• Tarball@lemmy.world
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    Hit her with the facts - the Chinese invented fake orange juice in the Tang dynasty and so that’s your fave.

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      I fail this every single time. I always assume if somebody had something to say, they would’ve just said it. I mean, we’re already having a conversation about certain topic. Why wait for me to ask?

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    maybe she was checking if you were into Wu Tang… China’s only female ruler: Empress Wu of the Tang dynasty reigned for 20 years.

  • WolfdadCigarette@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    Shit, this just reminded me of one of my favorite text posts and I can’t locate it because search engines are a wasteland of paid results and spam. any chance someone has it? Description below

    The story’s narrator is walking along when they bump into a stranger. The stranger immediately begins yelling about how [linux distro] is subpar for its intended use case and the narrator calmly replies that the distro excels in specific ways. However, the stranger isn’t having any of it. The story ends without resolution, with the narrator looking for solace in others’ opinions.

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      search engines are a wasteland of paid results and spam

      Last night I spent 45mins searching for something that I had found in the top 3 results 8 months ago. It was buried on the 3rd page. None of the other results had anything to do with what I was actually searching for.

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        Try typing before:2024 at the start of the search term, it should filter things from 2024 our, and you might find it. Works the same with any other year

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    It meant you prefer war and conquest over peace, prosperity, and stability. The correct answer was the Song Dynasty.

    Source: I have never studied Chinese history and made this up, so just take my word for it.

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      I’m glad my attention fatigued brain spared another few seconds to read the second half.

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    The correct answer is “Qin. Love playing him in Civ 6”. You could say Ming but she has to know that they added Yongle as DLC

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    If you preface your reasoning with the accessibility of the history, Qing? Just gotta make sure you don’t come across as a rvturn to footbinding weirdo like Shen Yun.