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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

These are fair points. Thank you for the response!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why should we listen to alarmist doomers who believe in near-term human exctinction? Climate change could take down industrial civilization and billions of lives within the course of a few decades or even years, but the idea that in about 1000 days the earth will look like venus and all humans will die strikes me as unhinged. this guy lowballs it, but I think there’s good reasons to be skeptical about the clathrate gun hypothesis

 

This 抖音 video goes over how Kigala, Rwanda is starting to look a lot like cities in China. It's really interesting to see how strongly China is (positively) influencing Rwanda's development

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

here's a video with english subs to explain why 云南 is so special. here's another video that's more about 昆明 tourism

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's sad to see 苏州 (suzhou) characterized by its relationship to 上海 (shanghai), when 上海 is merely a city invented by China within the last 100 years to interface with the capitalist west. 上海's culture draws from the original, ancient cities of 杭州 (hangzhou) and 苏州. If history had played out slightly differently, 普通话 (common speech) would probably be their 吴语 (wu chinese) due to 南京 (nanjing)'s influence.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Chinese people I've heard from generally say 昆明 (kunming) is the best place to live, at least from a natural scenery and weather perspective. Here's a map, where 昆明 is outlined in the 四季如春 (four seasons as spring) area, meaning the weather year-round is like spring. Beyond the climate, 云南 (yunnan), where 昆明 is located, is a mountainous province that is also a biodiversity hotspot. There's bountiful microclimates and many local cultures as well. Definitely not a "Max GDP" sort of place, but the other factors are incredibly good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yes because they didn’t build enough townhomes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The largest urbanized areas are all in the states, with cities of 7 million like Boston having more built-up area than 37 million tokyo-yokohama. Nobody can hold a candle to <1000person/km2 density in statesian cities. It’s absolute madness. I guess prodigious consumption of resources makes the economy looks good though.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can’t wait until australia and new zealand are kicked out of the imperial core through economic warfare. Demographically, it’s already well on its way to becoming an asian country. The west can play in the north atlantic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

wow, that’s awesome, thank you for sharing! I’m guessing in 广西 you’re seeing a lot of 庄族文化. Whatever you’re up to 我祝你万事如意

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Even some billionaires seem perfectly content with one home lmao

 

Literal translation of Chinese title: "At great cool mountain, for Yi People in rural village selling goods is what personal experience". Wholesome video of man bringing tasty food to villagers in a border region inhabited by Yi people in China.

 

I’m curious what you all think about this. There are definitely some hot takes from this Chinese prof this guy is translating. The hottest take imo is that multipolarity is a worse system, on the balance. It’s also an interesting take that assassinations and hybrid warfare is more likely than nuclear war is more likely than mechanized war among superpowers.

 

Kind of long + language barrier but I thought it was really incredible how these wind turbine blades make it from inner mongolia to xizang. It's crazy to see how narrow the roads are and how careful the drivers must be. The mountain roads even have a special tool to transport the blades at an angle. Bonus points for the neat food + lodging over the multi-day journey and the random guy playing CS:GO lmao

 

This isn't exactly Earth-shattering news but I thought it was neat and this community might enjoy it

 

A good read. It’s an accurate treatment of what the second law of thermodynamics means and how it relates to how life itself functions and what that means for humans. Entropy is not really disorder

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I was surprised to see this on the front page of NYT today. It sounds like an interesting discourse at the intersection between Communism and climate change. Also sorry if this is the wrong community for this post.

Side note - it's doubly interesting that this book was apparently a hit in Japan. Quite some hopium

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