Dutch Chinese food is a bizarre mix of Cantonese and Indonesian dishes. As well, we colonized Indonesia.

There was this folk singer who loved Chinese food, so when he visited china he took the menu from his home town restaurant, which had the dishes written in Chinese.

Which is a clever thing to do, in itself, but the Chinese restaurateur in China knew almost none of those dishes

It’s a convoluted set up, but the pun is excellent.

In my lifetime the French petrol station toilets went from horrible squat toilets where you needed to bring your own paper to pretty well maintained, mostly really clean experiences.

There are still some stops without petrol stations that have unmanned toilets. Those can be a bit rough, but generally it’s really good.

Meanwhile Trump calling it a war in many occasions

Most vodka is grain based

Still no drag queens or trans people.

Calling people stupid and then complaining about the reaction you get.

I mean what do you expect?

I agree it could be worded more clearly. Yet for everyone who has lived with this it is clear. Like with depression people always assume its the grand things that hold the sadness, or the madness. It leads people who haven’t experienced it to say ‘Just do something fun’. Your example of raging alcoholism is a good example. You would say ‘just avoid your parents when they are drunk’, which is good advice, but emotionally abusive people are very adept at making amends and smoothing stuff out when they have recovered. They will be super sweet and attentive but -which is the brutal part- always switch to full drama mode when you least expect it. So you learn to pick up minute cues you can use to shield yourself from incoming emotional blows, but sometimes they still manage to surprise you when you’ve got your guard down.

That’s why you can never feel safe around them, there might be a hair trigger going off any moment that you didn’t know existed. And whilst you can easily advice people in a realtionship like that to just stay clear of those people, it most likely happens when you are a child and simply unable to just distance yourself. But even grown people still fall into the spiral of just wanting their parents to be proud of them even though they should rationally know it will never happen.

The text is very clear for those who have experienced that. It’s very hard to fathom for those who haven’t, and those are blessed for it.

Emotionally abusive parents is what is described, you become very sensitive to nonverbal clues of your parent(s).

It’s not exaggerating, you really get to live around their personal tripwires. And then assume everybody else has those, which makes it hard to trust people.

Bregman is a treasure. Very based analysis of societal problems and actually doing shit instead of only observing.

At this moment I’d out for administrative leave for all persons involved with Epstein.

It’s better than zero consequences.

Beheading would be better, ofc

Good question. The camera is fully mechanical, and should not need why help functioning in zero g.

I do wonder about the effect of radiation on the film medium, though.

I’m pre invested in the launch of the next Jolla phone, which runs sailfish

Any non Google phone running graphene would be epic.

User name checks out, though

Like Kamala he’s only worth it beacuse of the disastrous alternative.

Unfortunately old people are considered better than female beings, even is the ale specimen is guilty of multiple crimes

If you take the other interpretation of 4/20 (namely that it is Hitler’s birthday, it’s reasonably appropriate.

To the surprise of no one

However, of you drill, you don’t need the volume of a baby, just a few of sticks of c4.

Just take a look at how buildings are demolished, they drill holes. It’s the best way to destroy a building. Why would the Finns be silly and not do that. If it’s so important one could pre drill those holes, limiting time.

Ty!