Alex Ma-zuur

when I say technology I mean chopsticks

Truly the evil version of the Unitarian Universalist church

Always could

big news: i have procrastinated on the shirt buying long enough for the sale to be over. i am treated this as a case of successfully resisting consumerism and will immediately reward myself by going to get fish and chips at the gastropub downtown for $22 + tax and tips this weekend or today.

Eh… gonna be Hanoi summit… lots of words and unpublished declaration at the end of it

Amtrak is clearly worse than DB — trains are slower and less frequent. Worse beer selection in the cafe car too

I am 80% certain that you’re joking, but only 80%

Perfectly receivable in Europe, loud and clear all the way from Urumqi

Did you know that China Radio International has broadcasts in fucking Esperanto

Proof (1972 Korean—Russian dictionary, joint DPRK–USSR project)

TIL that America is 미국, but while South Korean dictionaries claim that this is 美國, North Korean claim it’s 米國.

(The reason is really “do you hate Japan or the U.S. more?”)

Purely bad signal — if Musk flees the ship things might be going real bad under the surface

“It was true for the entirety of human history; surely this would hold for at least a century”

Thomas Malthus was very unlucky to write his book at the exact point at which its main thesis stopped being true.

It was a Fiat 124 which is a bit older than 131

Soviet copy of an okay 1960s Italian car manufactured all the way into the 21st century

Not an oopsie. I think it went something like that:

M: Vladimir, zis Americans are so dahmp, ay bat zey vont notis if vi put ancient Zhiguli in ze stoopit poster.

V: Hahaha, Mikhail, nou vey!!! Nou vey zey are zeeet stoopit.

M: bet!

…harmfully understated the number of jobs in the U.S.A. contrary to the real numbers and the earlier statement by the government…

…with the same objectives, has overstated…

…recruited into the counter-revolutionary organization…

…accused comrade … has confessed to the crimes stated above…

… being a Democratic appointee and holding counter-revolutionary views…

… having joined a counter-revolutionary right-Bidenist organization, has resolved, together with the other members of the saboteur organization, to carry out its harmful tasks, namely…

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Should have guessed though…

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He will be arrested, confess to faking the numbers on orders from the German Abwehr, Japanese Kempeitai, and the Leon Trotsky and shot.

(Maybe I read too much 1930s Soviet history recently)

haldol sounds gay

China with bad food sounds like a place with exceedingly few redeeming qualities

Meta has a messaging app full of scams and bots, a social network full of scams and bots and another social network full of scams, bots, and people who you would wish are bots.

Clearly at this point they just leaned in to bots all the way

yes, i think so too

MLK Jr was named like that because his dad went to some Baptist get-together in Germany in the mid 1930s and was under certain impression.

I would really like to know what it was like — visit a Baptist conference in Nazi Germany as a Black American clergyman

Guangzhou, Guangdong, January 2024

A alleyway with snow-covered cars

Hengyang, Hunan, January 2024