My association with ‘Flat Earth theory’ about begins and ends with somebody bringing it up as an object of ridicule. I think they usually bring this up because it’s a starting point almost everybody can agree on. Then after that the discussion probably starts to move towards other supposed conspiracy theories that are probably a bit more questionable—and probably political. My opinion on this is encapsulated in this quote perfectly: “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.” To me, that’s what science is. It’s premised off a highly shaky foundation, so to look to it for absolute truth I think is wrong. Then I can’t count how many times I’ve seen some scientist or mathematician who may be very smart in their field of expertise, but is just absolutely clueless outside of it. That’s not necessarily a bad thing is they’re humble about it, but often times they’ll begin talking like they know everything. Science is useful because with it we can create new things. It’s useful to the extent it can do that.

Truly, nothing in particular. There’s ants right now swarming near me. Apparently they like my retainer. I still can’t believe I have to wear this thing for the rest of my life. I was never taught how I should clean this thing too. Will probably get a new toothbrush to clean it then try to soak it in something. But I really don’t want to do that right now. I just feel tired. Maybe I’m always tired.

Oh, that took forever. But I finally figured out a way to fix the problem I was having. It blew up while I was in Japan, so I didn’t want to divert too much attention to this while I was there. As a result, I ended up not having my nextcloud server and website not running for like a month. Actually, it might have been longer than that. Fuark. Well, at least it’s working now. I shouldn’t be too confident though, there’s still a couple things I need to sort out before I think I’ll just leave it alone for a while. Managing a server fucking sucks. There’s nothing fun about this.

If you’re not aware who gweilo60 is, then he’s a YouTuber that usually goes around China filming himself and giving commentary. He gets a lot of flak for supposedly being a CCP shill. Which maybe sometimes is fair and sometimes it isn’t. I would probably agree more with him than most of his critics.

https://www.youtube.com/@Gweilo60

I think he’s right about many of the things happening in the Western world. Maybe he’s a bit too positive about China sometimes, but I don’t get that impression most of the time. I don’t think going back to Canada to receive medical treatment for his wife is hypocritical. People bring up that alot, going something like: “Well, if you love China so much and China is this beautiful country, you spend all this time bashing Canada, then why do you come crawling back to Canada?” The first problem is that I’ve never really heard him sing the praises of Chinese medicine. The other is that I don’t see the problem of a Canadian citizen living abroad to receive medical treatment in Canada. That’s literally one of the things which being a citizen of the country entitles you to.

A couple days ago I spent a bit of time trying to fix this website. I got two things checked off. The first was figuring out how to remove the footer, the other was the custom favicon. Sad enough, both of those took me a decent amount of time. But, both of them are fine now. There are two main things which I need to do now. One is fixing the site on mobile devices. If you look at the website it’s a mess on a phone, you can’t read all the text. I can’t figure out why this is. On the home page it works perfectly fine with mobile devices. On a desktop, laptop, or just turning your phone horizontally the site is fine. It’s only vertically on phone that’s really the issue. I can’t figure out why the home page works and the other pages don’t. I have no idea what I possibly could’ve done differently on those pages to get this result. The other thing I need to figure now is getting the site to appear in search results. Right now I kinda have a feeling that’s not really happening. That’s probably the least of my priorities. I didn’t create this site to generate a lot of views, but it would be nice for me to appear in search results so people stumble across here every so often.

I was on vacation and I got the opportunity to finish a few movies. Instead of creating separate entries for each one, I thought I’d just put it into one.

1. Xiao Wu/Pickpocket

This is a movie about a bit of a younger man whose friends have kind of left him behind. He tries to chase after this karaoke girl, but she ended up disappearing with somebody else. Lots of scenes of him smoking and being moody. He’s eventually arrested and then paraded through the streets to shame him. It was a decent movie.

I hate women. I don’t know how many times something like this has to happen before public figures start to realize they should just limit contact with women. Like, they’re not on your side. You’re just an idiot. I’ve always hated when people try to defend women portraying them as weak or people worth defending. You should never underestimate wamen, they are truly capable of destructive behavior. If you don’t think that’s the case then again, you’re an idiot. How many times do women need to be leveraged against men before men either get sick of it or limit contact?

First route of Tenshi Souzou completed. It’s funny to think, but after this it’ll be the last full length Yuzusoft game to complete until I’ve read them all. I don’t intend to read all the routes. I think this game is pretty mediocre. I think really the best thing about Noa is that she’s drawn well. Other than that, don’t really think I have much positive to say. Her personality is kinda flat. The drama is typical moege nonsense. Never really was explained what exactly being an angel means. Never had much sympathy for the demons. I’m human, I don’t know why I’d be cheering on demons. The ero scenes really aren’t that great. There’s something criminal in the act of drawing a tenshi with 貧乳. Big meh.

I mean, I thought it was okay. Once you’ve seen some ideal Chinese girl in movies then you’ve seen them all. Okay, maybe an exaggeration, but the personality is usually very similar. Smart, aggressive, provocative, playful, etc., not like I’m blaming, those are good traits. Mi Lan was a good character. Monkey was interesting enough. I just thought it was okay. It’s a decent movie. Actually I watched half of this movie, stopped, then decided to come back to it a couple months later. Shows I was really dying to know how this one ends. Now that I think about it, teenage rascals seem to be a common theme in Asian movies.

So, I saw this video and it got me thinking about this subject a little.

Yeah, honestly it’s brutal. Not even considering the global financial state, America (or the West) is facing two great threats that will probably mean a decrease in living standards of many in this country. The first is China, America has little manufacturing. American companies just can’t compete with China in terms of cost and efficiency. In the beginning American companies greatly profited off the Chinese market because they were the ones who possessed the technology. Gradually, China began to learn, and now they have an increasing number of companies which compete with American ones and at less cost. At first it was mostly cheap goods, but now it’s growing in the complexity of the goods. You also don’t hear much about bad Chinese construction or low-quality Chinese goods anymore—because they’re just better now. Two things in addition to that don’t help. The first is that China isn’t a free-market. A lot of the money which flows into China stays in China. The second is that China artificially keeps its currency down because then they can export more.