It’s so cool when the Monkey Smashes Heaven
(Pixies voice) this Monkey’s Smashing Heaven
Fun fact a popular brand of Hunan pickled peppers (Mao’s home province) is called RED HEAVEN SMASHERS Image
Mao once famously said that a revolutionary who doesn’t eat chili peppers is hardly a revolutionary at all

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26 Oct
Chinese influencers pretending to be in Los Angeles by taking pictures at the Shanghai Costco
This must be exactly how Japanese people feel when they see Americans flip out over their extremely normal suburban street scenes. One person’s banality is another’s Instagram shot
These really are some clever photography tricks in that they somehow got the skyscrapers and superblock apartments out of frame
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26 Oct
Washington is unrolling the restaurant vaccine mandate today. It’s a shitshow. Not only is it taking a public health role and delegating to the lowest paid service workers, there’s literally no enforcement mechanism. You can just show them a random picture on your phone, no prob!
You’d think some egghead would be able to whip up a QR code app connected to a health department database, but that seems too difficult compared to having cashiers have to deal with furious antivaxers trolling them
And then there’s the issue of practicality. Washington state has no mechanism to determine whether ALL restaurants actually are COVID hotspots are not, track and trace was abandoned long ago. So it seems an shallow gesture, an empty restaurant needs “proof” of vax, Safeway doesnt
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24 Oct
Fermented soy beans baby
I love zhajiang but hate the smell. Not because it’s bad per se but because it is the EXACT smell as when I worked at the fertilizer factory
I should do a series where I show Brazilian soya agribusiness what Chinese people do with all the soy they sell them. Fine Bros present Brazilian Landlords React
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20 Oct
Feels good to know that in our high tech future we are still ruled by people as breathtakingly stupid as medieval lords of yore
Actually most medieval lords were probably more well read than Zucc technically
I do love the idea that when faced with an existential PR crisis Zucc’s gut instinct is to pivot the company to the latest toy he’s been playing with, and that the company will be known for creating a VR MMO…but for office meetings
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13 Oct
Imagine a shipping freighter filled to the brim with these, unable to unload in Los Angeles. This is political economy, too me
There’s no rule that a bear can’t play basketball
“The capitalist mode of production first appears to us as a wondrous assortment of commodities….”
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