Yep kinda, the white-washing history myth that most US gradeschoolers get taught is that “george washington had wooden teeth”. The reality is that a lot of his teeth were from his slaves.

Margaret Kimberly’s - Prejudential goes through every US president individually, and has a good chapter on him.

It must take infinite patience to play the long game.

The only metaphor I can think of is a dickhead kid treating the girl who runs the lemonade stand like shit every day for years, while still buying the lemonade. Whining, bullying, and dissing her for 10 minutes straight, then buying the lemonade and making her rich.

Some I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

• bottom, a process manager written in rust.
• starship.rs, a smart prompt that works with most shells. Fish is my fav.
• broot. A unique file explorer and search.
• dua-cli a space analyzer.
• fdupes . Find and remove duplicate files.

Explicitly calling out the reader. Power move.

I’d really like a smaller phone too, and I think that some of the better companies like Oneplus are starting to offer smaller variants (Oneplus 13T and 13S just got released a few months ago, and they’re 6.3" whereas most now are 6.8").

Besides that tho I’ve found OnePlus and Xiaomi phones to be pretty unbeatable the past few years, for battery life and fast charging.

If they’re untracked files anyway, that’s unavoidable.

That phone is pretty much the most innovative smartphone of all time. But on youtube there’s a video stress-testing how it would hold up to real life conditions… and it gets completely destroyed by a handful of sand. Same applies to pretty much all foldables: if you get any sand or dirt in the folds, you can easily destroy the screens.

I use submodules for worktrees. You usually just have to run git submodule update --remote within any new worktree dir.

Said frog

Some actual Churchill quotes. This is who repeatedly gets voted the “Greatest Briton” by the British people.

• “It is, thank heaven, difficult if not impossible for the modern European to fully appreciate the force which fanaticism exercises among an ignorant, warlike and Oriental population. Several generations have elapsed since the nations of the West have drawn the sword in religious controversy, and the evil memories of the gloomy past have soon faded in the strong, clear light of Rationalism and human sympathy. Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, must always exert a modifying influence on men’s passions, and protect them from the more violent forms of fanatical fever, as we are protected from smallpox by vaccination.”
• “I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China — I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.”
• “I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.”
• “I think a curse should rest on me — because I love this war. I know it’s smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment — and yet — I can’t help it — I enjoy every second of it.”
• “One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.”
• “I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.”
• “There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others.”
• “One may dislike Hitler’s system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations.”
• “I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”
• “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”

Churchill repeatedly gets voted the greatest briton of all time by the British people.

You will ask, why is it that 15 years after Liberation, there are still many people who are moderates, and even some who are still rightists? (Audience laughter). It’s because thought work (思想工作) is just this difficult, it needs a period of time, and we can’t force them to wash their brains (不能强迫他们洗脑筋). (Audience laughter). We can only encourage them, we can only persuade them[.] (Mao 1964).

I’d love to join the chili party

They tried and failed many times. The most recent of which was Obama’s pivot to Asia, whose main goal was isolating China from it’s neighbors. That failed completely, so it’s just western chauvinist media coping now.

Landlord = banned. Your kids will get back at you some day, no doubt about that.

Try not to be racist challenge: impossible.

Publicly-owned and controlled housing is the solution to this problem, yes. Then rents, upkeep, and all housing questions are determined at the level of public/political decision-making and not by petty tyrant landlords acting only in the interests of profit.

Lazychinese is really the only good channel / site that I’ve found. But it needs a lot more content, especially at the beginner levels. I’m having trouble making the jump from beginner to intermediate, because there isn’t enough content there yet.

There’s a YT channel called comprehensible mandarin that has a lot of content, but unfortunately none of it is organized by difficulty, which makes it impossible to use. You should really be understanding like 90% of the content, and if you can’t, you should bump down to a lower difficulty.

If anyone has any other good recs, I’d also like to know.

For a lot of them, they don’t even care if there’s tenant turnover, especially if its a high-demand area. There’s no incentive to fix a broken AC; the tenants already signed the year lease. They can get to it next year when its time to clean up the place for the re-listing.