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new york is america's america (derogatory)... big loud stupid thing with neuroses that the rest of the world has to hear about for some reason

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Most importantly, North Korea is a Russian client state. That relationship was in abeyance between the fall of the Soviet Union and the mid 2010s, because Russia had other fish to fry, but it is now quite obviously the case again. They have mutual military treaty obligations, which China has never committed to.

The US/Israel relationship looks rather like the China/North Korea relationship. Erratic client state whose patron would probably on the whole like it to be a little more chill. I don't know what would happen if North Korea nuked South Korea; I certainly hope China would stay out of it.

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君曰國之整不道也，由其非力可求解。而君問之，是非示君不識其無為而禮也呼？

Several hours earlier the UK Health Security Agency's (UKHSA) issued its amber warning saying “significant impacts” are expected from the soaring temperatures in the coming days “including a rise in deaths”. The alert, the first of its kind issued since September 2023, is in place until 9am on Monday. An amber alert indicates that weather impacts are likely to be felt across the whole health service, with potential for the whole population to be at risk.

not even 90 F. what is wrong with your infrastructure

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Today I encountered an especially pathetic Italian greyhound. His owner told me that a gust of wind once blew him into a lake.

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It works given certain parameters, chief among which is a wide cut so that the heavy fabric doesn't actually touch your legs. Besides, is a ripstop cargo pant not also a chino if you think about it.

chino shorts? you took pants that are warm and made them into unpleasant garments worn out of practicality for weather that is too warm? hello?

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I am 420gsm mercerized cotton twill's strongest soldier do NOT @ me,

chino shorts? you took pants that are warm and made them into unpleasant garments worn out of practicality for weather that is too warm? hello?

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What is "democratization of aristocratic norms"?

i don't believe in "porn addiction" per se but i do think there's something to the idea that sexual preferences are an instance of thing it's best not to cultivate taste in. like coffee – if you climb the coffee ladder, if you get into the huehuetenangoes and the single origin kenyan whatevers you'll stop being okay with the slop that the drive-thru can give you to feed the addiction you still no less have

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Since the project you’re defending as the height of urbanity & coolness here is extending the interwar modification of the liberal national state to the entire planet I think my reply is simply the old parental question of “if everyone were jumping off a bridge…”

edgy anti-immigrant rhetoric is one of the least respectable edgy positions imo. its like antisemitism. its proud provincialism! one should be embarrassed of one's psychic yokelhood

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eventually china will lose its dynamism and become another korea or japan but for the time being it's the country of "you can just do things" and i appreciate this very much

In summer, cyclists in the countryside use lotus leaves as UV-protective face masks.

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went past my local bakery on the way to take the train and because they’re closing for the long weekend the lady threw in a rhubarb and strawberry berliner. a very good flavor combo strong recommend

the strawberriesve been v wizard lately

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This year is quite a bit wetter than the famously dry last few and I’m realizing I’m not vestimentarily prepared for warm and wet weather

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I am reminded that I'm an egalitarian specifically in the way that I think being full of yourself should be punished at least by beatings & public humiliation and for the worst offenders by straightforward death. Be rich, be beautiful, be accomplished, be powerful, be all of those things, but be humble goddammit

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crustaceo'd

fuck

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it sucks so bad thank you so much

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There is a standard media depiction of a "healed" person. Someone who has Gone To Therapy. I've noticed this in a few works recently. We often see them at the end of a story, maybe in a "ten years later" epilogue. They speak in a soft, serene voice. They have Accepted what they cannot change. They have let go of a lot, including most of what we see them actually care about in the story itself. They are Happy, At Peace, in some non-descript way. They bare little resemble to the person we were actually shown. They bare little resemblance to any person. We were shown, as we usually are in stories, an agent, a desirer, someone becoming. Now they have Become. And they look back on all that silly becoming as something childish that they have moved past. Fire, you know, fire is for children who don't know any better. To be Healed is to have your fire rightly extinguished; to not even miss it.