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Ongoing thread of books I'm trying to read over the next year, trying to get something of a grasp on Chinese history:
I see why people like deepseek. It also creates very professional responses WITH sources...that do not remotely say what is implied, lol.
January 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I see why people like deepseek. It also creates very professional responses WITH sources...that do not remotely say what is implied, lol.
Look, all I want to know, and all anyone wants to know, is how many mils thick your plastic bags are, so I can tell if I can use them to freeze my thrifted tweeds.
January 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Look, all I want to know, and all anyone wants to know, is how many mils thick your plastic bags are, so I can tell if I can use them to freeze my thrifted tweeds.
The death of boolean searches has absolutely ruined the majority of search engines and store websites
January 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The death of boolean searches has absolutely ruined the majority of search engines and store websites
Everything sucks, but I did find a paul stuart sports coat for 15 dollars thrifting today. Weirdly, an amazon basics shirt was being sold for even more than that
January 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Everything sucks, but I did find a paul stuart sports coat for 15 dollars thrifting today. Weirdly, an amazon basics shirt was being sold for even more than that
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I'm uninterested in whether politicians and tycoons who play footsie with neo-fascist rhetoric are true believers or not. Many segregationist politicians in the South weren't personally prejudiced, they just found racism a useful tool to attract votes. The wrongs that resulted were the same.
January 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm uninterested in whether politicians and tycoons who play footsie with neo-fascist rhetoric are true believers or not. Many segregationist politicians in the South weren't personally prejudiced, they just found racism a useful tool to attract votes. The wrongs that resulted were the same.
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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
January 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.
I'm looking at this cluster fuck of a week, and I already feel like I'm going to lose another 4 years of my life.
January 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I'm looking at this cluster fuck of a week, and I already feel like I'm going to lose another 4 years of my life.
Amazon sucks, but Walgreens' pharmacy is pricier and somehow more annoying, so. I contacted WG support twice about ignoring my do-not-call requests. They said I wouldn't get calls. I asked if that included all calls and they said..no? the fuck? Anyway, I blocked Walgreens and hope they fail more
January 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Amazon sucks, but Walgreens' pharmacy is pricier and somehow more annoying, so. I contacted WG support twice about ignoring my do-not-call requests. They said I wouldn't get calls. I asked if that included all calls and they said..no? the fuck? Anyway, I blocked Walgreens and hope they fail more
I need a job and I have no idea how to get one. I've submitted over a hundred applications, have a science masters, can program and read mandarin, and it's still like...hey, here's something for 40k, at best.
January 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I need a job and I have no idea how to get one. I've submitted over a hundred applications, have a science masters, can program and read mandarin, and it's still like...hey, here's something for 40k, at best.
I'm still reading. Finished another dikötter book. But I am sadly now deeply addicted to baldur's gate 3
Ongoing thread of books I'm trying to read over the next year, trying to get something of a grasp on Chinese history:
January 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I'm still reading. Finished another dikötter book. But I am sadly now deeply addicted to baldur's gate 3
I enjoy seeing the advice that people should learn programming or Mandarin to get a job. I know both (at least I can read mandarin fairly well), put in 90 job applications last year, and it made no difference.
January 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I enjoy seeing the advice that people should learn programming or Mandarin to get a job. I know both (at least I can read mandarin fairly well), put in 90 job applications last year, and it made no difference.
I'm surprised, my local library doesn't carry 'The Magic Mountain'?
December 21, 2024 at 3:21 PM
I'm surprised, my local library doesn't carry 'The Magic Mountain'?
This is a similar reason to why I can't watch the crown. I don't totally write off historical fiction. But it's hard enough to keep track of historical fact without my brain getting even more muddled. I'm too simple
unironically, I'm put off by moby dick, because I don't want to learn untrue things about whales
December 20, 2024 at 11:50 AM
This is a similar reason to why I can't watch the crown. I don't totally write off historical fiction. But it's hard enough to keep track of historical fact without my brain getting even more muddled. I'm too simple
I'll read either "China After Mao" or "Mao's Great Famine" today, but I want to do some sort of fiction as well. Problem is I think my brain has been entirely melted by the internet, and my ability to process fiction was stunted some 15 years ago
December 20, 2024 at 11:38 AM
I'll read either "China After Mao" or "Mao's Great Famine" today, but I want to do some sort of fiction as well. Problem is I think my brain has been entirely melted by the internet, and my ability to process fiction was stunted some 15 years ago
unironically, I'm put off by moby dick, because I don't want to learn untrue things about whales
December 20, 2024 at 11:35 AM
unironically, I'm put off by moby dick, because I don't want to learn untrue things about whales
You know who they should have cast as glinda? No offense to ariana. Randy Newman
December 17, 2024 at 2:24 PM
You know who they should have cast as glinda? No offense to ariana. Randy Newman
I'm trying to make up history knowledge deficits, since for me, they're huge. I don't know how historians don't constantly despair with comparisons to contemporary events. Maybe they do. I mean, why shouldn't Americans share the same capacity for violent, stupid impulses as a 50s Chinese extremist?
Book 1: Revisiting Dikötter. Solid look at the civil war’s end through the eve of the GLF. Frankly also a tragedy how opaque archival docs are, but a strong entry point into CCP history, especially on land reform and the ‘Great Terror’. Hard not to make comparisons to modern personality cults...
December 14, 2024 at 1:23 PM
I'm trying to make up history knowledge deficits, since for me, they're huge. I don't know how historians don't constantly despair with comparisons to contemporary events. Maybe they do. I mean, why shouldn't Americans share the same capacity for violent, stupid impulses as a 50s Chinese extremist?
Ongoing thread of books I'm trying to read over the next year, trying to get something of a grasp on Chinese history:
December 14, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Ongoing thread of books I'm trying to read over the next year, trying to get something of a grasp on Chinese history:
Watched Kajillionaire last night. It's a very charming movie
December 14, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Watched Kajillionaire last night. It's a very charming movie
How is Anora just not being screened anywhere close to me? Theaters deserve to die
December 14, 2024 at 12:29 PM
How is Anora just not being screened anywhere close to me? Theaters deserve to die
I can accept that anything I write online at this point will probably be scraped. But sharing photos of my silly lil outfits online and getting those scraped is a bit much. Feels like a worse version of being on the road with the experimental self driving cars
December 12, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I can accept that anything I write online at this point will probably be scraped. But sharing photos of my silly lil outfits online and getting those scraped is a bit much. Feels like a worse version of being on the road with the experimental self driving cars
very niche fun fact. Apparently the son-in-law of Du Yuming (a nationalist commander during the Chinese civil war) both won the Nobel prize in physics in 1957 AND is still alive at 102
December 9, 2024 at 11:54 PM
very niche fun fact. Apparently the son-in-law of Du Yuming (a nationalist commander during the Chinese civil war) both won the Nobel prize in physics in 1957 AND is still alive at 102
I wasn't expecting to log into blue sky and seeing actual followers- I attribute this to the power of choosing a doofy looking cat as a profile photo
December 8, 2024 at 3:12 PM
I wasn't expecting to log into blue sky and seeing actual followers- I attribute this to the power of choosing a doofy looking cat as a profile photo
My tentative goal is to read something like ~20 books on China over the next year (starting by revisiting everything by frank dikötter). I don't think the book I came across "would mao hold bitcoin" (and mao has laser eyes on the cover ofc) will be on my list. probably
December 8, 2024 at 3:01 PM
My tentative goal is to read something like ~20 books on China over the next year (starting by revisiting everything by frank dikötter). I don't think the book I came across "would mao hold bitcoin" (and mao has laser eyes on the cover ofc) will be on my list. probably
Rather than take the opportunity to cut social media from my life for good, naturally I sign up for another
December 3, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Rather than take the opportunity to cut social media from my life for good, naturally I sign up for another