the “West”

Vygotsky would be interesting. Died prematurely but had plenty of students continue his work. Wonder how he’d respond to their work and the current state of psychology in general.

In Usonian culture, “price of eggs” is a sort of economic synecdoche used in conversation to describe significant inflation of food prices. It’s considered a portent that the President has lost the mandate of the market’s free hand, which is necessary for him to wield his bully pulpit.

“I agree!” -Butch Lee

“我不在北京”

negation of the negation

Banning trans people from the military is good strategically, and will cause misery. Proletarianization of scientists is good strategically, and will cause misery. I mean, that’s just contradiction for you unfortunately.

$6 for a dozen jumbo eggs

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-Solanas

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Please irradiate your raw meat before serving!

A question I have in general to people on this post: how to do it “better”? Like how do you represent societal evolution on alien worlds? whatever “better” means

There’s not really a good way to do it. If your aliens are humanlike in a vague sense, pre-communist and communist, I guess, with pre-communist being synonymous with a home planet centric economy.

You mention different biochemistries, but the issue there is that would require a lot of novel research. Like, what sort of fossil fuels could be produced by such biology? How would this affect technological development? How does class society proceed? Liberal developers aside, it’s no wonder games with aliens take place after all this annoying worldbuilding would have relevance. Creating real aliens is a massive undertaking.

AFD intimidating immigrants with fake deportation tickets

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Anyone know of a good social cataloging site for literature, preferably one that actually supports obscure books?

If you already have a WeChat you can just use that

Using the Russian spelling for Russian legal entities? Nah, the LPR is definitely called Luhansk People’s Republic.

Wikipedia has the absolutely ridiculous policy of using colloquialisms rather than official names. That’s why you get Western name order for Japanese people, the article for Türkiye still being called Turkey, and amazing lines like “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC)”

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Yes, yes they do. And the same whitewashing happens with America, funnily and infuriatingly enough.