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he. no-good russian. stuck in holland trying to find some idea of a good life
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Operating theory: Chinese consumer-facing companies either don’t have “About Us” page on their website or completely fail to mention the fact that they’re Chinese there

A waiter at the Chinese restaurant in Chicago referred to their Chinese-American menu as 白人菜

well, punks? are you grateful or what?

Publicly making a counterintuitive claim is only brave if there are consequences for being wrong

Ford Taurus was the most Japanese-looking non-Japanese car

Ukrainian war proved to everyone that 1. if you're worried about being attacked, no guarantees would be nearly as good as nuclear weapons. 2. if you want to attack someone, nuclear weapons will allow you to do so with much less pushback. we're so cooked if these ideas get no rebuttal

My glass is empty, or, as they say in Holland, mijn glas is leeg. Which means “my glass is empty” in Dutch

Two lessons from the painful modern history of Ukraine and North Korea: There is no diplomatic guarantee as good as nuclear weapon is If you have a bomb, you can do a lot of things that’d get you fucked if you didn’t

If you’re interested whether any journalist ever suffered any consequences for their BS — they hanged the Der Sturmer guy. Pathetic antisemite screamed something about Purim at his execution

Mr Mamdani why do you not accept Abu Bakr as the rightful first Caliph?

If I were a betting man, I’d bet on Andrew Cuomo winning the election. I saw no polls, but he seems to be the worst candidate so you can count on New Yorkers electing him

Chinese government simultaneously pushing for coal and renewables makes perfect sense if viewed through the lens of national security rather than the climate

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Just saw a model driver 1. An uber 2. Parked in a crosswalk 3. And in the bike lane 4. With a bicycle rack “accidentally” obstructing the rear number plate 5. And the front number plate removed. Another day in the paradise