Pre-emptive Strikes
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disappointed_lesbianHong Kong is rated caution level 2, 'exercise increased caution,' on the u.s. state department's website. 'Arbitrary enforcement of local laws, especially exit bans' is the reason. I don't know what the hell is an 'exit ban.' Do they prevent foreigners from leaving? That doesn't seem like it's in their best interest. Anyways, Hong Kong is out of the running. It's interesting that the Canadian website rates it 'Exercise a high degree of caution,' higher than the u.s. rates it.
https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/hong-kong
'You shouldn’t expect internet privacy.' lol. shithole county. Previously, I wasn't clear on Hong Kong's relationship with China. But I think I see now that they are too closely related.
I'm going to try again with Bhutan. Last time I looked into it, I ended up going in circles trying to find information about becoming a citizen or permanent resident. I think there is no official pathway, maybe an expat (I hate this word) who has a job there just keeps getting the employment visa renewed. That would be good enough for me. It's an unsure life but this life I'm living here is unsure. I feel reassured by the low cost of living in Bhutan, however. Like I could actually afford rent with my measly veteran's benefits. Assuming what I've read is accurate. It's difficult to find information on this country. In a way, that's a good thing: the place isn't crawling with 'expats' and won't be for the forseeable future. But it also puts more of a burden on me to figure things out.
I would do my schooling in Taiwan and then try to have Bhutan as a back-up plan, hoping China doesn't invade or at least doesn't get violent for the three-year duration of my master's degree program. Unless I get a remote job and can stay in Taiwan on a digital nomad visa and take Mandarin lessons instead of doing the master's degree.
Bhutan is in need of IT workers, so maybe I should work on developing some computer skills. Visiting costs a hundred bucks a day, so that's something that won't be happening for a while. That's ok; it's good that they prioritize their citizens and environment.
I didn't sleep at all last night. How long can this go on?
Apparently the Trump administration is now at war with Iran. Perhaps 'war' is not the best thing to call it; I'm not sure that Iran is fighting back. Yet. This is the world when men are in charge: endless violence.
According to cnn, Trump decided to strike because Iran continues its nuclear weapons program, and Iran is not to be trusted with nuclear weapons I guess. A pre-emptive strike. Sort of what I promote that womyn take towards the male sex, except that the latter has been pummeling us in their war on females so thoroughly and for so long that such measures would be fundamentally more defensive than pre-emptive. But they're pre-emptive in the sense that womyn would abort, infanticide, or males before the latter individually have the opportunity to become violent, as all of recorded human history shows that many of them inevitably will.
The thing that's on my mind is that there will be people who say that Trump's pre-emptive strike is a sensible thing to do in terms of protection, even though the bombing will cause death, injury, and destruction. But those same people wouldn't have the same attitude towards pre-emptive strikes to prevent male violence even with far less dire results and a far more present threat. Because males are for male fredom, not really for human freedom.
Lots of time wasted today: Someone called about re-doing the plaster that fell from the ceiling, but didn't call back at the agreed-upon time, which I was waiting for; then I went to a laundromat that ended up costing a fortune and my laundry didn't even get dry. So I came home, had dinner, then went to another laundromat. I usually do my laundry here at the apartment complex, but I have to go to the bank for quarters to do that, and I've decided to avoid going to the bank, particularly since the bankers keep asking me for updated id, which I don't have. But I've always hated interacting with the bankers, so I intend to keep using laundromats even after my ID gets updated.
I've been getting caught up in the n+1 sentence mining game as I create Korean flashcards. I spend too much time looking for Korean sentences that contain just one unknown word. It's a way to increase one's vocabulary without getting bogged down in content that is too difficult to understand, but of course the vast majority of Korean sentences contain more than one word that I don't know, so I end up trying to reduce n+2 and n+3 sentences down to n+1 by finding n+1 sentences for the extra unknown words. In many cases, this ends up being a never-ending search and I have to simply give up to avoid spending half the day looking for just a few usable sentences.
I called the post office and got my glycolic acid today. Half of my apartment number was missing from the mailing label, and there was a new mail carrier on my route, so she didn't know where to deliver the package. I had to force myself to be conservative about the amount of acid I added to my homemade serum. If it doesn't sting too much, I'll add some more in a week or two.
I would like to post about more interesting and important things on this blog, but I keep ending up composing while I'm sick/sleepy, and I don't want to stop studying or doing more interesting/productive things when I have more energy. I would like to post about, for example, what I read in Zerzan's book today. What stands out in my sleepy mind, however, was the profound sense of loss I felt as I read about the differences between civilized and non-civilized society.
And something I just noticed as I stand here typing this: female oppression is mentioned clearly and openly in what I've read so far. It's something of a breath of fresh air, although the subject matter itself is quite suffocating. Usually men refuse to admit that this phenomenon is even real, the hostility and disrespect of their refusal itself providing more evidence of their misogyny. This I think is one way to tell whether a guy is a piece of shit or not: if he's hostile towards feminism or believes feminism is no longer necessary, he should be jettisoned. It's something I intend to ask very early on if I ever get the point of considering dating a guy. But it would be so much easier to date a womyn. I really don't want to come into contact with semen.
https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/hong-kong
'You shouldn’t expect internet privacy.' lol. shithole county. Previously, I wasn't clear on Hong Kong's relationship with China. But I think I see now that they are too closely related.
I'm going to try again with Bhutan. Last time I looked into it, I ended up going in circles trying to find information about becoming a citizen or permanent resident. I think there is no official pathway, maybe an expat (I hate this word) who has a job there just keeps getting the employment visa renewed. That would be good enough for me. It's an unsure life but this life I'm living here is unsure. I feel reassured by the low cost of living in Bhutan, however. Like I could actually afford rent with my measly veteran's benefits. Assuming what I've read is accurate. It's difficult to find information on this country. In a way, that's a good thing: the place isn't crawling with 'expats' and won't be for the forseeable future. But it also puts more of a burden on me to figure things out.
I would do my schooling in Taiwan and then try to have Bhutan as a back-up plan, hoping China doesn't invade or at least doesn't get violent for the three-year duration of my master's degree program. Unless I get a remote job and can stay in Taiwan on a digital nomad visa and take Mandarin lessons instead of doing the master's degree.
Bhutan is in need of IT workers, so maybe I should work on developing some computer skills. Visiting costs a hundred bucks a day, so that's something that won't be happening for a while. That's ok; it's good that they prioritize their citizens and environment.
I didn't sleep at all last night. How long can this go on?
Apparently the Trump administration is now at war with Iran. Perhaps 'war' is not the best thing to call it; I'm not sure that Iran is fighting back. Yet. This is the world when men are in charge: endless violence.
According to cnn, Trump decided to strike because Iran continues its nuclear weapons program, and Iran is not to be trusted with nuclear weapons I guess. A pre-emptive strike. Sort of what I promote that womyn take towards the male sex, except that the latter has been pummeling us in their war on females so thoroughly and for so long that such measures would be fundamentally more defensive than pre-emptive. But they're pre-emptive in the sense that womyn would abort, infanticide, or males before the latter individually have the opportunity to become violent, as all of recorded human history shows that many of them inevitably will.
The thing that's on my mind is that there will be people who say that Trump's pre-emptive strike is a sensible thing to do in terms of protection, even though the bombing will cause death, injury, and destruction. But those same people wouldn't have the same attitude towards pre-emptive strikes to prevent male violence even with far less dire results and a far more present threat. Because males are for male fredom, not really for human freedom.
Lots of time wasted today: Someone called about re-doing the plaster that fell from the ceiling, but didn't call back at the agreed-upon time, which I was waiting for; then I went to a laundromat that ended up costing a fortune and my laundry didn't even get dry. So I came home, had dinner, then went to another laundromat. I usually do my laundry here at the apartment complex, but I have to go to the bank for quarters to do that, and I've decided to avoid going to the bank, particularly since the bankers keep asking me for updated id, which I don't have. But I've always hated interacting with the bankers, so I intend to keep using laundromats even after my ID gets updated.
I've been getting caught up in the n+1 sentence mining game as I create Korean flashcards. I spend too much time looking for Korean sentences that contain just one unknown word. It's a way to increase one's vocabulary without getting bogged down in content that is too difficult to understand, but of course the vast majority of Korean sentences contain more than one word that I don't know, so I end up trying to reduce n+2 and n+3 sentences down to n+1 by finding n+1 sentences for the extra unknown words. In many cases, this ends up being a never-ending search and I have to simply give up to avoid spending half the day looking for just a few usable sentences.
I called the post office and got my glycolic acid today. Half of my apartment number was missing from the mailing label, and there was a new mail carrier on my route, so she didn't know where to deliver the package. I had to force myself to be conservative about the amount of acid I added to my homemade serum. If it doesn't sting too much, I'll add some more in a week or two.
I would like to post about more interesting and important things on this blog, but I keep ending up composing while I'm sick/sleepy, and I don't want to stop studying or doing more interesting/productive things when I have more energy. I would like to post about, for example, what I read in Zerzan's book today. What stands out in my sleepy mind, however, was the profound sense of loss I felt as I read about the differences between civilized and non-civilized society.
And something I just noticed as I stand here typing this: female oppression is mentioned clearly and openly in what I've read so far. It's something of a breath of fresh air, although the subject matter itself is quite suffocating. Usually men refuse to admit that this phenomenon is even real, the hostility and disrespect of their refusal itself providing more evidence of their misogyny. This I think is one way to tell whether a guy is a piece of shit or not: if he's hostile towards feminism or believes feminism is no longer necessary, he should be jettisoned. It's something I intend to ask very early on if I ever get the point of considering dating a guy. But it would be so much easier to date a womyn. I really don't want to come into contact with semen.
