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16hr ago
- Note that these are not particularly tied to the patriarchy/matriarchy axis. Monogamous animals are usually egalitarian, but patriarchal polygyny (gorillas, lions), matriarchal polygyny (peacoks), patriarchal promiscuity (chimps) and matriarchal promiscuity (bonobos, elephants) are all common.
Interesting to note that there are also birds that operate with matriarchal polyandry, with very skewed sex ratios and reversed sex roles. (There are other animals that are also polyandrous but I do not know how they work at all — iirc some (but not all) of them were more of a female risk-reduction, either of the female herself or for improved reproductive success)
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16hr ago
Or if the circle is/stays very small? Then you can have two bisexual + one straight person.
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16hr ago
I know that there is that one family in Hokkaido that is explicitly a harem, but otherwise I’m kind of drawing a blank.
Unless we are counting the “rich/hot dude screwing multiple women and not committing to any one of them” as similar…?? I don’t think it’s the same though.
I’d appreciate if you could elaborate.
I did note “particularly limited to Southeast Asia”. I don't live in the States, for the record.
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1d ago
I’m used to eating watermelon with salt, and I know people who use shichimi for this. I don’t think it’s particularly limited to Southeast Asia.
I mean, it’s definitely more normalised to the extent that APA hotels is owned by Nanjing Massacre deniers and IIRC put books regarding that in hotel rooms, and that Nippon Kaigi, well, exists. I don’t think either would be permissible in Germany (let alone be able to have members in such high positions as in Nippon Kaigi).
My impression is that many people in Japan don’t know many details about Japanese atrocities, to some extent due to the way history is taught (broadly as a list of facts covering a large span of history, rather than historical analysis).l, and — due both to concerted effort by early postwar governance and due to lack of exposure — people don’t really care.
In that sense it is a "nation that ignores its war crimes". I'm not sure it would be better otherwise, but it is somewhat ugly.
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6d ago
I might be wrong, but my understanding of Venus colonisation is actually to terraform it enough so that it’s possible to live high up in the atmosphere rather than on the hellish surface.
Whereas if the Politburo demands good literature you can hand them a pamphlet denouncing the latest object of the Politburo's denunciation and even if it's quite bad by what standard, the Politburo isn't a literature department, and even if it's obviously bad can they condemn a condemnation of the thing they wanted condemned?
Not related, but reminds me of a recent Chinese commentary in some newspaper that slobbered praise all over Xi Jinping, comparing him to Mao and Deng — it got pulled very quickly, and the suspected reason for the censorship was that Xi considered himself an equal to Mao only, and superior to Deng.
I believe you misunderstand.
The Kievan Rus' (or Kyivan Rus', I guess, now) is the first East Slav state founded in the 9th century, and the histories of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus start from this point (East Slavs having had no language prior to this point). This state was literally dominated by Kiev during its inception. The names of both Russia and Belarus are etymologically derived after this medieval state, and all three East Slavic nations claim descent from it. Ukraine is literally where Russian civilisation starts*.
Taiwan, on the other hand, is first settled by Austronesians and was relatively untouched by the mainland; the first real attempts at settlement beyond that actually came under the Dutch (who encouraged Han migration over to the island), then the portion of Ming remnants led by Zheng Chenggong who founded the Kingdom of Tungning, until its conquest by the Qing. Taiwan's prehistory lasts well into late Chinese imperial history, it was first properly settled under a European banner, and up until the Japanese invasion it remained a pretty marginal borderland — nobody would think much about it if there wasn't another straggler "Chinese" government trying to set up shop there!
A more analogous comparison to Russia and Ukraine, for (a state of) China, would be if it no longer controlled large swathes its cradle of civilisation — if it "lost" parts of the North China Plain including Anyang and Luoyang, say. Maybe consider an alternate timeline where the Ming somehow doesn't reconquer the North China Plain and the Northern Yuan end up setting shop there indefinitely, or the Southern Song don't fall to the Yuan and no Han-dominated state ever is able to claw back land above the Huai river, or the Northern and Southern Dynasties doesn't end with the Sui, or the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms permanently entrenched a north-south split, and now a modern alt-Chinese government based in the south, claiming descent from those alt-dynasties, is engaging in a little taste of revanchism some few centuries late by appealing to how northerners and southerners are actually one people and should be ruled together.
Edit: better examples. None of those really match exactly; Moscow actually came into prominence during/after the Mongols, so an even better example would be if somehow the Yuan got pushed into a rump Southern state and centuries later the descendant states of the Southern Yuan decide to march back up, but this is a bit too ludicrous
*also where Ukrainian and Belaroussian history starts — I am not making a case that Kyiv is especially Russian, or that Russia has a good case for invading Ukraine
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8d ago
The only thing I've heard of regarding artificial sweeteners that I thought had enough evidence to be potentially concerned about was potential changes in gut microbiota, but since I don't drink any artificially sweetened drinks I kind of stopped following the news for this.
Maybe I should make a habit of replacing the little amount of sweetened drinks I do have with stevia-replaced ones....
Unfortunately I haven't actually visited mainland China for years now, so it's a bit difficult for me to suss out the temperature re: trans issues within the PRC.
The people I do know in the diaspora are some mix of trying to not touch it with a barge pole, confused, trying to live-and-let-live, and horrified at how the West is gleefully egging on their own mini cultural revolution. (Or they are "bananas" that range from disinterested to doctrinaire progressives)
When it comes to LGB sans T, it's a bit more complicated — China historically did not have strong taboos against homosexuality as long as people still performed their filial duty of having descendants — 不孝有三無後為大 after all — and IIRC the current sort of homosexual taboo is actually mostly a Western import.
I think "confucian values emphasizing traditional family roles, collectivism prioritizing social stability over individual expression, and skepticism of Western ideologies seen as culturally disruptive" is probably way too reductive, but I'm currently travelling and don't really have the time to dedicate thought to this
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11d ago
Discounting movies, Baccano! comes to mind first.
I think I shilled Dennou Coil in a previous thread; it's an interesting take on virtual reality and the concept of identity/reality in a digital world that's somehow also a children's series. Psycho-Pass, of course, is another series that is similarly tightly constructed.
Other ones with similarly tight plots are…Sora yori mo Tooi Basho, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso? Cross Game is less tight, being a sports show spread over 4 cours, but I thought it was well paced. Steins;Gate is a similar sort of series where it's constructed as a full package, but I never found it as compelling as many others.
For ones I have not watched but have heard a reputation for, Fullmetal Alchemist (the reboot) (though I have read the manga), Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei? I've heard Odd Taxi is pretty tight as well. Pluto I think would fit but I am saving that for a rainy day
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12d ago
There is an argument that a man wearing a dress for Halloween is doing something sexualised; he's just doing a sexualised thing as a joke rather than as an integral part of his identity.
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13d ago
the very first scene of Madoka running through a surreal hallway and emerging into an apocalyptic cityscape where Homura is fighting an eldritch abomination while "Magia" plays in the background
I forgot that the opening was clever like this.
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13d ago
Then he became an incredibly successful and popular writer and moved to San Francisco where he now lives with his wife, children and mistress.
Wait, mistress?
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14d ago
Season 2 was such a waste of what could be a more Tsunemori-centric sequel. Even
I actually really liked the idea of
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15d ago
Has anybody played Dustborn? Does it live up to the hype (of how bad it is)?
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15d ago
Madoka Magica is just quite neat and well-constructed, twists aside. It’s made as a complete package in a way movies are supposed to be, and that many shows aren’t.
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16d ago
I actually think that it was probably a bit inaccurate and it might have overestimated my spatial/nonverbal IQ (as I thought the spatial elements could be gamed a bit too easily), but most of the soul-searching is due to being quite perplexed at my lower verbal score. Previous estimations/tests of my verbal IQ returned a score, like, >10 points above my nonverbal IQ.
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16d ago
English is my second language but I did start learning it very early, and often it feels more like a co-first language for me, so it still feels a bit off. I'm wondering if the poor ability in matching letters is due to spending quite a lot of time with logographic scripts as well esp. early on in life, so maybe on some level I treat words in alphabetical languages like independent glyphs?
I think the test-makers are a bit too optimistic if they think more time wouldn't help with the shape rotation portion; a monkey could do it given enough time and if it discovers a reliable method.
The CP puzzles were the
Did it while a little distracted, went away to shower and do other things, did try to concentrate for the timed tasks, also I took this near midnight so might be a little sleepy
- Full scale: 140
- Memory: 138 (VM 76/85, EM 21/26)
- Verbal: 135 (V 30/34, A 16/27)
- Spatial: 141 (MR 17/17, CP 14/18)
I'm surprised my memory and spatial is that high, and that my verbal is that low — historically formal IQ tests have pinned me as having significantly higher verbal IQ. I will blame it on English being a second language of mine (even if I am fluent), but I'm not sure it explains the disparity between the
Probably could've gotten a bit higher on the CP puzzles if I didn't rush and actually reasoned my way through some of these but then I suppose it's fairly pointless if you actually idk do it? Was I supposed to run purely on intuition on this?
I mean, straight women fucking love seeing hot men railing each other, so this doesn’t seem like that much of a problem to me.
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