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East Asian, China.

So her given name is “Youyou”, pronounced Yoyo (flat high tone).

What’s confusing?

There’s a guy living in wage slavery making poor life choices that he justifies to himself as he finds no joy elsewhere in life.

We sympathise with and laugh at the fool.

Seeing as China takes ethnic and genetic registration pretty seriously, no?

Wow, any particular reason you have such a raging hate honer?

That’s why most people just use YouTube. 🫠

Does this work?

YouTube

The former, I guess, if this clip rubs you the right way.

Does this work?

YouTube

The “bi” is for both homosexual and heterosexual relations. Not gender itself.

Fun fact: rabbits eat their own poo.

Post-modernism denies grand narratives and puts forward that people will deceive themselves for their own benefit.
And indeed that values and ideals are socially contracted, so what is “Good” will vary across space-time.

Not that there is no Truth.

Yes, but had had mental health issues from the start.

I mean, Pictures for Sad Children was the title, and wasn’t the ghost a suicide?

About 20.

More if you include oral, manual, and the like.

If you’re living in one of those very conservative on women’s dress Islamic nations (i.e. Middle East or Central Asia) then there are cultural limits imposed beyond the baseline of the religion.

A Senegalese Muslim woman in colourful patterned headscarf and matching dress is following what Islam requires.
Some places have kept, or imposed, much stricter controls on women’s dress (amongst other things). And while they might choose to wear more colourful ones, many of these countries (i.e. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, through to Pakistan and Afghanistan) turn a blind eye to femicide and are plagued by honour killings.

Socially constructed idea varies by society.

Who’d’ve guessed?

You’ll find very colourfully yet modestly dressed Muslim women in Indonesia, India, Kenya, Senegal, and more.

The WHO does good work, but it’s as much a bureaucractic force as a medical one, and I think due to the desire for geopolitical clout the US cared more about the latter than the former.
Not that way that the US doesn’t also do some medical outreach with military missions as the PRC also does.
But it does make there a minor difference in kind. After all, the selfish jerk who goes around fulfilling people’s dreams just for his own selfish satisfaction of feeling like a good person still is.

More reasonable than the embargo never existing is it finishing in the 90s following the end of the Cold War. Sadly US face couldn’t allow that to happen.

We can’t be sure.

The PRC isn’t blockaded in the same way and has also invested in medicine and sends out lots of medical missions; that said, it had a bigger economy and does that less than Cuba.

And even so, it doesn’t make the blockade right - even if this is a potential silver lining.

Cuba’s medical work is amazing.

The US blockade is has been and remains a crime against humanity.

Aye, I don’t consider myself especially sensitive to such things but a world where hunting and cannibalising babies is par for the course means there’s a lot of horrific moments of very horrific things.
It is a book/series that continues to bother me/come to the front of my thoughts often enough. Albiet sometimes in fun or non-traumatic ways too.

The PRC is helping kill Balochi and Burmese to keep it’s access to resources in those areas in the 21st century.
Which is far fewer than US imperialism across any comparible time scale.

Over the last 5,000 years: millions.

I enjoyed them, but felt at some point in Book 3 that I didn’t care hugely about most of the characters. But then things somewhat redeemed themselves, although I think something with the climax and Wormwood, but can’t quite recall what irked me specifically. Mostly fun romp, however. Sadly did mean I recognised a necklacing in a news headline while browsing International news, however.

Which makes it easy for me to compare and contrast with the not Sci-Fi but actual grim crapsack fantasy world of Red Wolf, Black Leopard (probably racistly since they’re both African inspired stories), where I stopped reading because of how grim and horrible the world and setting was, but the picked it up again a week later because it was so compelling and I wanted to find out what happened.
The horrors and atrocities get worse in Moon Witch, Spider King, and others more cerebral, which made it easier to keep reading.

But why quibble over the murkier “did he exist” ground when you could engage on “was he a miracle working guy who came back from the dead” and make them find more evidence for that!

Do you plan to only do things with romantic partner?

Why do you think you need a romantic partner?

… A better question would be: “what do you define as a friend?”