why does New York have ranked choice voting for the primary but not the actual election?

I don’t have any direct experience, but the CHUWI CoreBook X 14 gets pretty good reviews, and they make even cheaper laptops than that with similar memory and processor, but cheaper chassis and 16:9 screens.

“Diary of a madman” is a short story from 1918 by Chinese author Lu Xun. It describes a man who falls ill and begins to read Confucian texts obsessively until, to his horror, he can see the words “Eat People” written between the lines. It’s a timeless classic about the horror that comes from awakening to an unjust culture, realizing how all the pillars of your society have licensed it, and even your friends and neighbors are complicit in supporting that which everyone knows to be self-evidently wrong (Cannibalism, which the publisher notes reveal is not entirely a delusional hallucination or a metaphor, but an actual social ill taking place then)

The narrator continues to unravel as he next realizes his own complicity within soceity, but as foretold in the prologue, ends optimistically, with him resolving to struggle to build a fair soceity for future generations and finally recovering from his illness and leaving his village to serve as an official.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lu-xun/1918/04/x01.htm

I bet you look ugly, and if we listen to you, we’ll need to listen to even uglier people down the road.

Slava Wan Sui [I don’t know what they say in Israel]

yes, it’s staggering how he was able to condense it down to a mere 87 minutes, but remember this was released only 4.5 months after October 7th, so he had less ground he needed to cover.

she wants to frame it as a minefield topic that her audience would be overly critical of and exaggerate her positions. But lots of creators have made videos already. Shaun, for example, made a perfectly succinct video that garnered no controversy. the simplest question is what takes would she be compelled to include in her video that Shaun did not?

Well, No controversy from his community. the contrapoints subreddit on the other handhad some things to say

She’s actually creating bad takes as an ultratask, so she can create an infinite number takes in a finite duration.

Fortunately that audience only gets to hear her opinions for 30 minutes once every year or so

They should let the most bad ass doctors with the wryest sense of humor at the hospital wear black labcoats.

“Update, Day 1206-1208, We conquered 2 fields in the Insignifikanskoye direction (UAF stronghold with a population of 40 on the strategic crossroad of Federal Dirt Path T50301, and a game trail seasonally used by hedgehogs)”

this probably wont be well received, but I think it’s pretty funny Iran chastizing germany for starting ww2 while also denying the holocaust. “Screw you guys for hurting so many innocent Russians… All of them. equally. faith agnostically”

what an absolute lunatic. What exactly his positing “Latino-americanism” is if it isn’t a branch of western civilization? Even china is best understood in most contexts as a westernized country, but even in their intellectual inheritance, Becoming a scholar in China was to study lengthy debates preserved from centuries ago. the arguments of the losing side were preserved, and could even be adopted as policy centuries later. In Europe, there is no trustworthy extant description of many historically important groups beliefs. Not that this couldn’t happen in China, they could write just as much slander, but consider The discourse on Salt and Steel stayed a touchstone for millenium or thatFan Zhen’s 5th century argument for atheism survives despite imperial displeasure and mandatory criticism in 75 pamphlets. There is great intellectual animosity between Buddhism and Taoism, yet both coexisted and survive to the present day. The west having a unique ability to self criticize when China transformed from an absolutist monarchy with a cult to the divine emporter to a communist dictatorship in less than 4 decades is absurd. even if one lacked any specific knowledge of China whatsoever, a serious person still wouldn’t make a claim that europe was uniquely capable of self criticism. if such a though occurred to them, they would use their power of self-criticism to consider “Self-criticism ought to be an ability inherent to all cultures, it must only be my own ignorance that I feel there is some disparity.”

reminder that there are real people on this site who will call you a doomer if you don’t see promise in waiting 4 years for people to occupy 2 blocks of a city where you don’t live being a plausible pathway to stopping fascism and the climate apocalypse. they’ll actually say it cowardly to emigrate.

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they were more committed to Israel than to winning the election, so now every trump policy that affects them (or has zero affect on them but somehow hurts their pride, like pulling support for Ukraine) is price they agreed to in exchange for their genocide, make them own it.