It’s that kind of White American with a superiority complex and is certain that they aren’t racist, but even if they were it’s just as bad in Europe so it doesn’t matter and Europe should follow the US’s lead on race relations. Because obviously other countries’ historical context and events don’t matter, nor make race relations in the UK, France, or Romania unique and not analogous.

I can’t pick a mere one.

Duk

Blimey

Bloody

Bugger

Cracker-Yank

Chuffed to bits

Hench

Knackered

On the drag

Plooked

Pillock

Tired and emotional

Wanker

What is utility?

Must it be measurable and quantifiable?

And even if it needn’t, can it exist otherwise in an economic system that requires quantified value in all things?

Please & cheers.

S’il vois plait & merci (beaucoup)

Terog & multzumesc/multzumeme (singular vs. plural thank you)

Bitter & danke

– & spaseba

– & tak

Qîng & xìexìe

– & diàhdiah

Had more, but forgot them. Have forgotten at the Turkish and a Miao language phrases.

You can only get the best result in the prisoners dilemma by working with others.

Believing that humans make rational economic decisions is pretty irrational economically.

As is centering economics on a theory that ignores the means of production.

Cheers

ProBt

E-svekada

Slauncher

Saclicniz

Campei

Campai

Gänbëi

Forgot my Romance family options… =(

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Une, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix

Uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinqo, seiz, siete, ocho, neuve, diez

Yï, èr, sän, sì, wû, liù, qï, bä, jîu, shí

Yain, tain, eddero, peddero, pots, later, tater, ovvero, covvero, dits

So… 5. Far fewer than I can toast in.

Did you read that article, or just post the first news link you found with a headline that agreed with you?

‘No Evidence’ “Dr. Yi is an early and courageous individual to criticize China’s harmful birth control policies,” said Feng Wang, sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine.

But Wang disputes Yi’s conclusions. “Scholars in China and at the U.N. have analyzed these and other data. Not a single person has ‘discovered’ such a huge discrepancy.”

Everyone agrees to not accept China’s figures, but no one can find anywhere near such a big gulf. And you’d think that if they could, more US and Taiwanese sources would be reporting on it, wouldn’t they?

Have you ridden on the Pyongyang metro? What was it like?

Where’s your favourite place to go in North Korea?

What’re some of your favourite books and films?

China, and maybe some other Asian countries have a household registration ( hukou 户口) system.

Only people born into the system get to exist for things like schools, national insurance, etc.

So any unofficially born second children (or hidden first born daughters) didn’t get to legally count under this.

Also; children born out of marriage don’t exist for state schools or benefits, either.

Where your hukou is limits your options for access to housing, claims on social security and health insurance, and the like. Mostly if you were born into a very rural area your only pathway to legally having a place to live and for your children to go to school in another part of the country is via university graduation.

There are pushes to change this system, and smaller cities are removing their requirements for non-rural hukou. But Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities you have probably heard of are yet to do this.

Unfortunately, the harsh truth was more often a doctor who was tasked with second pregnancies whose job details made all the other hospital staff realise he was a monster.

If there’re family in the PRC, they could certainly be on the hook if you’re spotted at events Beijing deems sensitive (things to do with Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet, the '89 Massacres, 66-77, etc.)

I’d also reckon that your family grew up either with direct experience of, or in the spectre of, the Cultural Revolution. The psychic damage of that can not be understated.

It’ s also that the social contract in China is very different to that of the US and Anglophone/European culture countries.

There are valid, logical, reasons for your family’s point of view. But it is also a viewpoint that is willing to tolerate a bad society in order for an adequate life personally.

It seems mostly centre left, with a strong added helping of either liberterianism/anti-authoritiatianism or tankie, that’s certainly true.

You’re right, that there are smug keyboard warrior types, like those who were delighted that Thailand or Vietnam sentenced that female millionaire to death while letting the men involved off. I took umbrage with them. It wasn’t revolutionary, it was sexism and maintaining the status quo.

You have the right idea with investing, too - if its something one wants to do. Provided you can keep earning enough to not need to sell unplanned. Follow the market, but don’t let panic take over. Good luck with it all.

Apart from Luigi, who is mulching/has muclh4d b/millionnaires recently? I must have missed that news item.

Hope your crypto investments work out better this time. Maybe lean on the stocks a little more.

P. S. I think that there’s a wide continuum of posters. It’s not all one guy with one ideology and 100,000 accounts.

Over Jason and the Argonauts, or Tale of Perseus?

I guess they’re less famous, and maybe I’m just being nit-picky. I’d rather just put them all as one level below ur-journey tale.

I’m very happy to be wrong.

Could you give me some examples? as I think that the strokes are just so broad it’s more archetypal journey story than Odyssey in particular to me.

My use of the “Mulch the rich crowd” as people who will, at least (or perhaps at most) express the desire to grind up billionaires, or maybe millionaires into more useful biomass, such as mulch for their vegetable garden or community allotment.

You used it seemingly as a term for “people with lots of money and investments” thus able not only to not sell to keep up with cost of living increases, but also buy up things sold by those who needed to liquidate assets to keep themselves afloat.

Now, they may not be mutually exclusive circles - but the overlap would be neither informative nor relevant to the point.

For instance if someone is talking about birds and mentions a quality of vertebrates, and you come in with “and vertebrates can breathe underwater!” because fish are vertebrates and you are very clever.

The Passion of the Christ?

Because that’s a story form that gets used and used all over again, or at least is able to be seen in many a story.

Illiad and Odyssey are big, but I don’t think copied so much these days.

Lives of the Ceasers, even though less fiction had a huge impact on European story telling and narratives that lasts to this day.

Journey to the West was written about 1400 (unless I’m missing some very key information), so not even one millennia of copycats, yet.

Which particular set of Israeli policies are you supporting here?

The 10-15 civilian deaths per strike on a possible low level Hamas supporter?

The continued “accidental” killing of medical staff, including Red Cross and Red Crescent workers, and journalists?

The idea of turning off water and electricity from all of Gaza as a valid response?

The escalation of illegal settlement and theft of Palestinian property and land in the West Bank, with IDF support no less?

Or the use of the Hannibal Protocol against Israeli Civilians on October 8th by IDF forces?

Or do you just not think it is incumbent on the one with greater power and strength to offer the olive branch first if peace is truly desires? And in fact would rather the Palestinian people are smeared across an enlarged Israel?