Pavo

well it's just like Joseph dreamed, when you have seven fat cows you eat them all right away

wish my boss would pay me three visits before dragging me back there

what a collection, bless you Horkos

gotta give France some credit too

as Confucius says, "四海之内皆内卷"

as Adam Silver once said, "Buddy, get ready to live in a pineapple under the sea."

it's not a life-or-death decision for policymakers

don't want to talk to a political scientist

best fictional version of this is in Shogun, where the Englishman tells a feudal lord the world is round, and he just kind of looks at him like "...yeah? obviously?"

wait the *enemy* gets a vote??

came here to chime in on the baby sacrifices, saw two people beat me to it, bless this place

where my Han/Xiongu heads at?

media literacy, as a vibe

there's a lot of cool things published on Proto Indo-European

"walking around with no legs" is a fascinating degeneracy because it takes "walking around" as an unspecified verb of motion. walking around with a car, a tank, legless, who cares man

kampf i was assured warfare was just about driving real fast

(guy with time machine voice) man this market shit is easy

"why don't the other Warring States just band together to defeat their common enemy?" vs "why doesn't Qin, the largest of the Warring States, simply eat the others?"

well

it never ceases to amaze me that within my lifetime we have gone from "language learners must hoard every scrap of eg French newspaper bought in France and precious casettes of spoken radio" to "yeah can get infinite written stuff & podcasts with transcripts plus easy to translate those transcripts"

"Do you think Empress Cixi had girl power?"
"Omg, yes!"
"Do you think she displayed that girl power most effectively when she had the Guangxu emperor poisoned?"

"when i snap my fingers, you will transform into a loathsome cockroach" and he's still hiring, what a world

Yusuke doesn't see shit

embracing that urameshi mindset

it's mr. steal your girl

the Canal of Hormuz really gives me a Sui vibe

sending CEOs the first scene of The Tempest so they can get reacquainted with the boatswain

your eyes are nothing like the sun bro

environmental storytelling

gonna be lit when the administration introduces the export tariff

Takashi Shimura would have been a great Gandalf