i hope everyone had a really nice 20th of April. i got high and took a 3 hour nap after work and then i eated chinese food.
Some of my language exchange partners who were helping me with classical chinese tried to feed some photos of chinese calligraphy and carvings on name stamps to AI to help with deciphering, and needless to say, it completely failed.
There’s a real disconnect in anglosphere discourse because a lot of it centres in the US where people aren’t seeing Chinese EVs at all, while much of the rest of the world is
🇦🇪UAE informed the United States that it might be forced to use Chinese yuan or other currencies for oil sales if it runs low on U.S. dollars.
The end of the petrodollar in the Middle East wall crash the American economy
Under Tim Cook, Apple aided the CCP's censorship and surveillance of its population. It removed almost all VPNs from the Chinese app store, and built a joint-data center with the Chinese government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...
A new Chinese gravity-based detector could make stealth submarines obsolete.
That raises serious questions about the long-term viability of AUKUS, John Queripel writes.
#auspol #AUKUS #Defence #China #Geopolitics
Ordering Crab Rangoon and having to make a mental note not to also add “things of that nature” to the old Chinese lady.
Tomato season will be here soon, and these vegetables (yes, vegetables) got 15% more expensive last month.
Plus: Diesel prices, Chinese AI investment and what to expect from tomorrow’s retail sales report.
Today on Marketplace.
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before and after hearing we can have chinese for dinner
I knew Alysa Liu and her father was surveilled by the Chinese government, but the whole story behind it was so much wilder than I could imagine
And somehow Eric Adams got involved too lol
Man folks get weird about the fact Chinese EVs aren't available in the US
I want Chinese food so badly
Photo of a left hand holding a square sticker. The sticker is a holographic drawing of the Chinese Zodiac animal: the Sheep.
Sticker of the Day!
This is my holographic sticker based on my drawing of the Sheep from the Chinese Zodiac!
www.joyousjoyness.com/products/chi...
#art #sticker #zodiac #sheep
Pay attention Donnie.
"China’s Xi Jinping says Strait of Hormuz should be open in call with Saudi crown prince
Chinese leader says there must be an ‘immediate and comprehensive ceasefire’ and backs diplomatic solution to crisis"
#Russia #China #USA #Security #News #War #EU #NATO #UN #Weapons […]
UAE raised short term dollar loan from US, threatened to use Chinese Yuan in oil sales: Report - www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-raised-short-te...
An embroidery with tea and coffee labeled in Chinese.
Last week's assignment was to create a data set from your life, but Celine Heck took it a step further and embroidered it too! This is her caffeinated beverage intake for the week. Chinese was easier than Latin for embroidering the labels, a #MultilingualDH win on top of it all! #DHmakes
Notice the incoherence of "we can't let chinese EVs in because everyone will buy them" & "we can't make EVs ourselves because no one wants to buy them"
If American auto makers are going to drop out of the EV market, then Chinese EVs aren't a threat
They're just asking us to subsidize inferior tech
I'd ask Jeffrey Clark about his claim there was a cyberlink bet the Chinese government & Dominion voting machines via smart thermostats, any convos with Mark Paoletta re the election & who advised him to file a suit against Stephanie Winston Wolkoff & take over the E. Jean Carroll case.
Stranded at 10 Downing, branded a fool
What will they say, Monday at the House of Commons
Mandy, can't you see? I'm in misery
We made a start, now we're apart
There's nothin' left for me
Love has flown all alone
I sit and wonder why-y-y-oh
Why you had so many links to Chinese companies, oh Mandy
What we should actually do is make Chinese companies that want to sell advanced goods here make technical partnerships in which they share all the details of their tech and manufacturing processes with local partners.
After all, what goes around comes around.
The Year of the Tiger is the 3rd animal in the Chinese Zodiac, celebrated for Chinese New Year!
www.joyousjoyness.com/collections/...
#art #lunarnewyear #chinesenewyear #printart #handmade
Keir Starmer cannot answer the Mrs. Merton question on Peter Mandelson. What drew Starmer to appoint Mandelson as US Ambassador? Mandelson's track record was widely known: his Epstein connections; his links to Russian & Chinese interests; twice being sacked as a Cabinet minister.
A 107-year-old Chinese grandmother pulls out a sweet from her pocket and gives it to her 84-year-old daughter.
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