Subskeeting a bit but I searched to see what folks were saying about Diego Garcia and the Chagos Deal, and some of the results make me feel like I’m back at the bird site.

In many places a car caught in the intersection when the light changes would continue though once safe to proceed. In Hongkong they have to just sit there while glowering pedestrians snake around the car.

There is always someone to tell you what you’re doing will wreck your baby. Starts with “don’t give formula to a breastfeeding baby, all the health benefits will disappear”, then “don’t change formula, your baby has imprinted upon it” and so on. And yeah infant led weaning is messy (but worth it).

Someone has a beef with Lenovo HK and is paying Instagram to signal-boost their anger. I don’t love it, but it’s a bold gambit. (I realize I’m signal-boosting this but I’m afraid it can’t be helped.)

Trying to imagine TST but every Yankees hat is replaced with a MAGA hat…

The other day I was walking through the (somehow even more tourist-trappy than it used to be) Tung Choi Street “ladies’ market” and noticed the counterfeit hat stalls don’t have them. Probably a good thing.

For the uninitiated a cha caanteng is the Hong Kong equivalent of a diner, with a menu a mile long, and nothing particularly healthy (beef fried rice noodles may be the king of unhealthy). And deep tau fan is a plate of rice smothered with some kind of stir fry-ish thing.

No, it was a cooked food center and other orders were unforked. For sure I’ve had the experience of bringing visitors to a cha caanteng and having to explain the lack of insult in providing a fork and spoon with fried rice or deep tau fan. This wasn’t that.

TFW you order off the all-Chinese menu, in Cantonese w/proper tones, and you still get the fork. #softbigotryoflowexpextations

Napoleon walked heavily round the shed, looked closely at every detail of Snowball’s plans and snuffed at them once or twice, then stood for a while contemplating them out of the corner of his eye; then suddenly he lifted his leg, urinated over the plans, and walked out without uttering a word.