Oh, I know what those are. It’s a kind of meat pastry, you put it in an air fryer and it cooks the biscuit-like exterior. They’re a packaged food you don’t even need to buy at Sam’s, they had them at Ole for the longest time. Stopped buying them because processed food is bad, mmmkay?

Unnecessary hanzi! Haven’t seen that for a while. i don’t know what a “bake” is but a juan is anything round with something in it. Burrito would be a better translation, or maybe wrap. “Beef burger” is a word that doesn’t even exist in English, a burger is beef by definition. If it makes anyone feel better it tastes like crap, mushy meat, NO SEAR and thousand island dressing.
You sure this is costco? It looks like Sam’s. Get your meatballs soon, Ikea is closing up in China because all the housing has been built and sold and young couples aren’t furnishing apartments any more. They’re replacing the cardboard crap with good quality lacquer furniture with no cushions because sitting and laying on hard surfaces is good for healthy.

Tried to post this in antifascism but it wouldn’t work. News doesn’t work either.

Who? This wins today’s award for high-context near-incomprehensible content.

They’re just techbros and none have been seen in public since Big Balls got identified in the street and beaten the shit out of and hospitalized by antifa super soldiers. These people are actual intellectuals. You can laugh but they had great influence in GOP circles and could get things done like write laws and get them passed. Many are going to Pence’s org and Trumpists and Pence hate each other.

This and Transformers were the first cartoons invented specifically to sell a line of toys. Star Wars changed everything, it made more money from the toys than it made from the movie. Crap cartoons used to be garbage like Hanna-Barbera and Wacky Races 2fps drek that only made money in first run and syndication. But She-Ra and Optimus Prime only ever existed as a commercial to sell toys. That’s why in the Transformers movie they abruptly killed off the robots casually causing kids to burst into tears in the theater: to force their parents and aunts to buy new toys. The showrunners were very explicit about this.

Just was notified that my last piece of paperwork is on the way and will arrive next week. Then i should be able to assemble Voltron and submit the application and finally be done with it. The Chinese invented bureaucracy and it shows. This is probably the most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do in my life.

Oh, I loved Japan (Tokyo actually) and would still be there today, but I got transferred to China by a job, lost my anchor in Tokyo and am still in China. My immigration application is to China, not Japan. Japan is easier.

This counts as a documentary https://youtu.be/1ZgxeX2dCnQ Dashcon, the Tumblr convention by Internet Historian. Come on, you know you want to watch it again.

Incendio (1974) A short film about a skyscraper fire in South America, does a great job of explaining what went on. It really captures the toxic shag carpet and fake wood veneer ghastly aesthetic of the 70s. It starts off bad and gets worse. Pure horror. Found it when I was gong through my disasters phase. The soundtrack is disturbing and the deadpan narration really hammers home just how awful it was back then. https://youtu.be/q6oC_QX3-G4

I paid something like $23 for the official soundtrack CD when it came out. At an import store, when anything from Japan was expensive and exotic. Wildly overpriced, but no mp3s back then, or at least not for something that obscure. Anime was Japanimation, Battle Beyond the Stars, Akira and La Blue Girl. And Ghost in the Shell. That first time hearing Making of Cyborg… Jesus.

This is what started me on the long road to being the xijinpingist I am today. I was entranced by that show. Not the plot or the girl, but the backgrounds. The mundanity of Japan got me, and I heard it. I heard it, for the first time in my life. The call to adventure. I had to leave and go abroad, so I did. There was this one scene where she’s on the way out the door and stops in the inkan to tie her shoelaces and I don’t know what it was about it, but it just GOT me. I had to go there. And the generic 7-story box buildings, the concrete jungle, single trees poking out from a square hole in the sidewalk. Yes, I’m weird. I can still sing the theme song today, hora catch you catch you catch me catch me matte That was 1999. And today I’m waiting to process my immigration application. Cardcaptor Saukra is where it all started. That song makes my heart happy.

Whatever that graphic is is way too small to read and it seems the lynchpin of the whole post.

What a great find. Now THIS is quality content!

LOL in the 80s they had to change the name to canola. I remember the time I was reading Xinhua news and they were doing a rural agricultural photo spread about the fields of [the real name] and I was like what the FUCK, Xinhua! Back then they didn’t know subtext or synonyms and just translated straight out of the dictionary. The “this is so weird / Chinglish” era is all but over. Between AI and returnees they’ve got it now. Returnees really help a country because they say, “why does it have to be like this? Where I lived it’s not like this at all!This is stupid!” And then they change society for the better.

The “oil interests” is a canard, inserted afterwards. Same as “the commies were going to take over Iran if we didn’t overthrow the democratic government.” Years ago I went down a rabbit hole on this for several days, on state.gov all the declassified cables were available. I read and read page after page of ALL CAPS text and the real reason is that State and CIA thought Mossadegh, and more broadly the Iranian people were too incompetent to run their own country. Thus they just had to step in and install a dictator, for their own good. Needless to say they took those down, they’re gone, I looked again a while back and nothing.

I thought facecrime was totally stupid and made-up. But here it is. It’s how Parsons was caught by the Thought Police, despite being a loyal Party member for decades.

I still remember the first time I watched a Dutchman eat a wedge of cheese like it was an apple.

I still remember the first time I ever discovered soul food. I was beside myself.
You can…*deep fry *pork chops? With collard greens and scalloped potatoes, got it to-go in a styrofoam box. Incredibly juicy, full of flavor. To this day one of the top 10 meals of my life. Aunt Kizzie’s in Auroroa Colorado never forget.

I was scared shitless when I heard the director of “The Frighteners” had been put in charge of the new LOTR movie.