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While I indeed doubt that the Romans knew of WuWei, they and Imperial China were aware of each other.

The Han Dynasty even tried to establish a direct embassy and sent an expedition that goto around modern day Jordan-Syria-Turkey before giving up and going home.

East Asian, China.

So her given name is “Youyou”, pronounced Yoyo (flat high tone).

That’s why most people just use YouTube. 🫠

Does this work?

YouTube

The former, I guess, if this clip rubs you the right way.

Does this work?

YouTube

The “bi” is for both homosexual and heterosexual relations. Not gender itself.

Post-modernism denies grand narratives and puts forward that people will deceive themselves for their own benefit.
And indeed that values and ideals are socially contracted, so what is “Good” will vary across space-time.

Not that there is no Truth.

The WHO does good work, but it’s as much a bureaucractic force as a medical one, and I think due to the desire for geopolitical clout the US cared more about the latter than the former.
Not that way that the US doesn’t also do some medical outreach with military missions as the PRC also does.
But it does make there a minor difference in kind. After all, the selfish jerk who goes around fulfilling people’s dreams just for his own selfish satisfaction of feeling like a good person still is.

More reasonable than the embargo never existing is it finishing in the 90s following the end of the Cold War. Sadly US face couldn’t allow that to happen.

We can’t be sure.

The PRC isn’t blockaded in the same way and has also invested in medicine and sends out lots of medical missions; that said, it had a bigger economy and does that less than Cuba.

And even so, it doesn’t make the blockade right - even if this is a potential silver lining.

Cuba’s medical work is amazing.

The US blockade is has been and remains a crime against humanity.

Sulphuric Acid acts on trousers and carpets. Wooden desks seem remarkably immune.

Found out after getting an actual chemical and chemistry set from a deceased relative. Parents didn’t check what was in it, just “chemistry is educational, good he’s learning”.

I was either dropping magnesium or potassium into a beaker of sulphuric acid as both of them were in the set too. And I was either a butterfingered lummox, or the act of dropping the metal into unbalanced the beaker knocked it over and the sulphuric acid cascaded onto my jeans eating through them and making my leg itchy, and bubbling the carpet into a stinky white then grey foam. I can still picture-ish that sight; and I’m normally not very visually minded, a testament to the deep impression the experience left on me.

Was much more sensible after that: just burning magnesium and chucking potassium into tub of water in the garden like you do in Chemistry class from time to time.

I usually download Eurovision, as the politics isn’t new… Just more apparent.

Maybe find a Eurovision community and ask about alternate viewing methods? I’m sure there are other ways to watch live, which if you’ve got a gathering is the way to do it.

Or maybe since he was an early written source for low culture, he is just the first attested source because we didn’t print out what plebs were talking about prior to that?

I thought it was a common first name because of all the fooling around in the Cyberdog dressing rooms?

No, that’s Europe.

The PRC days off are appalling in comparison. And the previous comment didn’t even mention make up days.

Generally they’re not, provided they can keep it low key.

And since within the PRC it’s quite easy to fire people, and courts and settlement is about how much 面子 you can make the company lose without pissing off local authorities vs. the 关系 and pressure they can bring to bear to have you drop it there’s not much to be done.

“ask” that people do overtime, and then fire them for not being a team player, or downmote them into a stressful deadend if they don’t take the voluntary overtime.

I appreciate the choice made over X-ray fish, Xantops, and Xerus.

Going hard, and I wonder what other letters have.