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My Dearest Sinophobes:

Your knee-jerk downvoting of anything that features any hint of Chinese content doesn’t hurt my feelings. It just makes me point and laugh, Nelson Muntz style as you demonstrate time and again just how weak American snowflake culture really is.

Hugs & Kisses,

张殿李

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  • There are several pre-modern cities with populations as little as 10,000 in history. When I consider that I used to live in this town:

    Well, that’s a town of about 3500 people. A third of a “city”. I could bike from end to end of it in minutes, and over the three years I lived there I probably got to know well over half the population by face.

    So if “Underdark City” is a pre-modern city with a population in this range, I could easily see this map as being a (smallish) neighbourhood of the city.




  • Toss-up between autumn and spring.

    Spring because that’s when the really good teas start showing up, when most of the flowers start showing (there’s nothing quite as beautiful as a plum tree filled with blossoms and icicles) and the days’ length starts to increase visibly in the race to the equinox.

    Autumn because that’s when all the really good crops start hitting the markets, because the horribly humid heat of summer starts to fall, when the moon cakes start showing up (along with the nice delicate rice wines hitting the scene) and the colours start their final run toward their winter forms.







  • What proportion of Texan’s incarcerated population is forced to labour for next to no salary again? There’s at least one US state—Virginia (312)—whose official title for prisoners is “Slave of the State”. Do you think the other southern states are much more progressive in their attitudes?

    Hint: no. Alabama (390), Arkansas (574), Florida (377), Georgia (435), Mississippi (661), South Carolina (302), and Texas (452) also have de facto slavery of their prisoners: defined as mandatory labour for negligible to no wage, with strict penalties for non-participation.

    So what are those numbers I’ve put after all the state names? Those are the incarceration rates per 100,000. Compare and contrast these with the US national average (which, remember, includes the high-rate states): 355. Isn’t it mysterious that of the eight states with de facto incarcerated slavery six are over the national average, and three (Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas) have the highest incarceration rates in the country?

    Slavery is alive and well in the USA, and Texas is one of its largest users thereof now. So yes, I think the average modern Texan secessionist would be pro-slavery … because they already are.