we must secure the existence of our libertarian people and a fair price for children

Ⓐ: a worker in a high vis vest can get away with anything, no one will stop them

Ⓑ: a mistress in a corset should be obeyed

Ⓐ + Ⓑ → ?

imagine the robot guard dog episode of black mirror but with these

Wow… 😍😍 Goddess… 🥰🥰🥰 You’re Smile Brightens My Day… 😉😉😉😉Amazingly Princess…🌹🌹🌹🌹

i use pirated 5-6 years old versions of PS and AI (illustrator, not the machine learning buzzword) that don’t have any AI (the machine learning buzzword) features and all the DRM functions have been neutered. i bought a download link on taobao for like 10 kuai, worth it.

i use them because the alternatives (gimp/inkscape) are pretty shit imo, but for drawing and colouring i use krita which is actually pretty good

i thought this was going to be a BDS lysistrata contract

like if my job sent me to a country i should boycott and I couldn’t afford to quit, least thing i could do is not have sex with the settlers

doesn’t make sense, because Hainan is a place that people have heard of

Rude! But what do the Chinese characters say, though?

Miami Beach = Sanya? Actually makes sense

Philadelphia = Beijing? Sure

DC = Shanghai? Obviously

Texas = Guangxi? since Mexico is Vietnam, this kinda makes sense

Las Vegas = Lhasa? Now we’re cooking with portals

yeah it’s pretty silly to connect a “serious” fantasy world with the “real” world, but most creation myths take place in a fantasy world but has a direct lineage (via mythological rulers -> semi-mythological -> real rulers etc) to actual history. i guess that’s what he was trying to do?

that concept of technological ages is kinda BS anyway

but for real, human history is like Mid Seier’s Civilization and once a technology is unlocked it will now be used in every city forever until the next one is researched. and our stories should also be like this.

these people would 100% have said something racist if the conversation climate was different. using “culture” as a blanket term, and dividing the world into big cultural groups, is almost always a dogwhistle

• getting fancy snacks from an overpriced chain
• travelling all over the worst anglo holiday spots in south/east europe to get drunk and be a dickhead (but ironically)
• going out in your hometown to get drunk and be a dickhead (but fancily)
• having a phrasy phrase with your matey mates

yep, it’s middle class anglo time

“it’s impossible to experience not existing, therefore it’s impossible to experience being dead, therefore the you that is you will never die”

“it’s impossible to experience being dead, so your final moment will just be like falling into a black hole and never reaching it”

I’ve noticed a lot of people in the West that seem to love to turn their Mapo Tofu into a damn hamburger helper meal. You can ultimately add however the hell much beef you want (I ain’t judging), but note that more beef will mean that you’ll need more oil if you want to get a nice result

hell yeah, i’ve never had a mapo tofu that was full of mince, vegan or non-vegan. at vegan places they usually cook it without any meaty bits at all, and half the time at omni restaurants it’s vegan if you ask them not to use lard/beef fat. the meat is there for flavor and maybe to add some texture to the sauce (though that’s more from the beans)

japanese/taiwanese/western mapo tofu, with its lack of spices and its thick gravy sauce, is fine, but it’s kind of bland and heavy and boring compared to the real thing.

china has the best noodles and noodle dishes in the world but lo mein is an american thing i think. or maybe HK. i’ve never tried it or seen it anywhere

the gerontologic treatment! the side benefits include living for 500+ years and only remembering the last 150

we had a plasticky thing that you had to neatly fold around the inside of the cover of the book. there was also one that was self adhesive, you pulled the thing from the backing sheet and then stuck it to your book.

and yes as soon as you got your books you had to wrap them up

this reminds me of when some western propaganda news showed pictures of people allegedly killed in xinjiang (?) and one photo was Andy Lau

imagine when you throw away the equivalent of a couple of normal people’s lifetime savings on some bullshit and now you can’t retire early and have to break your back for five more years at your job of owning a country club