Yeah, I saw the headline and was ready to give the world's biggest "comon, really?" but then I read it and it actually makes total sense for public buildings.

It's been a week since I was last called "chink". I'll make sure to let the next one know they totally aren't being racist.

I'd say it's a racist pissing contest.

Holy crap racists! It's just a bridge, does every single article that mentions China have to turn into this shitshow?

Dip them in hummus! You can take my flaming hot cheetos dipped in hummus from my cold lifeless anally bleeding corpse, doctors.

To be fair, he was going down anyway. Might as well make a lasting change on your way out.

I feel like I should jump in to say thanks for responding to that dude with such a thoughtful and accurate reply. It won't convince him, but maybe some others will read and not buy his bullshit. (Also, how does he think it's some huge mystery on how to reduce the amount of climate change? Reudce emissions. Done. The…

It's cheap, runs retro games great, and has some really good options for local multiplayer. There are some really exciting indie games in the pipeline. You can also hack it into a netflix or media box pretty easily.

I wonder how it will do overseas. I know last time I traveled through Asia, everyone was rocking a Note-sized device, as for most it was their tablet/computer as well as phone. If I didn't have a laptop, I could see compromising a bit on the phone part of a phone.

Interesting, and maybe you're right. I'm just not sure they put that much thought into it? Like, they were drawing a human, so they made him (also, yeah, a him) white, because that's the normal way they picture humans.

Not sure if that sigh is for me or the automatic assumption that white = normal...

So wait, if you're gonna portray Homo erectus as kinda light brown, and Homo neanderthalensis, in Europe, as white, why portray early Homo sapiens, at a time we were exclusively in Africa and Near Asia, as also lily white? What a weird little racist thing to insert into an otherwise quite interesting and largely…

True! Thank god men tend to die so much more.

The 1.12 number comes from the US government, actually. There are definitely estimates that are higher or lower, but hey, if you can't trust the CIA...

ETA: sorry, thought you were replying to a different post. I got all hot and bothered on the comments up in here. The "over 75%" - specifically, 76%, comes from the Pew…

Yeah, that was fucking crazy. I understand what happened is that the woman was unable to pay the fine (about $5,000) and local officials arrested her and physically coerced her into signing an abortion agreement, and then forcibly gave her an aborticant. Which is just one of the most terrible things I can imagine.…

Also something to note, China's male to female ratio at birth is 1.12. The European Union's is 1.06, the world average is 1.07. So it's a thing, but it's not nearly as extreme as people think. Just trying to cut down on the alarmism a bit.

But it's supported by over 75% of the population. It's an incredibly popular policy, not something that is forced on people.

It was different in the 80s. Now it's just a tax penalty for violating it, and about two-thirds of the population are exempt anyway.

I think it's important to point out that the one child policy currently only applies to about a third of Chinese families. It isn't particularly wide spread, and since the penalty for violating it is just a tax penalty, tons and tons of people simply ignore it.

Oh man. I was starred on my very first post. Richard Lawson took a screenshot of one of my gawker comments so he could post it on his tumblr. I was once called "such a faggy ass chink nigger" on kinja, which I'm pretty sure is a slur made up just for me because I'm really actually pretty fucking special.