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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
SO GOOD | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
I tried a couple times but couldn't get past the first 10 eps or so. | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On September 01 2015 23:05 Ketara wrote: I never really got into trigun. I tried a couple times but couldn't get past the first 10 eps or so. Once again showing your issues with taste. Also, manga >>>>>>> anime | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
It's not GoT but its alright for bored Thai evenings. There's not much to do here late at night. | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
My sister used to hear footsteps and crying outside of her room when we lived in our old house, something that she swears was real but no one else ever experienced. I've never had one myself, but I've always been morbidly fascinated with things like the paranormal, cryptids, and UFOs. But I'm also a huge wuss so there's no way I would spend my time out in the woods alone searching for them. | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On September 01 2015 23:45 Requizen wrote: Curious, has anyone here ever had a supernatural/paranormal experience? Like a legit, no one would believe you if you told but you swear it was real instance? My sister used to hear footsteps and crying outside of her room when we lived in our old house, something that she swears was real but no one else ever experienced. I've never had one myself, but I've always been morbidly fascinated with things like the paranormal, cryptids, and UFOs. But I'm also a huge wuss so there's no way I would spend my time out in the woods alone searching for them. Closest I've gotten to one was drunkenly using a Ouija Board with friends, when all of a sudden, someone projectile vomited over the table. | ||
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
I guess the most paranomal experience I've had is when I was out drinking with my friends. It was jug night so we all had these massive jugs filled with beer. My friend thought he could match me with vodka jugs but the man just couldn't do it. Que projectile vomit straight into the jug. He didn't get it anywhere else. Filled this jug up of this stomach contents then calming puts it down on the floor while trying to act like nothing happened. Truly majestic. 5 minutes later the whole club was passing around this amazing feat of man he managed to accomplish. | ||
MoonBear
Straight outta Johto18973 Posts
On September 01 2015 10:00 Eppa! wrote: Xi jinpings corruption reforms can in scale and breadth be seen to surpas what can be seen as political moves for personal power. From western perspective the economy (primarily in the large companies) the massive control of the government is seen as negative while this isn't as clear cut especially when you leave the sandboxes of economists. This is still the central argument that is brought up as the weakness of China. Ill watch the second video in full once I am bored out of my mind again. The issue of poltics is more a layer above the core issue itself, but one that impacts the response that can be made but is not the core driver of the underlying economic issues. The two largest issues are driven by the to the pressures on the yuan and the mismanagement of leverage. Broadly speaking, due to capital controls most chinese companies recieve USD for the sale of their exports which they exchange at the People's Bank of China (PBoC) for CNY to use for domestic expenditure. However, in order to do so the PBoC is required to print additional CNY. This was on of the primary drivers of the capital account surplus, but also creates havily inflationary pressures and the response of the PBoC was to sell CNY-bills while reinvesting into Treasuries. However, there was a mismatch in the yields of the two securities which meant there was a cost in carrying and supporting the CNY-USD peg. The primary response for the PBoC was to constantly adjust the required reserve requirement, as interest rate movements would create capital inflows rather than trade inflows (indeed the China carry trade was a thing for a long time and for good reason). However, over the past few years there has been a reversal in the capital account to being a deficit, which places severe pressure on the need for capital account liberalisation. We can get into discussions of capital flight and grey market capital movements, such as fake invoice trade, but that's a story for another time although is something that is interesting side reading. The crux however is that there is now a high level of stress on the CNY and the reserves of the PBoC are not infinite. There is also the issue of the PBoC trying to maintain the Impossible Trinity but that's a post in and of itself too... The second aspect I alluded to was the issue of leverage. The excess savings from the export-driven growth model combined with long-term currency devaluation led to unproductive investment rather than consumer spending. The stories of ghost cities, useless construction, and the numerous SoEs are a testament to that. There are further dimensions to the problem, such as the explosion in domesitc debt following 2008 to create demand, the interactions within the shadow banking sector, the untenable quest for yields in savings products (not unrelated to shadow banking), and the moral hazard due to the lack of market-based pricing mechanisms and implicit state guarantees. The issue of politics comes primarily when it is with regards to the policy response to the above two points raised. Here there are several dimensions to it. The first is that the unwritten contract that Zhongnanhai has with the populace is the need for employment and social stability which makes certain policy responses highly difficult. The second is that lack of co-ordination and commitment is costing the Beijing credibility which undermines the policy decisions it does make. The third is that there is a severe lack of talent in many places such as the state regulators as a large swath of talented individuals who were convinced to join from overseas following 2008 have resigned and left. The final dimension, which is the one you alluded to, was that the structure of polical power means that it is important for the Xi Jingping to maintain control of power and not unrelated to the recent anti-corruption drives but again not something to cover here. The combination of all of these are somewhat indirectly related to the above two points, but are primarily focused on what the response from Beijing will be. On September 01 2015 12:46 Cixah wrote: Maybe I'm being selfish or what have you but I just don't feel right giving him money in the first place. He doesn't exactly have the track record I'd be willing to lend to and he hasn't shown any signs of improvent. It's more important to create a system for which your brother figures his life out (the meta level) rather than just giving him money (the object level). You also don't have any obligation towards your brother. Someone who is also willing to lie about needing you to drive them to the airport, disregard the fact it means there is a cost to you in having to take a day off work, and then try to pressure you into giving them money also has no respect for you and you are not obligated to go out of your way for them. | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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Sunaj
Canada2041 Posts
On September 01 2015 23:45 Requizen wrote: Curious, has anyone here ever had a supernatural/paranormal experience? Like a legit, no one would believe you if you told but you swear it was real instance? My sister used to hear footsteps and crying outside of her room when we lived in our old house, something that she swears was real but no one else ever experienced. I've never had one myself, but I've always been morbidly fascinated with things like the paranormal, cryptids, and UFOs. But I'm also a huge wuss so there's no way I would spend my time out in the woods alone searching for them. Messing with a ouija board in my friends basement, had 2-3 lightbulbs go pop, an unplugged sewing machine start, and lights flicker. In hindsight he prob totes set it up before hand. But at the time and for the next 2 years me and other friend wouldn't go down into his basement alone *and we were like 21-22 XD * | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On September 02 2015 00:01 Sunaj wrote: Messing with a ouija board in my friends basement, had 2-3 lightbulbs go pop, an unplugged sewing machine start, and lights flicker. In hindsight he prob totes set it up before hand. But at the time and for the next 2 years me and other friend wouldn't go down into his basement alone *and we were like 21-22 XD * Oh gosh that reminds me. Do you guys remember when the first Slender game came out? The original one before all the copies, where you basically just had to find the pages and then there was no end, you just ran until Slenderman got you. So this was when I was living with my parents, and I was hosting D&D in the basement. One of my other buddies came to hang out because he was in town. Since he didn't really care about tabletop stuff, he was just playing on his laptop and started up Slender. And you know me, I fucking love Slenderman stuff so we stopped playing for a bit to watch him. When he grabs the first page, there's a massive thunderclap outside the house, basically in unison with him clicking on it. He grabs the second page a short while later, and all the lights in the basement flicker in tandem. We laugh a bit, but two of the D&D guys aren't big on horror stuff and start look uncomfortable. He grabs the third page. The lights in the basement go out aside from his laptop. I shit you not, in perfect harmony with the mouse click. The guys start screaming at him to shut off the fucking game and are frantically pulling out phones to get light. It turns out that the whole neighborhood lost electricity and it was just a coincidence, but it was still a really good one. | ||
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Scip
Czech Republic11293 Posts
On September 01 2015 23:55 Requizen wrote: I feel like a lot of things can be written off as imagination or perception, but I still err on the side of skepticism. I'm not saying everything is haunted, but I think that there are a lot of things out there that we don't know/can't understand. Especially when it comes to cryptids, which I think is just a fascinating (though not quite legitimate) field of study. Dude lol if this discussion doesn't die before evening in the Eu timezone prepare to get ripped a new one I'm going to let my peers handle this | ||
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
And you linked it to politics by pointing out that while there are fiduciary/financial mecanisms to help soften the blow, those would kind of suck from a social standpoint so the authorities cannot "ethically" afford to use them, thus reducing their options for dealing with the situation further? And that's why you say that people are focused on "how will Beijing react to the situation"? | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On September 02 2015 00:14 Scip wrote: Dude lol if this discussion doesn't die before evening in the Eu timezone prepare to get ripped a new one I'm going to let my peers handle this How does one "get ripped a new one" when it comes to something like this? I know you have a burning teenage need to prove how smart you are to everyone, but that's not really how this works. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
I think there's things in the world that modern science can't explain. Ghosts or magic or whatever has never been scientifically proven, but its also never been scientifically disproven, and just because there's tons of bullshit and hoaxes and whatever doesn't mean there isn't some real shit underlying it all too. There's lots of stuff all over the world that isn't properly explainable or understood. So my attitude towards those things is like, if somebody says they can explain or prove supernatural stuff to you, they're full of shit. But at the same time, if somebody says supernatural things definitely don't exist, they're probably a little closed minded. Just because something isn't currently explainable doesn't mean it doesn't exist. | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
I hope before I die science comes up with a less organic/faulty method of keeping my consciousness powered. or being able to copy it chappie style. It should be theoretically possible to map out every neural connection and duplicate it in software with enough powerful catscans / computing power right? and why in chappie did the original bodie die / get powered down when it was copied? that bothered me should have kept it living. then I could have two of me and we could double team my gf and i could stay home and play video games while i went to work. id even be willing to take turns. If I had the technology at home then plural I could update plural my consciousness by rebasing them both on top of each other and that way id be able to continue my work as if i had done it yesterday. whoaaaa | ||
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