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Comment · 1 year ago
I've come across at least one fundamental and very official document from the central government in Peking that was made available as a Word document rather than a PDF. So strange.
Comment · 1 year ago
Chinese grammar, mandarin or whatever, is surprisingly simple. It's the characters that are complex.
Comment · 1 year ago
Does it involve the LDVS board that you solder to the main board? I'm looking for a good source and one that doesn't cause problems with the setting for brightness.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nice idea! So different to phonetic transcriptions of names written with Latin characters. Would be nice to include Cantonese Jyutping in addition to the Chinese characters.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for citing real statistics instead of idées reçues from the 1990s, as the above poster did.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's run by the son of Charles Gave, Louis-Vincent. Fairly well known in France. Successful investors. Check out Charles's philanthropic project, the Institut des Libertés.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wait a second. Did Bombardier have other offers for the C Series? It's a great plane but the circumstances of the sale are unknown to me. It happened so fast.
Comment · 2 years ago
Canada doesn't have an auto industry??

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/canadian-automotive-industr...

Detroit is only the headquarters of the combined manufacturing base spanning the US and Canada.

Comment · 2 years ago
> We saw what happened to Bud Light when they ran a pride campaign - from which they're still recovering. Tractor Supply Company is currently reeling from their "woke" campaign. Both companies have right-wing majority markets and they lost significant sales and market share.

Perhaps not the central point of your message, I find the above phenomenon fascinating. I.e., a company that inexplicably alienates its principal demographic of clients through a seemingly unwise publicity campaign. I have the feeling that we're dealing with amateurish attempts to gain some points for the 'S' in ESG.

Comment · 2 years ago
The rabbit hole of Chinese and Italy goes even deeper. They go gaga about Italy, at least Chinese women. I've listened to two Chinese women go on and on how Italy has a culture similar to Chinese etc. Prato is the tip of the iceberg if you ask me.
Comment · 2 years ago
Same here. In my opinion, it's a combination of mimicry of the pro-war western press (with its wildly optimistic faith in US military power) and an incomplete understanding of the history behind certain events like the genesis and resolution of WWII and the dissolution of the USSR.
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't know what the criteria were to avoid the purge but I know personally a Russian of German parents from Kaliningrad/Königsberg. A certain of ethnic Germans were allowed to stay.
Comment · 2 years ago
Your focus is wrong. Poland made a number of political decisions based on British advice and promises. That the British and French couldn't lend a hand in time, is beside the point.
Comment · 2 years ago
There is surely a lesson to be learnt from history. The UK offered certain assurances to Poland before WWII then backed off when it realised that the heat was too much.

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