If he hits you, end it. Even if he’s “sorry”. Because he isn’t.

Buy a jar and go to town. (Equivalently, though I’ve just made very Brit and Aussie wish my death, go with Marmite.)

You don’t have to worry about wasting it. If you don’t like it, it’s very good wood filler as well. (Indeed for my purposes that’s its prime usage.)

Blood products (including blood sausage/black pudding, duck blood “tofu”, etc.) react very badly with my stomach. I like the taste fine, but I really hate tasting it, along with any other food I’m eating with it, twice (if you get my drift).

If you’re not eating black licorice (made from actual licorice root!) with double-“salt” (it’s not really salt…) are you really living!? Salmiakki forever!

I still have no idea what capers are used for. I see them in delicatessens all the time, but I don’t buy them because I have no idea what I’m supposed to do with them.

I was with you on the chocolate until the pop rocks. Wut.

Yeah, coriander is great if you’re not stuck with those genes.

I’m the polar opposite. Steak tartar makes me gag and the highest quality sushi I ever ate barely reached “meh”. (Normal sushi falls into the “let’s just slide this in the garbage bin when nobody is looking” camp.)

Sometimes I wonder what people are thinking.

Then I remember most people don’t think.

I mean there’s tea that you can buy that’s aged about 30 years. That stuff is horrifically expensive because the capital outlay with ZERO return on it is massive. (I drank a tea that was actually 99 years old once, back in about 2003. It cost roughly twenty bucks in 2003 money for a thimble-sized teacup’s worth. Yes, it was worth it.)

You can also get liquors that are aged 25+ years here. Again, it’s hugely expensive because of the outlay vs. return ratio.

And both of these only work by also selling younger versions: for the liquors 3 years and for teas anywhere from a year on up.

A hundred years? And yet you sell them for a price of about $1.5 for ten? (First search page on Taobao, randomly selected shop: https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=683692822495)

Lotus root and spare rib soup.

Siri: Buy <insert album name> from <insert premium site that sells the album for $1000>.

They’re not humans, the ones who will inflict this upon us (except of course that AI is bullshit). They’re at best lizards, intellectually speaking (and with about the same moral standing).

So with someone who doesn’t understand how reality works. Got it. 🤣

Commercial/state-enforced AI crawlers overburdening services and forcing admins to increase cost and time spent dealing with these DDoS attacks is much closer to theft than the piracy itself. Piracy doesn’t make people lose money, AI crawlers do.

👉 👃

Every person who says “piracy makes me lose money” is lying (or at least profoundly confused about how “income” works).

Crawlers take up actual assets (bandwidth and time) that actually take money from your pocket. Piracy may or may not reduce your potential (key word!) income.

One of those two is legitimately a property crime.

I’ve given it a try, but it’s too fiddly for my tastes. Too much to keep track of. (I mean I suck at Chinese Chess already; I just enjoy it anyway.)

I tried to watch that but I couldn’t figure out at all what was going on. I eventually just turned it off I was so lost.

What did I miss?

皮蛋 a.k.a. “century egg” or, more boringly, “preserved egg”.

I get it. I really do. Everything about these from the colour to the texture to the aroma to the flavour is highly alien to most people’s tastebuds. (It took me ten years to warm up to them myself!) But now that I pushed through it, they’re one of my favourite things.

…edited to add this picture for those who are unfamiliar:

Xiangqi.

The only question that remains, is would this lead to a new era of prosperity and free time, or would this just be another tool to further enrich the entrenched capital?

Does anybody seriously ask this question? I mean the answer is a given.

To be fair, it’s shorter and punchier than “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”.