Phoenix3875

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Phoenix3875,

Zizek’s take on 300 is so good, here’s an excerpt:

it is the story a small and poor country (Greece) invaded by the army of a much larges state (Persia), at that point much more developed, and with a much more developed military technology - are the Persian elephants, giants and large fire arrows not the ancient version of high-tech arms? When the last surviving group of the Spartans and their king Leonidas are killed by the thousands of arrows, are they not in a way bombed to death by techno-soldiers operating sophisticated weapons from a safe distance, like today’s US soldiers who push the rocket buttons from the warships safely away in the Persian Gulf? Furthermore, Xerxes’s words when he attempts to convince Leonidas to accept the Persian domination, definitely do not sound as the words of a fanatic Muslim fundamentalist: he tries to seduce Leonidas into subjection by promising him peace and sensual pleasures if he rejoins the Persian global empire. All he asks from him is a formal gesture of kneeling down, of recognizing the Persian supremacy - if the Spartans do this, they will be given supreme authority over the entire Greece. Is this not the same as what President Reagan demanded from Nicaraguan Sandinista government? They should just say “Hey uncle!” to the US…

Phoenix3875,

Apart from cargo bikes, in London City ULEZ, buses, cabs, and utility trucks are allowed. It’s amazing how little traffic they generate.

Phoenix3875,

My gut feeling is that the procedural generation thing in Startfield somehow absorbs some people’s need for mods.

Phoenix3875,

There’s a Generals Evolution mod for Red Alert 3, which super-glues Generals to RA3 and it’s pretty great.

Phoenix3875,

Run all of them for extra brightness.

Phoenix3875,

It’s a one-piece pajama in the video. She has a coat over it during the work.

Phoenix3875,

The sentence meant to be sarcastic. The dry humor was lost in translation.

Phoenix3875,

For those who don’t know, it’s not quite new (except for the word that describes it, Ban Wei 班味). Because of the long working time, a lot of Chinese companies (especially in the tech sector) allow very casual dressing, plushies, even folding beds in the office. Sounds good but is actually horrifying.

Phoenix3875,

I’m not saying everything about China is evil, but 996 is an actual thing, actively resented by Chinese young people. I’ve got friends working such schedules. I’m presenting their views. I had also visited their offices and saw the folding beds.

Phoenix3875,

I’m not saying that this isn’t a protest, but merely providing the context for the protest. They took the relaxed dress code to an extreme and deliberately interpreted it as “anything you like”. It’s more of a malicious compliance protest. That’s why they were scolded by the leader, instead of being fired.

Phoenix3875,

Have you heard of 996.icu? I don’t know where you get your statistics, but have a walk around 五道口 and you’ll understand.

Also, I don’t know where you see that I’m a fan of CCP. The government is largely responsible for the phenomenon by not prosecuting the companies lol.

Phoenix3875, (edited )

I mean, that’s also how now commonly accepted names came into being in the first place.

Phoenix3875,

Every time I plugged USB-C into SDCX: perfect height, but why are you moving?

Phoenix3875,

Being a jerk in Obsidian games is fun. I used to do every small errand to please everyone, mainly for the rewards, but then found out as long as you can figure out the main mechanism, most tasks are optional.

Being more assertive really amps up the role playing aspect. Sadly not every RPG is this open and well-written.

Phoenix3875,

Because these two industries are both labor intensive.

Phoenix3875,

There’s indeed a cake called Napoleon, which is not invented by Napoleon. I know at least in Russia and China, this cake is known by the name of Napoleon cake.

Legend has it that the name originates from the Napoleonic war with Russia and since people have to throw the cake to the ground (table?) to break the sugar layer on top of it and thus the Russian people call it Napoleon so that they are breaking Napoleon.

I see no mention of this etymology elsewhere, so take this with a grain of salt.

Phoenix3875,

If I can pull myself up, I’ll just have the pie in the sky.

Phoenix3875,

Meh, it’s what you get when you write a language in a different language’s “style”.

Phoenix3875,

*invisible corn on the invisible cob

Phoenix3875,

Somewhat related. Since discussions about working conditions are heavily censored in China, people have recently started to use Palworld contents as a disguise/satire/substitute for it. For example, see this game media’s video if you know Chinese. Compared to the first world “controversies” around PETA, third world people are more acutely aware of the parallelism between Pals/Mons and their own conditions and thus people “just understand” the underlying problem rather than argue about what it is and what it isn’t on the surface level.

Phoenix3875,

This, but unironically used as a marketing trick:

There was no v1 of Oracle Database, as co-founder Larry Ellison “knew no one would want to buy version 1”

That’s why the first Oracle database is v2.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database

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