Eh, I don't know about that. Computers were a LOT simpler back then. You could make one yourself from parts. Try that today.

And by "from parts" I don't mean buying a video card, motherboard, etc. I mean buying a bag of resistors, capacitors, and a circuit board and wiring and soldering it together yourself.

I meant more like the Pentagon Papers.

Because she has striking features. Anyone with striking features is going to be considered attractive by a segment of the population. Others will find her blah or even ugly.

It just goes to show you how low journalism has sunk that they resort to this kind of garbage. Remember when they used to expose war crimes?

This is nothing. Apple used to sell $5000 computers.

In 1985 dollars.

How'd he censor people?

Mai massacre? What's that?

How'd he censor people? What's the story on that?

They're really scraping to show any positive benefits to the American people. Cause they are few and far between. The benefits have overwhelmingly gone to hostile countries that hate America, and that show absolutely zero gratitude for the assistance.

If it was up to me, we'd ditch the $15 blenders that break after two weeks and go back to the $50 blenders from Sears.

Yeah, but it's just a guess, though. No matter how much you know, you're only taking a guess.

Chinese is an absolute monster and will consume a decade of your life, easily. Traditional Chinese is even worse. Here's an internet classic that will spell out the magnitude of the task: Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard.

The other day one of my fellow graduate students, someone who has been studying Chinese for ten years or more, said to me "My research is really hampered by the fact that I still just can't read Chinese. It takes me hours to get through two or three pages, and I can't skim to save my life." This would be an astonishing admission for a tenth-year student of, say, French literature, yet it is a comment I hear all the time among my peers (at least in those unguarded moments when one has had a few too many Tsingtao beers and has begun to lament how slowly work on the thesis is coming).

A teacher of mine once told me of a game he and a colleague would sometimes play: The contest involved pulling a book at random from the shelves of the Chinese section of the Asia Library and then seeing who could be the first to figure out what the book was about. Anyone who has spent time working in an East Asia collection can verify that this can indeed be a difficult enough task -- never mind reading the book in question. This state of affairs is very disheartening for the student who is impatient to begin feasting on the vast riches of Chinese literature, but must subsist on a bland diet of canned handouts, textbook examples, and carefully edited appetizers for the first few years.

Korean is a sensible writing system that you can pick up in an afternoon. Let's get you started: https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/LW1VWGvF46.jpg

Do you want to do calligraphy? Handwriting is totally outdated and will consume huge amounts of time for little gain. Everyone uses computers and phones these days. Unless you want to do calligraphy.

If they're so easily bribable, then why aren't they compliant with the US? US has bribed them with billions for decades now.

It's like complaining that the US is attempting to dominate the Gulf of Mexico.

Well duh, obviously, it's their back yard.

When you get bullied and traumatized as a child, you think that's the normal way of how people relate to each other. So, when you finally get to a management position, naturally you're going to bully and traumatize others. Because that's how the world is. At least, as far as you've ever experienced it.

"No friends to the right, no enemies to the left"

Glenn is violating this sacred creed.

He thinks he's making things better by offering suggestions about how things could be improved. But leftism is very fragile and prone to destructive infighting, and criticism is best handled very delicately, behind closed doors. Not in public where the right can see it and immediately grab those (sometimes quite good) arguments and use them as weapons.

They're not Germans.

Management's job is not to make a profit. Management's job is to increase profits.

It's a never-ending cycle. They never get to a point where they say, "whew, done!" It's cut here, cut there, and sooner rather than later they cut too much and problems begin. They institutionally can't stop doing it, though. It's who they are.

One of my favorite obscure songs ever: "Asparagus Makes Your Urine Smell Funny" by Rudy Schwartz Project.

If you're lactose intolerant like normal people, drink some milk. You'll get sour, nasty farts all day.

(Drinking milk in front of lactose intolerant people is one way racists show off what horrible people they are)

This graphic is unintentionally brilliant.

It means now Republicans find themselves The Other. Let's see how they like it. The whole world is turning their backs on them and alienating them.

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What is this libertarian bullshit doing here? People shouldn't do all sorts of unhealthy things. They have literal experts working at these companies who are using proven, peer-reviewed techniques to addict people to social media. Stop making excuses for them.