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Lambert
Apr 15, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Fallen Rib

Grapplejack posted:

Do most places even have the infrastructure for 5g? I know the US has extremely limited fiber and I assume most of the world is in a similar boat.

5G will increase the capacity over existing LTE cells by about 10%, it's useful even at lower frequencies. Higher frequencies (the thing that's actually capable of delivering significantly increased bandwidths) are where very local fiber roll out is necessary. It's also not going to be feasible outside of very urban areas, as signal attenuation is a huge problem.

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THS
Sep 15, 2017

gonna watch Wolf Warrior tonight

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

watch wolf warrior 2 instead

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
watch something culturally relevant instead, like 苏州河. China might have gotten rich but its movies have only gotten shittier since the 80s

Modest Mao
Feb 11, 2011

by Cyrano4747

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

watch something culturally relevant instead, like 苏州河. China might have gotten rich but its movies have only gotten shittier since the 80s

Lou Ye is one of the best directors in China right now, and his best film is Summer Palace

quote:

The film deals with a young student played by Hao Lei who leaves her small hometown to study at the fictional "Beiqing University" (a homage to Peking University). There she meets a fellow student and begins an intense romantic relationship in the backdrop of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The film also follows the eventual disillusionment of these young idealists after the crackdown, as the years progress through the 1990s and into the 2000s (decade).

Suzhou river is the one westerners like, I'm not sure how it happened - I guess it made it to a lot of western film festivals. Blind Massage is also amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbzblq3b1Z8

The one he did last year starts strong but gets extremely overwrought by the end

edit: goddamn blind massage has a scene where three or four coworkers are hanging out in their dorm room at the massage parlor, two are married and moved from their village to work there. One of the other workers is always told by seeing-people that he's handsome and the wife keeps trying to grab his dick, even while having a conversation with her husband, but because everyone is blind, it's not clear what's happening but everyone can feel tension, all while all four are sitting on bunks in a cramped room chatting. It's so intensely uncomfortable, in a film where blind people call the seeing "gods" and you, the viewer have to be privy to inner thoughts just by seeing what the blind can't. Lou Ye fuckin rules

Modest Mao has issued a correction as of 03:11 on Jan 18, 2020

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

China might have gotten rich but its movies have only gotten shittier since the 80s

Do you blame the US for this or the oppressive CCP media control that stifles any and all creativity?

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

i dunno that tianamen square movie sounds pretty cool

having trouble figuring out how it exists if china blocks out all knowledge of tianamen square though

true.spoon
Jun 7, 2012
As far as I can tell it cannot and hasn't been shown in China and the director was forbidden to make movies for 5 years when he took it to Cannes. So there is that.
Unfortunately the DVD seems to be difficult to get, it sounds very good.

THS
Sep 15, 2017

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

watch wolf warrior 2 instead

too late. i did show it to a bunch of culturally liberal, highly educated gays, like 10 of them. highlights:

-“we spend more on our military than them but realistically every american soldier is worth 10 chinese soldiers”
-comments about how is it china can spend money on films, if they are communist
-small penis jokes

anyway, casual chinese racism is extremely live and well

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Should have gone with Love on Delivery.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

THS posted:

too late. i did show it to a bunch of culturally liberal, highly educated gays, like 10 of them. highlights:

-“we spend more on our military than them but realistically every american soldier is worth 10 chinese soldiers”
-comments about how is it china can spend money on films, if they are communist
-small penis jokes

anyway, casual chinese racism is extremely live and well

see this is why you should've watched Wolf Warrior 2, because the plot is about defending Africans from being colonized by American mercenaries.

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
funny how everything the white media accuses china of doing western countries adopt a few months/years later:

https://twitter.com/engadget/status/1218263824186454017?s=20

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

I agree, there needs to be legislation that severely limits the data that companies can acquire, even if they 'anonymize' it.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1218692186042056706?s=19

Atopian
Sep 23, 2014

I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.
The principal difference between Chinese and foreign social credit scores is that the Chinese one has a formal statement of intent. That's pretty much it.

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
Mr. Shithole Thought

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
wow, president shithole!

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
maybe it's just me, but if my name meant Mr. Shithole in another language i would never talk about anything else

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

funny how everything the white media accuses china of doing western countries adopt a few months/years later:

https://twitter.com/engadget/status/1218263824186454017?s=20

The unnamed country is just jealous of Chinese innovation

But pretty much everyone from AirBND to companies in a hiring process are doing social media data mining to spy on people

etalian has issued a correction as of 14:14 on Jan 19, 2020

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014



tfw you played smac recently

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010




this is the only chart I live by

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020


I have been thinking, Winnie the pooh is one of the nicest, gentlest symbol you can use to make fun of Xi Jinping. I mean if you try to find a nicer icon you wouldn't be able to find one. CCP should steal the meme and use it to sell China.

Imagine a China tourism bureau ad paster with the usual landmark montage and end with a yellow bear icon and a fancy "come visit China" caligraphy.

CAPS LOCK BROKEN
Feb 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
It's typical white racism to literally call him a yellow skinned bear, and pooh is not banned in the PRC. Westerners will believe anything about asian people from their own media.

A Gnarlacious Bro
Apr 25, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
They're afraid of china IMO

Kill All Cops
Apr 11, 2007


Pacheco de Chocobo



Hell Gem

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

It's typical white racism to literally call him a yellow skinned bear, and pooh is not banned in the PRC. Westerners will believe anything about asian people from their own media.

"white racism" despite the original reference coming from weibo in 2013, and no one would've even given a poo poo if chinese people didn't notice the pooh images being scrubbed from mainland internet

http://beijingcream.com/2013/06/heres-xi-jinping-and-barack-obama-as-winnie-the-pooh-and-tigger/

but its pevan stan so obviously white people have to be demonized in some way

Autism Sneaks
Nov 21, 2016

Kill All Cops posted:

but its pevan stan so obviously white people have to be demonized in some way

white people don't need to be demonized when they are already demonic though?

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

im skeptical of winnie the poohs applicability as a locally understood antixi message mainly because it seems like the hong kong protestors would be using him instead of pepe to try and make china mad if that was the case

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Some Guy TT posted:

im skeptical of winnie the poohs applicability as a locally understood antixi message mainly because it seems like the hong kong protestors would be using him instead of pepe to try and make china mad if that was the case

Where had it been shown that they were using pepe to anger China/Xi?

Mantis42
Jul 26, 2010

Look up pictures of Hong Kong protesters.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Mantis42 posted:

Look up pictures of Hong Kong protesters.

I know they used pepe on signs and stuff but as a direct sign against Xi like Pooh is is what I'm asking

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/1219297382963339271

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
He wanted the HK Polytech Brigade to intervene

Darkest Auer
Dec 30, 2006

They're silly

Ramrod XTreme

Xelkelvos posted:

I know they used pepe on signs and stuff but as a direct sign against Xi like Pooh is is what I'm asking

It triggered Pevan Stan, what more proof do you want?

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Darkest Auer posted:

It triggered Pevan Stan, what more proof do you want?

Lots of things trigger him though

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012


Need a Macau casino planet scenario and some sort of Uyghur caliphate. Oh and a new khanate based in Inner Mongolia.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012


International solidarity :3:

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

more like lipidarity

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Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/health/cdc-coronavirus.html

guess this is gonna be a thing now. mortality rate seems low though (2% from the official stats) compared to SARS 10%. spreading quickly though.

Sheng-Ji Yang has issued a correction as of 19:59 on Jan 21, 2020

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