But muh north korean peasants executed by anti aircraft gun for listening to .1 seconds of kpop

Yeah, I’m in amerikka rn and honestly it’s just wierd and really anxiety inducing.

I just really don’t want to die. I really just wanted a good job and people who care about me, and now I’ve got to worry about all of this.

Prices are rising and it feels like something big is coming but I’ve got to just keep going to classes as usual. I was talking to my advisor a few weeks ago about my plan for the rest of my degree which won’t be done until 2027/28.

I guess I never really considered what life during wartime actually looks like. Is there even a point worrying? What if the conflict goes nuclear and there’s no hope of recovery? I just don’t want to have wasted my life

If we were lucky, this would mean these guys defected

Unfortunately, we are stupendously unlucky so this is probably a cover up for something

Honestly I wanna write a fantasy setting where it follows the events of the French revolution, but the French revolution and pre-capitalist history and histiography hurts my brain too much for me to simply write it

This is how I kinda felt about Lightlark. The main character is literally from a race(?) Of people who are forced to subsist on human hearts. But she’s special and simultaneously normal so she doesn’t have to. Like if you’re going to write that don’t be a coward and chicken out

Honestly I wish (at least as an Amerikkkan) that we got more middle eastern mythology. It Honestly seems interesting but I barely know where to start and it’s never adapted anywhere. Plus, I basically only know what a Djinn is in passing

Damn, yeah. KOTOR got given such a short stick after the first game. And it sucks cause the 2nd is great (although even with the patch it’s very obviously unfinished)

Wow, if China did that we would be hearing about the ebil xixipee like no other

Could you expand on the section about “thats what it’s on its way too in the Taiwanese parliament”?

Tbf would Bashar even want to? He basically immediately started being a doctor again and it wasn’t exactly his Forte originally

This is the most condesending comment section I’ve seen in a while

Huh, even if it isn’t what I’m looking for it looks good. I might check it out

It might be, but at the same time it’s not ringing any bells. It does fit all the criteria though, the only issue is that I’m pretty sure the American book and Chinese book had a similar plot, which isn’t existent in this case.

But then again, my memory isnt great, so it might be it. Thank you for trying though

I hate having to quote someone I’m 99% sure is a liberal and 99.9% sure is not a communist, but PhilosophyTube said it best that, “voting with your wallet means that people with no money get no votes.”

The point is that we can’t disprove a negative. It’s on you and everyone who agrees with you to provide evidence of the fabrication. Otherwise I can also just say “no they wouldnt” and that has the same evidentiary validity as your argument.

I find it funny how the Chinese use the same logical throughlines to come to different conclusions to liberals. Instead of saying that people shouldn’t be able to live comfortably in every job, because then people would just do the easy Jobs, the Chinese say that people should be able to live comfortably in all jobs so that people will do them. I also saw one person on 小红书 using the “feed a man a fish” quote, not to argue for taking welfare away, but for actually giving people jobs.

Maybe, but my main issue is that it doesn’t change anything. Let’s say we assume that we are in a simulation…what now? If you had 100% irrefutable proof of it, what would we do? And if you can’t convince others, what would change on an individual level? I still feel pain and love and sadness, so it’s kinda pointless, i feel anyway.

Honestly I just can’t buy it because of the price. Honestly I like the concepts but I think the civ swapping mechanics need to be critically thought about much better. Because I like the idea but every game that has tried always falters. Unsure if it’s poor execution or if the concept is doomed to fail.

Also I am begging the Devs to make Sun Yat-sen a leader at some point. Please, thats the closest acceptable thing to modern China we can get. Cmon you’ve got come Wu Zetian you can do Sun, pleeeeaaasssee Firaxis

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It’s the article I’m replying too here. (Also the top comment has a link to a site the writer has made which tracks it over time)

The actual unemployment rate being nearly 24% makes me actually nauseous