CloutAtlas

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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 12 points 1 hour ago

Hasn't the continent of Africa suffered enough??

The humane thing to do is to launch him into space, where he yearns to be. He can have the distinction of being the first human on Mars, just tie him to the front of a rocket and aim it vaguely at the direction of the reddest thing in the sky. If it happens to be the afternoon sun, so be it, he was the one to cut funding for qualified scientists after all.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago

Oh, is that how biblically accurate angels are created?

Neat.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 26 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Toddler: Smirks in the general direction of incel because funny noise from somewhere

Incel: I have been gravely wounded

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Wait we have a new owl?

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

The 90's were great, I was living with my grandparents in a retirement community built by the state for retired Communist Party cadres, revolutionaries, veterans, etc. Some of my neighbours literally participated in the Long March.

Why the fuck did I leave China again?

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I know some parts of the world use "ironmonger" for "hardware store" but the number of people using that phrase unironically must be quite low nowadays

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 6 points 7 hours ago

Adidas: All Day I Dream About Schlong

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

More like Brianna 误, how incorrect can you be?

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

If you're in Yankistan, then probably waiting for tariffs to be dropped.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fill it entirely with bamboo, subsist off of that like a panda. Hell, we got a volcel pledge going too, why not subsist off of a grass that really, really doesn't want to be eaten?

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And the moral of the story was that they had to compromise "the way" anyway.

 

Had a lovely WeChat conversation with my 96 year old revolutionary grandfather a couple days ago and at one point he hit me with the "You should buy property over there to rent out, it's very lucrative, and you should take the {老外|lǎo wài}'s money and spend it in China"

I actually had no idea how to respond to this financial advice. Like at face value, the housing market is a bubble and could collapse at any moment, and also I'm not sure how moral being a parasite would be even if you're leeching off of the benefactors of colonialism and western hegemony.

 

年年有余,岁岁平安 comrades

I am quite drunk and very well fed. Fireworks are banned in Wuhan proper and yet they're going off still.

 

Or: "Timekeeping is a fuck and this shit is convoluted"

Preface: There are 3 types of calendars. Solar (like the Gregorian calendar), Lunar (like the Islamic calendar) and Lunisolar (like the Hebrew calendar).

"The Korean lunisolar calendar, like most other East Asian calendars such as those of Japan, Mongolia, Vietnam, among others, are all derived from historical variants of Chinese ones such as the Shixian calendar of the Ming dynasty."

I'm not a die hard about calling it "Chinese New Year" despite TET in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea both being derived from the Chinese calendar, among others. They have adapted their own customs and traditions to it. Calling the celebration "Chinese New Year" is not the most accurate. I am of a mind to call it what matters to you, you don't have to translate it. Ramadan is Ramadan, no need to translate it to "Scorching Heat", Hanukkah is Hanukkah, no need to translate it to "Dedication".

However, to call it "Lunar New Year" implies it's the definitive lunar calendar, which erases other civilizations' timekeeping traditions. There are multiple lunar calendars with their own lunar new years such as Ugadi in India, Hijri in Muslim countries and the Tamil calendar as well.

Not to mention the Chinese calendar is actually lunisolar and not solely lunar, incorporating both solar and lunar timekeeping, so "Lunar New Year" is half accurate at best. Switching to calling it "Lunisolar New Year" also runs into similar issues, the Thai calendar is lunisolar (but Songkran/Thai New Year is in April) as is the Hebrew calendar (Rosh Hashanah/Hebrew New Year is in Sept-Oct)

In China, using {农历|nónglì}/agricultural calendar (due to its historical significance in relation to farming) or {旧历|jiùlì}/old calendar to refer to the Chinese calendar are the most accurate whereas {阴历|yīnlì}/lunar calendar and {阳历|yánglì}/solar calendar being common vernacular despite being technically incorrect.

Just call it {春节|chūnjíe}/Spring Festival or {新年|xīnnián}/New Year, it's the most common terms ({元旦|yuándàn} is the most common way of referring to the Gregorian new year in China itself.) It really doesn't matter that much to us. The term "Chinese New Year" is rarely used in China and was probably a term used by Chinese immigrants for the benefit of Westerners.

Tl;Dr "Lunar New Year" is well meaning but incorrect, erases other lunar calenders and recently has been used maliciously.

 

I actually had no idea this private villa was there before I got there.

Kinda funny the villains' secret base where they plot against the protagonists is now just a tourist attraction based-department

 

It was extremely funny to see the driver park this (taking up 1.5 spaces) get out, then hop on an electric scooter to drive away.

 
 

Cutaway gag: Trosky is lying on the ground in a pool of blood with his arm over his torso and legs twisted in a classic Family Guy severely injured pose with a pick coming out of his skull next to Pyotr

Pyotr in Mexico on a landline: Joe, this is Pyotr, I'm done picking my team.

Stalin in his office in a split screen: Pyotr?? Where have you been? That game was in 1928! We are about to be invaded

Pyotr: I picked comrade Trostky! It took me a long time to find him, he was in Mexico! A lot of Mexicans down here...

Stalin: Good, tell him to come back, we can put aside our differences for now, the Fascists are sure to invade us soon, our spies learned of something called "Operation Barbarossa". Why did it take you so long to select a team?

Pyotr: Ooh... Pick as in select. My bad.

 

Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unti me, for the sins of the CEOs must be baptized in blood and fear.

 

Australian icon upholding her Volcel Pledge even when incarcerated in a Yankee zoo.

 

Tag yourselves

 

Tl;dr Chinese lab grown meat and plant based meat is potentially going to undermine the American factory farms in production and price.

The article even brings up how it's better for the planet than clearing forests to grow crops to feed animals for meat. But at what cost?!?!?

Also the title was even more red scare-y when first published.

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