every time i see the spotify wrapped posts i remember that the year my son was born i played a specific white noise album basically non stop through my hifi system so that i could turn the volume up with one foot anytime while bouncing him to sleep and i still wasn’t top 5%

divorced dad energy blinding on both sides of this interaction

i think basically the thing to understand about the chinese is that the structure of their society and underlying culture makes it very hard for them to influence the west — intentionally, accidentally, covertly, explicitly, all basically impossible for them