Get youself a good clay tea set(doesn’t need to be the expensive shit, just not the crappy glass ones) and watch a couple of youtube videos on how to prepare the tea. It’s completely worth it, I assure you, if you like this stuff. I don’t care for normal green tea at all but I like it when it’s properly prepared.
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I’ve always wanted one of those high quality chinese tea pot things
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They’re quite pretty. Mine were gifts from house guests. Have one really expensive one from a rich client but I don’t find any difference in taste from the tea made between that and the cheaper ones(like around 10-15 bucks). Maybe real connoisseurs will be able to tell the difference.
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I confess I would’ve felt no guilt, at all, in your situation afterwards.
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If you had opted for this immediately, yeah. But you tried your best, so they were simply being treated the way they deserved to be treated.
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This type of story is why I refuse to go into public policy
If I ever have enough disposable income, I’m getting myself an antique jade one 
You mean in China? They’re MORE EFFICIENT if you know how to initiate a bribe.
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No, I mean as an area of research/career. It’s a very popular direction for behavioural scientists
There’s a strange sort of beauty to the way effective bribes (usually some combo of money and gifts) simultaneously highlight the rational effects of financial incentives and the behavioural preference for material goods
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I distill it down to fear and/or greed, money and/or power.
Window dress or fluffy up the basic instincts according to personal mores/beliefs.
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If it wasn’t a government bureaucracy, this kind of intellectual diversity is a recipe for success
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nani da fuq?
This is the problem with bureaucracy.
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Woah. Major overkill lol
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If you do, don’t take it on a trans-continental railroad trip. That pretty much guarantees mysterious and nefarious hijinks.
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I have an irrational soft spot for high jewelry and antiques
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Get a samovar
I confess I’m paranoid of handling jade. I mean REALLY paranoid. The poor quality ones break so easily but I handled one of them when I was 135lbs. Now I’m a full fledged meathead, I don’t dare touch even the high quality ones.
TBH, I think studying public and administrative stuff as one of your subjects if the behavioural part doesn’t form the bulk of it is quite a good thing to go into if only for knowledge on the way the system of a country works in terms of stuff that you should ask @Jewbacca about.
I confess I am feeling the siren’s call of powerlifting once again, after an 8 year break from competition.
But part of me thinks that’s because I just want to do SOME sort of competition again. And the odds of doing a powerlifting meet are the same as doing a strongman competition at this point.
So really, I suppose my confession is: f**k COVID, seriously.
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seriously, that’s a confession?
I thought that was a general public opinion
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