#Three Gorges

[meta-holott]

2002 China, Yangtze, Three Gorges, Chongqing

[koroart]

Punk!Shez & Goth!Byleth my beloveds ( I’ll clean these up ….. eventually )

[sol-insidious]

Soft face touches, feat. the Djarins 💚🖤

[beauty-funny-trippy]

Baatara Gorge Waterfall, Three Bridges Cave, Lebanon

[scarleteyedbstard]

Hunter × Hunter: Greed Island (2003)

“ what do you plan to do about greed island? ” ✮ “ he looks like he doesn’t even see us, fighting against something on his own. ”

[fat-fem-and-asian]

photos for next week's episode!

[peridots-pixiwolf]

woe! first art post since a month ago be upon ye! take my gay bugs

[Start ID of the first image. A digital drawing of the five bugs forming Team Taranoake, drawn without anthropomorphized biology, short clips of text describing each one's name, pronouns, species, and size. The background is a solid-color pale orange, with the rest of the drawing being similarly flat-colored and golden-toned. The first shows Kritto, an azure damselfly, who stands on two legs with short stilts to counter the length of xer abdomen. She's light teal with black stripes, holding a brown scroll in one claw, the other pair of arms tucked between her two backpacks behind xer. Next is Lidii, a worker of the ant species Myrmecocystus mexicanus, yellow and orange. She's rambling about something excitedly, just barely propping up the thick wooden weapon beside her. Third is Rantan, an ox beetle, brown with yellow fur. He subjects himself to whatever Lidii's talking about, sitting with all six limbs on the ground and a mildly tired expression, resting their head on one claw. Gorge, a light purple coquina clam, is settled beneath two of Rantan's legs, his shell decorated with small notes and scribbles from work as an archivist. Last is the sea slug Ceras, a single-stalk aeolis, pink with bright stripes of yellow and white along their cerata. She's drawn further away from the rest, his head turned back towards the other four bugs. Like Kritto, they're marked as an honorary member of the team, lacking the seaglass bracelets shared by the three close-knit bugs from the center of the drawing. End ID.]

^ once again, these guys are from a universe I made with @froggoexists :]

[Start ID of the second image. A colored sketch of two humanized original characters, Ceras, a sea slug from the previous image, and Thorn, a Hollow Knight vessel. They're both drawn from the waist up, facing forward, close enough that Ceras's hand wraps around Thorn's shoulder. Ceras is shown as a young Black person, their cerata incorporated as long locs dyed pink, white and yellow, and piercings stud their ears and tongue. Thorn is paler-skinned, taller and thinner than Ceras, with pointed ears, and white hair styled at the top into two rows of spikes. Ceras is wearing a studded denim vest, thoroughly decorated with eclectic pins and patches, mostly of bands, bugs, games, and simple declarations of hope. Thorn wears instead a black leather jacket, with long studs at the shoulders and smaller ones along the sides and center. One sleeve is torn off, as they don't have a right arm, and the other is cuffed to display the adaptive device making up half their left. Ceras is sticking their tongue out and smiling, one eye shut and the other turned to Thorn, stimming with their free hand. Thorn's looking back at them with a smile.

The background is simple, a pink horizontal wave. There's a bright, pale halo behind Ceras' head, one which resembles a spoked wheel or a sun, seeming to cast light upon the two of them. A line at the bottom of the image reads "part-god mute disabled they/she/he bug punk BESTIES", and at the top of the image there's a small doodle of their original forms sitting together contentedly. End ID]

[romanceyourdemons]

if i had a nickel for every early 21st century mainland chinese film where a group of young adults are sent to a rural town for reeducation during the cultural revolution and they start an innocent romance with one of the locals and later on help facilitate a secret abortion and then years later the whole setting is covered up by the three gorges dam. well then i’d have two nickels

[dougielombax]

*stumbles out of the forest to see a massive hydroelectric dam*

“DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

[falseandrealultravival]

Chinese people and technology (1) The Chinese take technology for granted (Essay)

China's Shoddy Rail Cars

The Chinese take technology for granted. They cannot treat it fairly. Let me give you some examples.

1) They steal and introduce technology. Typical examples are high-speed rail technology, solar power generation, and EVs. They stole all of these from Japan. Once they have stolen them, they promote them to the world as if the technology originated in China.

2) Cutting corners in construction (shoddy construction). Bribery is common in China, and the money needed for construction is handed over to those with approval authority under the guise of a contract, so there is less capital available for construction. As a result, cutting corners is rampant in civil engineering construction projects, and structures often collapse within a short period after construction. China's pride and joy, the Three Gorges Dam, has more than 10,000 cracks in its embankment.

3) When the number of entrants increases and product over-competition intensifies, as in the case of EVs, in order to break out of the competitive situation, there is a tendency to compete with lower quality products by degrading the technology, rather than introducing more advanced technology and achieving high-level differentiation. This causes the evaluation of all Chinese brand products to fall. This phenomenon has also been seen in motorcycles and other products.

As mentioned above, the Chinese are underestimating technology. They are essentially ignorant of technology.

Rei Morishita

2024.09.14

中国人と技術（１）中国人は技術を舐めている（エッセイ）

中国人は技術を舐めている。技術を正当に扱えない。いくつか例を挙げてみよう。

技術をパクって導入する。代表的な例として、高速鉄道技術、太陽光発電、EV。いずれも盗むように、日本からパクった。そして一度パクると、あたかもその技術が中国発祥のような顔をして、世界に喧伝する。

オカラ工事（手抜き工事）。中国では賄賂が常態化していて、工事に必要な金をそでの下として認可権限を持つ者に差し出すので、工事に投入できる資本は少なくなる。そこで土木建設工事には手抜き工事が横行し、施行以後、短期間で構造物が崩壊することが多い。中国自慢の三峡ダムには堤体に１万か所以上のひび割れが存在する。

EVのように参入業者が多くなり、製品の過当競争が激しくなると、そこから抜け出すために、より高い技術を導入して、ハイレベルの差別化を図るのではなく、技術を劣化させて低品質の製品で競争する傾向がある。そのため中国ブランドの製品すべての評価がさがる。これはバイクなどにもみられた現象である。

以上のように、中国人は技術を舐めている。本質的に技術を知らないのである。

[meta-holott]

2002 China, Yangtze, Three Gorges

[titsthedamnseason]

so you’re telling me i woke up only to learn that i missed a new jacket, an 8 minute long ovation, i know places (KMS), king of my heart (NO LITERALLY KMSSSSS), and a new midnights bodysuit? IM GOING BACK TO SLEEP.

[keryth-fr]

twintania is so full of hatred

[bladewarde]

hello i am in love???

[no-tengo-ojos]

The lift in the library just whispered ‘Beware the Ides of March’ to me and I almost shat myself

[zaiinab]

me finding out zakaria has a whole ass WIFE??????