nice pun, i saw that^

what pun?

`Super exciting field`

"field"

oh

not intentional, actually

why are Taiwanese people so depressive?

not depressive, just too laid back

"this is good enough"

etc.

i am too but i mean, that's just how it is

I mean is kinda true

If you're in a building that will collapse, then youre fucked already

depends on the strength of the earthquake, the building and your luck

you might just be trapped for a few days

you have like, 5 seconds to get out if the quake is large enough to seriously damage your building

Assuming you fall with the building and the building is not a 10+ story building or something like that

You might be trapped in the crashed building

a few bottles of water and a radio might save your life

are there anti earthquake building standards in taiwan?

yes, putting empty barrels of oil into the walls

hah

some of the best in the world if what i've been told is correct

but yeah, that too

@porco true, I have my abandoned building exploration bag ready for emergnecies

have you ever seen the Taipei 101s earthquake "defense" system?

you can take the lift up and see that huge ball

I went there once, was impressive

lmao giant red ball in the middle of the buiulding . sounds funny at first, but its an engineering masterpeice

lol

it actually is

I just wonder how much the suspensions actually help

I mean if the building starts moving

I was up at the observation deck during an earthquake once

that must have been super exciting

did the ball move?

i just wonder if you even felt anything

no i couldn't see any apparent moving

that one we could see is a model on display actually

yes the 101 is impressive

I just looked it up, the ball is the real ball. not a model on display.

but the bottom is supported by hydraulic stuff so it doesn't look like its moving

yes the hydraulic suspensions

I am just questioning their size compared to the size of the ball

its protection seems somewhat limited though

the hydraulic suspensions seem to be there to limit the movement of the ball so that it doesn't swing out of control

The ball may provide ample suspension from horizontal quakes but the same can't be said for quakes with a lot of vertical movement

if theres vertical movement shits fucked no matter what you do, thankfully thata pretty rare

another small quake right now.

poor Hualien tbh

Also Taiwan looks like a sweet potato

🤔

a sweet potato can look like anything

yes but the typical sweet potato is longish and slightly curved like that

no offense intended but please consider for a moment

lol

Is that your home?

Yeah. Fresh cracks

Do you live in a tall building?

somewhat. but this is pretty common

the cracks keep forming between plaster wall dividers

if it were concrete walls i'd be in trouble

Sure, doesn't look cool anyway

i have bad feeling another large earthquake soon.

this is how people here feel 24/7

stay safe fella

get it inspected. It could be something simple like external damage on the plaster layer (assuming reinforced concrete structure with masonry walls)

if you're renting, move out ASAP

christ

@ferongr you've clearly never been to Taiwan

When I met my gf in Taiwan the first time, her student dorm had 2-3cm cracks and you could see the bricks

its a hipstery design element at that point

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The first time I met the boyfriend of my wife, it put some cracks in my self-esteem

@Alfadir <:pepestressed:327933525124841482>

yep cracks are everywhere lol

but its fine as long as the key foundation parts of the building are strong

@transience you'll find that the network hardware wasn't at fault there

something further upstream went shitty

probably all 3 providers rely on the same fibre backhaul and some retard fucked shit up back there

that's the point I was making

if an earthquake nukes BT, GSM is no good for me

now on the topic of redundancy

usually you'd get handed over to another node in case of failure

But if all nodes go down as a result of the same error you're in deep shit

take nobody's infrastructure for granted in an autistic diaster scenario

Fair point

Here in Aust the ACMA make it a fucking law to have some sort of backup line for cell towers in case of emergencies

Some have fibre/fibre, some have fibre/HFC, some have fibre/ayydsl

>tfw fibre/fibre master race

AYYYYYYYdsl

do you think chinks are secretly fracking everywhere for oil

If they were fracking enough to cause this level of instabilty then their strategic oil reserves would be full, they wouldnt be buying coal and the market would be like 10 bucks a barrel

Well maybe if we encourage them to frack more they finally kill themselves off completly

CHINATOWN HERE I COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Perkele

yo discussion time. since chinese new years is coming up, what are some good chink traditions/food/things to do/make for new years

i figured lets start this ahead of time before all the chinese marets are flooded for new years

send recipes and shit if you got them for good food

Your request has been forwarded

tfw in beijing on chinese new year and not in my ancestral land

China will be our ancestral land soon

china more like gay

@Big Meme 紹興醉雞
蘿蔔糕
發糕
高升排骨

tfw been in china for a year and still dont know a lick of chinese

lmao

CHAD PATRIOT

>tfw not Chinese but super interested in the language

laolosers

Don't make the copypaste guy's mistake and learn traditional chinese at least

wut?

most of my knowledge is simplified but I'm trying to learn traditional because I am mostly interested in Taiwan

but it's difficult to find proper resources on learning traditional Chinese. The resources on simplified Chinese are more accessible

@Sdeck37 traditional chinese isn't a language

it's the writing system

I think he was saying it because I wrote the dishes in traditional Characters

@transience and?

@porco try flashcards/memrise?

@Sdeck37 the copypasta guy learned mandarin

you can use either simp/trad for that

who's the copypasta guy?

did I miss a meme?

i presume the one about the industrial steel

ah the steel dude

@transience Mandarin is also lingua franca in itself in taiwan
You knew what i meant

no i didnt

it depends where

my girlfriend's father can't speak Mandarin at all

They won't send you to mainland if you don't know how to read there

traditional exclusively refers to the characters

it's got nothing to do with the spoken language

he only speaks Min Nan

and he is disappointed that I'm investing so many resources in learning Mandarin instead of Min Nan

Did you watch Hangover 2?

With the Thai father?

That's our relationship more or less

😦

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chinese people are homosex

weeeeeeew

dude

Chinese girls are the reason to live. Chinese girls are the reason that I wake up in the morning and do my best to be a successful and functioning member of society

@transience no offense

I'm not offended at all tbh

I just pretend women don't exist

I prefer to focus on myself for now and sort that out later

Problem: chink is unhappy that she can't visit her family for CNY because she has exams. Should I:

a) surprise her with taking her to a Chinese social event nearby that has some weird concerts on CNY night, one of the singer is even Taiwanese

b) invite some of her chink friends who can't go back either, to our home, cook altogether and have a CNY stlye dinner here

or another suggestion?

give her a red packet

yes that, too

chink should be happy with money

that's all you need

I have a few Taiwan dollar left from last holiday and I will give it to her with some of those weird envelopes from the China shop

b + red packet

do taiwan celebrate chinese new year?

who else celebrate chinese new year except chinks

Korea

if you mean the lunar new year, then I think viets celebrate it too

thank you for the input

I will invite her friends + red packet

So for mainland Chinese New year traditions there aren't many. Pop fireworks, eat a lot of food, give money to kids in red envelopes

Invite people over to eat. Watch the new years gala on Chinese tv (there are online live streams)

You pretty much spend a whole week never leaving home. Stock up on food before hand

Put up a bunch of red shit outside your front door

Stuff that says lucky and money etc.

Hang some Chinese characters upside down on the walls

Boom chinese new year

ye but if you put it like that, that's every holiday

>christmas: pop fireworks, eat a lot of food, give money to kids

@kaetaa you can replace Chinese New Year with Christmas and fine-tune it a little bit and it would work, too

It’s pretty funny actually

See Christmas is basically a party because it might be the last time you see parents/grandparents before the real cold sets in

And it was a historic time for them to die

China does it later in the year because they wouldn’t have to feed those people in a feast

That got grim pretty fast

they rather celebrate that the old people are halfway through the critical time

Yeah there's not much cultural stuff with Chinese New year, it's just a standard holiday to see family.

But they go all out

It's the time of year to impress your family

To show how much money you made

So buy the extra fancy food not because it tastes good but because it's expensive

So ironically I had some of the worse food ever during CNY last year because people will buy the most expensive stuff, so the people selling really cheap shit will put it in a nice box and sell it for loads

Again, I understand I'm explaining most products, but it's especially bad during CNY

Why are Chinese girls so good @porco

theyre not really lol

not most of them, at least

@Deleted User I don't know, I actually never had one. Just a Taiwanese and she's the best I've ever had

In terms of gf quality for me it was
Taiwan #1
Germany #2
Belarus #3
And Korea #4

But Korea and Belarus are almost same trash quality

Germany was fine but she had weird fetishes

Please do explain in further detail

The Korean one was working in Germany for a limited amount of time. Her hidden scope was to fuck as many white guys as possible because no one knew her here anyway and she wanted to have that experience

^

My whole experience with Korean women irl

Still the woman of what i thought would be the one was french ..

Like movies and TV shows based on the war with Japan, but if you look at the numbers, Japan completely obliterated China during the war, despite having 30% of Chinas troops. But in these shows, China always has super smart and super tactical military men and it shows the Japanese as barbaric monsters who just want to kill for fun. They also show Chinese destroying millions of Japanese in really horrific death scenes.

30% of the shows on Chinese television are Chinese vs Japanese war time stuff

These shows are all very popular. Chinks love watching their smart country men destroying hordes of dumb Japanese soldiers

Chinese believe they won the war (which technically, they did, because US forced Japan to surrender) but Chinese people honestly believe they were the ones responsible for driving Japanese out

I asked a few former co-workers and they all had similar stories of secret society Chinese communists (before it was established) who basically won the war for China

And how they were super smart and infiltrated the Japs and Japan is small

Etc etc.

Also saying "small Japan" is an insult in China to Japan. They think because the physical land mass of Japan is small , China is better

Which explains why China gets so butthurt if you ever say something isn't China (Taiwan etc) because their pride is with how big their country is

Ever heard of the flying tigers ? They basically won the air war and slowed the Japanese down in China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tigers

Just remember

There was a period of time in Chinese history where a group of highly trained atheletes tried to fight colonization via martial arts

There was also a period where a lot of Europeans shot them all down and didn't even care about it..

Yes all of history people have shit all over chinese

And that is part of where their insecuirty comes from

It's a culmination of events and beliefs

The Maoist period is also great

Campaigns such as the pest control one are just so incredibly sad. They are not even rooted in opportunism, just in plain ignorance on a massive scale

since you guys were talking about learning chinese, i learned in highschool mostly but thers some great apps top help you try just searching it. theres one called like chinese skills or something and has a panda on it. i like that oine its pretty good

Japan would have annexed the entirety of China had it not been for America <:chink:323022148870602752>

They were steamrolling everything with no real signs of stoppage coming any time soon

Nah, russia would have stopped them and the invasion of Manchuria severely out streched them

>Implying Russia cared about the chinks

They cared about japanese encroaching in thier eastern territories

You forget that a lot of that region was less Russia than no man's land after the Japan Russia war.
They didn't had to defend, they'd had to expand to fight Japanese troops..

Around that time, Germany had started messing with Russia as well. Splitting their forces like that would not have done them a whole lot of good.

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@johnfrum Russians would have had to use more divisions to defend a larger stretch of land + at the beginning the Manchurian army was still a formidable force

On the topic of Chinese military. Where do Chinese soldiers predominantly come from ? City or countryside?

R E G I O N L O C K C H I N A

Even though I don't play the game. It's shit <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

I tried it yesterday

The idea is super fun

But it needs to be polished up quite a bit

The movement is sluggish to me and I don't know how shooting works

And melee doesn't work at all

i like it. has a lot of points where you just sit and contemplate about ur next moves, i havnt found a game where ur forced into that or die

you can head shot someone with a punch

feels good man

@Deleted User they're probably tier-88 nongmin

@ferongr can you elaborate ? I have no clue what those are

tier-88 means shitty inland city

tier-1 cities are cities like Shenzen etc

nongmin = "country bumpkin", basically people from the inland low tier cities

used to be poor and are the epitome of the disgusting chinese with no manners

But tough people I take ?