• Muad'DibberA
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    3 years ago

    /unjerk it is genuinely messed up how the greatest minds in capitalist countries, and some of the highest paid brain-workers, are mainly devoted to two things: figuring out of to get people to click on ads, and creating complicated tools to aid in financial speculation.

    Meanwhile in China, the smartest minds are building fusion reactors, maglev trains, going to mars, ending poverty, reforestation, etc.

    Another:

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    3 years ago

    It’s a classic, incidentally my new favourite term to describe libs is also “marvel brained”

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        Did some digging and you’re right, it’s Binhai library in Tianjin. The architect is MVRDV if anyone wants to check out what else they’ve made.

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    3 years ago

    Petition for China to start naming their infrastructure projects like marvel movies. Bullet Train: New Way Home

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    3 years ago

    Capitalism can’t plan farther then the next ‘quarter’ in advance. 3 months vs 5 years, ya no wonder China is succeeding while the west decays. Long live the Immortal science.