China 🇨🇳

[Gawa]

We need to talk about China more. I keep seeing really cool social programs and technology advancements in China so I'll just be using this thread to dump random bits I come across at times.

[Gawa]

Paving roads with only technology:

This is the sort of investments our government need to be making in tech to lower our spending on public services.

[lordb]

Stick Thames Town into Maps & have look around
surreal

[JoeinOz]

China managed to develop a market economy competitive globally. BUT, in doing so, haven't budged an inch on the suppression of speech and dissent

[salopstick]

I normally get special fried rice, king prawn curry with some salt and pepper spare ribs. Tasty

[Gawa]

Oct 10, 2024 11:12:59 GMT lordb said:

Stick Thames Town into Maps & have look around
surreal

That is very impressive. Looks like Chester or something. China's version of our little China. Wonder if its filled with Sunday roasts instead of Chinese restaurants lol

[thisisouryear]

Oct 10, 2024 10:02:37 GMT Gawa said:

Paving roads with only technology:

This is the sort of investments our government need to be making in tech to lower our spending on public services.

And to put more people out of work and make more people homeless. Under a left wing government it maybe good but we only vote for right wing governments

[jesusmcmuffin]

A great bunch of lads

[mickeythemaestro]

Oct 10, 2024 11:12:59 GMT lordb said:

Stick Thames Town into Maps & have look around
surreal

Blimey. Quite bizarre that is😲

[chuffedstokie]

Always seem to do well at the Olympics.

[frasier37]

Are we talking Wedgewood or Doulton?

[Gawa]

[thisisouryear]

Oct 12, 2024 8:55:21 GMT Gawa said:

Imagine being on that swing during an earthquake

[Gods]

Singapore built the Marina Bay Sands hotel in 2010, 14 years earlier.

I stayed there a couple of times, the 'infinity' swimming pool at the top is kind of different!

[Gawa]

Oct 12, 2024 10:18:38 GMT Gods said:

Singapore built the Marina Bay Sands hotel in 2010, 14 years earlier.

I stayed there a couple of times, the swimming pool at the top is kind of different!

You must be minted staying in places like that Very cool!

[Gods]

Oct 12, 2024 13:36:23 GMT Gawa said:

Oct 12, 2024 10:18:38 GMT Gods said:

Singapore built the Marina Bay Sands hotel in 2010, 14 years earlier.

I stayed there a couple of times, the swimming pool at the top is kind of different!

You must be minted staying in places like that Very cool!

No, no, work trip, we had our Global Sales Kick Off there, on 2 occasions. No way was I paying!

[jesusmcmuffin]

Oct 12, 2024 10:18:38 GMT Gods said:

Singapore built the Marina Bay Sands hotel in 2010, 14 years earlier.

I stayed there a couple of times, the 'infinity' swimming pool at the top is kind of different!

Not being a height person, I struggled looking up at it

The Petronas Tower ...that fillum made me dizzy with Zeta Jones and that bald Scottish ,James Bond, looking up at it , the thing is mental. No way was going up it

[adri2008]

Authoritarian obviously but shit actually gets done and they plan for the long term as they don't have to worry about bribing voters with unaffordable goodies every 5 years.

[frasier37]

Oct 12, 2024 10:18:38 GMT Gods said:

Singapore built the Marina Bay Sands hotel in 2010, 14 years earlier.

I stayed there a couple of times, the 'infinity' swimming pool at the top is kind of different!

Meh, give me a terraced cottage air b&b with outside toilet any day 

[thehartshillbadger]

Oct 14, 2024 15:17:51 GMT frasier37 said:

Oct 12, 2024 10:18:38 GMT Gods said:

Singapore built the Marina Bay Sands hotel in 2010, 14 years earlier.

I stayed there a couple of times, the 'infinity' swimming pool at the top is kind of different!

Meh, give me a terraced cottage air b&b with outside toilet any day 

I’ve been, it’s dead boring

[frasier37]

Oct 14, 2024 17:41:09 GMT thehartshillbadger said:

Oct 14, 2024 15:17:51 GMT frasier37 said:

Meh, give me a terraced cottage air b&b with outside toilet any day 

I’ve been, it’s dead boring

No dart board or skittle table?

[thehartshillbadger]

Oct 14, 2024 18:01:39 GMT frasier37 said:

Oct 14, 2024 17:41:09 GMT thehartshillbadger said:

I’ve been, it’s dead boring

No dart board or skittle table?

If only, there wasn’t even a free jukebox. Absolutely abysmal

[thehartshillbadger]

China is the blueprint

[maninasuitcase]

Oct 12, 2024 10:18:38 GMT Gods said:

Singapore built the Marina Bay Sands hotel in 2010, 14 years earlier.

I stayed there a couple of times, the 'infinity' swimming pool at the top is kind of different!

Were you up with the God's, Gods?

[maninasuitcase]

Oct 14, 2024 18:07:32 GMT thehartshillbadger said:

China is the blueprint

For what?
Bandaged feet?

[Tom_stokiepmre89]

I’ve heard some rumblings that China is in deep financial shit; a consequence of the latent effects of the one child policy, and a property bubble that is on the brink of catastrophic collapse.

I’m not economically literate so I don’t know if to believe it, but there’s a lot of extremely professional looking content on YouTube reporting this.

[Tom_stokiepmre89]

Oct 14, 2024 18:07:32 GMT thehartshillbadger said:

China is the blueprint

Never had you down as a communist. Have you developed an infatuation with ash sarkar?

[Gawa]

[Gawa]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yp47prg7jo

The speed in which China's space programme is advancing is crazy! Just goes to show what can be achieved in a short time with the right aspirations. Excited to see which advancements may come out of this.

[flea79]

Oct 10, 2024 12:53:13 GMT jesusmcmuffin said:

A great bunch of lads

there are no maori on the oatcake though!