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@aescling in american shows you generally assume each episode has an internal arc and the end of episodes meets certain narrative expectations (this may be a cliffhanger, but cliffhangers are like, a known narrative thing). When you developed shows airing 1 ep/wk this makes a lot of sense

china's tv culture generally assumes a much faster airing schedule & also bc of censorship stuff its difficult for producers to predict what will actually make it into the final show. So many shows will do stuff like end mid scene and pick up next ep. Narrative arcs are not tied to the episode structure

This professor plans his classes like a Chinese drama

@Lady me opening it by accident and then immediately going aaaaaaa how to close

@aescling @Lady i’m glad i wasn’t the only person low key trying to triangulate this hahaha

@KelsonV anyway i think its a fair bet that shrine cheese similarly exists

@KelsonV you make cheese curds, and then you fling them up on the temple roof to cure

apparently it tastes exactly like you'd expect

@KelsonV my aunt has repeatedly warned me that I should never accept "roof cheese" from Buddhist monks, which is apparently a thing they make

(she works at a meditation school)

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@maxeddy@infosec.exchange thank you for linking to their announcement!

people in the past having bafflingly bad takes on slavery and communism 

@Lady slaveowners in the 1850’s weren’t really into that kind of thing for some reason

people in the past having bafflingly bad takes on slavery and communism 

@Lady this is part of a larger passage in which they explain a long list of reasons why slavery is super ok and should continue being legal, the rest of which were your more standard historical bullshit so I was extremely not expecting “its basically communism and we all know thats the hot new thing” to be wedged in there in the middle

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