Tariffs raise prices? But that’s unpossible!

I once told an embarrassing story on a public forum.

“Oriental Beauty” is an English name for a tea blend for English people. CHECKMATE! :D

What? Even for green, yellow, and white tea?

Or you can go for Liubao which doesn’t get bitter no matter how strong you make it or how long you boil it. Or there’s Hunan’s Anhua Gold Flower Black Tea that’s like a pu’er with more umami in the aftertaste.

Coffee: Like I take my men: strong, black, and hot. (OK, OK, I know, old joke. Strong, hot, no milk, no sugar.) Tea: strong, hot, no milk, no sugar.

I also rarely, if ever, drink mass-market versions of either; essentially only if I’m forced to. I get my coffees and teas directly from estates and sometimes individual farms when I can wrangle it.

Isn’t that what I said? 🤣

There are still people who will claim that this isn’t a Hitler salute.

Hitler disagrees.

Let me prove it:

I give it a week or two.

It’s funny. I’ve been called a “tankie” too for stating truths about China that are uncomfortable to its critics.

It’s almost as if “tankie” is a word that has no intrinsic meaning outside of “you are someone I disagree with and I need an epithet”. Pretty much the same as every other political epithet this way.

So I pretty much take anybody using the term “tankie” unironically and give them as much credence as I give anybody who uses words like “woke” or “DEI” or even “sheeple” unironically. I assume they’re a) ignorant cunts, and b) assholes.

I’m hammering out a set of solo RP oracles for actual publication. The first two (of four) are completed as of today.

If u break your leg - is hospital going to turn u away?

They will do the minimum amount of care to stabilize you and if you can’t pay, send you away.

If u don’t have insurance - are u going to owe 200k for broken leg?

Not 200K. Not even in RMB. A broken leg will be a few hundred. But yes, if you do not have insurance you’re paying.

If you cant pay for treatment - do they take your house?

If you can’t pay for treatment you may just die. A student of mine got hit by a bus and took tremendous head trauma. The surgery for this was 30,000RMB. He was from the countryside so he and his family didn’t have 30,000 RMB. He got no treatment beyond basic stabilization until his classmates and teachers gathered up a substantial portion of that 30,000. Then they saved his life.

In. That. Order.

I think u maybe confused about what universal health care is.

I think you may have no clue what you’re talking about vis a vis China.

Now all that being said, if you’re employed at all, by anybody, anywhere, you automatically have health insurance, mandated by law. And, being state-run insurance firms, they’re not the utter steaming shitpile that American “health insurance” is. But if you’re not employed, or if you’re self-employed, you either get insurance on your own, or you pay out of pocket. There is no universal health care.

P.S.

An AMERICAN telling a CANADIAN that she doesn’t know what universal health care is is hilarious. Also, an American telling someone who’s been living in China for almost a quarter of a century how China really works is even more hilarious.

What’s next? Are you going to tell me what the city of Wuhan is really like?

China does not have universal health care (if that’s what “uhc” means).

Source: I live here.

And in the context of pools, “0.5” is a thing if it really bugs you.

“The Weather” is rarely below -17C and rarely above 37C: 0F to 100F

Tell me you’ve lived in very narrow portions of the world.

While obviously I’ve never hit 100°C in weather, I have hit 50.

In both directions from 0.

Why do you have to “deal with him forever”?

I’d start by questioning my assumptions were I in your shoes.

Yes. 20-21 is a good temperature range for sleep.

Simple conversion system:

• proper temperatures to American moon units: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=25C+in+F
• American moon units to proper temperatures: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=77F+in+C

Either copy the URL and change the temperature (25C or 77F) to your target, or click on the URL and change the input field.

Same thing I do every Sunday. A few chores and, sunlight permitting, maybe some photos for photo essays.

I gave you an example of a possible model.

READ A BOOK BEFORE OPENING YOUR MOUTH AND SPEWING DRIVEL.

I’m not here to give you an Education 101 course. (Frankly, given your performance here thus far, I’m not even certain you could understand the contents of such a course.)

And if “throw everything way but this one thing” isn’t “one size fits all” what is it!? You’re literally saying "everything being done now is wrong and we should do this ONE THING for everyone. That’s practically the definition of “one size fits all”!

I get it. You’re a techie and have been trained by techie culture to think (or at least pretend) you’re the smartest person in the room. But to first causally dismiss literally decades of research to then propose a “solution” that is risible on the face of it goes well past typical techie arrogance and into Elon Musk territory.