LA air quality

Beijing air quality

Disgusting or not, it’s a fact. In every country Chinese people go to, they commit relatively little crime.

It’s not about the speed of light. Chinese censors specifically drop long running connections, UDP connections, ECH connections… Chinese ISPs don’t give a shit that their connections to the outside world are extremely congested at peak hours. I’m connecting to a server in South Korea, but it’s so bad it drops 30% of packets at peak hours

And if you think LA is as bad as Beijing, you haven’t been to Beijing

Chinese people in the US also have lower crime rates. If we had a country made up of mostly Chinese immigrants, like a Singapore or Taiwan, we’d have the crime rate of Singapore or Taiwan

Also most people have their houses financed by their parents. Apartments in Beijing cost well north of a million USD in the central areas (there are cheaper places in Beijing, but they are like one to two hours away). You’re not buying it on your $3000-$4000 monthly salary.

Personally, living in China I have huge problems with connectivity to websites outside of China. Even those that don’t require a VPN are just dogshit slow and work faster with a good VPN. But VPNs work sporadically and randomly something will just not load for a while.

That, combined with bad air quality, traffic jams, bad walkability, smokers smoking everywhere (including bathrooms and restaurants) makes my quality of life lower here than in the US

Based

There’s a thing called the power button. You can’t track a phone that’s turned off

If the phone is in China, what are you going to do about it

When I travel I pre-purchase an eSIM and it’s just ready to turn on when I land

You realize that it doesn’t physically do anything, right? Like it just has some bits on it

I buy eSIMs every two months when I travel. I only had issues when I fucked it up by deleting one myself. I’m on eSIM like 20

eSIM just makes more sense. Why do you need a card just to store some random bits of data when your phone can store hundreds of gigabytes of data?

Because Russians loved him for the Chechen war. He got a similar boost in popularity after annexation of Crimea in 2014

The first time he got elected he already started to shut down the free press. He shut down Kukly in 2002

Of course, since the best opposing candidates went to prison. Can’t elect a guy who’s not running. Navalny was a very popular candidate and people would have voted for him, if they had the chance. But we won’t know that because Putin killed him

Of course, because Chinese and Russian media are state-controlled and even filter a lot of outside internet sites

What do you mean? It’s been more than three years and they are less than 25% done

Almost all of my desktop usage is gaming. No, I don’t think a Chromebook and a server somewhere is going to replace that for me.

I live in China, don’t trust any official figure coming out of this place

You do realize that it costs China much less money to produce the same amount of equipment, right?

They can selectively allow connections to those hosts. They already block ECH connections anyway

Why can’t you guys take a win? Just say it’s good Texas is doing this

Why, you didn’t want all of the top results to be scams?