plantmaize.bsky.social
ABD historian of diet & medicine in China (#FirstGen), creative non-fiction editor @tendonmag.bsky.social, companion to a really good dog named Barktholomew (號小聃)
Taipei / Baltimore / Los Angeles
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Yesssss I love this chaotic af movie. Loved the comic book aesthetics and silly gags/one-liner bits and deeper metaphors about transition and also for it's honest take about how we idealize t4t but sometimes t4t is the fucking worst
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NYT report
A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone.
And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration.
If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
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This is a very good (very bleak) analysis from an academic who knows her stuff: theconversation.com/why-annexing...
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As much as I like and agree with your "moral vacuity" appellation, I also like to think there's some part of his soul still remnant and locked in that will weep while reading this.
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No, we nerds don't claim this one (he's not gifted enough). I don't even think he's a geek, just a dorky loser who got enough money to buy himself false nerd cred.
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... just gonna leave this link here bc some of k.dot's tunes are melodic af youtu.be/HfWLgELllZs?...
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You're absolutely right. So much more and better than that
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Full respect for that, I guess I just don't understand going online to brag about not liking things
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Weird flex but sure yeah you do you
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Because it's awesome? Rap is a poetic genre and Kendrick is a living legend because of it (above and beyond the hating)
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You could not pay me to admit that on the internet, Sir. Also you're sleeping on some of the greatest sonic haterade of all time. Entire chapters of my dissertation were written by harnessing the power of "Not like us"
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The reasons are simple:
These wealthy individuals did not like how COVID brought with it economically disruptive mitigation measures and a shift in the balance of power between capital and labor. They did not want a return of more active government.
So, they’ve been working to destroy science.
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Yes, obviously transliteration offers nothing to readers who don't know Chinese. But clumsy translations replicate something like "Hollywood Injun' English" where clumsy English is coded as exotic wisdom. In contrast, a more fluid translation can emphasize the sophistication of the original.
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I got in trouble for pointing out that it was conflicted with the greater value of separation between church and state and refusing to say it 😅 talked back until I was allowed to stand in respect but stay silent as a personal objection. (None of this helped my popularity in 4th grade, ooof.)
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Is there a value added I'm missing to the translations being so rudimentary, or was this a joke?