As someone who works in national security spaces, despite all the interest in a potential Taiwan Strait contingency with China, people know very little about Taiwan's military.
Not just Taiwan, the amount of knowledge on partner militaries (Taiwan, Japan, France, Poland, for example) is quite low.
a scale model of the section of downtown chicago bounded by grand avenue to the north, the kennedy expressway to the west, ida b wells drive to the south, and state street to the east
my roommate recently bought a 3d printer and has been using it to colonize my table with a rapidly expanding scale model of downtown chicago. they say they want it to eventually be 4x this size and i fear for what will happen when it inevitably outgrows this small platform
Not only undergrads! I have met a couple full-on PhDs with unfortunately similar takes
I want to know more about the chicken 感謝祭
Horrible! (Laudatory)
Screenshot from the Libby app, showing romance novel “Once a Knight” by Christina Dodd as the only result for searching “Arms and Influence”
I searched for this title on Libby and this was the only result. Do you think that I will get similar information from it
You can’t just post thirst trap author photos to Bluesky Dr Wyman, it is an unfair marketing advantage
Please also make a Jin Yong video!
I like Tooze but a lot of what he says about China started to make sense when he mentioned he talks with Wang Hui (derogatory)
A serious question in Moby Dick scholarship, if I understand correctly
No one wants to hear this, but Mengzi was literally correct
Unfortunately Xunzi was also correct but that’s another story
I have met a couple of Chinese guys who (unprompted) told me this. Not super common, but definitely a thing
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one of these is not like the other
I think a lot of genre fiction (esp fantasy) is tough in audio because it often requires so much orientation.
I find real world fiction, even relatively complex ones, to be much easier!
“Kindred“ and ”Rivers of London/Midnight Riot” were both fun on audio!
It’s genuinely very funny and I cannot think of a better final scene in all of TV
(Please tell your students to take my class so I can pay rent this summer)
This is why it is so contradictory and fuzzy! Are Black Americans/Lat America/Japan/Russia/etc the West?
Depends! Like all identities, “the West” is fundamentally about self-other distinction and changes completely based on context.
There is no unified trans-historical tradition or value system!
I discuss this in my summer East Asia survey!
“The West” is not trans-historical reality, but something invented in the mid1800s (esp post 1870) within the context of New Imperialism, 2nd Industrial Rev, and global connectivity
The Roman/Greek stuff is just projections of the modern into the past
I understand this in the case of scholars based in the PRC, that’s just how it is
But I have met a shameful number of foreign scholars wiling to parrot fascist propaganda bc it lets them sit more comfortably in their supposed leftism
The most accuse psychic damage I have ever taken has come from arguing with people about Tibet and Xinjiang.
In the end, I realized that it is not about arguments and never has been. It is just 指鹿為馬 and bully logic; throwing up bad faith garbage to create an image of disagreement
He could have gone for cheap shots (there were plenty of opportunities) but David took the time to write a thoughtful and super informative rebuttal to the drivel in Monthly Review.
Worth a read even if you didn't see the original
Used to be a consular officer, talked to lots of these dudes. This isn’t “frustration with modern dating”; it’s seeking (very young) women economically desperate enough to marry them. A 50 something told me he was in country X for a wife because “American women don’t know how to treat men properly.”
not coincidentally, right wing uncles and university leaders are the two groups most likely to ask why the hell you’re doing a humanities degree
Playing Sleeping Dogs with keyboard and mousepad circa 2014
I saw this was a long thread and scrolled up to see more Confucianism discussion. Boy was I not expecting where this began lol
Also a much longer text than the Analects (the Dialogues) is now better regarded and has just been translated into English for the first time. Its Kongzi is more chilled than the traditional one!
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Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
I haven’t seen a picture of Dan Bilzarean in like 10 years. He’s both looking pretty rough and this is the exact context I would expect to re-encounter him