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This is a truly unique form of expression, using jokes as a medium to paint a vivid, realistic scroll of local customs and human conditions. Cold jokes, puns, sketch comedy, and satire are used to equally mock everything. People with physical disabilities, the ignorant and arrogant, adulterers, pedantic scholars, common folk, government officials, wealthy merchants, all matters related to sex, and even Confucianism and Taoist immortals, are all made into jokes, gently pinched and quietly mocked. The atmosphere of the Qing Dynasty's street society permeates through these short jokes, encompassing the wretched human nature, ignorance, poverty, and the cunning that combines them in a person, as straightforward and essential as eating, in the clumsy directness seen in the eyes of both men and women. Reading it brings a wonderful feeling, a mixture of all flavors, breaking myths, and broadening horizons.

via tw @morris Elon Musk said, if I could only take one book to Mars, it would be Hayek's 'The Road to Serfdom'. Hayek once said, we must admit that a world where the rich are powerful is much better than a world where one must be powerful to be rich. Beneath interests, one sees character; beneath right and wrong, one sees the law; beneath power and lust, one sees morality; in times of peril, one sees relationships. There are two things in the world one should not look directly at: the sun and the human heart; the former damages the eyes, the latter breaks the heart.

via Twitter @小径残雪 A highly recommended book: China's Civil War.

via tw @morgan The trick to surviving is: stay foolish, yet not know how foolish you are.

via tw @停云 A line from Amichai struck me for a long time: Those who leave completely//are brought back home in the evening, like found change. We were all once fresh, plump berries, serving day by day in this world, being peeled, juiced, discarded, becoming increasingly humble, useless. It's depressing to read, but that's the fact.

via Lex Fridman Podcast #438 Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity

via tw @morgan Just by looking at the era and concepts, the author's ideas are very insightful. For women, gender equality seems like a concept that is always right but problematic in practice. What women need is the recognition and promotion of female values, not to become like men, or to allow society to let women use the male discourse system, judging or selecting women based on patriarchal social standards.

via tw q11

via tw @FriedEggQuilt I later realized that many children often have a deformed lack of perception, and if they fall in love with someone, they will love them extraordinarily. My case was the same. /Nedochika: A Woman's Life Part Two

Via tw @urassholes People only like to calculate how much pain they have endured, not how much happiness they have received. But if measured fairly and reasonably, one will find that he possesses both pain and happiness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, "Notes from Underground"