Krem [he/him, they/them]

Yes Right. Yes Left. And also Backwards.

yeah for some reason i lumped gaoxiong/pingdong/taidong together as dark green but turns out the southeast is blue. good to know!

the KMT base is mostly in the urban north/east coast, as well as outlying islands like Jinmen. like, the people that would be most affected by strained relationship with the mainland. DPP has most of its base in the south and west. a lot of old rural people are strong DPP supporters and I think most indigenous taiwanese are as well

i didn’t start learning chinese seriously until moving to china as an adult and was exposed to simplified characters long before traditional. i worked in a 广场 and though “广 makes sense, it looks wide and spacious”. later in HK/TW i often misread it as 黄 until i got used to it

if i ever visit the US, remind me to wear my most uncomfortable clothes, sit with my legs down normally, make a sufficient but not too high amount of eye contact and small talk with aquaintances, and not react to hideous noises

Traditional characters definitely look more aesthetically pleasing than their simplified counterparts

not always in my opinion. sure, 區 looks better than 区 whick looks like an “image not found” 車 and 龜 do look like a wagon and a turtle while 车/龟 look like… runes? 頭 has a bean in it which is cute， but i do like the minimal aesthetic of many simplified characters like 广, 门, 县, 个, 书 etc where 廣, 門, 縣, 個, 書 look unneccessarily complicated and cluttered

HK and Macao use traditional characters, sure, but it’s not because they “adopted” the characters that the ROC used. They became foreign colonies during the Qing dynasty, which also used traditional characters, since simplified characters weren’t invented yet. However, they are used to write the cantonese language, not the mandarin language that the ROC used.

Singapore transitioned to using simplified character and now you’ll pretty much only see mandarin written in simplified there. Malaysia is in the process of transitioning, hence it’s more of a mess.

Taiwan still uses traditional out of some sense of national pride

However “traditional” is not the original characters exactly, and some traditional characters are already simplified to some degree

oh wait this is a meme why did i type all this

he sure did the nasty in the past-y

on another note, i’m looking forward to the US very soon losing its spot as the global cultural superpower, and the west having to watch schlock chinese war movies about the war in korea where they are the heroes and the americans the villains

unless the husband was like ten years older than her, he likely did war crimes in korea

“Moroccan pasta” from Peep show

Maoists say “Everything under heaven is in utter chaos, the situation is excellent” while evengelicals say “Gee, we’re all gonna die in a disaster, can’t wait”

the men wander around the town in colourful handmade costumes in search of a woman to soak

abolish whatever the fuck this is

oh and what

According to 2019 survey, 60% of Czech households follow the tradition of spanking (or watering) someone on Easter Monday.

this is like a reverse card for that guy that claimed the english language is a dialect of chinese

go to airplane school for years until they let you pilot an airplane flying over northern virginia, wait nevermind

my country can only afford the free version of Empirify with ads, so the american troops stationed here wear uniforms with ads all over them like football jerseys, and the tanks have big billboards on the side like city buses. (actually no ads for turkish airlines or boner pills, it’s just ads for the paid version of Empirify)

also it’s always stuck on shuffle, meaning the planes fly around randomly and sometimes bomb our own troops. but that’s to be expected

imagine having so much money and so little connection to reality that you just feel like blowing astronomical sums on some average dudebro’s vibes-based utopia scheme

• why is this guy given attention?

• does his “plan” have any substance beyond “things will be awesome, not cringe, just all the good stuff and none of the bad stuff”?

• how is he working towards making it a reality?

• does he know anything about city planning (playing gompooter gaems doesn’t count)?

• does he know anything about ____?

• why this guy and not any of the other 523.324.237 other 29-year old faildudes around the world who also had a great idea for a utopia after smoking DMT or reading a sci-fi novel or playing a bideo bame?

is being a social democrat in the sheets when you pretend to be pleasing your partner but actually you do the bare minimum just to prevent the eruption of a violent orgasm

and but so I named the future country in a clever reference to masturbation, which itself is a meta-reflection on entertainment, drug use, academic pursuits and athletic pursuits being themselves masturbatory³²¹

the rockets look like giant dongs and they make people horny