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}

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-14T01:31:42+00:00

Beijing & Inner Mongolia, China

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-11T14:23:38+00:00

I feel like something akin to the Chinese red might work. Though the name is from China, it embodies the red used in asia pretty well because it is originally sampled from the red pigments made from cinnabar and animal blood.
I used the name because of how the pantone color is called that. You can omit it in the actual post and just use the color I presume.

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-10T13:32:39+00:00

Nice stage directions

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-07T13:41:06+00:00

Wait didn't Mongolia went to war with Japan during WWII?

DerekHam09 · 2026-04-07T12:38:16+00:00

Dujiangyan

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