Populism

IE: doing popular things that make people like you, is inherently bad and evil.

They’re so scared of the unwashed masses they proscribe anything to do with them as evil regardless of the nature of the politics.

Yeah same here man. Did not budget for a new wardrobe when I started losing weight 💀

It’s ridiculous because rokos basilisk has a built-in element which requires you to share knowledge of its existence.

The more people know about it, the more likely it will be to come into existence. Just like most (all?) religions the idea of the basilisk is self propagating.

I did a presentation about them in 3rd grade.

So at that time, I was thinking about them as well.

If only we were all so lucky 😔

I bet they wouldn’t spend the entire time jacking their ego off and then listing their entire family tree

Tying star wars action figures to the ceiling fan with fishing line and turning it on.

Those things would be worth a fortune today

“thanks to India and China”

Liberal hogwash to put the blame on countries which produce the slop they all consume. Where do they ship the industrial goods? Chinese industrial development is directly correlated to the offshoring of US industry. US finance companies still dominate global markets and direct the production of billions of dollars of goods and the creation of billions of tons of CO2.

Completely unserious analysis and understanding. You can’t seem to see past your own chauvinism.

Man is travel to china gonna become impossible before I even get to go?

Golden retriever, middle class family

Gateway to hedonism without any of the existential dread attached

The year is 2025, I speak to the oracle hallucinating futures and ask it for advice

Cabbage Potato Onion Garlic Water Spices Bit of apple cider vinegar

Delicious cabbage potato soup

Culturally christian is bullshit, but “christian atheist” is a useful term.

My subconscious underpinnings, view towards self and others, are so heavily wrapped up in the lens of protestant Christianity. Of course, I reject the homophobia and sexism that these types may identify as part of the “culture”, but otherwise the term itself can provide a lot of use.

One instance that comes to mind is the love of martyrdom in the West. It is identified with liberalism but that as well is identified with whatever bourgeois changes were grafted onto Christianity.

Are air fryers meaningfully different from those counter top convection ovens?

I remember seeing those commercials as a kid and I wonder if air “fryers” is just them finally making the form and concept more marketable.

No stink lines. Are you even trying?

They have a specific name for the book “select quotations of Mao Zedong”. They just don’t use the term xiaohongshu. The meaning itself could be translated as “little red book” but the cultural idea behind the phrase of “little red book” doesn’t exist in the same way.

This is what I gathered from conversation with them about it. I may have misunderstood them but they’re not an apolitical person like many Chinese people and they still didn’t understand in such a way. They’d definitely see that connection if it was one that existed I mean.

I remember 3 years ago when I first learned about this app having to explain to my Chinese friend why I laughed at it.

It’s so far removed from the “little red book” it doesn’t even register as a potential pun to Chinese people.

I love how you can just go print lies and have a massive audience.

Saw a clip of ol Neil coming along and saying that Mount Everest wasn’t the highest point on Earth to a physicist because of the equatorial bulge and “sea level” not mattering to physicists.

Yeah sure just blatantly disregard the entire human perspective of the world and how we as people relate to it to say make up some dumb “gotcha haha” to sound smart.

So many people, him specifically, are incapable of framing things in a non dismissive way. It could have been an interesting point or piece of information about how how large the equatorial bulge is, but he’d rather come off as an insufferable nerd.

当- dāng 成为- chéng wéi

In case anyone wants to see the tones

This seems like a rational use of resources