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I feel like claims that losing the 3 Gorges dam would headshot China are overstated. It would definitely cause them a lot of trouble and be a big hit in the pocketbook but it wouldn't cripple them by a long shot.
It would flood and deposit a layer of sediment over the agricultural region responsible for half of their crop output (incl 2/3 of rice production).
 
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Most a third of a billion people would be erased in minutes if it was to fail...
The 400 million people downriver from the dam don't all live clustered right around the dam's base, retard. Yichang, the first large city downstream from the dam, would take 30 minutes to an hour for the water to reach. Wuhan is 300km away and would have 12 hours or more of warning, and Nanjing and Shanghai are around 1000-1200km away.

Also China isn't some state of primitive cavemen, they do have warning systems and such because the danger is well known.
 
Granted, I'm part of this group, but maybe make it permissible to go away via bankruptcy again?
Its my understanding that people getting pricey degrees like say doctors would instantly declare bankruptcy and being doctors have no problem getting new loans etc.

The problem with non dischargible debt is it created infinite demand and the University sucked up every mouth breathing retard to saddle them with degrees that were worthless.

I would basically institute a tax on endownments meaning a student should be able to argue that their polysci degree isnt earning what they paid for it.

So to make people whole eat the endownments that would make university more selective about shit.
 
I feel like claims that losing the 3 Gorges dam would headshot China are overstated. It would definitely cause them a lot of trouble and be a big hit in the pocketbook but it wouldn't cripple them by a long shot.
The consequences of the dam being destroyed are catastrophic and very real. The question everyone glosses over is HOW this would happen.

The only realistic way I can think of is via ICBMs because I don't see how anything else would have the range or the fire volume to survive the gauntlet of China's ground and air defenses to commit this warcrime.
 
I have tried making ice cream at home before. You really do need an ice cream making machine if you want that smooth texture because taking the product out of the freezer every 15-20 minutes to mix it up again and break down the ice crystals gets very tiresome .
Sounds like you have too much air in the mixture if you are getting ice crystals like that. I make it with a machine and using the plastic bag method and never have issues with crystals forming.

What is your process?
 
The 400 million people downriver from the dam don't all live clustered right around the dam's base, retard. Yichang, the first large city downstream from the dam, would take 30 minutes to an hour for the water to reach. Wuhan is 300km away and would have 12 hours or more of warning, and Nanjing and Shanghai are around 1000-1200km away.

Also China isn't some state of primitive cavemen, they do have warning systems and such because the danger is well known.

In truth the panic would kill more people then the flood. Imagine being a Chink in Wuhan and your told the damn has collapsed, shit would get wild as everyone tries to flee.

For the record I don't hate individual Chinks, just their government and agents. The average dude living in Wuhan is just trying to get by and do the best he can for his family under the CCP. I bear him no hate.

The Chink officials and party members....no so much. I would do the happy merchant bit if I heard Chairman Meow died due to his own policies.
 
Consoooooming massive amounts of emulsifiers is probably bad for people (colon cancer).
They've also been linked to intestinal inflammation and impairment of the gut barrier which in itself is linked to shit like autoimmune disease and a bunch of other chronic conditions.
Be aware that a lot of heavy cream also has emulsifiers in it. I buy cream from a local farm to avoid it, and I've seen some health focused brands without it but all the others I've seen in stores have carageenan and similar shit.
 
Sounds like you have too much air in the mixture if you are getting ice crystals like that. I make it with a machine and using the plastic bag method and never have issues with crystals forming.

What is your process?
I made it a few times, but a long time ago. From memory I used a blender to combine full fat milk, egg, sugar and I used a chocolate porter stout for flavor (this was a recipe tailored for using a beer in the ice cream). Then I poured the resulting mixture into a sealed plastic container and put into the freezer. Then I would take the half-frozen mixture out and manually churn it with a fork before putting it back in for another ~30 minutes and repeating the process a few more times until I eventually got impatient and decided "this is good enough".

Never heard of the bag method before so I'll have to look it up.
And HFCS is just a sweetener, why are people upset?
I dunno, why ARE people so upset over HFCS?

I try to avoid it because it's way TOO sweet compared to cane sugar and sometimes gives a product an extra weird taste that I do not appreciate/expect.
 
It doesn't help that there's so much bullshit surrounding the original case.
Turns out the "Jane Roe" plaintiff was actually lying and the case was brought about on false premises!!
Oh, no, wait, on her deathbed she confessed that she was getting paid off by the Evangelicals and she wasn't lying when she was a plaintiff?
Anyone who says they were paid off to lie before, but are totally not lying now while being knowingly recorded for a documentary, is inherently not trustworthy.
 
The consequences of the dam being destroyed are catastrophic and very real. The question everyone glosses over is HOW this would happen.

The only realistic way I can think of is via ICBMs because I don't see how anything else would have the range or the fire volume to survive the gauntlet of China's ground and air defenses to commit this warcrime.

You gravely underestimate Chinese corruption and their willingness to cut corners. The Three Gorges Dam was a Millennium Project heralded by the Communist Party, but it was rife with corruption scandals. It was never environmentally feasible to maintain, and even after it began operations in full, there were problems that kept getting swept under the rug and the people who rang the alarm bells disappeared. Older dams constructed during Chairman Mao's time are only now beginning to fail, and that's considering how the quality back then was bad but nowhere near the travesty that it is today. If an ICBM won't destroy the Three Gorges (and I certainly hope not for fear of mutually assured destruction), then the omnipresent, quarter-assed 差不多 work ethic most certainly will result in the dam's destruction. It'll just take decades (if that) for it to happen.
 
Anyone who says they were paid off to lie before, but are totally not lying now while being knowingly recorded for a documentary, is inherently not trustworthy.
I just wish America could find a sane middle ground between "no abortions ever" and "babies are free game to kill as long as they are still in the womb", but this is unrealistic so I just end up supporting Planned Parenthood for their fine work in the black community.
You gravely underestimate Chinese corruption and their willingness to cut corners
The one positive aspect of /pol/ was getting put into place repeatedly with "let me tell you about your country" memes so I'll be the first to say that I don't know the real state of Chinese corruption. Maybe it's an "Eye of Sauron" thing where corruption is omnipresent unless Beijing lazer-focuses on something. It's certainly easy to assume that it's pervasive with watching highlight videos of buildings crumbling, but something tells me it's more complicated than that.

It's hard for me to imagine even a big structure like a dam surviving multiple nuclear warhead strikes because you just need to sufficiently compromise the structure for the weight of the water to do the rest instead of breaching it outright. What I was mostly pushing back on is the assumption of some people that striking the dam will be easy in a state of war. These same people also tend to assume that communication/positioning satellites will survive longer than a few months after the start of a global conflict or that SEAD is the ultimate clap-back when someone brings up enemy AD.
 
I feel like claims that losing the 3 Gorges dam would headshot China are overstated. It would definitely cause them a lot of trouble and be a big hit in the pocketbook but it wouldn't cripple them by a long shot.
It would kill hundreds of millions of people instantly, and basically all of what they use for farmland would be destroyed. Massive amounts of trash and industrial waste would be spread across the region, meaning what land is left would be unsuitable for farming, forever. I think a large amount of their industrial base would also be instantly wiped out.

They'd immediately need the entire rest of the world to go into immediate mass food production to feed the survivors, and every industry they have would be completely destroyed.

Headshot is not a strong enough term. China as we know it would cease to be, forever.
 
Its my understanding that people getting pricey degrees like say doctors would instantly declare bankruptcy and being doctors have no problem getting new loans etc.

The problem with non dischargible debt is it created infinite demand and the University sucked up every mouth breathing retard to saddle them with degrees that were worthless.

I would basically institute a tax on endownments meaning a student should be able to argue that their polysci degree isnt earning what they paid for it.

So to make people whole eat the endownments that would make university more selective about shit.

Yeah, they also got rid of a credit score check being necessary for fed student loans.

Honestly, I'd make it so that there's automatic job placements for people who did go through degrees but can't find employment. We're in a hyper-credentialized society that has garbage for entry level openings.
 
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