caoimhingallagher.bsky.social
Middle-aged white collar worker. I have been to a national park.
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listen i understand the affection for gundam wing but i rewatched it last year and it is not good
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"Content" is something to fill an empty vessel: it repositions your view of the world to align with corporations. Art becomes something disposable, fungible, serving a financial interest and nothing more. The word "artist" is right there; I beg you to claim it and leave "content creator" to molder
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Of course, this will have less of an impact on consumers who are willing to pay more for US-made goods
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And the whole reason Lonny was tipped off in the first place was Dedra violated protocol so she could lead the raid herself and the ISB tactical goon reached out to Lonny for advice on whether he'd get in trouble for following her orders.
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Mechanical watches. A fabulously complex - and beautiful - set of mechanisms that evolved over centuries, replaced overnight by the discovery quartz crystals pulsate at a constant rate when you run a bit of current through them. Tougher, more accurate, and vastly cheaper.
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I think most Communists in the 1920s thought Communism would be good. I don't think time traveling nihilists who knew what was to come but wanted to proceed anyway were an appreciable faction.
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Absent psychic powers Peng would not have known Bukharin's fate when he joined the CCP.
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I cannot imagine why anyone is focusing on the point of the spear they keep stabbing with. It's so small.
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Wikipedia has a chart of acceptable syllables in Mandarin, very few relative to English.
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Ri is an acceptable syllable in Mandarin and could occur as the second syllable in a two syllable word (eg shengri = birthday). The reason it isn't used here is phonetic - mandarin "li" is actually closer to English "ry" than Mandarin "ri" is.