sometimes people vent to me about stuff like, high school or early college interpersonal drama and its very obvious half of the information is like. Bad faith interpretations and secondhand rumors and i never know to what extent im supposed to like. Pretend all of this is real.

lolll

Fr, my biggest problem with major movies is that don't take into account the colour and texture of the film.

I think if I just gave all power to some family members during the regency for my underage imperial heir it would actually revitalise the dynasty and fix a lot of things

There is an interesting conversation to be had about the nature of how we process through photography, and the choices that photographers make about colour, lens and framing.

Das Ding ist, die KI-Sequenzen sind komplett überflüssig. TerrraX nutzt einen doku Stil wie man ihn heute auch auf youtube findet. Statische Bilder auf denen rumgezoomt wird während der Sprecher einem was erklärt, zwischendurch interview und real life footage, da braucht es keine KI.

Yeah I would correctly interpret this thing being put in front of me as a sign my district did not give a shit about my education.

We have those. They are called lollipops.

This is not an endorsement of the Nier x Azure Lane Collab btw, the crazy is meant negatively

Literally everyone has “lived experience,” and I’m going to need folks to be little more specific of what the experiences are.

sorry about the plagiarism but there's only a finite number of atoms in the universe

Norbert Ruiguo Honeysuckle Pomelo Water

A NieR: Automata x Azure Lane Collab is kind of crazy

Claude fasst es zusammen. RBI- was deutschsprachige Medien erwähnen vs. die Realität vom Rest der Welt. #Raiffeisensektor #RBI 🫡

austrians love calling a food something it is visibly not

i dont have 500 kron to enter but i have my 8K camera that i can just crop into door view

Surveys like this one ⬇️ underscore how little information many people draw upon when they answer questions like “what do you think about country X”.

Thing about British Steel being nationalised is there is no argument around nationalising it that doesn't also apply to the universities except "steel is boy coded :) and teaching is girl coded :("

the outrage over the malvinas banner is hilarious because can you imagine the sort of things the english would be saying if they'd won

My process for blocking people sometimes just is "this person just followed me but I don't really like their vibe"

Certified Austria moment

Viktor Orban's long time foreign minister has joined BYD! Péter Szijjártó has resigned from Parliament to join Chinese car giant BYD as the executive responsible for the company's external relations and the development of new business divisions. Via Viktória Serdült on X

"Österreich wiederum pocht auf eine Sanktionsausnahme, um die Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) für Verluste in Russland zu entschädigen." övp, wie immer...

Goals tbh

Have you ever seen any printing presses or bookstores from the Qing dynasty? I found these illustrations of the publishing industry in a print ad in some books of illustrated news articles published by Dianshizhai in the late 19th century. One of the findings from my special collections visit today.

There's a Confucius statue outside of the building my Chinese classes at PKU are in and it will get some crackers before the big exams

just to follow up on this, I think most people tend to think of eunuchs as a 'they can be trusted with the palace women' thing. But this wasn't really it! There were about 10,000 eunuchs employed in the capital alone, very few had anything to do with the concubines.

Like 9 times of 10 interest groups for "Farmers" are actually Tractor salespeople

The PKU library building is so beautiful

The Temple of Emperors of Former Dynasties has a larger exhibition now and it's quite interesting, there's also a map showing where in china which surname is most common although I sadly forgot to take a picture

calling your besties 愛妃 is such a good bit btw

Anti-AI pro-China people are sometimes very funny

Manchmal ist eine Zigarre auch nur eine Zigarre - S. Freud

"All of this tacitly establishes an historically specific idea of ‘literacy’ that we’ve come to conflate with literacy itself. [...] It’s called Modernism."

My own, highly unreliable feeling, is that Starmer’s premiership will be largely forgotten, merged in with Johnson, Truss and Sunak as a kind of ‘Brexit hangover’ period of history, characterised by delusion and xenophobia all around.

one of the China-watching habits that irritates me is overinterpretation, where every societal trend has to be linked back to some grand social worry or government concern. Great examples here. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

You will never believe what a lot of that renewable energy is used for (its not just EVs, although it is a thing that you will find in chinese EVs)

lol i got blocked for this

the Idea of the "Great Power" or even "Global Power" is even more fake and flawed than that of the "Middle power" or "Regional power"

According to this chart the US is about as undemocratic as the PRC and i just really don't think thats true

I endorse this

This Sunday millions will watch the World Cup Final; meanwhile in #Japan 17-year-old Yorkshireman Nicholas Tarasenko makes his professional #sumo debut in Nagoya. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/sumo/...

Correction, this price difference is apparently only true for the convenience stores in BeiDa campus, condoms are a bit cheaper (69¥ the pack, instead of the 89¥ in BeiDa)

Immigration laws are fucking stupid

I would be for never enforcing immigration laws tbh

anyone have a comic sans font for sanskrit

Ending the urban rural divide by depopulating rural areas and moving everyone into urban areas

Straightforwardly, we should reallocate a lot of money away from rural and exurban subsidies and towards cities, because the status quo has prosperous, tolerant places heavily subsidizing places that hate and oppress them. I think we should stop doing that.

Rural areas are poor because they're rural not because of government policy which bends over backwards to subsidize the shit out of them lol

The thing about the condom extra tax in china was kinda weird but they're like really expensive, like you can buy (at least) 2 packs of cigarettes for the price of one pack of condoms