:v)))

pretty cool tho England is based

Oh now we have 2 chinks here

keep it <#248100475054850050> thank you

Do y'all watch China Uncensored

@jodan just tourism or something more profound?

my wife is chinese so we're going to get married in her hometown

oh man that's really cool~ good luck to you two

oooo

gratz

shouldn't your wife know about stupid cheap shit to buy tho? :P

nah she does'nt know shit about the internet

or alibaba or taobao

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@Ganpo Dadi (贛鄱大地) yeah I watch it. It's entertaining

@Sdeck37 it's just the law that the government has to keep track of everyone in the country. They want to know your whereabouts. It's not even a phone call, it's all done through computer - seems simple when the big hotels do it but I don't know the details to be honest.

Even when you get an apartment you have to register with the police yourself and tell them where you are

But no one fucking speaks English

So it's tough

Wew

Amazing how paranoid they are

Though it probably pays dividends. The current Chinese structure is very difficult to infiltrate from a western perspective

It is?

I think China is the number 1place to get influence just by putting $$$ on the table

I am under the impression that those who exert trade influence already make a lot of money and those who have exclusive technical knowledge are both well paid and so heavily monitored that influencing is nigh impossible

You can always offer a job outside of their current shithole

It's funny, despite all the precautions, no one really listens to any of the rules because they aren't often enforced

Feels like anarchist

Tbh the only really scary part about China to me are still the samaritian laws and that they seem to be beating up women constantly.

Thanks liveleak for that impression <:kms:327934280619655179>

Yeah domestic abuse is a big issue. The police don't do anything about it when it's reported because ethey think it's a home matter, not a police matter

So the police don't help

http://i.4cdn.org/v/1517618349667.webm

I expected more gore tbh

jesus christ

Dogg

wtf

Wtf I love China now

@Sdeck37 look up guanji

https://v.redd.it/6cuhac1675d01

@Alfadir lol good job accidentally puncturing the battery there

Yeah, yikes

Tfw ywn be a loud mouthed plegm flinging, saliva spitting, cigarette littering, rude northern mainland chad

@transience you forgot baby bird chewing

Jina

oh god

i loved wallace and gromit as a kid

now theyre all chinked up

pretty common. no copyright laws in china (unless its a foriegner stealing from a chinese brand...then they care)

I've been told they're cracking down on that

sounds like Chinese propaganda

@Big Meme @kaetaa it's official, was posted by Aardman studios

ah well thats a nice change of pace

Rip

>usd
this channel is for rmb only, gwailo

<:tipsfedora:383326576609329162>

Fuck, this is like the third time I pull this shit move.

Keep confusing this channel for off-topic.

🤦

I am fucking scared shitless

http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/earthquake/quake_index.htm

Experiencing a mag 3 or above earthquake every 20 min or so is psychologically draining

Oh, right, and a hotel collapsed nearby

Taiwan fucked

Hotel ded

@porco these your pics?

No, a friend of my gf in Hualien

She posted them in a Line group

She didn't explicitly say that she made them but I assume

@porco https://twitter.com/aoi_sugai_19902/status/960912275098951680

In that case not hers

Still

crazy shit

did a quake happen?

yep it did

that bike, doin a good job holding that pillar

Looks steel enforced, else the pillar would've been cracked like a clean..

that's the least I'd expect from a highway bridge in a territory with high seismic activity

I don't expect anything anymore when chinks may be involved.

Remember when in Korea 3 buildings collapsed and it turned out the owners cheaped out on a Chinese building company...

Taiwan sets really high safety standards for Asia

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001676/face-recognition-glasses-augment-chinas-railway-cops

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Its really unsettling here

There's a noticeable earthquake every 20 min or so

had trouble sleeping for 2 days now

You never know if the next quake is the one

Never experienced a quake in my life. What's it feel like?

Feels like your house became a boat that's navigating rough waters

Airplane turbulence would be a better way to describe it

Well those are both things that I have experienced and what the fug

That sounds shit

@porco The point wasn't low safety standards,
it was that chink companies don't care about them anyway.

@Big Meme @kaetaa most likely licenced them

It's APM, pretty big mall, wouldn't fuck up especially with Hong Kong being stricter

it's been so fucking weird the last three days

half a dozen big quakes

can't go a few hours without another one

@red where do you live again? Weren't you in the South?

never mentioned i was in the south, i'm in taipei

You felt it in Taipei wow

I have friends in Hualien and they were scared af

Do you live in a tall building?

can't imagine what it's like being there and feeling quakes every half hour

i guess? 10+ stories

felt like airplane turbulence

for the 6.4

Do you remember the big Tainan earthquake in February 2016?

the one where the shoddy building collapsed?

Yes with the oil cans inside the walls

yeah

not sure if i felt that one

I was riding a scooter in Changhua while it happened any my first thought was that the scooter must have had some defekt. I thought it was the suspension breaking or a flat tire or something

That was the first earth quake I ever experienced

No idea how you guys can live with that

I keep an emergency kit around

Taiwan #1 besides the quakes

i made it a long time ago but i think there's nonperishable food, thermal blanket, clothing, hand-crank radio + flashlight, and plastic wrap inside it

That's smart

Does everyone in Taiwan do that?

I try to mention it to people if the topic comes up

You should rebuild it, this time putting one of those hand crank phone chargers in there

it's a combo radio+flashlight that has a usb port

is it a listen-only radio or can you broadcast?

listen only

I imagine people are starting to want to build these kits if they haven't

maybe something to broadcast if you end up stuck in a building

i've seen all these graphics being passed around on line

about what to pack in a kit

yeah, order one of those baofeng radios

Can you upload such a graphic?

I was more thinking of a walkie talkie or something you can modify to broadcast on police frequencies

worst case they save you and arrest you because you illegally used their frequencies

lol

That's what the baofengs are

They're slightly not so pocketable radios

if everyone had that idea then the emergency frequencies would be unusable

what's the police frequency in Taiwan?

dunno

i'd rather just rely on my phone and have a charger

GSM is a little too fragile in case of emergency imho

huh?

Although you might have a GSM connection nearby, if you don't get a full pass-through to your provider's endpoint, it's unusable

as long as it's set up correctly you should be picking up at least one long range frequency from a backup tower

i don't have line on my PC or discord on my phone so

on the other hand, everyone can listen to radio as long as they are nearby

just search 地震包

地震 = earthquake?

I remember a while ago even in country Australia something took out a a large tower near me

yeah

earthquake bag

literelly earth shock, nice

I still got backup frequencies from nearby towers

learned a new word

Even if it was Edge

Pain

But still enough to call ems

some of those graphics sugget to put money into the bag

that's odd

i think you're referring to this one, which i saw on LINE https://pic.pimg.tw/hcm5499/4b90516d3c337.jpg

it just says "important valuables"

like your bank book and ID

>underpants

because you /will/ shit yourself

sorry my reading is not that good yet

yeah, underwear

especially traditional Chinese..

i added plastic wrap to mine

It's easy to tell from the graphics

because it's good for shitting in

if that need ever arises

Maybe duct tape would be a good addition

swiss army knife/multitool would be the best one

Tis good for patching up shit

there is a really nice duct tape in family mart that doesn't require a scissor because it's grooved

thats not standard duct tape?

Yeah I've got a roll of that

It's nonstandard here in shitholes like aust

aw

also if nobody's ever told you this uh

next time a quake hits turn off the gas

and open your main door

as in, entrance door

oh right you guys have gas

gas gas gas I'm gonna step on the gas

and another item on my "when moving to Taiwan" checklist

@Droidbot this is a very autistic convo anyway but to what degree do they go to implement redundancy for celluar towers? I remember every celluar tower (that's every network) in my town somehow failing at once and we were without service for a few hours

>not having coverage from several towers

I did have coverage from multiple towers

but somehow, they all died at the same time

every provider

I think even my landline died

rip landline

or maybe the NSA were installing a tap and nobody was any wiser <:tipsfedora:383326576609329162>

Such is the life of the Five Eyes

@red another one?

yep

felt big

My Taiwan news source is super fast

it just hit like 30 seconds ago for me

bigger than yesterday's?

dunno, maybe smaller

significant swaying on my end

People in Tainan felt it

And you felt it in Taipei

so my guess would be around Hualien again

how fucking shit

another earthquake

is this the end of Taiwan? 😦

no need to guess. last 150 earthquakes are all from hualien

I didn't visit Ali Shan yet 😦

Taiwan can't break now 😦

And I also wanted to go to Kenting one more time 😦

Don't break Taiwan!

alright while we wait for the earthquake report let me guess the magnitude

5.2

Are you in Taiwan?

yeah. Taiwan ain't breaking anytime soon lol

where in Taiwan are you?

Hsinchu now

CWB's website is getting hammered, seems like

but living on the 13th floor doesn't help at all

http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/earthquake/quake_index.htm

mag 5.7, it says

I was chatting with my gf's sister in Tainan and she felt it apparently

5.7 holy shit

so annoying. all the bigger earthquakes happen at midnight

http://www.cwb.gov.tw/index.htm is not loading for me anymore

give it a minute or two. im guessing everybody is refreshing that page right now

and I figured out a way to roughly estimate when the next 4.5 mag or higher earthquake will happen

after every 7~9 medium (3.5 ~4 ish) earthquake, there will be a significantly stronger one

after 40 mins passed after a 4.5 or larger earthquake without any smaller earthquakes, there will be another larger one

I know that a bunch of Italians are renting a lot of computing power in Lugano's super computing centre in an attempt to predict seismic activity

you should tell them your find 😄

Damn it where are the cali quakes

My find is based on 8 hours of data. its hardly reliable <:thenk:329322130804047872>

it loaded for me a few minutes ago

http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/de/home/

I went to a presentation of them

sick stuff they're doing

earth quakes are a huge energy source

imagine if we could absorb that

with your qt little island shaking like that, if we could absorb the energy, you could power your night markets for years

I think it's a super exciting field

and yet we know so little about it