Titus Gallinicus serving his famous pie.

“As discussed” means your people don’t trust your lying ass. You bet I’m gonna send you an email with all the shit you want me to do, but can’t be bothered to send me in a clear traceable email.

For real, it implies their mastery over… something, anything really. It’s not what my career has shown me, though.

“Illegal”?

Maybe he’s splashing half of it on his head or something?

The funny thing is I’ve seen places like that in China for kids. Just no bucking, but the kid can ride a kart or whatever while they get their hair cut.

We have a lovely backup generator on site that turns on anytime an electrical storm is detected within 50km of our DC. That thing is something out of a cruiseship so yeah, I can imagine real huge data centers must be an order of magnitude worse.

Ah, so that’s who those share buttons are for! Always wondered about that!

You would have a lot more death during pregnancy / childbirth though.

I dont complain, I write constructive comments and useful bug reports.

So good I got invited several times to closed beta by developers who really appreciated the effort.

Greedy CEOs? You better believe it : wolves!

It’s like they saw that scene in Idiocracy and took it literally

Does this mean they’ll finally give us lessons beyond HSK3? Because those final 6 repeating lessons are driving me absolutely insane T-T

And CHEESE !

I absolutely love that GIF. So appropriate.

I take “mean” to mean a mean average.

It’ll be interesting to see how things change now that we’ll possibly get flooded with unregulated meat from Argentina et al.

Someone didn’t play Treasure of Nadia…

You’re right, I’m sorry, I really should educate myself about the US beyond the 40+ years of propaganda I’ve had to endure and the absolutely constant, never ending stream of shit across all media I’m the grateful recipient of, thanks to the Internet™. But honestly, I’m kinda scared I’d actually die if I came to visit.

Meanwhile, my experience with China over the last ten years or so has left me regularly wondering, in the grand scheme of things, what the fucking difference is. You both are absolutely insane, from where I live.

But yes, I was totally cherry picking your message. I don’t disagree with you, to be clear. I’m just amused about your choice of epithet.

I’m being slightly disingenuous by focusing on one expression in the entire message, granted.
But honestly, using “one party state” as an epiteth, like that’s what you want to focus on that’s badwrong about China? that’s amusing to me, reading this from Europe. YMMV.