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yesterday i talked about north korea with my laoshi, laoshi asked me if i liked the dprk and i said “yeah why not”, then asked me if i liked south korea and i said “not much”, laoshi laughed a bit then mentioned that young cnetizens despise south korea and constantly fight with them online lol. china is in good hands.
also another funny tidbit is that in dongbei, the province north of korea historically known as manchuria, the people are very hostile to japanese brands and people lol.
omg my chinese lessons are working. I understand what laoshi means
很好！i am also starting to feel more confident as i progress through my lessons.
should i talk to my gym crush? i feel like its weird to approach people at the gym
Do they act approachable? people usually give hints if theyre open to chatting. If they wear earbuds or something it usually means they want to be left alone for example. If there arent any red flags like that to tell you not to bother them just start simple and see how they react. Say good morning as you walk by, smile and wave, but don’t try to start a full blown convo. See how they react. Do they seem startled, uncomfortable, or nervous? Probably leave them alone. Do they smile back and return the greeting happily? Thats a good sign. Maybe next time you see them say something like, “Hey! Seems like were always here at the same time. You work nights too?” If at any point they give signs like, short non-commital answers, looking around and not at you, being annoyed nervous etc, they dont wanna talk and you should say bye and go do your own thing.
I mean I’m not saying you shouldn’t but it really needs some thought for how you will do it otherwise it can be highly inappropriate very quickly.
Yea i feel exactly the same, i definitely think its not the place to do that but i dont really want to let this pass.
I guess that is just a result of the online society we live in. People used to meet eachother in places like the gym or the supermarket or wherever normal. Nowadays people get startled if you strike up random convo’s. As long as you are not a total creep about it then it should be fine.
I’m a bit tired today
Sleep well
Who man in picture
he Otto Grotewohl, DDR prime minister
picture depicts him looking with immense disappointment at modern Germany
lol the gesturing makes me thing of a measurement…
He is trying to understand how Germany went from the GDR to whatever this is,
Germany is broken once again. Fuck AfD.
ever feel like the Unification went the wrong way?
I personally think the Unification was a mistake to begin with
hey now, if the FGR was annexed into the DDR things might have gone alright. There is no reason to force people to live under a dictatership of the capitalist class
I remember that he was SPD before the merger of KPD and SPD in East Germany.
I very very, deeply disappointed Prime Minister Otto Emil Franz Grotewohl from the German Democratic Republic
Picture coming soon, there was an error in the upload of the picture, DO NOT PANICPicture is up
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You had 1 job, just the one
I’ve been trying to get in touch with my father. I haven’t seen him since I was very young, about 7 or 8 years old. I think I found an old Facebook account of his. It’s not active, but I’ve been reaching out to some connections. Only a couple have responded and I gave one of them my phone number.
I think he might be trying to call me, but I pretty much never answer my phone. It’s always on vibrate and I usually only receive spam calls anyway. I hesitated the first time. I picked up the second, but no one replied. I probably should have stayed on the line longer, but I panicked a bit. I finally got the courage to call the number back today, but it went directly to voicemail, which isn’t activated.
Maybe it’s spam. It’s a local number, but it could be spoofed. What an archaic and frustrating way to contact people.
Sounds like a scary situation, can’t even imagine what that’s like. Wishing you strength comrade, you got this🤗🥰
It’s been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster ride, but it does feel good to be making progress. Thank you for the support comrade 🫡🤗🥰
What an archaic and frustrating way to contact people.
lol i find it weirdly romantic, good luck anyways hope you can make amends with him.
I’m not so much against phone calls, although they do make me anxious, but the fact that someone can contact me without providing any form of identification is a bit absurd.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
thank you oppo! you too
funny duck :)
it eaten
Have a NOICE week! :D
That last one! It’s so proud of itself. :)
Have a nice week! (Trying to not jinx the whole decade-weeks thing)
Well that’s a new one. 🤔😆
How is progress going on giving me that 14 day week?
好狗!
I thought that dog had two heads at first.
Fine, but I only wanted to do it the once
you too
i wonder how big of a % of a country GDP is purely middlemen being parasites
A lot. The US conveniently switched from GNP to GDP as it stopped producing things. GDP is a measure of value captured, after all.
I’m almost at the point where I want to swap all the sites and apps I use for Chinese alternatives. I need some of them, so I won’t fully commit to it, but wouldn’t it be nice?
I swapped all the sites and apps I use for ones I run myself. It’s really fun :3
It blows my mind how the socdems in my city managed to put forward one of their old politicians who used to be mayor. He has been convicted of fraud and embezzlement when he was the CEO of a football club, among other things. He was facing multiple years in jail but managed to buy off his sentence. Highly corrupt individual.
But apparently socdems have no problem with that.
Went to an anti-war demonstration yesterday where they called for diplomacy instead of more weapons to Ukraine, but they still called it an illegal Russian invasion. The Dutch left has a long way to go.
apparently image uploads on the fedi instance were broken… um… well anyways we fixed it this morning. stay dry everybody
How did the Hexbear auction go? Cause all my subs went silent, like slop, chisme, etc., but when I go to Hexbear they’re still active?
they haven’t re-federated yet
Ahh, alright, I hope it happens soon. Thanks for letting me know.
Dayum, why not?
going through a bunch of votes on stuff it looks like
Thanks!
Its so amusing watching europeans being so confused about the recent developments on ukraine.
Frankly, Americans are the worst when it comes to Ukraine; they’re even more deluded than the Europeans on this question.
At least in Germany, there are genuine protests and opposition to the war (I mean, in terms of financing Ukraine and sending weapons, at the very least).
Australian social media is going crazy. its like 5 posts demanding ukraine “get their nukes back” for every 1 post of “ukraine cant win the war. deal with it.”
I don’t know what’s going on it feels like usaid got their funding back or something.
At this pace the EU and Ukraine will declare war against both Russia and the US. It feels like this entire continent is collectively losing their minds right now.
Europe or North America? Seems like both.
