Gongol.com Archives: January 2023
January 17, 2023
Ukraine's train chief says they're running 96% on time
How can you not cheer for a people so determined to make things work like ordinary, despite a brutal war being waged against them?
China's government doesn't get demographics
Something to remember next time anyone tries to tell you the Communist Party has grand plans to do X, Y, or Z. Despite holding the unchecked coercive power of the state, they couldn't work out the basic arithmetic of human procreation until this was already inevitable.
Too many people obsess over replicating past architecture
Imagine the horror when they discover that modern office buildings have things like ergonomic chairs inside, rather than a Louis XIV chair within every cubicle.
