By February 2010 they had captured the number two Taliban leader, but, as we should expect, they have also been careful not to wipe out the Taliban threat. Doing so would just lead to a termination of US funds.
The US government, for its part, is frustrated that even with $1.5 billion in aid, Pakistan is not sufficiently motivated to beat back the Taliban. As a result, the United States has stepped up drone attacks and the use of the American military to pursue the Taliban within Pakistani territory
草，我才意识到钓鱼这个词来源于 phishing，发音跟 fishing 一样…之前竟从没把这两个词联系在一起过，一直以为取自姜太公钓鱼
@knockknock 可是不止一个啊，为什么一批完全不同时期的灯会同时坏
充电小灯还是新的，到家后第一天好好的，第二天就开始闪烁
Corruption […] provides the means to ensure regime loyalty without having to pay good salaries, and it guarantees the prosecutorial means to ferret out any beneficiaries who fail to remain loyal. What could be better from a leader’s perspective?
最近家里的灯总是闪烁，感觉是什么凶兆
如果是走线路的灯我还会担心是不是线路问题，但是我的充电小台灯为什么也会闪烁
the easiest way to compensate the police for their loyalty—including their willingness to oppress their fellow citizens—is to give them free rein to be corrupt. Pay them so little that they can’t help but realize it is not only acceptable but necessary for them to be corrupt.
@konatasick 是我，染头之后洗发频率都变低了，还经常拿免洗喷雾糊弄
@QuantumBubbleTea 广告做得太成功！
我只见过某幅画前面这么挤的
@yan132 就是定下三周后才能给成绩的那个部门？祝你好运！
@yan132 对面是谁？basically 不是一定的意思吧？如果你有特殊情况可以跟那边说说看，带上你导师的信之类的…我们学校规定博士入学后至少半年才能交论文，但因为我情况特殊，入学后一个月不到就交上去了
和友约了六点在杜塞吃饭，我计划提前一小时过去去商场买我最爱的巧克力，结果我到火车站了才意识到周日商场关门
@QuantumBubbleTea 我也想不到啊！一般有人让我看东西的时候我内心都是“何必呢你不说我也会帮忙看着的啊”
可能那些人也有和你类似的经历
@QuantumBubbleTea 也太糟心了还是应该找旁边人看一下
High taxes will inevitably drive people to hide their work and profits. This makes monitoring their income difficult. Furthermore, the large bureaucracy required to run a comprehensive tax system […] can be prohibitively expensive. […] To avoid becoming a slave of their own tax collectors, autocrats often use indirect taxation instead. With indirect taxes, the cost of the tax is passed on to someone other than the person actually paying it. For instance, sellers pay sales taxes to municipal governments but sellers pass the cost on to buyers, making sales taxes indirect.
我鳗鱼 
也是一只自由泳的小鸟
boosted
也是一只自由泳的小鸟
boosted
@ak_Consfanze_aK 一定是手机生产商的问题！
我还记得 iPhone 刚刚出来，手机触控笔还更常见的时候，我第一次看到朋友的 iPhone 是用手指戳的时候感觉很神奇：手指比键盘大那么多真的不会按错按钮吗？我朋友给我演示了一遍，真的不会按错，我觉得好神奇。
那为什么十多年后的今天我一天到晚在手机键盘上按错字母…
@Cronopio 那这样“在纽约地铁上”这个限定从头到尾就是多余的，总感觉偏离了作者的本意…可能这一段是他坐地铁的时候想出来的
