I don’t think Serena ever intended to return to Gilead. 

Noooo Nick is boring. I want to see them set it up for The Testaments. 

I think she didn’t get to ask for specific people. She had to take the people Joseph could get out, not the specific ones she wanted. Janine and Hannah are not possible, but 22 women Joseph has the ability to transport out are. 

Nah. She didn’t commit the act in Canada (though they’ll know it was her from the finger, I’m not sure she even could be arrested for something she did in Gilead with a man officially handed back to Gilead). I think she just knows she and Luke are done. Resistance time!

Uh, that’s exactly what they intended to prove. 

Yet notice what happens when democracy is already a norm, which it never was in China. China keeps trying to bait Taiwan (a democracy, developed but wages are low) with the promise of access to that huge economy and Taiwanese are like “EW NO THANK YOU GROSS”.

I thought the whole point was that the rich (who are basically made rich in the new system by having been notable religious zealots) thought or acted all puritanical and shit, like when white Instagram ladies go all minimalist-but-punish. Of course they still liked nice things (nice houses, good alcohol, fine clothes)…

The court/jail stuff doesn’t work at all — would the guards really let June be alone with Fred in that room? And the US government was gonna give them a house? I doubt that’s how it works. You get your freedom — the rest is up to you

If you’ve read the book, the fact that looking at Wednesday right next to Shadow is a young boy might perhaps make some sense. 

Also, two inaccuracies in your report of Taiwan’s political situation.

First, you wrote that the descendants of the 1949 diaspora and indigenous people make up Taiwan’s population. But being “indigenous” and having been a Taiwanese person of Chinese descent are two different things, and most Taiwanese are the latter.…

As a long-term resident of Taiwan, good riddance to this guy.

I don’t care much about his minor incidents of rudeness individually - though after four years the only reason why he might have continued to be disrespectful in that way would have been deliberately. So promising to “clean up his act” - fucking spare me. I…

I would. This is a country where a trade pact activists didn’t like resulted in a 3-week occupation of the legislature. 400,000 or so (that’s 1 in every 57 Taiwanese or so) people showed up to a demonstration to support the occupiers. The trade pact has not gone through.

They always say that but they know Taiwan is a poison pill for China. They try it, and the pain Hong Kong is giving them will be NOTHING compared to what we will do.

Hey thanks for the link!

Nope. Two different countries. Anyway, “mainland” is not a thing, it’s a made-ip PRC state-run media approved-term for what is better called “China”.

Oh for fuck’s sake.

You are all hypocrites. All of you. Fuck off.

Taiwan is a liberal democratic country (COUNTRY, fuckers) with a democratically elected president (not leader - president, and that’s Doctor President to you). She is a PhD holder who is the first female president of Taiwan and the first democratically…

I did once, and said that if they didn’t give me the raise I deserved I’d quit.

I got the raise I deserved. It sure as fuck wasn’t 5%.

Eh, I get calls from “Unknown” all the time, it often eans the caller has blocked the number, or that your service provider for whatever reason doesn’t have access to it. But always getting them on that anniversary is creepy.

I feel for them. I really do. But, my wage in the DC area when I lived there (the DC area also being quite expensive) was $31,000 for an entry-level ‘skilled’ job that required a Bachelor’s degree and my health insurance had those copays. So I made less than they do at a more ‘skilled’* job.

So while I feel for…

One downside is that, as a very influential country, we have a position that can be used to advocate for better human rights abroad in a number of countries (I do realize our own house still has a few messes in that regard too). If nothing ever gets done, then you’ve done nothing to advocate, either. No negative,…