There is nothing specific, but what I mean is that Russian public figures or ideas would have their Anglicised name on the entry at the introduction page alongside their Cyrillic spellings. Putting the Cyrillic spelling side by side with the English spelling made me learn how to read and pronounce Russian.

I learned to read Cyrillic from reading Wikipedia. I got obsessed with Russian history and Russian entries in Wikipedia have the English name alongside the Cyrillic spelling. So, I read the Russian words alongside the English spelling to help me how to read in Russian. I also thought I could try reading Greek since Cyrillic is based from it, but for some reason I am struggling. I think I can quickly learn to read letters based from the shape and the sound they represent but Greek letters are a bit more complicated for me.

I like the Serbian rule. It’s not unnecessarily complicated.

I know this is a joke but I will be pendantic and say there is already a gender neutral word for fisherman, which is fishmonger.

Tankies are the last people to care about minorities. They will throw them under the bus once they gain power.

Hinge, Tinder, OkCupid, Plenty Of Fish and others are owned by one giant company called Match.com. You are not ugly, a monopoly just puts you down the pile by algorithm to prompt you to pay to increase your chances of more likes (that’s not to say that making your profile look good doesn’t matter). There are independent dating apps like Coffee and Bagel and Bumble, but either those apps don’t have many people or copying Match’s anti-consumer behaviour like Bumble does.

Even if there is potential to self-driving technology, the wait is very long because the technology is still nascent and unproven. Are people willing to put money on stocks that won’t grow for years or years? It’s the same with space stocks. This just vindicates the principle of value investing: invest in companies that are already profitable.

Yeah dating apps are silly. It replaced bars as places with bad reputation to try to meet partners. I’m short but still have gotten interests from girls in real life despite my height, not so much in dating apps.

We are still considered apes but in the hominid Branch, which include chimpanzees, gorillas and us.

Matt Walsh is religious if I’m not mistaken. And religious folks really don’t think we’re apes and get offended for saying so because it goes against the Abrahamic teaching that god made us. I remember saying to a religious fanatic that we are apes and she called me an ape but i was like: “Yeah, we are. That’s what I’m telling you.” Admitting that we are apes and thus animals would mean discarding the idea that humans have dominion on nature and animals as stated in the bible. And there is nothing worse for the religious (humans in general) than losing dominance.

Burnham seems to have better domestic policies. But the other test is on foreign policy, especially on Palestine and Israel.

I wonder why Poles are pretty racists despite having experienced the same colonial and imperial struggles. The Poles who sided with former black Haitian slaves would be rolling on their graves.

Elon is a sleazy salesman who somehow keeps getting away.

Surprise, surprise. Carney is still a neoliberal.

It’s also a personal choice. No, I’m not talking about a person being gay, but a lot of people don’t mind being single. Or if they are partnered, they choose not to have any children. I personally fall in the former category.

Carney is still a neoliberal though. His government is pushing for more tech surveillance.

I’m Asian, my experience is that American media in Asia is so dominant that many Asians dream and fawn over the US. Little do they realise the casual gun violence, lack of affordable healthcare and education and the poverty in the country. A lot of Asians also think Trump and ICE only go after “illegals” because Asian media don’t really cover much of that event and is considered an American domestic issue.

The depiction of the US in Asia is sanitised and viewed from rose tinted glasses. That’s not to say America isn’t great in many aspects but many Asian migrants say it’s not what they expected.

I mean even without any mobile credit, you can still browse Facebook in many developing countries.

It’s free on poorer countries even for those without mobile internet data. And we know why the service is free…

India has always been good at setting its own independent foreign policy without retaliation from other powers by virtue of its size, both geographically and population.