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i’m reading william hinton’s fanshen, an eyewitness account of land reform in the early days of the PRC. the first part of it is all about how fucking horrible the feudal system was in china, it’s incredibly depressing but makes you realize the incredible scale of the achievements china has made. can’t wait for the red army to come in and put all the landlords and gentry in a fucking blender.

i can’t stand the wade-giles romanization of chinese though. the book was written in the 50s or 60s so it’s not the authors fault obviously but i find wade-giles to be way more of a pain than pinyin

suprised nobody has posted yet that bolsonaro is back in the hospital. another photo here for the collage

https://xcancel.com/jairbolsonaro/status/1912131920089035127#m

https://xcancel.com/MikeBeauvais/status/1912269975881908616#m

i have dog shit service where i live and nothing pisses me off more than 2fa. yeah god forbid a hacker gets into the web service i need to use to put in my work hours for some reason. god forbid my fucking boss doesn’t just do that shit themselves

if i hadn’t seen that clip before i probably wouldn’t have gotten it either, they definitely chopped it up

“give us your name”. i believe it’s from his very strange deposition

sweet smell of success (1957) is a grimy, sweaty, dark movie with all-timer performances from tony curtis and especially burt lancaster. a real feel-bad classic.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/4/south-koreas-constitutional-court-removes-president-yoon-from-office yoon is gone in SK. pretty darkly funny that the biden white house defended this guy

it would be so cool if vvardenfell were a real place

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained

ICE has been detaining and basically torturing random people here on legitimate green cards and visas. this guy is a white-collar white dude from Germany who has had a green card since 2008.

there’s a similar story about european tourists being detained for weeks at the US-Mexico border but it’s behind a paywall on NYT

interesting read thank you

why does ralph fiennes pronounce his name “rafe”? is that normal in england?

yoav gallant admits that israel used the hannibal directive on oct 7. we all knew this here but i was surprised that he was willing to say it https://thecradle.co/articles-id/28788

the couch that my parents had when i was very young (younger than 6) was poorly upholstered and had some staples or something that were not flush. i was sitting on the couch and swinging my legs and hitting one of them with my achilles and it hurt like a mf

should’ve just made the scenes with him driving obviously rear-projected like in older movies, or make it so his character lost his license too or something, esp as this seems to be a recurring issue for him

there have been at least a couple videos of him glitching out at this point but i think the media doesn’t really make it front page news

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/pentagon-removes-major-media-outlets-nbc-news-dedicated-workstations-p-rcna190276

nyt, politico, npr, and nbc told to leave their offices in the pentagon to make room for breitbart, OANN, ny post, and… huffington post?

as a bonus: literally none of the water he would have/did release from the dams would have made it to LA, and the fires in LA are mostly out by now anyways

https://xcancel.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1885473025476145386#m

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/trump-california-water-00201909

Local officials had to talk the Army Corps of Engineers down after it abruptly alerted them Thursday afternoon it was about to increase flows from two reservoirs to maximum capacity — a move the agency said was in response to Trump directing the federal government to “maximize” water supplies. Before the Corps ratcheted down its plan, local authorities scrambled to move equipment and warn farms about possible flooding, said Victor Hernandez, who oversees water management on one of the rivers, the Kaweah in Tulare County. He said the Corps gave him one hour notice on Thursday. “I’ve been here 25 years, and I’ve never been given notice that quick,” Hernandez said. “That was alarming and scary.”

…It also reduces the amount of irrigation water available to farmers during the driest months of the year. The snowpack in the Southern Sierra Nevada that California depends on for water supplies in the summer has dipped to 47 percent of average for this time of year after a dry January, according to state estimates released Friday. “We need to keep every bit that we have, because this potentially is irrigation water that we have up there,” Hernandez said.

turns out that when trump said that he had the military release the water in california he just meant he made the army corps open up the dams???

you would have to not give a single fuck about non-white people to say that anything the USSR did - even in the most insane, propagandized black book telling - was anywhere near as bad as what the europeans did to the congo, or to vietnam, or to india time and time again