Can’t pay with credit card??? Only weixin pay

You put your credit card into wechat/alipay and you can use weixin pay.

You can get a local number for like 1USD/month for receiving sms.

Theres people who have very strong perceptions about food, like they don’t like mayo but like the exact same thing if called aioli. My mother will eat a tuna sandwich, but hates the idea of a fish taco. She thinks she hates tofu and is suspicious that any Asian food is secretly tofu, but has had stir fry with chicken and tofu and liked it. No she cannot identify tofu. Conversely, she thinks she loves mushrooms, but doesn’t know you need to cook them so she will add them to eggs or salads raw or nearly raw, and enjoy it. She thinks MSG makes her sick.

Its kinda like a placebo effect. She got sick at a chinese place once, and soneone told her “Oh its the MSG” and it was just cemented into her mind. Maybe she had raw tofurkey in the 1980s when it was peddled as a drop-in meat replacement.

The Ainu people:👁️👄👁️

I think he saw a bunch of wires and concluded this much be harder to maintain than running high pressure steam pipes everywhere.

Come to Vietnam sometime, there’s plenty of places that are inaccessible to cars, but still get goods and services much cheaper than in car-centric countries.

Showing up in my grampa’s uniform to pick fights at the graveyard.

The US was spying on all backbone data 20 years ago. The US has no need to block websites because it has a big enough propaganda network to control the narrative on those websites, and there is less incentive to propping up the US tech industry by blocking competition like there is with the Chinese tech industry.

Thats my point; communists always side with the weak, the notion that communists simply want to obtain power is silly.

What better way to aquire power than siding with the masses against the powerful?

Their working class is in a meat grinder to an extent I haven’t seen anywhere else

You’ve never been to a global south country I take it?

China has a lot further to go to reach parity with the first world, but its nowhere near as bad as it was 20 years ago when you could see videos of children working inside machine presses.

Meanwhile conditions remain similar to what they were 20 years ago in India, Bangladesh or El Salvador.

You have desks, hell just go around and find in-office violations lmao.

The weirdest was when I was in a zoo and there were promotional AI posters of animals they have in that zoo.

Bro just take a picture and add some text, the animal is right there.

Is your niece secretly Chinese?

In asia a lot of malls are the bottom floors of apartments, and I see more holistic approaches to mall development; children’s areas, rest areas, small museums, private schools, a DMV, things that improve the sustainability of the entire system even if they themselves generate little revenue.

I have been meaning to ask how ownership works, do the residents have any say on how the mall portion is run, and if the mall fails, are the residents stuck with the bill for maintaince while living above a rotting mall.

Ginger, garlic, soysauce, brown sugar.

You flavor a neutral oil with the ginger and garlic (don’t burn), add the brown sugar, a bit of soysauce, caramelize, add water, mirin or cooking wine slowly until desired thickness. You can do cornstarch slurry to dilute the flavor while maintaining the thickness.

You can toast some sesame at the start for that flavor.

The caramelized sugar may solidify if the liquid is too cold, redissolve it by increasing heat and/or liquid.

Wtf am I looking at?

Shut up, let me enjoy my bananana in peace.

What and marinara sauce isn’t Italian? Mapo tofu isn’t chinese? Modern sushi isn’t japananese?

Until hh:mm

Nah, I’ll take a fuel gauge that changes how full it says you are if you’re going uphill or down hill and only starts going down once the tank is half empty over the “x miles left” where it tries to guess how much fuel you’ll use, leaving you with no idea how much fuel you actually have.