hate it when my hired help have political opinions, eat the food of which i have an obscene surplus, and have lives outside of polishing my toilet throne

the White Elephant building is cool as hell. because chongqing has no level surfaces, the ground floor on one side of the building is like seven stories up from the ground floor on the river side. you climb up and down school building-style stairwells that twirl around each other like a very low-poly double helix. each floor has apartments converted to coffee shops and majiang dens (in CQ and sichuan they play with giant majiang tiles the size of cigarette packs for some reason. pretty cool).

it’s got a rustic 80s concrete-and-tile charm like many old buildings in china, just bigger and weirder. like a less dystopian version of mirador mansion/chongqing mansions in hong kong.

I had a similar situation. The one who made the video about watching Better Call Saul before Breaking Bad is apparently a jew that supports Palestine. He wrote it in a post on YouTube. No words can say how much fury it made in me. especially when he puts it like this: “When the Idea of a homeland does sound nice, nothing can change the fact that the land was occupied.”

i too get furious when facts are stated plainly

but i thought there were no remotely walkable cities outside like NYC. where are all these 7s located?

like in every city i’ve been to around the world, a convenience store is something you walk to on the way to something else, or next to the train/subway station, or one minute from your home/job/school. it’s not in a mall or a gas station

the US has convenience stores?

“Den raasism”

applause

750,000 yuan

that’s like 20x a normal working class salary. but maybe people in SH are paid better, maybe it’s only 10x normal shanghainese.

so even if your salary is halved, you’re still making several times the salary of normal people, including normal office workers. you’re still able to afford a nice three-room apartment with a view, go out to restaurants every day, buy fancy finance boy clothes, get the latest xiaomi gadgets at wanda, go on yearly vacations around the world, and still be able to put a few thousand kuai in the bank every month. what a whiner.^___

edit apparently this article claims the average salary in SH is as high as 12k? not sure what the median salary is in that case because 12k already seems really high. but “little chen” would still be making double that after he got nerfed so still a whiner

so many good IG accounts have been banned the last few months. literal fascists of course are allowed to run free.

saxophone speakers in the saxosphere

factually incorrect. naples is named such because of the many naple trees local to the area