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  • I moved from the US to the world's most livable city. After nearly 2 years of disappointment, I couldn't wait to leave OR: How I moved abroad to a place I only knew from fairytale stereotypes

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  • This is Paris syndrome. The Copenhagen she imagined was not the Copenhagen that exists. She felt let down and betrayed. Just like those Japanese tourists in Paris who come there thinking it's the city of love but find this instead:

    And worst of all, she was forced to the conclusion that going back to the US was the best choice. That's going to hurt any liberal. Imagine the twinges of cognitive dissonance she's going to get the next time the Air Force jets fly overhead at the stadium.

  • I moved from the US to the world's most livable city. After nearly 2 years of disappointment, I couldn't wait to leave OR: How I moved abroad to a place I only knew from fairytale stereotypes

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  • I lived in LA for a year and the weather was just boring. I like seasons. LA was a pleasant sunny day every single day. Drove me nuts after a while. I want a thunderstorm! Or maybe a tornado alert! The moment it drops to 60 everyone in the city puts on a black leather jacket.

  • I moved from the US to the world's most livable city. After nearly 2 years of disappointment, I couldn't wait to leave OR: How I moved abroad to a place I only knew from fairytale stereotypes

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  • OOf, boring, Beijing is like Houston, it goes on forever. And the city kind of sucks, it's not China enough to be China and it's not western enough to be Shanghai. Plus there are a lot of diplomats, journalists and other unsavory types in the foreign population there. And it's a stinking lie Beijing speaks the most standard Mandarin, they sound like they have marbles in their mouths. It's a desert climate, hope you enjoy dry windy cold winters.

  • I moved from the US to the world's most livable city. After nearly 2 years of disappointment, I couldn't wait to leave OR: How I moved abroad to a place I only knew from fairytale stereotypes

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  • There are people out there who are not happy unless they are complaining. Living in a foreign country gives them plenty of opportunity to do it, all the time. I've had to cut friends off because they wouldn't shut up about how stupid the people are and how much it sucks here. I came out and asked one who complained she couldn't leave, "oh, you can leave right now! Nothing's stopping you!" Without missing a beat, she answered, "student loans." I supposed part of being educated is making intelligent choices about which major to pursue that would get you a lucrative career afterwards. Unfortunately they let in anyone with a degree and so many are wildly unqualified, feel frustrated, and complain all the time. Another one, a good friend, tried my patience too many times and I told him the same thing. He looked downcast and said, "what am I going to do, go back to Holland and be a clerk in a convenience store?" He did eventually go back home and last I heard he was managing a children's amusement park.

  • I moved from the US to the world's most livable city. After nearly 2 years of disappointment, I couldn't wait to leave OR: How I moved abroad to a place I only knew from fairytale stereotypes

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  • China isn't the old China, not even the street vendor China you watched all those youtube videos about. China is highly regional and every city is different. Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen aren't much different from Dallas, except sparkling clean and no crime. I guess you'd study Chinese, there are private language schools that do that all over and give student visas. It's basically a 3 month party time. As long as you paid, nobody cares if you show up for class or not.

  • I moved from the US to the world's most livable city. After nearly 2 years of disappointment, I couldn't wait to leave OR: How I moved abroad to a place I only knew from fairytale stereotypes

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  • Looking back at it, its kind of wild how for years one of the biggest internet subcultures was adult male fans of my little pony

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  • If you want to be into that stuff, fine! have kids! It's what they're for ! You can buy all the legos and visit all the dinosaur museums you want and nobody can utter a peep about it. That's why everyone got creeped out by Micheal Jackson having that Neverland ranch with a carousel and all that. His dad had five kids, for Pete's sake!

  • Looking back at it, its kind of wild how for years one of the biggest internet subcultures was adult male fans of my little pony

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  • Adult fans of Disney. They have days at their parks where no children are allowed. My favorite was when they had that starship hotel where you had a phone app that would assign you missions, you could be a rebel or an imperial. They complained there weren't any windows. Like, you're supposed to be on a journey between the stars, moron, what do you want, a pool view? Yes, apparently.

  • With AI, it should finally be possible to make a film version of Marx's The Capital inspired by Ulysses based in Eisenstein's notes

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  • Oh wow. I think it was the first time I ever tried shrooms someone put that movie on and OH MY GOD

    Started a love affair with Philip Glass that lasted the entire 90s. After listening to Music in 12 parts, all six CDs, over and over for years, finally I had had enough. Powaqqatisi was meh but way too third world. Naqqatasi was forgettable. I can't even remember anything.

  • The University of Utah has only working copy of UNIX v4-- it was found by accident.

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  • UNIX v1

  • Illuminati collectible card game by Steve Jackson Games (1994) This card, along with Russia and China, was the foundation of any communist deck

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  • You can find sets of it on ebay or boxes of cards at dealers like Rudy from Alpha investments.

  • Illuminati collectible card game by Steve Jackson Games (1994) This card, along with Russia and China, was the foundation of any communist deck

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  • Yes, I remember that it was known that Oswald had been to Russia. That's why he killed JFK, see? They reprogrammed him as a Manchurian candidate to come back and kill the president. Totally had nothing to do with the fact that JFK got the US Treasury to print its own money instead of Federal Reserve Notes. I still have one, it has a red seal instead of the usual green. It says UNITED STATES NOTE instead. LBJ quickly discontinued the program and these bills are little more than collector's curios now.

  • Illuminati collectible card game by Steve Jackson Games (1994) This card, along with Russia and China, was the foundation of any communist deck

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  • Ouch...

  • Illuminati collectible card game by Steve Jackson Games (1994) This card, along with Russia and China, was the foundation of any communist deck

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  • Holy crap that shit would NEVER fly today! The whole print run would get recalled and pulped.

  • Illuminati collectible card game by Steve Jackson Games (1994) This card, along with Russia and China, was the foundation of any communist deck

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  • It was all right. Illuminati was an early microgame like Car Wars. I used to play it, it was lots of fun attacking each other and backstabbing. SO many games back then were violent PVP conflict. Today Eurogames are all about counting cubes and building a machine to manufacture victory points. This was the collectible card version of Illuminati to cash in on the success of MTG. I remember there was a USA card too that I badly wanted. I found someone selling it on USENET and got it. Sold in Europe only! Violent, government, conservative, high global power and the artwork was the Statue of Liberty with her foot on the globe with the caption Try and stop us! I doubt it's in this archive because it was a foreign-only card. I would get so much meme mileage out of this card. Maybe next time I'm in the States I'll try to find a card dealer with it.

  • Illuminati collectible card game by Steve Jackson Games (1994) This card, along with Russia and China, was the foundation of any communist deck

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  • LOL Steve Jackson was pretty right. It's odd to think now but most of the hacker/phone phreak community was back then. During Gulf War I patriotic US hackers tried to break into Iraq's X.25 network and mess things up but Iraq had so little communications infrastructure they couldn't do much.

  • Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movie: Classic Japanese Ghost Movie Kwaidan (1964) at 5PM Eastern US Time

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  • I've watched a few of these Japanese postwar films and they are really hard to get a handle on. Japanese film is tough in normal times (well, pre-anime explosion in the West, anyway) There was one about a yakuza gang trying to survive, saving Japanese women from beingremovedd by GIs. The one part I remember was one saying after they'd moved out of Edo up north to escape the bombing, that the most demoralizing thing he ever experienced was hearing the ripping sound of the shells overhead after the enemy fleet had arrived. US battleships started bombarding everything in range of the coat. Akira Kurosawa made films during the war supporting the war effort. They are especially hard to grok. Those pre-1945 Japanese were wildly different people.

  • Illuminati collectible card game by Steve Jackson Games (1994) This card, along with Russia and China, was the foundation of any communist deck

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  • Some of the far right cards are really funny. Black helicopters, Thousand points of light, BATF wow, really brings me back.

  • Illuminati collectible card game by Steve Jackson Games (1994) This card, along with Russia and China, was the foundation of any communist deck

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  • Ah, that was the famous Secret Service raid of the Illuminati BBS. Pre-internet (well, before public access anyway) It was something like he had some Anarchist cookbook material on there and the SS wildly overstepped their authority and raided him and shut down the BBS. I actually had an acoremoved on there because I was local in Austin but never used his BBS because it was lame. Striesand Effect, he got massive publicity from it and was a hero of the PGP anon.penet.fi and FTP era of the internet.