Re: Job Offer

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:03:24 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 3/24/2025 6:52 AM, zen cycle wrote:

On 3/23/2025 8:50 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/23/2025 7:47 PM, John B. wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:37:59 -0500, AMuzi
<am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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On 3/22/2025 8:32 PM, zen cycle wrote:

On 3/21/2025 10:06 PM, Ted Heise wrote:

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:27:18 -0700,
    Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
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   I could use some opinions here.  Is this video of
China
for
   real? "This Video Will Change Your View of CHINA!
(no more
   lies)"

>

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED9iaYliMSg> (11:17)

>

   It presents a very positive view of China from the
point of
   view of a resident who emigrated from England 13
years
ago.
   Is all of urban China like that, or is he cherry
picking the
   best and most modern areas?  Do the videos look like
they have
   been "improved" with AI?

>
  From about 2005 to 2019 I made something like 20-30
trips to
China.  The largest number were to Beijing, but I also
spent some
time (multiple days each) in Shanghai, Tianjin,
Guangzhou,
Jinan,
Chengdu, and probably a couple others I'm not recalling.
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I only watched the first few minutes of the video, and
thought it
was not terribly off base--though somewhat
optimistic.  I've
ridden on the bullet trains, including first class.  It's
not bad,
but nowhere as nice as the shinkansen in Japan.  In
general,
things are grubbier up close and not uncommonly in
need of
repair.
>
For example, one conference center I was at had carpet
that was
stained and dirty and had obviously been brought in from
somewhere
else.  The edges were loose and didn't quite fit.
Cupboard doors
in hotel rooms may have broken hinges.  The air in most
cities is
atrocious--unless a front had come through and cleared
the
air, my
sinuses typically burned from the moment of getting off
the plane
until leaving.
>
The nicest hotels are quite nice, and amazingly
affordable.  On
the other hand, you can walk less than a mile and find
yourself in
alleyways that are somewhat scary--at least I felt a bit
nervous
walking alone.
>
Not sure if that answers your question, so please feel
free to ask
more specifics if you like.
>

>
nice response/commentary Ted. I lived in japan for just
over
3 years but it was in the early 1970s when my dad was
stationed here. Things have changed quite a bit since
then.

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+1 it has indeed.
>
Girlfriend lived on Okinawa 1970~1971 and says there were
open ditches of sewage with huge rats and the tap water was
not drinkable.  Utterly unlike my frequent trips on Honshu
1980~1990.

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>
Until July 2071 Okinawa was controlled by the US.
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>
Right and there were riots at reversion as Okinawans
thought better of US servicemen than of Japanese. For good
reason.

 
 
You have that exactly backwards. The Okinawans were tired
and disgusted by the US troop presence, culminating in
protests over the gang rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl
by three US servicemen.
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20210611055447/http://
edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9510/okinawa_protest/index.html
 
Civilian pressure had been mounting to remove the US troops
for many years. The gang rape pushed it to the edge and
forced the tranfers..
 
Any protests you might have read about weren't to maintain
US presence.
 

>

 

>
You are right and I was wrong.
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Turns out her memory wasn't quite right:
https://okinawamemories.org/the-koza-uprising/
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For the interested reader , a Marxist analysis:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv75db00.10?seq=16

I was never stationed in Okinawa but we did fly missions that stopped
there and it was rumored that as there were no atomic weapons allowed
in Japan the U.S. stores were on the island. Most stops were overnight
so never really got to town much and of course all my visits were
before the island was given back to Japan. And yes, from what I saw it
was a pretty sad place.
--
Cheers,

John B.