Okay, I'll take a look through and try to find the interesting stuff. This was prior to the handover and prior even to the sino-british declaration so yeah it would be interesting to see what they were thinking at the time. I dont see much on the Korean war, which I found surprising. Not much on Asia at all, lol, except what you might see at a more advanced high school in the US. Lots on Africa it looks like while skimming.

For Israel/Palestine I think they even have a section on the Nakba, but I'll read it closer and find out later.

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I bought a Chinese textbook or something that looks to be about 20th century history. I think it's from the 80s and I'm pretty sure it isnt PRC or mainland - fairly sure it's for a Hong Kong 1980s high school equivalent. I bought it for $2. It has some sections on Israel and Palestine from the pictures and even the DRC. I could post pics and I think the translate app can still translate pictures of text.

Front cover no Mao but papa Stalin is there, Marie Curie and also a giant Hitler for some reason.

First page of table of contents first section is just for China up to what wouldve been the present day, includes the long march and everything. Second section is about "the fall of the old tradition" according to translate, flipping through it looks like a lot of flight, e=mc^2 and science stuff also a bit about Japan defeating imperial Russia. Then moves on to ww1 and the bolshevik revolution.

Second and third pages of the table of contents third section is about the roaring 20s. Mostly focused on the west but highlights the start of the growth of fascism. Fourth section is about the 30s, includes more rise of fascism and a section on the Spanish civil war and then the start of ww2. Fifth section seems to be just about ww2 and only the war in Europe. Sixth is about th immediate post war period. Seventh is the "space age" and decolonialism including the Vietnam war.

Throughout is a lot of pop culture stuff. Almost all of it is focused on the west. This reminds me of, like, American middle school textbooks for general world history or something. Way more broad even though it does seem to focus on the west rather than China or asia. Doesnt seem based or anything, just seems like your typical liberal apolitical textbook accounting of history sans political-economy.

Any particular but anyone curious about? Theres an index but it's in the Chinese radical system instead of alphabetical (for obvious reasons) so the index is impossible for me to use.

Final edit: I think it's just a straight translation of the Readers Digest Great Events of the 20th century with an additional section just for China for the Chinese printing. That would explain why it's so focused on the west.

They need us, they resent their need, they treat us like we're soil or a coal vein. We don't need them. We can run this shit on our own and for us.

I know!! I was looking forward to them too, there isnt enough just off the wall weirdness in modern cinema, it all has to be detached and cool. I thought maybe the navigators were the dudes in the red helmets at the very start on Caladan, like not fully mutated out yet but still huffing spice all the time. I'd have to rewatch but I'm pretty sure they werent.

How is admitting you took the vaccine to an antivax group cool, just lie like a normal person you dorks. I really dont understand where their heads are at. Is the point to signal to each other that they're just a bunch of "useless lumps" and "weak" in the face of the state just to commiserate or moan??

The queen is about to shed her chrysalis and emerge in a newly digivolved form.

No, I think addicts are definitely doing what they think is right although it isnt in accordance with societal bourgeois law obviously. They mightve even started using as a rational response and defense mechanism to overwhelming pain, emotional or physical. I think socrates would probably encourage them to seek out self-knowledge and treatment if their addiction is preventing them from being their best, and I dont think he would dismiss them as morally weak or incapable of making that choice for what would probably be in accordance with good-living.

Obviously he wasnt perfect cause we have developed in terms of ethics in the intervening 2500 years, but I think he was still pretty right.

Just skip everything until at least Act 3 and if you don't like that skip to when trolls come in at Act 5. If the idea of cosplaying as a grey skinned troll that has 4 different relationship quadrants including friends, lovers, and designated rival who also could be your lover doesn't grab you then I don't get what a latecomer would get out of homestuck tbh.

You literally cant explain to people that cyclic decadal crises arent a feature of human existance, they totally stem from capitalism. Capitalist realism is so baked in that people cannot conceive of any alternative that's better - even something as simple as imagine a future where growth is more controlled and there arent crashes all the time that wipe out your savings and kick you out of a job.

I still think socrates had it right and that moral weakness isnt a thing. If the people are educated and know themselves they will naturally do the correct moral thing. It's only ignorance that breeds moral evil.

For real, I'm excited for the day when we do stuff like brake light repairs under a red banner or community gardens and child care under an explicit communist flag. Or when we can start community soviet-style councils. Right now my org is so anemic, feels like they can't do much but distribute literature at protests or gather once a month to talk about theory...

Day 10 after getting covid symptoms. I'm double vaccinated. They didnt tell me which variant but almost all new cases were delta when I tested positive.

I mostly just felt really tired and had a persistent headache. It was almost exactly like when I have a bad hangover. I had aches but mostly under my arm pit area and only the first 4 days. I was thirsty as fuck the whole time, it was weird. I drank so much water, like 14 cups a day and like big cups not cooking cups. Never lost my sense of taste or smell or had a cough. I didnt really have shortness of breath, but it did take extra energy to walk up a few flights of stairs and my thighs were sore as fuck the day after. The worst breath stuff was from the anxiety of having had a positive test and then knowing I had covid.

I'll probably stay home for this week just to make sure cause I only feel 85% the way back.

20 different brands made by 2 companies both of which have a history of selling toxic products they knew could cause cancer but it wouldve cost 2 cents more per product to make them safe.

The volcel imperial polices jurisdiction reaches even to Arrakis.

There was a dip for a while with ground beef, I remember seeing a shitload of it on the cheap. I think that was mostly knock off from tarrifs though. Ag commodities tend to follow a Kitchin cycle of 4 years or so, wouldnt be surprised if meat prices nose dived again in 18 months.

These blowhards want so badly to be the Marx style guy who creates a whole new field of science (that incidentally supports the capitalist structure) but you can't be. You got socialized in capitalism, it had to be Marx and it had to be in the mid 19th century because then Marx was able to see clearly where shit was going without having capitalist realism propoganda pumped into his head for 40 years.

Its gonna be like the guy that invented Social Credit, an engineer that looked at society and correctly observed that workers where not making wages equivalent to their value created and so society was in an inevitable contradictory crisis - but had some weird right wing solutions and give a UBI and otherwise dont change the economic system.

Automated ports arent better they arent automatically faster than human labour with machines and ilwu is right that they are more dangerous and less safe (no critical thinking from robots), but they do tend to be cheaper long run if you dont want to pay labour. You could run port of LA and long beach 24/7 better, safer, faster with human labor but youd have to be willing to pay them.

Yeah but the advertising of the 20s through 50s was like, "buy our cigarettes!" or "use borax!" The advertising where it's a personal identity didnt hit overdrive until the 70s and brands started to focus on social liscense or whatever the fuck. Listen to some of those old ads, it's kinda funny to see the difference.