Don’t know (m)any Europeans then?

If your analogy is based on consumption it makes no sense.

Meanwhile, I could drop eat from mine response and the point stands with a dry place to sit.

It’s an advantage for the people who get a place to sit and eat.

And an advantage for the people who work in that restaurant if they’re ever tired or out when it starts to rain that that they can rest or shelter in any other restaurants near by.

Sadly, they see that as the golden age.

There are some, perhaps somewhat unorthodox, Christian theologies that hold that the Old Testament stuff and what was allowed to happen as more of the planning and scheming of God to reach the desired end goal. Including temporarily limiting itself to order to get there.

If we’re taking God’s word for it all, then what is now was the preordained outcome of that chess master’s plan.

For all we know a biblically accurate God is doing Xanatos Speed Chess to ensure that the current state of the world is the one true outcome regardless of what happens.

Besides, as we all know from science - there are a lot of different ways to end up with the same end result.

You’re welcome. It’s a big place and never gets a fair voice in Anglophone media. Alas, it’s still no utopia or shining beacon.

But all the same, for a country that has spent its whole existence staring down the barrel of the USA, the PRC has done well for itself. Raised living standards according to UN/World Bank metrics. Drastically reduced unintended (wording due to one child policy) deaths of children.

But the Cultural Revolution did a number on society that helped shape it into the nation of alienated neoliberal subjects it is today.

East Asia loves gatcha. It’s a huge thing all across the region.

Nope. China is very pessimistic at the moment.

Lots of… not wanting kids even if not actual antinatalism. Due to no free time, competition for resources, and people having no ability to live for themselves before 24 or so. High costs as the assumption of 2 parents 1 child is baked into the costs of everything, from kids activities to the education system.

The place seems to be aware something big is coming, and no one seems optimistic. All the chatter about growth, new tech, hasn’t been felt in people’s lives or incomes yet, in fact the inverse as businesses close up and everyone becomes a Didi driver (滴滴司机) or a Meituan deliverer (外卖哥/姐) and that’s the same gig economy rubbish we have, only with fewer rights and protections.

Sorry, I assumed yours and haven’t seen it yet.

I agree that that isn’t cool… But I also think we should be making an effort to get more video resources up onto non-YouTube sites.

Could you put it on Peertube?

I always forget that you Yanks have things like HOAs, and can’t keep chickens or paint your house the colour you like.

Don’t you have the freedom to leave the Home Owners Association, or set up your own one?

Edit: apparently it’s in the EU. I only really know British and to a lesser Chinese housing stuff. China does have HOA style stuff.

You’re not wrong.

Source: grew up near pine Monoculture forestry land. Is grim, dead pines underfoot and little light. Few to no flowers. Sterile(ised) feeling “forests”.

Sugarcane is a common crop across the global south, that is grown heavily for the benefit of the Global North.

That they can turn the byproduct of a cash crop grown for neo-imperialism into something useful for the locals is no bad thing (unless the landowners/sugarcane processors forbid/constrain the use of the leftovers).

Thank you, that looks like a good set of hooks for me to get into at a weekend, child allowing.

I very much appreciate the guide. I’ll let you know when I’ve had a fiddle.

I tried using PiVPN to route my phone’s Internet access through my home network, but it kept breaking and I found I don’t have a head for networks.

Would caddy be able to do that in an easier to maintain way?

Hits differently knowing that masses of Anarchists and LGBTQI+ and Poly-women were executed in the purges of “走资派” people in the following years.