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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

"give us your name". i believe it's from his very strange deposition

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

it would be so cool if vvardenfell were a real place

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

cw: torturehe was deprived of food, water, medication, and sleep, stripped naked and put into a cold shower, and wound up being hospitalized. he's still in ICE custody.

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

interesting read thank you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 94 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

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