Also, interesting how Linus mentioned “displacement” and “tearing apart neighborhoods” as justifications against switching from cars to transit+bike+walk models. Because guess what the fuck also displaces people and destroys community? Highways and viaducts! A single highway interchange can destroy an entire small town, while a single train station takes up the space of maybe two suburban houses. And a double track rail line is narrower than many laneways and suburban streets, while having more capacity than ten lanes of highway. You’re in Vancouver, Linus, ever heard of the Georgia Viaduct and its effects on causing the creation of the Downtown East Side slums?

Also, just a nagging thought in the back of my mind, is he only concerned about displacement because the places that most need to be redeveloped for walk ability, the single family suburbs, are majority white residents while BIPOC residents tend to live in denser areas? Hmm… You’re also living on land where Indigenous populations were displaced by the way (the ones that were merely displaced got off lucky, actually, most were murdered).

He ate all the darkness with it.

Cuba no longer has any darkness. It is like living on the surface of the sun.

Wait did they? Like they rescinded the accusation they made just this year?

Dude I was making a joke about how that article about Chinese politics is totally not based in reality and neither is their cover image.

A lot, loooot of anime creators are that way.

China’s doing a bang up job of making Asian-style cartoons lately (weebs that never seen a single Chinese cartoon yet just summarily say it’s not anime so it’s automatically terrible eat shit and die) and the DPRK has some hits too. What’s the problem?

PSA: If you don’t absolutely need ARM or the really tiny form factor and can settle for higher power consumption, you can get a used Dell or Lenovo business PC from a few years ago for less than a new Raspberry Pi or even some of the higher end alternatives/clones but with similar computing power. Or something a lot more powerful for not that much more.

I really like their ultra-small form factor models. About the size of a coffee table book so not that much larger than a raspi with a case, and if you factor in the fairly high quality case, more I/O, active cooling, non-soldered CPU and RAM, and expansion through hard drive slots and M.2, it’s an even better value.

As an Asian, I’m proud to welcome you into the family! You shall bring honour to it!

That’s not what atoms look like either. In fact it’s even less accurate if it’s meant to be an atom than if it was planets. The planetary model of the atom was replaced in the 20th century by the Bohr model and later quantum orbital theory. At least the planets are actually spheres moving in a circular path, electrons most certainly are not.

Thank you!

Rent free. Just as Lenin intended.

Isn’t this what the Chinese government wants to implement or has already implemented? At least for minors since they’re mainly worried about gaming addiction affecting childhood development.

Yep! Mostly on messaging platforms like Discord. We each play a few characters, and we go turn by turn each writing anywhere between one sentence to a paragraph to an entire page of text depending on the plot and everyone’s writing skills!

The article is as accurate to real life as those planetary orbits.

Mostly I just want to do literary roleplay for now (think Dungeons and Dragons but novelized and with talking bugs) with these concepts but I certainly want to write a chapatered web novel eventually. In fact, since roleplays can get very detailed, they can be and have been edited and adapted into novels.

Yeah, none of those countries particularly want Westerners and it’s really hard to get citizenship or even a residence visa. The response to “if you like socialist countries so much why don’t you go to to one” is “I wish.”

Because anime is full of Mary sues that would die immediately if their plot armour is taken away

What kind of meth are they smoking

not meth, schoolgirl panties

They really colonized those foreign lands didn’t they?

A Finnish edgelord posting racist memes on a Canadian instance. Truly one of the moments of all time.

Fiction, I’ve been getting back into Warrior Cats after forgetting about it since my childhood. Not suggesting it’s Shakespeare or that it doesn’t have plot issues, but I honestly like it. It doesn’t take itself too seriously and it also has animal characters both of which I love for a casual read. Currently re-reading my favourite parts of the old books but eventually I want to try the latest releases.

Nonfiction, I’ve been researching insect ecology and the perception of physics at tiny sizes for one of my fiction worldbuilding projects. Actually, my first worldbuilding project about talking bugs from when I was like 12 which I want to bring back and develop properly.

Bring it the fuck on you loli panty sniffers! You’ll get your kawaii ass handed to you by real soldiers.

This. The idea of button nosed babies with wings and halos on their head getting ripped apart by forceps is almost entirely propaganda. D&E abortions are rare and is almost always done as emergency surgeries because the fetus is unviable and would die either way and take the woman along with them, not because a baby was unwanted. Most D&E’s are done on miscarriages and not live, viable fetuses. Almost no one is investing the effort of carrying a baby to 28 or so weeks and still on the fence about keeping it or not. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but it’s very much an exception and usually the result of extreme unexpected life changes for the woman or her SO or family.

US Colony

Vancouver, Canada: Isolated pockets of bike lanes. Not like a neighborhood or an urban center where you can reasonably do everything you need within it, literally a single block of new development will have a dutch-style paved bike lane but you’re out to sea if you go beyond it.

I mean Taiwan is a country that sentences you to death if you so much as smoke a joint. Not sure he has a choice here if he wants to live because the PRC is one of the few countries he can count on to not extradite.

Well the indigenous people that crossed the land bridge to North America did so from the Asian side. And look at them destroying the noble and peaceful white man with their savage ways.

They’re already in disguise! Everyone thinks they’re bugs but they’re actually crustaceans!

Technically, all land vertibrates evolved from fish, make of that how you want.

From high altitude balloons to high altitude people? China really is evil!

Wasn’t there some figure that was published that China has fewer people in poverty than the US despite having 4x the population and 10x the average density?

I mean I guess that downgrades it from racist to “merely” liberal anticommunism. So…

How is this blessed? It’s still not all red.

How about playing as a Nazi U-Boat captain and engaging in actual war crimes?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/494840/UBOAT/

Ironically, of course. Totally.

It’s basically confirmed that the DoD funds it.

Say no to sino

Sino literally means Chinese people, the ethnicity. It doesn’t mean the PRC. It’s almost like “we hate the government not the people” is a complete lie!

Against monarchy and fascism were dealbreakers

Lol you think they’re thinking this through? People writing fanfiction spend more time trying to fit their own lore to the canon than these people spend trying to fit their hot takes to reality.

IDK man this proposal has some red flags on it.

The gear and wheat sprig is still good too! Possibly my favourite communist symbolism.