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AstroStelar [he/him]

@ AstroStelar @hexbear.net

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22 y/o, autistic, AroAce, Marxist with Mega Man characteristics (also Kirby)

  • Cholmondeley (/ˈtʃʌmli/ CHUM-lee)

    Edit: wth did I find in Stoke-on-Trent

  • Donk_Owl

  • I'm feeling pedantic today, so enjoy a little geography lesson:

    "Ordos City" is more like a province or prefecture, spanning an area the size of South Carolina or Azerbaijan and having multiple cities of similar sizes. Much of China is like this, "prefecture-level cities" that also have "county-level cities" beneath them.

    The "ghost city" isn't Ordos as a whole but the Kangbashi New Area, which was planned for a population of 300,000 and had an estimated population of 153,000 in 2017, according to Wade Shepard in Forbes .

    The photo in the OP is from Dongsheng, the biggest city in Ordos whose population is 572,000 and which had the seat of government before it moved to Kangbashi. Fortunately, Kangbashi looks similar so it's not a big deal, here's a photo of it:

  • Dubai is when paved roads /s

  • Good video, I align with his view on the topic

  • At 14:30:

    [people who want to live in dense, walkable neighbourhoods] will be pushed into corporate slop blocks, just like the housing blocks of old Soviet Eastern Europe.

  • The company that runs it is called "Gehirn"

  • In regards to the map painting, I love Berann's paintings. The one of Yellowstone was my laptop wallpaper for a while.

  • They do have AC, the first batch pf vehicles was delivered a few months ago

  • "Taiwanese" would be Taiwanese Hokkien, however the lingua franca is Mandarin. There's also a large Hakka minority.

  • I'm assuming by "immigrants" they're referring to Chinese people who moved into big cities, especially the rich ones on the coast like Shanghai and Shenzhen.

    There’s the whole deal with how because they're still registered with the place they came from (the hukou system was meant to encourage rural Chinese to stay and grow the economy there), they can't access certain services, so Western talks about "second-class citizens" and the like.

  • The answer is

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    Uh what?

  • Anime & Donghua @hexbear.net

    A person showed this as proof of Miyazaki being a "diddler". Is it as damning as they make it out to be?

  • memes @hexbear.net

    The two sides of the Berlin Wall today

  • fitness @hexbear.net

    Help/Resources with setting up a workout plan? Also warm-ups and stretching.

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net

    What is going on here??? I'm scared.

  • parenting @hexbear.net

    I found this article about a couple raising their daughter in a way that lets her use violence, but also with knowledge of consent and boundaries.

    slate.com /human-interest/2023/10/hitting-toddlers-biting-violence-combat.html