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Forums > Food & Drink > Opening sewn rice bags

Unraveling those bags are direction specific, pull it from the correct side and it'll come off easily, pull it from the wrong side and itvwill increase your blood pressure.

If you take a close look, one side has only one thread running along the seam while. the other has two. If the single thread is facing you then start from the right side, if it is facing away from you then start from the left.

Examine the leading thread of where you are going to start, the first loop need to be undone first, once you back the lead out of that first loop then gently pull on it and watch it unravel.

Another technique is to simply cut off the lead from the edge of the bag so that you have stubs on either side of the bag and then begin pulling.

Either way, the key is to start on the correct side.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > New Coronavirus

All public places in Yunnan are now required to use your WeChat account scan a APP QR CODE (the circular kind) for entrance and exit as of this afternoon.

One major problem that I see is the collection and usage of the data. For the virus tracking and containment to be effective, every person's every movement needs to be logged, if the tracking is incomplete then it defeats the purpose. Problems with this can already be seen. First, not everyone has a WeChat account, the elderly and the young comes to mind. Second, it is too easy to bypass the checkpoint as the store clerks lack training and is simply overwhelmed by the sheer number of people. I have witnessed first hand, shoppers walking in without scanning dispite being requested/ordered to do so.

With regards to data collected, how is the data being protected from third party usage and/or non authorized usage within the government. What's to prevent this in-program app from becoming a tool of big brother?

There are too many questions left unasked, let alone answered. When all is said and done, this is one big exercise of the blind leading the blind.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Keep Calm and Carry on

Xi warned officials that efforts to stop virus could hurt economy: sources
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“Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country's economy, sources told Reuters, days before Beijing rolled out measures to soften the blow.”

So here comes the inevitable economic calculus. Even with a full quarantine, you cannot stamp out an outbreak in a month, it would now appear foolish to have even believed shutting down an entire region and implementing a haphazard patchwork of emergency regulations in the rest of the country could have worked.

We are now told to focus our attention and energy on making the economy strong, virus or no virus. No sacrifice is too great in order to achieve that goal.

Go Wuhan #WuhanJiayou

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Reasons to be cheerful

Many years later, when my child asks me why so many of her classmates were born in the same month, I'd have to answer, it all started with a bat....

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Let's hope the Chinese, both its people and the government, does not make the same mistake as Japan did in WWII, into thinking that Americans are too soft and lack the resolve to pursue its enemies. If nothing else, history has shown that the US have its share of vindictive, hate-filled people who love nothing more than a fight based on perceived slights, Any attack on America will not be easily forgotten or forgiven.

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If you are not interested in their work or project, even 20 seconds is too long. If you are truly into what they are doing, you would love to hear every little nuance that would give you better insight.

From what I can gather, this event is meant to create a platform for people to showcase their work but because the audience might not be interested, you'd have to distill ideas into 20 second sound bites. So that begs the question, if they aren't interested in your project why would you bother pitching it to them? And as an audience member, why would you go to one of these presentations if you are not interested in what they are presenting? Anything worth doing is worth doing well, unless this is one of those "social" events where people can go and pretend they are more "cultured" than the rest of us. Then in that case, lets just go through the motions as quickly as possible so we can get to the drinking and socializing bit at the end.

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We are now devolving into a culture of instant gratification, short attention spans and sound bites. Nothing is worth giving more than 20 seconds worth of discussion before moving on to the next topic. Ideas are now commoditized and pass around like fast food because we are no longer capable of in depth thought. Much like fast food, immediately after consumption it feel as if you are full, but in reality, nothing of real value was given. This is true of TED talks, it started well but soon became a money making scheme where anybody willing to pay the fee can give a "talk". Most talks given, however, are nothing more than filler that can be googled, nothing ground breaking. It has more value to the presenter for it adds a line to their list of "accomplishments" than the audience.

I'm sure this event is well meaning and has perceived value to those who participated but I wouldn't recommend patting yourself on the back for attending.

Please excuse the ramblings from this grumpy old geezer.

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I wonder how that someone got to Chinainthe first place, certainly wasn't by walking or bicycling. nor by ship. And unless there is a secret trans-Atlantic or trans-Pacific railroad, not by train either.

And what kind of renewable, non-environment harming energy he is using to fire up all those electronic gadgets he uses to go online.

Ya know, my pa had a sayin, don't shit where you eat and most certainly don't complain about The smoke if you want a BBQ rib.

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