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Temstar

Temstar

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Clango said:
All the juice and oil remains inside the meat too because there's no gravity to pull them out, this must be a hell of a chicken wing to have.
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Need tiny re-entry module so in the future you can order super juicy microgravity wings and have it delivered.

Check 饿了么 tracking and be like "your delivery is currently in the upper atmosphere travelling towards your location at mach 20"

Helldiver music optional
 
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Temstar said:
It's both. All else equal having more USD is better than having less USD. China of course earns plenty of USD already from export. When you're not buying NVIDIA cards and soybean with those you can loan them out to countries who needs USD to repay loan ala IMF, except instead of forcing those countries to sell their SOE to funds China instead makes deals like bartering for resources, that way US can't harvest countries by causing them to run out if USD to pay loan with targetted sanctions.

It also trolls US since US is very much looking to sell bond on the market. All these drama this year: Trump falling out with Musk with the Big Beautiful Bill, Trump fighting with Fed chair, government shut down. They're all about issuing more government debt. For each USD China collects selling dollar bond that's one less dollar buying US's own government bond. 4 billion may be pocket money for US but it's very much a camel overloaded with hay on it's back with legs already wobbling and China just standing nonchalantly on the side casually tossing a few more strews on top.
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It is also advantageous to borrow in a currency whose value is expected to go down. E.g., 1 USD borrowed now can be exchanged for 7.1 CNY and if exchange rate drops to 1 USD to 5 CNY when the loan is due, you only need to use 5 CNY to pay back the loan. China issuing USD bonds makes financial sense if China expects USD to drop in value relative to CNY.
 
mossen

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uguduwa said:
Indian reddit/twitter is so full of self loathing
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Are you sure? Indian social media is full of arrogant Jai Hinds convinced their country is on a cusp of being a superpower. That is a much bigger problem for Indian progress than "self-loathing". You can't improve if you don't have a realistic understanding of where you stand and how you got there.

India has 80 years of independence and never fought an existential war. The biggest war they fought they actually won (1971), but it never seriously threatened their homeland. They never had communism. Yet even countries like Vietnam, which spent 30+ years being in existential wars, have now bypassed them.

There are deep structural reasons for why that is the case but I rarely see Indians reflect on that. I don't think "self-loathing" is the problem here.
 
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antiterror13 said:
why?
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The whole reason they are in this mess in the first place is because they let her land in Taiwan to meet the leaders which is considered a form of separatist support since she was #3 in ranking of US hierarchy at the time. And now she's not even in power. So imagine screwing a lot up for that.

Looking back, her main reason for visiting wasn't even to see Tsai but to see Morris Chang of TSMC. It kind of makes sense now 3 years later with the whole chips + AI combo. No wonder she has such good gains on insider trading. An average dude on Robinhood ain't gonna get this kind of exposure.
 
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pevade said:
Who remembers Japan building India's HSR? LMAO

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Also LMAO
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- "Bullet train project should complete by 2023"
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- Delayed to 2027

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Its now 2024 bros, more than a decade since the start.

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Meanwhile, lets compare the Chinese - Indonesian HSR

2015
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2016-2018: Groundbreaking ceremony held on Jan 2016. Various land aquisition and legal issues.
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(also they're using a pic of Indians sitting on top of a train?!?)
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COVID-19 SAYS HELLO
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2022 - PROJECT NEARLY DONE
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- overrun by 1-2b USD
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OCT 1st 2023 Jakarta-Bandung HSR Opens officially
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BTW, current estimates for the India-Japan HSR will be done by around 2027-2028 lmao.
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Its been almost 2 years since I made this post. The current update from
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(updated Oct 2025). The previous estimates say that it will be done by 2027-2028, but I think its gonna take longer than 2030 at the rate they are going.Screenshot 2025-11-05 at 14-22-49 Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor - Wikipedia.png
 
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uguduwa

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mossen said:
Are you sure? Indian social media is full of arrogant Jai Hinds convinced their country is on a cusp of being a superpower. That is a much bigger problem for Indian progress than "self-loathing". You can't improve if you don't have a realistic understanding of where you stand and how you got there.

India has 80 years of independence and never fought an existential war. The biggest war they fought they actually won (1971), but it never seriously threatened their homeland. They never had communism. Yet even countries like Vietnam, which spent 30+ years being in existential wars, have now bypassed them.

There are deep structural reasons for why that is the case but I rarely see Indians reflect on that. I don't think "self-loathing" is the problem here.
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I guess both and they still talk about caste in 21st century. I couldn‘t believe it at first.
 
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