@SecondRingSZN It really is one of the nicest parts of living in Fuzhou
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Walker Chapman
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Walker Chapman
@WalkerChapman
American in China interested in history, culture and thought.
가입일 Haziran 2020
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They had a city report card and Fuzhou didn't make overall top 10 or anything but it appeared in some metric ranking basically govt said you just keep looking pretty don't worry abt other stuff
Ben Clarkson 🐸💩@benclarkson
It's very funny. When I was an active climate activist people would always respond to our arguments with "what about China?" - now China has lapped us environmentally.
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Reading the daode jing and the parallels one can draw feel limitless. Read this passage and thought of Jesus.
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@Orthon_Spaceman @PhiloCrocodile Theres a great book called 翦商 you would probably like. Not sure if its been translated though.
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@PhiloCrocodile Most of the stuff is in archeological journals, unfortunately. Due to the lack of historical records from the period most literature is archeological too. There are monographs out there but I am not too well aquainted with the field to recommend anything empathically.
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I don't know what it is about the shang dynasty in particular, but besides looking strangely meso-american at times (which Churchward built his whole Mu mythos on), it is always striking to me how its designs seem to convey a cruel personality somehow.
LeoDaVinciWave@LeoDaVinciWave
A Hafted Axe with Dragons from Ancient China, dating back to approximately 1300–1200 B.C.E. during the late Shang dynasty.
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Ok don't actually do this on a train
AL-fira 🇨🇳@UlyssesFinn
On a long train ride, a Han Chinese played the erhu, a Kazakh played the dombra, and three Uyghurs played the rawap and gijak. Together, they performed the Mongolian piece Horse Racing, bringing the dull journey to life with the sound of their traditional ethnic instruments.😌😌😌
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Gym bro pulls the ultimate prank: switches to full innocent little kid mode with glasses… and the influencer lady instantly melts ❤️
She’s all “Aww so cute~” …until he drops the cute act and flexes his massive muscles.
She says “Nooo~” …but we all know her ovaries just exploded internally 💥😂
Classic “mouth says no, body says yes” energy.
Who do you think won ? The prank or her poker face? Drop your verdict 👇
#TGTM #GymPrank #Relatable
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Just went to Sanxingdui and my mind is blown by the bronze artifacts there from about 3,200 years ago. This is concurrent with the Shang dynasty (oracle bone culture) but they didn’t do any oracle bones or writing that we can find.
These bronzes were probably ritual objects for centuries before being cast into pits. Why? We don’t know!
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@apple4ever @RonLogic369 @aakashgupta Term you keep accumulating your baseline of healthiness keeps getting worse and worse. Like how not smoking doesnt reverse the damage done from smoking.
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@apple4ever @RonLogic369 @aakashgupta We are speaking in metaphors about an opaque physiological process. The one that wpuld fit what the author is saying is that proper sleep stops more damage from accumulating, but it can’t undo what’s already been done. In the short term you return to normal, but if over the long
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The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.
UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.
The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.
Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.
The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.
About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.
"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.
Nicholas Fabiano, MD@NTFabiano
Sleeping <6h a night for 2 weeks reduces cognitive performance equal to 2 nights of total sleep deprivation.
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Is this Imperial enough? Or do the Chinese need to send in the troops?
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
Incredible footage. The Myanmar military is literally blowing up massive scam centers to appease the Chinese government. Thailand is cutting off their electricity, and Cambodia is seizing cartel assets. A massive coordinated regional crackdown is finally underway.
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@WalkerChapman The collection was published in the sense of being printed, bound, and circulated, but it never received an official publication number (according to the chapter on him in Maghiel van Crevel's Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money).
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I read the Michel Houellebecq poems that Joe Amato translated. They reminded me of Shen Haobo, who is still perhaps most famous for publishing a collection that contained this poem about harassing women on the bus. You will have to make do with my flawed translation.
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@schizocritic @spandrell4 People just want to feel esteemed and glorious without sacrifice.
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Capeshit LARP. There are numerous armed conflicts in the world. Buy a one way ticket and live the life of a soldier you claim you want.
Daily Roman Updates@UpdatingOnRome
That’s life.
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@W_T_Han It’s interesting that the same ruler who seems to flagrantly violent international law by using another ruler in sacrifice is also the one who in a crucial battle is a stickler for the rules and loses as a result.
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Tom mentions the Confucian injunction against ambushes. I think the reference is to the Battle of River Hong in 638 BC.
The armies of the states of Song & Chu faced each other at the river. The Chu army began to cross. Advisors of Duke Xiang of Song urged him to attack while the enemy was fording the river. The duke refused. After all the Chu soldiers had crossed, the advisors urged Duke Xiang to attack before the Chu army could form proper lines. The duke refused. When the Chu troops were good & ready, the two sides fought, & the Song lost, & Duke Xiang was wounded.
Posterity has tended to laugh at Duke Xiang of Song as an example of foolish virtue. But in his annal of that age, "Spring & Autumn," Confucius seems to sympathize w Duke Xiang.
In 7th c BC China, warfare was still a kind of large-scale aristocratic duel, & duels had rules. Looking back after the rules had broken down, ofc Duke Xiang seemed like an idiot. But at the time he was upholding those rules precisely when they were on the cusp of breaking down - basically abiding by int'l law when other countries are ignoring them.
Tom Holland@holland_tom
War breaks out between the two great rival samurai clans today on @TheRestHistory, as we continue our epic new story: THE DAWN OF THE SAMURAI. Fox goddesses, gardens full of mysterious skulls, seppuku & a mighty battle for a bridge all feature! linktr.ee/restishistory
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You idiot. We had a good thing and you had to just go and RUIN it. China was the last place a man in the world besides the Balkans where you could have excellent food, strong spirits, and then cap it off with 3 smooth cigarettes at the dinner table while picking your teeth with a toothpick next to your mates. You fool…
Dr. Luke in China@96Stats
I made a public complaint on Chinese Social Media (小红书) about how i hate how bad smoking is in public places in Xinjiang, literally every cafe or restaurant people smoke, yet in big cities they already have bans. My post went really viral and the government have just made a new law banning smoking in indoor public places from May 1!! I received lots of messages from women today thanking me for it saying i was the one to change it🤣🤣
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@JakabfiK The rest you can just understand as pinyin with developmental problems
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"chinese romanization has like four different standardized"
No. There is only Pinyin. Hanyu Pinyin.
What? There's only Hanyu Pinyin.
Move along.
Allison💀@allisonisanime
japanese romanization is blissfully easy all things considered. the standard korean romanization is straight up wrong and chinese romanization has like four different standardized ways but none of them are quite right either.
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@2Philosophical_ @enzoreds Why could there not have been nothing?
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@WalkerChapman @enzoreds “Language games” — i.e., philosophy I refuse to engage with
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The Argument From Nothing
1. There could not have been nothing.
So,
2. There had to be something.
So,
3. There’s a necessary being.
4. A necessary being would necessarily have the properties classically ascribed to God.
So,
5. God exists.
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@9chabard Can consider switching methods or materials. take a deep breath, touch grass and continue. The only way out is through.
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anyone got any advice for getting re-motivated when you're in a language learning slump?
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