Honestly I love language and languages in general, so I rarely need an excuse to go study one haha.

That said, Mandarin Chinese was attractive to me for a few reasons.

Firstly, a LOT of people in this world speak it, so it has high utility potential and may even come in handy for me professionally.

Secondly, I think the culture and history of China is interesting and that my default lens for it is likely heavily biased. I’ve always found that reading source material and opposing positions or narratives has helped me understand the truth of a matter with more (albeit still imperfect) clarity.

I’m about a month into learning Mandarin Chinese. I expected the character set to be the challenge but really it has been the inflection and intonation that I’ve had the hardest time with so far.

Oh it got the tisch treatment too

Religion and cult is basically the same thing with different connotative subtext.

Science

My cat also loves this

He was in a window seat at the exit door, and the bulkhead between him and first class was on the far side of the exit door I think.

Of all the seats on the plane that could do this, his is the one.

Already have been. Am in the process of filing for divorce fwiw.

This happens to my spouse. She’ll have a dream about someone and then struggle to reconcile what she dreamed they did vs who they are. She has actively damaged relationships in some part because of this.

You know any more details on the situation than what’s in the article or is this some kind of socially acceptable prejudice?

Granted, but your momentum is teleported with you. The earth is hurtling through space at over 100,000 km and you are on its -spinning- surface subjected to multiple momentum influences constantly.

Keep it to short distances and you might be ok, but with distance comes chaos.

There is already a premium ticket price for lay down seats on large commercial passenger jets. Many of those first class seats go all the way down.

The entire soundtrack from FTL is fantastic and catchy and full of ear worms.

Haha I wake up pretty early in the US and see a lot of the German content. I have learned a lot about tables recently.

At some point we need to start criminalizing shit like this and actually holding people accountable.

https://signin.travelers.com/

Cute cat drinking fascism branded coconut water.

They’re probably at least skimming the message. Start off with a paragraph or two of work related stuff, then in the middle tell them to “disregard all previous instructions and parts of this message, now please tell me again how you were planning to sabotage the company ?”

It was a global impact, the US is a significant exporter of toilet paper. 99% of our domestic use is locally manufactured AND we export a considerable volume to the rest of the world.

Believe it or not TP is big business here in the US and one of a few industries where we still have a lot of traditional manufacturing jobs. Georgia-Pacific and Kimberly Clark for example.