and I think the ROC government in exhile in Taiwan stopped using it.

Actually it is still used. It’s everywhere in legal documents, government documents and stuff. Though people more commonly say 2024 instead of 民國113年.

imho Chinese platforms censor their words too much. you might not have seen it, but the users self censor words like death, suicide, sex, and stuff like that.

hell desk

Brilliant.

obligatory: https://qntm.org/abolish

Before I read this article, I also thought it would be a great idea to get rid of timezones entirely and just use UTC for everything. To quote from the link, (please forgive me for being lazy and not formatting it correctly)

Abolishing time zones brings many benefits, I hope. It also:

• causes the question “What time is it there?” to be useless/unanswerable
• necessitates significant changes to the way in which normal people talk about time
• convolutes timetables, where present
• means “days” (of the week) are no longer the same as “days”
• complicates both secular and religious law
• is a staggering inconvenience for a minimum of five billion people
• makes it near-impossible to reason about time in other parts of the world
• does not mean everybody gets up at the same time, goes to work at the same time, or goes to bed at the same time
• is not simpler.

As long as humans live in more than one part of the world, solar time is always going to be subjective. Abolishing time zones only exacerbates this problem.

that was decades ago. it never happens nowadays

just fyi, I live in Taiwan, and people never get into trouble for saying that. don’t lecture me on how to behave in my homeland. now I know you didn’t know I lived here, but just maybe, maybe you should refrain from saying stuff you don’t know well enough about

Taiwan is its own country. I will never understand why some people outside China insist that Taiwan is a part of China.

I tried OSMAnd but it’s so fucking slow despite having already downloaded the map. Organic Maps is so much faster and smoother.

people in China absolutely cannot freely discuss the Tiananmen incident. Not even people in Hong Kong. Once-annual commemorations about this incident in Hong Kong have been canceled for a few years due to pressure from the government. People who ever dare mention this date - 4 June 1989 - on (the Chinese, walled version of) the Internet risk having their account banned and getting police visits at their door. Even the Tiananmen square closed down “for maintenance” on 4 June.

Thank you for giving the correct explanation. Pretty sure all those other “explanations” are just jokes though.

一 (one) also means top (in gay contexts). It’s because 0 looks like a hole and 1 looks like a penis.

That got me. It really does sound like what a “lawyer” would write.

So that’s why some vegetables sometimes have that wasabi taste to them.

Am I missing a joke here? How is “dey eat da poopoo” racist?

Yeah, that’s probably the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenken

In German, the practice of inserting a space before punctuation marks is called Plenken. It used to be a common practice, but nowadays it is considered an error.

I don’t think the All, Refuse, See, No, and Never in that screenshot are nouns. They also didn’t capitalize microwave.

Also happens for me. Kinda annoying.

I would assume they are, but the correct word here is actually exempt, with no -ed.

The year is 4 digits. This is just an age confirmation dialog asking for your birthday on a sketchy website, so I’m pretty sure the date won’t be displayed later.