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Water levels at China's giant Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river are inching closer to their maximum after torrential rains raised inflows to a record high, official data showed on Friday.
With 75,000 cubic metres per second of water flowing in from the Yangtze River on Thursday, the reservoir's depth had reached 165.6 metres (543 feet) by Friday morning, up more than two metres (6.6 feet) overnight and almost 20 metres (65.6 feet) higher than the official warning level.
The maximum designed depth of China's largest reservoir is 175 metres (574 feet).
Authorities raised the discharge volume to a record 48,800 cubic metres per second on Thursday to try and lower water levels, and they might have to increase it again to avoid the possibility of a dangerous overflow.
Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai are all downstream...
(Score: 2, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @01:17AM (12 children)
It's the god's punishment to Xi's CCP.
Dear CCP "Han" Chinese, repent!!! You have lost the heaven's mandate, and Xi the poo is the culprit.
The last time you fucked up, Manchus ruled your ass for three hundred years.
BTW, is there any connection betweeb xiaolongbao and khinkali? Just curious.
Anyways
Free Hong Kong!
Free Tibet!
Free UIghurs!
Taiwan Numbah Won!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:19AM (3 children)
And which god do you mean?
If I had to worship someone, I'd pick Lei family of the storm gods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigong [wikipedia.org]
They are all cool.
Concerning Tibet: they picked a wrong tech tree for research long time ago so they are weak now.
Concerning Hong Kong: the decolonisation proceeds somewhat slowly lately.
Concerning Uyghurs, a Turkic tribe: maybe they could live better if they return back to Turkey... Or, maybe not, considering a fate of Armenians and Kurds. Is still Turkey a member of NATO and big ally to all liberal democracies?
Taiwan, well, that's really number one: I vote for AMD any day!
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:26AM
The Uighurs aren't from Turkey; they and the Turks are both from the Altai Mountains in Central Asia.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:51AM
You are sick.
(Score: 3, Touché) by PiMuNu on Saturday August 22 2020, @06:14AM
> Concerning Hong Kong: the decolonisation proceeds somewhat slowly lately.
Try disappearing a few more booksellers - I heard that helps.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:27AM
The absolute worst punishment God could inflict on any man is to make him into a ladies' man. That lives in the USofA.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:29AM (3 children)
> You have lost the heaven's mandate
Really? I hadn't heard that their military had collapsed. That is after all what "heaven's mandate" translates to in practice.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday August 22 2020, @03:50AM (2 children)
Not quite. It usually means the respect of those who run the military, but there are a few other ways to lose it. For that interpretation though, you don't need the military to collapse, merely your control over it.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 22 2020, @04:02AM (1 child)
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:20PM
I read it was because Reagan rode in on a horse and pistol-whipped the entire country and they cried like little babies and converted to Christianity. God Bless America!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by PinkyGigglebrain on Saturday August 22 2020, @02:42AM (1 child)
This doesn't punish XI. It might punish the thousands of common people down river who had ZERO power to stop X but we will have to see how badly the dam overflows (fails?).
If your God REALLY wanted to punish XI he would be diagnosed with a rare and deadly aliment that had no cure, and even if it did the treatment would not work because it was "God's Punishmentl". If this was really God's Punishment then Xi would suffer for years as he wasted away in agony and pain.
But where is Xi while thousands of people are at risk of being killed in a flood? Oh right, he is safe far from danger in his "Presidential" estate being pampered by his attendants. Warm and Dry.
So much for your "God's punishment". Same can be said of all the tyrants in the world.
Maybe God has given us everything we need to make something of ourselves and said "Its all yours my children. Make me proud!".
And my how we have failed! But instead of taking responibility for our own actions Humanity as always has gone running for Daddy screaming "Daddy!! Daddy!! We fucked up the gift you gave us and need you to fix everything!".
Personally if my children made as big a mess of what I gave them as Humanity has of God's gift I'd disown them in a heartbeat.
Ever consider that maybe He has?
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2020, @12:57PM
This is the prophecy (Ezekiel 34:2-6) against far too many of the governments of the world:
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday August 22 2020, @09:51AM
In formal logic terms:
_|_ |= anything
(Immerman - ^ there's a joke up there in those parentheses, you are permitted to not laugh, that's fine, but please stop complaining about what is essentially your own lack of sense of humour)
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