Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 6 hours ago:
There were complaints that any serious academic work had to be in German during the late 1800s
- Comment on Call of Cthulhu 23 hours ago:
Why does the clam have runes on it?
- Comment on Political Views 3 days ago:
I dont have any evidence, but I 100% believe Engels invented Stirner for Marx to get mad about. Everything we know about the guy reads like 1800s satire.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 5 days ago:
.world wasn’t blocked.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 5 days ago:
IKR. I want to know what kind of spicy take got it blocked.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 5 days ago:
I went to Mander, since .ml is blocked in China.
- Comment on Dirt Man 1 week ago:
Taiwan’s official name is “the republic of china”, “china” covers both places just fine.
- Comment on Dirt Man 1 week ago:
That’s what they said
- Comment on Anon looks into cults 1 week ago:
China had a serious problem with cults, while Japan and Korea are heavily influenced by America, I don’t see that reflected in their cults.
Its not like the UK is less influenced by America than places were the average person has seen like 1 American TV show or movie.
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 1 week ago:
Don’t even need the invisibility and illusion underground, just get good at ventriliquism.
- Comment on Anon plays Skyrim 1 week ago:
The like 4 buildings 15 feet away? That’s a district?
- Comment on US education 2 weeks ago:
Religion doesn’t exist outside society; that dogma is determined by what is useful to those in society with the power to promote it. This is why under the multi-cultural Ottoman Empire they came up with all sorts of justifications to expand the definition of “people of the book” to include basically every significant religious minority except Hindus, and that was only a matter of time, and why fundamentalists who want to return to the 1300s were promoted funded by the British/US/Saudis.
Same applies to any ideology or philosophy. To pretend otherwise is liberal idealism.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
Right now, the Chinese government has effective eminent domain powers which allows them to acquire property for which to build public infrastructure, both expressways and high-speed railways
I’ve heard people claim as much, but at the same time, Stuck Nail Houses exist, I’m not sure how to reconcile the two. I think it’s that their eminent domain is limited to property that was purchased after a certain point, so if it’s property your parents owned since the 80s, it’s literally easier for developers to route the highway around your home than win that lawsuit, but if they bought in like 2010, they can just give you a similar or better property, or the cash to buy one, and that’s that.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
India has a billion english speakers. Bit they do tend to their own sites/fb
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
It means they need to run more trains.
Sold out trains still sell standing tickets, which let you pick seats if available. I’ve seen old ladies choose to stand so they can all be in a group.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
Oh, you dont think Lockheed skimmed off the top of the Apollo program?
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 weeks ago:
Reality: Trains in China go pretty much everywhere and are often sold out days in advance.
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 2 weeks ago:
Theres no genuine 山 in 2025, its a cheap chinese 山.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 3 weeks ago:
I hope youre prepared for what managing bamboo entails.
- Comment on we must protect them from exotics 3 weeks ago:
Other measure for mosquitoes when you have stagnant water you cant put fish in or remove, such as the water that pools in banana plants and bird baths’ mosquito bits. They’re like small rocks carrying a spore that kills mosquito larva, and it seems harmless, at least it is to frogs.
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 3 weeks ago:
A country competing with Japan for the highest suicide rate cant be described as working for a lot of its inhabitants.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
There are countries where that is absolutely true, look at any major construction project in the gulf states, and counties where that is much less true.
At least during my time in China, I saw more workers wearing PPE and taking measures such as using water to stop particulate matter from getting into the air than in Korea and way more than Vietnam and other developing countries. I understand it was very different 20 years ago.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
I’d be more interested in see if they were able to continue this kind of buildout in 30 years
The Beijing subway opened in 1971, when they had less than half the current population. All I can say is that it felt slow, like 2 hours to get what looked like 3-4 blocks on a map
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
Very recent, non-peer reviewed research, n=1. It makes me very happy to be able to nap on a subway/night bus or safely ride a bicycle or somewhat less safely ride a motorbike. My productivity is the same because I work remotely.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
Digging tunnels is dangerous. Especially if you dont have a century of experience to build off of.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
lmao do you think china has an industry of mustache-twirling villains whose job it is to threaten peoples families if they dont work for free? Presumably they work for free to keep their families alive too.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
The main difference here seems to be that the US can compell property owners to accept what they determine is a fair market rate, but another poster informed me that in some cases the chinese can compell people to sell too.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
?Its very typical at sit-down restaurants, they bring you the check, you write the amount you want to pay (tip), sign, and leave your card on the tray, they bring back your card and a copy of the check.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nobody will care, but a lot of places, including all public transit only take cash.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure the developers offered “fair compensation”, you need to demand lot before fucking up the highway design is more economical.
