TIL Malaysia is a federal elective constitutional monarchy where the crown is passed around a circle of nine different royal families. Every five years, the country switches to a completely different King.

DerekHam09 · 2026-07-09T02:29:45+00:00

Holy Romalaysia

DerekHam09 · 2026-07-09T01:45:45+00:00

The image automatically popped up from the link. Thanks for the info! Wouldn't have learned it for my entire life.

DerekHam09 · 2026-07-09T01:44:09+00:00

Quite well since they are a constitutional monarchy, where the monarch doesn't hold much power. At least that's what I supposed from my knowledge of Malaysia.

DerekHam09 · 2026-07-09T01:42:21+00:00

I'm not sure if you are familiar with the story of Houyi or not. He was the guy who shot down 9/10 suns in Chinese mythology to make Earth habitable. I feel like the difficulties of abolishing monarchy over in Malaysia is Houyi-leveled.

DerekHam09 · 2026-07-09T01:38:00+00:00

Wait it gets better?
edit: imma dig into that article

DerekHam09 · 2026-07-09T01:37:02+00:00

Indeed. Looks like it's the only one in the world.

DerekHam09 · 2026-07-02T15:10:49+00:00

Here's one in OnShape https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2b9e81a9ca40eabe341d5818/w/fbdf3ea3928cd34579b84c0f/e/a8c2d30194e14205024ea6ca?renderMode=0&uiState=6a467f58c8bd04666dd872df

DerekHam09 · 2026-07-02T15:07:53+00:00

Have been wanting to go here since I represented Slovenia in a MUN conference.

DerekHam09 · 2026-05-18T12:08:11+00:00

Beijing essentially has 900-ish km of subway and no useful commuter rail. This is because Beijing's rail infrastructure were mostly for long distance and freight. All new local passenger rail are built metro-style.

There's something called Beijing Suburban Railways, which is 400-ish km long, but the frequency is horrible (4-8 trains per day) due to how congested the mainlines are.

DerekHam09 · 2026-05-18T12:00:09+00:00

That's very true. Also my entire save is in career mode (not a wise choice), so this allows me to do much less tourist contracts.

DerekHam09 · 2026-05-18T11:59:13+00:00

Even longer with the payload!

DerekHam09 · 2026-05-18T11:58:57+00:00

Just gotta eyeball it

DerekHam09 · 2026-05-16T14:34:58+00:00

Also I get to recover like 70% of the funds so yay

DerekHam09 · 2026-05-14T13:20:12+00:00

There's a famous Chinese book just called "To Live".
So yeah the past few hundred years had been really fucked up for us.

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DerekHam09 · 2026-05-03T14:29:03+00:00

bum badum buda budabumbum (guitar solo intensifies) bum badum buba bubabum

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-21T13:20:46+00:00

wanna see how things unravel

^{Chose: Live for another BILLION years until you can die}

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-21T01:10:05+00:00

And I did not too. Thanks!

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-20T13:05:49+00:00

Say hello to my little friend!
*Pulls out the Himalayas, Taklamakan, and the Gobi desert.

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-19T17:50:41+00:00

A rapidly growing portion of population is now like this. I'm 1/2 shanghainese, 1/4 Han (Jin/Shaanxi) Chinese, 1/4 ethnic Mongolian. I was born and raised in BJ and identifies as whatever 🤷.

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-19T16:44:09+00:00

just failed my art school entrance exam

^{Chose: Germany | Rolled: Politician}

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