We’ll be able to push the wolf to the left after the election!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU

Edit: This still cuts off the end of the video, but it does show more

There’s also a bigger picture with Tank Man, that shows the mostly empty square the tanks were leaving, with a handful of soldiers and bikes.

And a bunch of other photos showing the battle that took place in the surrounding streets, with cops that had been lynched and burned and protesters gunned down.

The evidence disproves the western narrative of tanks machine-gunning protesters inside the square, then liquefying bodies, that were then burnt and washed down the drain (and getting stopped by Tank Man on the way out).

That’s not to say the Chinese claims should be taken at face value, but nothing I’ve seen contradicts their claim of 300 dead and several thousand wounded.

Yeah the context is that many indigenous people depended on the buffalo for food.

It was basically the same as when Israel pours concrete down wells and burns olive groves that took centuries to get that productive. They knew for every buffalo they killed, an indian would starve.

That image is similar to the rooms full of luggage in Auschwitz in what it represents.

In scale? Yes. In brutality? Go look up chimp attacks.

There’s a difference between a few humans throwing some rocks at something’s head and poking it with a sharp stick and what chimps do.

Of course this didn’t pan out. 2-3 huge tech companies rushed onto the market with somewhat crappy products just to own the patents so smaller companies couldn’t innovate. When they weren’t immediately profitable they started cutting back and shutting down.

The way advanced capitalism can’t even grow a product before trying to strangle it for every last penny is all that saves us from special Black Mirror levels of hell.

OK, but I like this better.

How many of those engineers are gonna end up at Lockheed or Raytheon?

What about MSG, KCl, and the salts that have trace minerals?

Shhhh they don’t need to know that yet.

十二 not 二十?

Sure, but they’re often different enough to to be obvious in context, or similar enough to have a shared etymology.

Tones came later in Chinese, so when you have 2 homophones with similar meaning and different tones, they’re usually from words that had 2 suffixes, which were later dropped, but the tone of first part remained, 买 and 卖 didn’t end up with the same word by coincidence.

No, but whenever you have something that’s countable (even if it’s just 1), you have to do <number> <measure word> <thing>, so instead of “I have a ticket” or “we want 2 waters”, you have to do “I have 1 <measure word for flat things> ticket” or “I(plural) want 2 <measure word for cups> water”.

There’s a generic measure word, but I think it’s seen as improper to use it.

Good energy, it just didn’t work here. It would if you had the word bussy: 菊

No shit, but why is it a homophone with such a common word?

Same, and not having to remember different versions of words for tense and gender is great. Where Chinese gets you back though, is measure words. Is a can of beans many 颗? 粒? One 包? Oh I was supposed to remember 罐?

No, death is 4 actually. Nobody knows why.

According to wiktionary, it means to wither and fall, in some contexts it’s used to refer to rain or tears.

It also means bottom(in gay contexts). lmao what that zerussy do?

I’m sure the chinese have equivalent memes about having to learn arabic numbers, at least you don’t have to use it in written out numbers, 20 is 二十, two-ten, 200 is 二百, two-hundred, 2000 is 二千, two-thousand, 200,000 is 二十万, two-hundred-thousand.

There less memorizing irregular words like twelve and X-teen and converting 30 to thirty, since it’s all pronounced as written.