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recent research in economic history mostly concurs that if not for the crippling indemnities extracted by the western powers, the Qing could have maintained a safe and high-growth society based on slavery, marital rape and landlordism for at least another three centuries

Me: I feel like i dont really belong here Wife: That's because you're a freak, a freak inside and out! Me: *scared*

you know why i like these anime girls? cos every year their heads get bigger, but mine stays the same size

me as an ancient person writing an ancient text: let's phrase this in an incomprehensibly terse way to save brushstrokes, leaving the explication to oral tradition and making it little more than a mnemonic aid intended for those already in the know lol my colleague: good idea lol

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u couldn't make this today

i think i dated her once (August in the Water 水の中の八月, 1995)

religion is the milk medicine of the masses

me: we're going to watch some yurislop now. not because it's good—it's bottom of the barrel—but because we're interested in cultural studies. bad=interesting, for a scholar olivia (sobbing): they love each other. but they can't be together, because of society

it's seriously insane. ah sorry you fell off my moped babe. id visit you in the hospital but i have to go pensively stare at the ocean

只要民族繼續存在,我便仍舊無辜

The Simpsons? I haven't heard of those blokes

are you ready for the revolution?

天網恢恢, The meshes of the net of Heaven are large; far apart, 踈而不失。 but letting nothing escape. ctext.org/dictionary.p...

people say "public water transport will never catch on. americas car culture is too deeply engrained". yet this is what americas canal network looked like, before neoliberalism

olivia: it seems like the important thing about being T isn't that they're masc but that they're always aurafarming

this was so lovely

Murmur of Youth 美麗在唱歌 (1997)

her popeye impression is startlingly good bc she's seen the movie like 9 million times

olivia: "foundress"? me: woman of the foundry. like a laundress olivia: i dont think founder needed a gendered counterpart me: *popeye trying to imagine a woman raising a child* like some kinda, some kinda mudda-ess

all japanese teachers love showing u those dumbass videos where they interview someone in like shikoku who lived to be 115 to find out the "secret of japanese longevity" and the secret is always like "i eat inari three times a day and go on walks on the park"

*in the zomia* damn guys it'd be nice to have some tall buildings and bridges around here huh

i never believed in magic till i saw my frog turn into a scorpion