As Kuro said below, gua (melon) is an insult meaning stupid (though in Sichuan it is used to mean a drunk, and this song is specifically about drunk foreigners, or party boys/fuckboys, who come to Chengdu to harass women). Xie Di is from Chengdu, all the best Chinese hiphop is from CDC or Xinjiang (in my opinion).

I don’t care about DNA stuff, and to be honest there is a lot of weird race science wrapped up in people’s obsession with DNA. Nor can DNA actually tell you how someone looked in real life; it is simply one of the many factors that go into someone’s complexion and skin tone.

I gotta say though, there is something a bit uncomfortable about asserting that Egypt is being “secretive” with their cultural honoured and revered dead, when the history of “Egyptology” is the pillage and plunder of Egyptian history at the hands of white scientists seeking to build their own civilizational narrative.

No one owes western science unfettered access to their history or the right to assert western science as some objective truth-building endeavour.

This would also kill everyone in Gaza. If seeing people suffer and die upsets you, the response should not be a belief that people should die on a larger scale, but that you should be looking for the people that are also opposed to suffering and death to try to create something that uplifts people. New futures are built through the dedicated application of human imagination: not through wishful (or vengeful) thinking, but through a conscious effort to create better possibilities.

There are billions of people on this planet, and wishing death on all of them is what the fascists are doing. Please try not to join them in that line of reasoning.

It’s probably because in real life Ramesses II had red hair, and a lot of white people seem to have a hard time imagining someone with natural red hair having dark skin and eyes, even though that was sort of a big deal for Egyptians at the time.

That being said, fair skin and light coloured eyes are not an entirely uncommon trait for the area (North Africa and West Asia, Egypt’s sphere of influence at the time). Not likely they were traits possessed by Ramesses, though a very questionable race science examination tried to assert he was a fair-skinned man of Amazigh (Berber) descent in the 70s, which is probably where they drew this idea of him from. Though they nailed his big beautiful nose.

Edit: On further inspection it sort of looks like they just made a beefier blue-eyed version of Yul Brynner from the Ten Commandments

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/former-acting-ag-whitaker-confirmed-as-us-envoy-to-nato-00006035

Edit: this was not unanimous. I think people are confused because the motion to invoke cloture was reached by unanimous-consent agreement (at a previous date). This just means that everyone agreed not to debate anymore about the nomination and set a date for the vote, which was Tuesday, and which was 52-45.

Most Americans have very little idea of how their government works, so it is not surprising that this misunderstanding has spread so much; I’ve seen quite a few people saying he was appointed through unanimous-consent. Appointments are never passed through unanimous-consent agreements, they always go to vote.

This article posits that at least 1% of scribes of medieval manuscripts were women, potentially more, but that’s a far cry from “most”

You call them stupid and say they’re for five year olds in the same paragraph you say that they are your wife’s and she likes them enough to have several.

What type of book recommendations? Maybe that will help

Ah, so the imaginary backlash is even more imaginary because it’s just an unimplemented feature in an unfinished game

So I’m not a video game type but I know a few girlies who were excited for this one and were really disappointed that there are no gay NPCs. So you can make your character gay in the character creator, but if you do then you have no one to date because every NPC is straight. They’re not outraged or anything, they just went back to the Sims lol.