whole cloth, but the assumption that if the West had just left Qing Dynasty China alone long enough, China would rule the world is.. optimistic. The Century of Humiliation sucked poo poo for China and they got hosed over pretty hard, but they hosed themselves pretty hard too between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which some might argue would never have happened without Western intervention but who the hell knows what -would- have happened and trying to make arguments based on 'what should have been' is silly, and especially silly to argue from a default standpoint of 'everything wrong with the world is solely and completely the fault of white people' but this is D&D after all.
|
|
#
¿
May 4, 2014 20:21
|
|
|
Literally no one has said the west did nothing wrong.
|
|
#
¿
May 5, 2014 05:45
|
|
|
It works better if you read the whole post hth
|
|
#
¿
May 5, 2014 06:08
|
|
|
Ooh, I want a Yatch!
|
|
#
¿
Jun 6, 2014 09:23
|
|
|
The bottom one is frogs obliviously chillaxing in a pleasantly warm pot while evil communists stoke the fire with wood labeled 'One Country Two Systems' and I can't read anything else.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 10, 2014 20:18
|
|
|
Badger of Basra posted:Speaking of blockades, does People's Liberation Army Navy sound as dumb in Chinese as it does in English? I'm just an idiot with a computer and don't actually speak Chinese, but from five minutes of googling, 军/軍, the 'Army' in People's Liberation Army, can have a whole variety of meanings along the lines of troops, armed forces, army, military. So I imagine it doesn't sound quite as dumb in Chinese. In fact, the Chinese for 'Navy' seems to be 海军 or ('sea army') so it probably sounds just right. People's Liberation Force is probably more accurate in English but they decided they'd rather be the PLA. Listen to this guy, not me \/\/\/\/\/
|
|
#
¿
Jun 12, 2014 08:04
|
|
|
Surprisingly, continuing the graph with the line in the same slope forever isn't always an accurate model for prediction. Wild!
|
|
#
¿
Jul 2, 2014 23:11
|
|
|
Or the US's ability/willingness to utilize its military will crumble until it's no longer a credible threat and China will just do as it likes, take Taiwan by force, and it won't matter what anyone else wants. And I don't mean that in the Fox News, neo-Yellow-Peril way, I mean more of a... new isolationism in the aftermath of the wars in the Middle East and growing domestic problems. Though Bloodnose's prediction is probably the more likely one to come to pass.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 5, 2014 09:24
|
|
|
MJ12 posted:I think this is assuming that the Chinese goal is to keep the status quo, which as Arglebargle has said, is false. They think that overturning the status quo is their birthright, and the fact is that this is what rising countries do. The status quo very rarely has been optimal for them, so they seek to change the strategic calculus in their favor. Their provocations, as such, can be taken in context of the typical game of chicken with hegemonic actors rising powers go through. It's not exactly Inscrutable Orientals Playing Inscrutable Mind Games for Inevitable Victory but I think if you go through every major nation's diplomatic history you'll see similar patterns of overreach and/or deliberate provocation. Exactly. It's hardly the first time that nationalist sentiments have been whipped up to distract from internal problems despite being aware of potentially deleterious long-term consequences. In fact "whipping up nationalist sentiments to distract from internal problems despite being aware of potentially deleterious long-term consequences" is pretty much the20thcentury.txt in its most simple form.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 22, 2014 03:09
|
|
|
Most of the street making GBS threads/bag peeing stories seem to be kids which might partially explain the phenomenon.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 31, 2014 09:32
|
|
|
I did qualify that with 'partially'. Peeing in a bag in line at a Disney Land ride makes a certain redneck-y sort of sense. Pooping on a table literally ten feet from a perfectly usable bathroom makes no sense at all. MeramJert posted:It's because in Traditional Chinese Medicine, diapers disrupt the flow of qi through the body. You might be on to something here.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 31, 2014 09:41
|
|
|
Maybe qualify it as 'intentionally contaminated'. Or maybe 'knowingly and deliberately added poison' but that might hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 1, 2014 01:04
|
|
|
VideoTapir posted:If a little of something is good, then more must be better! And a soul-crushing amount of something must be best of all!
|
|
#
¿
Aug 1, 2014 07:13
|
|
|
"Don't you know? Traditional Chinese Medicine is wholesome and natural and safe! Who knows what's in those crazy chemical drugs!" Cause? Hell if I know.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 5, 2014 10:49
|
|
|
Pretty sure most Asian interpretations of western food would give westerners the shits, too.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 14, 2014 04:13
|
|
|
I doubt the Chinese government wants to explicitly reward violent agitation for democracy, though.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 2, 2014 03:19
|
|
|
fart simpson posted:Voting isn't really a day to day thing and most people in the US don't bother to vote anyway. I know I don't. The right to assemble in protest or whatever also isn't really a day to day thing, and people not carrying guns around everywhere actually gives me the freedom to not worry about getting shot. What the gently caress is this? Being able to vote and assemble and protest and exercise free speech don't count because they're not every-day things, but "your freedom to not get shot" does? How many times did you got shot per year, on average, while you were living in the states?  On the bright side, at least your 五毛 will get you most of a bottle of booze to wander around town openly drinking from, because that's what really matters after all.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 5, 2014 06:38
|
|
|
But don't you understand you're literally FORCED to go around in a giant planet-killing death machine!!!
|
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2014 05:24
|
|
|
China Megathread - Tu Quoque Appreciation Station Alternatively: China Megathread - А у вас негров линчуют hailthefish fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Sep 7, 2014 |
|
#
¿
Sep 7, 2014 12:17
|
|
|
Peven Stan posted:Seems like it does work: That Wikipedia Article posted:The German acupuncture trials (German: GERAC-Studien[1]) were a series of nationwide acupuncture trials set up in 2001 and published in 2006 on behalf of several German statutory health insurance companies due to a dispute as to the usefulness of acupuncture.[2] They consisted of one observational study on acupuncture side effects, and four randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating acupuncture treatment for low back pain, knee osteoarthritis, migraine prophylaxis, and tension-type headache. The trials are considered to be one of the largest clinical studies in the field of acupuncture.[2] Sticking needles through the skin works (by releasing endorphins as a response to the needle pain). Placing them according to meridian lines and junctions to open your qi flow is bullshit.
|
|
#
¿
Sep 8, 2014 05:33
|
|
|
Depends on what they mean by standards. Is it a standard in the sense of 'actual rigorous scientific testing to determine actual benefit' or standard in the sense of 'only the finest tiger dong from wild tigers, any captive-bred tiger dong must be explicitly marked as such'?
|
|
#
¿
Sep 8, 2014 08:59
|
|
|
Honestly I think the BEST part about studying medicine in China is that it's cheaper than getting an undergrad degree in the US 
|
|
#
¿
Sep 8, 2014 09:19
|
|
|
Hey, that's hurting the feelings of the Welsh people!
|
|
#
¿
Sep 9, 2014 05:18
|
|
|
I'll have you know they're very proud of their 5000 year history of sheep-loving culture!
|
|
#
¿
Sep 9, 2014 05:46
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 17, 2024 12:39 |
|
|
At least in the US our ridiculously militarized police look badass, and not like 80s throwback day at the airsoft field 
|
|
#
¿
Sep 18, 2014 03:28
|
|