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0 pointsaebtebeten2mo ago0 comments

> Europe might have a unique opportunity to ally with China to pry it from Russia

Sounds like it could be promising, but how in that world do you get containers back and forth between Europe and China, given that USEUCOM could mine Gibraltar; USCENTCOM, Suez and Aden; and USINDOPACOM, Malacca?

(My personal optimistic view atm is an independent free-trading armed-neutral european block which is sufficiently valuable that any move by one of the three major powers to bring it under their bloc will naturally be countered by the other two)

"Optimists practise speaking Cantonese, pessimists— speaking Russian, realists— stripping and reassembling rifles"?

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trhway2mo ago

These days in Russian schools for the “Motherland defense” classes they officially included drones in addition to rifles.

gsf_emergency_62mo ago

Given that Hanoi is gonna leapfrog Shenzhen anytime now,

may I predict that the optimist get up to speed on some gallic^W portuguese-orthographed (old-)Yue-based murine cant?

https://archive.ph/2025.07.19-083802/https://www.hk01.com/%E...

Ps: troll me harder with the birefringence bro! Not feeling it!

https://youtu.be/O9o0Fwuc57A?t=33m36s

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m

aebtebetenOP2mo ago

「但它去哪裡打個洞，其實都不太會被關注。」 — thanks to the mods, who called out my numeric ex-handle yet have not deigned to comment on all the burrowing :-)

「...也沒有家庭托舉...」 — does this refer to financial, or emotional, support?

I see Hainan has not only PLAN, but also a plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Free_Trade_Port ; I guess that trade has yet to materialise?

gsf_emergency_62mo ago

There's a chengyu 旁观者清

Hainan is CPC's attempt to check the role of Stanford (latter being just as far from the Imperator). Hanoi has VNU+bros (globalist Saint had a stint, already has one Fields' etc)

Thai Canal would do more for HCMC?

Not to mention they are already light years ahead in propaganda, as you^W all note :)

(Aside now is EU's best chance to pry Iran away, but Stanford affiliated folks are asleep as usual. reversing Brexit might be harder? ;)

aebtebetenOP2mo ago

birefringence -> cloud dial ("I only count the cloudy hours")

back from the days of "turn on tune in drop out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eWqdLTii-I

Generation 2 "P"hút Hơn? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnUhhuPOiNE

Hà Nội seems like it would benefit from getting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Canal off (out of) the ground?

gsf_emergency_62mo ago

My contribution to your Shannon level play is:

"Show HN: Sun Dial that works only on cloudy days"

Also interested to see where you are going to host that :)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

0 pointsaebtebeten2mo ago0 comments

> Europe might have a unique opportunity to ally with China to pry it from Russia

"Optimists practise speaking Cantonese, pessimists— speaking Russian, realists— stripping and reassembling rifles"?

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trhway2mo ago

These days in Russian schools for the “Motherland defense” classes they officially included drones in addition to rifles.

gsf_emergency_62mo ago

Given that Hanoi is gonna leapfrog Shenzhen anytime now,

may I predict that the optimist get up to speed on some gallic^W portuguese-orthographed (old-)Yue-based murine cant?

https://archive.ph/2025.07.19-083802/https://www.hk01.com/%E...

Ps: troll me harder with the birefringence bro! Not feeling it!

https://youtu.be/O9o0Fwuc57A?t=33m36s

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%E1%BB%AF_N%C3%B4m

aebtebetenOP2mo ago

「但它去哪裡打個洞，其實都不太會被關注。」 — thanks to the mods, who called out my numeric ex-handle yet have not deigned to comment on all the burrowing :-)

「...也沒有家庭托舉...」 — does this refer to financial, or emotional, support?

I see Hainan has not only PLAN, but also a plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Free_Trade_Port ; I guess that trade has yet to materialise?

gsf_emergency_62mo ago

There's a chengyu 旁观者清

Hainan is CPC's attempt to check the role of Stanford (latter being just as far from the Imperator). Hanoi has VNU+bros (globalist Saint had a stint, already has one Fields' etc)

Thai Canal would do more for HCMC?

Not to mention they are already light years ahead in propaganda, as you^W all note :)

(Aside now is EU's best chance to pry Iran away, but Stanford affiliated folks are asleep as usual. reversing Brexit might be harder? ;)

aebtebetenOP2mo ago

birefringence -> cloud dial ("I only count the cloudy hours")

back from the days of "turn on tune in drop out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eWqdLTii-I

Generation 2 "P"hút Hơn? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnUhhuPOiNE

Hà Nội seems like it would benefit from getting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Canal off (out of) the ground?

gsf_emergency_62mo ago

My contribution to your Shannon level play is:

"Show HN: Sun Dial that works only on cloudy days"

Also interested to see where you are going to host that :)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse