that's around when the U.S. line on China shifted from normalization into Cold War 2.0.

I'm surprised we're low on alternative ideas lol. I'm just as curious what caused the peak as I am to what caused the drop. Maybe Cold War 2.0 mode was a reaction to the peak?

It'll be interesting to see how the U.S. adaptations of The Three-Body Problem portray China.

I enjoyed Three-Body (2023), best case scenario would be Netflix make a faster paced version, worst (and most likely) scenario is you get a wacky caricature, like Wang Miao is a highschooler who has to defeat both the anti-Christ and overthrow the PRC before prom or w/e.

Download everything that would upset you if it were no longer available forever starting tomorrow.

The average westerner believes they have a higher quality of life than the average Chinese citizen, but that's slowly changing I think.

restaurants cost 2x what they did earlier in my lifetime, rent probably 3x. I remember learning about career options in highschool that essentially stopped existing less than a decade later. I'm not that old. How fast is slow suppose to be?

Hey Mao Zedong, how come Stalin let's you have 2 tiers?

i have good politics

Why not enact change locally in your community first

Then the government knows what I look like and will be able to plan around my existence. Most national security policies assume cartoonishly massive human waves coming out of nowhere are not possible. The element of surprise and the rush attack is key to victory. Revealing that I have this power without conquering the planet ensures instead that I get kidnapped and get experimented with in a secret bunker.

My biggest cost is rent, we can all sleep in a big-ass ratking, boys love threesomes without the trouble of figuring out who the third will be, AFAIK food costs scale in my favor if I got a second job and a third me for hobbies. We could claim to be twins but also rotate who's running the of and faking vacation etc, produce higher quality content more often and charge more for it. and 4-100 mees for dumpster-diving/terrorism. Are there limits? Are the copies permanent? I'd like to replace the government of my country and the power seems OP as I could just copy up and annex everything in cartoonishly massive human waves.

garuda garuda garuda https://garudalinux.org/

IDK why'd you even bother with legal, it's easy enough to rip mp3s out of any youtube video.

these are in my ~/.zshrc:

# download any video as mp3
# if video is chaptered, split each chapter into separate song files
alias yt-mp3='yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --split-chapters --no-check-certificate'

it's fuggin crazy how many guys don't bother to hide their removed folders on their PC/smartphone/work computer or wipe the removed stains off their keyboards before trying to show me whatever shitty novelty website or yt video I didn't want to see.

I have no idea who this person is, never heard of them, the post is completely out of context, but "my struggle" is still a very innocuous phrase commonly used in English.

He sounds like the smartest person in the room.

News of inflation is just as much of a observation of recent inflation as it is a kick off announcement for future inflation.

:lorax-sicko:

destroyed/vandalized random signs or aesthetic structures right in front of cops

I thought it would have been closer to 100.

Adding guns to Pokemon

that's digimon