More like gen x right? But yeah the whole "sad sack stuck in boring desk job is actually a superhero ludicrously buff guy with pronouns as his name " schtick is extremely cringe

是很漂亮！It looks like a font. Extremely neat. Though, the “tails” on some of your letters are so short that they might be mistaken for other letters.

Like your P could be mistaken for a D

Oh shit. What a based priest

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Catholic stereotypes defied. Priest is based actually

Handmaids tale but less whimsical. No red robes or any of the other trimmings. Just the stupidest people imagineable running a declining empire while governing in the most racist and cruel way while still supporting business, just increasingly kkkristian coded.

Thats the result anyway. But an actual civil war? No shot. This happens without significant opposition.

Yeah fair enough. Seems like dumb bait tho

The humanoid robots thing that various companies (and I guess the CCP now?) are trying to push is so weird to me.

Like if they are doing it so that people feel more comfortable interacting with them, I guarantee they will not feel warm and fuzzy about a humanoid border cop robot. If they are doing it because a humanoid robot is more effective than other forms, there’s no way that’s true given how difficult they are to balance/stabilize/move/etc.

So like… why? Just the cool factor? Seems dumb.

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The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence. Documentaries about the personal and psychological effects of the massacre of ~1M suspected communists (really just working people in unions, landless farmers, and some intellectuals) in Indonesia in the 60s and 70s following the military coup in 1965. This was directly aided and abetted by the US and other Western nations. The US intelligence aparatus provided lists of suspected communists to the coup government which then interned them in concentration camps and murdered them. The Indonesian perpetrators of the mass murders still directly control the government, military, and police.

The Act of Killing is a strangely surreal exploration of the banality of evil and a character study of members of Indonesian death squads as they make a movie (a very strange movie) about their actions during the massacres and are confronted with the effects of their actions - both their own psychological trauma as well as the pain and suffering they inflicted upon others.

The Look of Silence is a deeply personal documentary that follows Adi, an optometrist, and his family as he travels rural Indonesia interviewing people involved in the brutal murder of his brother under the pretense of fitting them for glasses (he presumably actually makes glasses for them).

A bit dark for the holidays, but they are amazing films. Deeply disturbing, sad, moving, and often funny films about a period of history that doesn’t get talked about much in the West.

What is a gun if not a tube that you can choose to put explosives into to fire a projectile from the tube? I see no reason you couldn’t load a clarinet like a tiny blunderbuss and fire it once. Turns out AI is pretty smart afterall

They aren’t promoting an environmentalist message here though, but an anti-animal-cruelty message. You can agree or disagree that it’s a good message, but it has nothing to do with their shitty AI ad.

I was there once. Some old white dude in flip flops told me about how 1) aliens made this with cold lasers (because no burn marks on the rock/they aren’t melted) and/or gave humans the technology to make it, 2) he’s psychic and has prophetic dreams - particularly he predicted a bunch of natural disasters, he said.

Either way, yep those rocks fit together really tightly; it’s neat.

This isn’t just murders against women, btw, it is murders against women because of their gender. So a hate crime against women.

Life sentences in italy are indeterminate in length, but typically 15-30 years. After 10 years they may be allowed to work outside the prison during the day. Conditional release after 26 years.

US does mulled wine, but it’s more of a general winter thing. More common up north in areas with more northern european influence, I think. Mince pies aren’t really a thing, though, which is a shame.

很酷！很多的人也很多的我的朋友 from my hometown & childhood 和你一样来自中国。我喜欢能看到 the etymology in a 汉字。

I wish 我的中文是足够好 to understand 中文 TV. 老师小猪佩奇不是有趣的。

我正在学习中文。中文很难！

I took a break from learning Chinese for a while due to personal stuff being busy and am trying to get back into it. Chinese is a very logical language, I think, and learning it is fun and interesting but challenging. I was just about HSK1 level, I think, before I stopped. I gotta boot up peppa pig in mandarin again - 你好小猪佩奇老师，我是你的学生！

Their logo is a stylized poop emoji

I know several working class folks who grew up in the USSR who, while they admit it wasn’t perfect, were very happy with how things were then and - although some of them are now onboard the Pravda train to looneyville & love Putin and believe the Russian Orthodox church line that Ukraine is led by baby-eating, devil-worshipping, Nazi Pedophiles (not an exaggeration) - they admit things are much worse than they were then and place the blame squarely on moving away from communism & planned economy.

Because of strong social programs, they had access to good education, work & a high quality of life, and a level of recreation and leisure that seems wild to me as an American.

Communism is not a monolith. There are many tendencies. And YMMV depending on the folks in power, just like any system. Additionally, despots love to call themselves socialist/communist while doing nothing relating to seizing the means of production - look at Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) as an example.

Imagine if we asked folks “What’s your experience been like living in a capitalist regime”. Most people would think thats a weird question because of how many types of capitalist regimes exist - it’sa general economic framework, not a system of government. Your experience will vary wildly if you are from like rural Kenya vs the US vs Scandinavia.

Looks like bald nathan fielder

Stephen King is not a good writer. He has great story ideas; but, his actual writing is poor and he does weird things that are unsupported by the narrative - like writing sewer gangbang scenes with children so that they can defeat the bad guy with the power of underage eskimo brotherhood.

You can explain that in a less derisive way that sounds a bit more reasonable, but it doesn’t make it a good narrative choice.

Another example is 11/22/63. People on reddit cream their pants over the book, but it’s literally just King self-inserting as the main character so he can (totally uncritically) reminisce over how great small town America was in the 50s/60s and have a fantasy relationship with this incredibly weak/badly-written female character and repeatedly “make poundcake” with her and drink rootbeer floats in diners or whatever. It’s an 800+ page book (paperback is 1049 pages) supposedly about time traveling to stop the Kennedy assassination (which is a cool story idea), but like 700+ pages are filled with asinine garbage and the actual plot is thin and pretty bad.