the sea is my own footage @ yachats, music is Bambi by Karina. videos overlayed on top are random videos I found in my gallery and this video got banned from youtube because of the monty python clip lmao
Author: Simon Xu
thinking about the time i tried to start an OF and got rejected in the first business hour bc im ugly
I probably won’t update here any more frequently so maybe go follow me on twitter
#sillylinguisticsjokes vol. 1
Your daily dose of Poland and Indonesian joke
– Is this the flag of Poland or Indonesia?
– Tak
#badgeographyjoke #vexillology #flags #polandstronk #Indonesia
(Tak means yes in Polish and no in Indonesian)
Some of my previous gibberish
14 Aug 19, On the recent Hong Kong protest:
從理智上講，我不認為香港示威者圍攻假記者的行為是「正確」的。不管背景如何，這個行為是是私刑，是違法，是不符合基本的民主抗爭的準則。這和我對於死刑的態度有些類似的地方，如果我們「處理」不遵守社會準則的人的方式就是把他殺掉，那我們和他又有多少區別；這也是我支持修復性司法和廢死的原因。但是，如果考慮到背景，這時候的違法行為或是暴力抗爭也有他合理的地方。道德上，衝突雙方有使用對等措施的權力。在這一點上，這件事情和死刑爭議的區別是死刑是針對個人並且是剝奪他的所有權利，而香港示威是針對公權力的集體行為。如果這麼看的話，如果有必要，暴力抗爭也可以算是合理。我說的可能很矛盾，把我自己都弄暈。我可能想說，當警察對示威者使用不合理武力的時候，示威者有道德上的權利去使用對等的措施。但是如果警察下班了，他不再是一個公權力的代表而是一個個人，那就請不要騷擾他。警察的家人更是不能用任何理由去騷擾。附一個王丹的 post
我不是完全贊同，但是可以參考
https://t.co/QezNyZRYAY
Originally posted on Twitter
11 Aug 19, On the inadequacy of public transportation in the US:
I just can’t get over the fact that the default mean of transport is the car in the US. On literally every website of a business or organization, when you go to the direction/contact us section, there’s always step-by-step direction for cars but not public transit. Sometimes there’s really no transit options while sometimes they just don’t care. In most of East Asia the default mean of transport is metro, bus, and walking. I’m in St Louis today and I was surprised to find how cheap and easy it is to park your car in the downtown core of a major city in the US. I was also planning to visit the National Museums of Transportation, only to find out that there’s no transit options to get there on Sundays. What an irony. Even in Southern Africa we have better transit options than in most of US. Sure it’s not official or regulated, but at least it works.
Originally posted as a Facebook comment on a post published in the group New Urbanism Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens.
03 Jun 19, On an interesting but useless fact:
Fun fact:
The English name for the largest river in SE Asia, Mekong, comes from Thai/Lao Mae Nam Khong, in which the Mae Nam part means river in Thai/Lao, and the Khong part comes from Chinese, meaning river.
So the name Mekong River actually means RiverRiver River…
Originally posted on Twitter
What can I buy in eSwatini?
I could not believe there was a frozen section at the grocery stores here. Once again, I was wildly misinformed about what kind of shopping access there would be in eSwatini.
I realized pretty early on that eSwatini was not as isolated as I expected. We were taken to the grocery store after a few days in the country, and my mind was blown. There wasn’t enough time or money to process everything the Matsapha Pick’n’Pay offers, but I knew I would not have to eat rice and beans for every meal every day of my service after that first shopping trip.
Simply stated, you can buy just about anything here, although some things can come at quite the price.
So how does this access affect what you should bring and what you should buy in-country?
What you receive
Every PCV and Response volunteer will receive kitchenware, bedding, a few…
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Top activities in Swaziland
I had heard of Swaziland before receiving my Peace Corps country placement, but I did not know anything about this tiny kingdom in Southern Africa. You might be traveling to Swaziland for the first time because you know PCV here or maybe you are coming to Bushfire, one of Africa’s largest music festivals, and you probably do not know too much about the kingdom, either. Here’s Bushfire’s survival guide, if you are coming for the music festival.
This weekend will be my first Bushfire, too, but after 11-and-a-half months of living in Swaziland, I have visited many of Swaziland’s top sights and still have a list of places to visit.
There are plenty of places to get away from it all here in Swaziland, which you really might need after a crazy weekend at Bushfire with 40,000 other festival-goers, and fortunately because Swaziland is so small, it does…
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It could be worse
I just recently opened a bank account with Standard Bank Swaziland. I thought Standard Bank would be reliable as it is the largest banking group in Southern Africa, but now I’m a little bit skeptical after seeing it’s website
Yeah someone has just taken the ‘insert as hyperlink’ too literally.
If the US flag is designed by the states.
Not bad enough
I’m fed up with US state flags… (well, except New Mexico, their flag is kinda good) Most flags are boring, ugly, and hard to distinguish. So they add their names to the flag, which made them even worse.
So I made an alternative to the flag of the US. I’m not making it any better, however, I’m actually trying to show you how bad most of the state flags are. This is a US flag but imitates the design of the state flags.
Here we go.
I’ve tried to put as many bad designs as I can on this ‘flag’. We have the disgusting blue background, the name of the entity, the founding year (FYI texts are usually the worst things you can put on a flag), the seal (well I put the seal on the original Star-Spangled Banners), and the motto written on an ugly-shaped ribbon that comes out straight from Microsoft Office (literally).
Interesting huh.
Tell me what you think then.
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