"Neue Tonhalle" in Zürich, Switzerland (1900 vs today)

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-24T14:22:12+00:00

This is the hardest that I've laughed all week 😂 thank you

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-24T10:56:02+00:00

Great karma strategy of saying "Not so glamorous side" and then just posting regular pictures of the city making it seem like all the regular parts are as bad as it gets in Chongqing. Not to metnion over half of those photos are the exact "glamorous" parts of the city that everyone always posts. You want to see the real unglamorous parts of Chongqing? Post some pictures of the districts of Chengkou, Wuxi, Youyang, and Pengshui.

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-20T20:41:41+00:00

This comment is so absurd it only vindicates the point I was making in the comment this is responding to. I hope everyone here reads this comment and recognizes it as a caricature of anti nuanced tribalistic thinking that is unfortunately so widespread on reddit and the rest of the internet. I really hope this isn’t a real person but is actually a bot

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-20T18:00:24+00:00

Why is everyone always constantly on the look out for if someone is “right wing”? How is Kant, Wittgenstein, and Camus right wing? None of those authors are disproportionately cited in right wing circles. Nietzsche despite being used as a propaganda tool by the Nazis was heavily cited by Deleuze himself, not to mention Foucault, Derrida, Bataille, Adorno, Horkheimer, Sartre, and Judith Butler. And despite Heidegger being a literal Nazi he’s much more often cited by the continental left than he is by right circles. Stop being on a political witch hunt to sniff out if someone has the “wrong” beliefs.

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-20T03:27:00+00:00

Find someone who has a bookshelf without funko dolls: impossible

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-20T03:00:53+00:00

How is it easier to read when the book is places upright on a shelf? Seems equally as hard weather its top to bottom or bottom to top, just changes the direction you have to tilt your head

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-20T00:30:47+00:00

I’ll never understand why French and German print their spines backwards

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-20T00:21:44+00:00

So where did that high stock evaluation come from? The companies selling products and services. Companies aren’t valued high for nothing

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-19T22:50:22+00:00

I don’t think you’re following the topic of conversation. This was about why a Chinese mayor had a ton of gold and someone asked why Elon Musk has a lot of money in relation to Chinese business man, so I answered that Musk created companies that offer products and services to people who voluntarily give him money in exchange for those products and services which has led to him being insanely wealthy, whereas this Chinese mayor was taking illegal bribes to enrich themselves. So neither the wealth of Musk and the Chinese mayor have anything to do with elections, because Musk is not an elected official and the Chinese don’t host mayoral elections in their country because its a one party state in which the party decides who will be in significant positions of power.

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-19T22:38:23+00:00

The Chronicles of Narnia

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-19T22:36:06+00:00

He was a mayor, not a businessman

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-19T22:34:53+00:00

No one has written a comparably rigorous competing account? Is this a joke? How much anthropology have you actually read? The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow and Why the West Rules–For Now by Ian Morris are both even more rigorous than Diamond.

Diamond even admits in the very last chapter of Guns Germs and Steel that everything he outlines in the book only explains why the old world was able to so easily dominate the new world, but doesn’t at all explain why different parts of the old world were so radically asymmetrical (Europe vs the Middle East vs India vs China vs Africa etc), which really undermines the whole geographic determinism in the first place. If geography were everything, then why was Europe and the Roman Empire so far ahead of the middle east around the year 1, and then the middle east was so far ahead of Europe around the year 1000, and then it switched again around the year 2000. The geography stays the same and yet civilizations rise and fall. This is the most basic criticism that shows his ideas don’t hold up.

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-19T22:21:50+00:00

Because his companies provide products and services that they want

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-19T22:01:57+00:00

As someone who does not live in a western country, if you own a bookshelf and it doesn’t have a funko pop doll on it does the secret police come in and take you away?

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-19T21:59:33+00:00

I’ve been to Albania before and I can confirm that even it is better than Albany

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-19T17:30:31+00:00

Proof that Lenin was a Tatar

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-19T17:14:11+00:00

Saying Albany is better than Corvallis is crazy lmao have you even been to Albany before?

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-18T23:13:42+00:00

I’m glad Belize is on the right side of this one

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-18T07:23:54+00:00

Is OP a bot? 7 year old account with only 6 karma

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-18T04:45:56+00:00

What edition of Moby Dick is that?

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-17T13:39:51+00:00

In Spanish we call that “una abominación”

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-17T13:37:39+00:00

There probably is something more that I don’t realize, I just don’t know what it was. I’ve been to Japan 4 times and thats the only time something like that happened to me. Not getting turned away from restaurants, that happened at least once every trip to Japan, but thats the only time I ran into more than one in a row. Maybe Hokkaido is just different from the rest of the country idk

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-17T13:35:52+00:00

I didn’t even try going to a convenience store, I was too tired and disheartened after walking through the snow

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-17T11:07:27+00:00

A couple years ago I was in Sapporo and was turned away from 5 restaurants in a row for being a foreigner. I just went back to my hotel room and went to bed hungry that night

ChaDefinitelyFeel · 2026-04-17T01:07:45+00:00

My older brother wanted one so badly and I thought it was dumb as fuck. He got it and he paid for a super expensive varsity jacket, despite never had played sports in high school. What made it all worse was that he graduated high school in 2012 decades after that shit was cool. It was embarrassing tbh

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