Why would you not? Unless you were sure there were checks and balances in places to ensure it doesn’t happen. Say, something like, not tracking disabled people, and/or, not abandoning judicial process and habeas corpus, and/or respect for legal precedence and norms that affirm trust in the process
There’d have to be some significant milestones:
China would have to produce entertainment content that rivals Hollywood In Mandarin
A programming language based on Mandarin would have to gain popularity
A large diasporia of Chinese speakers
Probably a large Imperial expansion of Chinese territory to other parts of the world
A change in internet protocol to favor mandarin-speaking channels or a new communication channel to rival “the written word” “radio” “telephony” and “the internet” that is purely Mandarin
A change in medicinal practice, pharmaceutical manufacturing etc under which speaking Mandarin is easier than any other language
China would have to gain unilateral cultural cache such that kids and adults alike see China as cool, powerful, interesting, exciting, friendly, aspirational, rich and free.
british people also say “nahimsayin” fwiw.
Americans have plenty of words to add emphasis without adding meaning, yo, my dude, boy howdy.
The knacker was the person who took your old tired horse and butchered it into meat, leather and glue, so it often carries that connotation too
Wu. Stir. Shear. Sauce.
it’s the same as being a Discordian Pope
well if they could do it with Henry Ford…
you absolutely have nespresso in Europe though
Account Manager at a marketing agency, I run ~5 marketing departments with a mix of my own staff, outsourced contractors and employees at my clients’ businesses.
We create marketing campaigns that consist of a set of emails, social posts, ads, thought leadership articles, blogs, landing pages, downloadable PDF reports and the attendant reporting on how they performed, plus finding and targeting the audiences in various segments. It’s a mix of database management, creative writing and design, project planning and communication meetings.
I generally spend about a 1-2 hours a day on each client, plus meetings. We make and send the collateral, get approval, execute, track, measure, compare, make a strategic conclusion, repeat
compared to KetaMusk that’s probably impressive
No but there was ASCII art and image macros. They just didn’t really have a name.
moving from Europe to America the amount of times I’m like “it’s 12 3/8ths” to try to, yknow, join in, and everyone’s like “call it 12 or 13”
motherfucker that’s a huge gap!
is it still going with Bec Hill?
the Jesus death/resurrection myth is celebrated on Easter, its not what makes Easter.
You can celebrate Easter with or without any or all religions.
“suicide lanes” they call them
“we can make fun of everyone! so we’re going to run a years-long transphobic storyline!”
like, no, that’s exactly how priests who diddle kids rationalize it - I do good things so I can’t do bad.
in the uk in the early 90s I definitely had some
unlike other comments, I’d argue, like most tech, it was incredibly profitable for anyone except the people funding it.
Business is not about extracting money from goods and services, it’s about tricking VC funders to give you 50 million dollars a year
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