One of my favorite things was leaving the city and being utter dependant on my own Mandarin. Chinese are cool and it’s nice to force yourself to speak the language.

Imo, middle class locals (from anywhere) that speak really good English and have a western mindset are basically white people. And gringos will spend their entire time with that crowd and never even try to get the county 🙄

Honestly, it all makes sense after Capital vol 2.

Liuzhou and Nanning were cool. Bits of Sichuan province was interesting. I only saw a sliver, though. I can’t wait to visit again.

If you want to understand China, watch Cobra Kai on Netflix. It perfectly explains all about China.

Filling the fucking sink with soapy water to wash dishes: what the actual fuck is wrong with you go back to your fucking Norman Rockwell painting you absolute psychopath

I struggled with this when I first left the Great Seitan. I’d fill the sink with soapy water, wash the whole load, then drain, refill with clean water, then rinse. Locals were like, what the fucks wrong with you.

Figured out the ideal method here. Put soap on the sponge, get it a bit wet, scrub, rinse, hang and air dry.

Dish washers are just expensive and take up too much space in a home.

My best friend from college came out as trans last year. So I am grateful for the education that I got in CTH. Super glad that I can keep my close friend, who seems to be getting happier as she goes through transition. I went from 100% cis dickhead to 99% cis dickhead.

I’d probably like baseball now if my shitlib parents weren’t negligent.

Or worse, people who call themselves ML but in all actuality are “meme communists.” Meme communists basically being joke communists, or communists who take small amounts of theory, don’t study further, and use it for self-righteousness

I feel personally attacked

Ultra-leftism runs rampant here. It didn’t in the old subreddit. It will be the thing that holds the site back.

I am curious. Can you briefly elaborate?