#i am saying theres a whole lot of fearmongering

[puff-the-cereal-box]

My personal favorite graph for nuclear energy. (yes those are the right values. or at least near enough given fission of U235 is TEN TO THE SIX times more energy dense)

I wish all environmentalists a very suck cocks in hell

[st5lker]

the recent increase in singled out sinophobia is like so strange… obviously theres the whole like american anti-communist anti-chinese government sentiment which is not always based in reality and thats getting more traction recently but i also just mean like. how come chinese stuff is always turned into like Crazy Cooky Weird Memes. like the way songs in mandarin/other chinese dialects are always becoming tiktok memes and specifically in a “this is funny/odd” way. also the whole “bing chilling” meme which was like yeah i get it thats a white man being way too enthusiastic in a language he doesnt even speak that well but idk something felt off about it. the donghua jinlong memes too. its like is it funny because its in mandarin and mandarin sounds funny to you or am i just reading that in bad faith? im definitely not going to say im completely free of guilt from laughing at those types of things occasionally and i dont think theyre all definitely inherently racist like i think the donghua jinlong memes are kind of funny but when i stop to think about it it just feels so strangely singled out in a way other asian cultures dont get, at least recently.

like i feel like japan used to get a lot of the “weird asian stuff” reputation with like japanese game shows/commercials or songs or whatever. and in fairness many of those were intentionally designed to be strange or humorous like ponponpon and i wouldnt doubt that also apploes some of the meme songs like that wo xing shi song or the stuff the girl that’s jiafei’s face has been doing. i also wouldnt doubt that a good chunk of these memes literally come from chinese netizens themselves and have just kind of transferred over. but its just strange or at the very least interesting to think about how what 15 years ago used to be “weird japan” is now “weird china”.

the cynical part of me wants to assume this is directly tied to anti-ccp fearmongering and covid-19 sinophobia and that probably influenced it but i also i have to recognize that like 1) tiktok is a chinese app and almost all of what im talking about comes from tiktok, and even though douyin is separated its not hard to see how that would shift a lot of western user’s focus to china esp after the congress hearings and 2) anime is more mainstream than ever now and the western/american reputation of it being a “geeky” thing only weirdos like has basically died out so a lot of people have a “respect” for japan they wouldnt have had 15 years ago, same with how kpop is mainstream making people have a “respect” for south korea, and china doesnt really currently have an equivalent like that in the west