Krem

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[–] Krem@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago
[–] Krem@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nangang district has a high concentration of tech companies. it's also where the biggest convention center on the island is. Computex is happening next week.

Edit: though this is way down the road from the tech office area and the convention center, a completely different place. so ???

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I could swim up a waterfall like a salmon that would for sure impress my preferred type of partner.

whom amongst us has not been so horny as to swim up a waterfall to fuck once and then die

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

homo simpsonens have two opposable thumbs

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

carnism and its consequences

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago

germans want to be victims of history so bad

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 25 points 3 days ago

i remember a few years ago when the temperature reached 35 in the middle of the summer and i thought that was pretty wild.

the last few years it's been 38 for weeks straight in the summer.

this year it reached 38 in late may elmofire

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

inshallah it will be bloodless. west-worshipping brainworms aside, most taiwanese people are nice good people and don't deserve to be used as pawns by the empire

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

people these days can't handle a twunkish otter covered in layers of grime and wearing digusting rags, eating a plate of beans like it's a plate of ass. now everything needs to be smooth and spotless and prepped and washed and fragrant and algorithm enhanced and you can only eat psyllium husks and rice cakes?

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

ok, good bit, bye

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Daoism is wacky and I like it.

I also like the western "Daoism" which is only about "going with the flow" "be like water" "wu wei" and all that. I say "western" because while these things are some of the foundations of actual daoism, the western version just stops there and imagines that it's just a "whoah, brah, it's all chill, and , like the universe"

actual daoism, as it's practiced in east asia, is intense. it's weird. it's about hell and the underworld. it's about death. it's about heaven or multiple heavens. it's about one or more earths. it's about thousands of gods and spirits. there are intense rituals. there is prayer. there is possession. there is exorcism. there are alchemical potions. there are martial arts that are not about martial arts. it's weird and awesome and I like it.

a two-story high scroll of the character 到

this is pretty funny halal

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

the future is already chinese, but that doesn't mean other countries can have cute little things that make them feel special. australia has butter (abolish dairy tho) and they also have the working holiday program, europe has a lot of nice vacation spots and nice walkable city centers and they also have good olive oil.

all chinese 15-year-olds (at least the boys) love NBA, so the US can keep it, it's a nice brand. same with apple, huawei can make better phones but some people like slightly different phones from a company headquartered in the US (but still made in shenzhen). who is sydney sweeney? no one really knows, and that's fine.

 
 

Lots of bullshit details here.

China expert was in China for a whole 18 months as an anglo expat english teacher. expat english teachers are famously known to learn much about the cultures in which they live. in no way do most of them make mostly expat friends, go to expat bars and eat at western slop restaurants

First thing they noticed about China: the macdongles is different! Surely this offers some insight into the asian mind.

The difference: I'm sure we've all seen the old redditesque urban legend where someone's dad prides himself of not cleaning up after eating, because being a messy dickhead "creates jobs". apparently, the chinese are a whole nation of redditor dads, which is now a socialist virtue. because there's nothing more socialist than creating work by wasting people's time, especially in a country that could maybe hire people to reforest the desert or work in a solar cell factory.

personally, I don't eat at mcdangols, whether in china or elsewhere, but I use their toilets frequently so i've been inside their corporate-imperialist embassies many times. chinese maccy-eaters are in no way more messy than westerners.

 

where can I find the sequels "Bad Gateway" and "Gateway Time-Out"?

are they considered bad canon like the Brian Herbert Dunes?

 

pretty cool that an asian newspaper is casually orientalist. qing dynasty dude, creepy dragon, indian people barefoot and wrapped in saris

garrisonesque, but not enough labels, what's the flute supposed to represent

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