At this point, I just stopped citing any article paywalled by elsevier, and only their arxiv counterpart.

If anyone ask, I will argue that I cannot obtain the version published by elsevier and have only read the arxiv version; hence citing the elsevier version would be disingenuous.

Only pirating ubisoft and nintendo games.

It is not FOSS, so I don't pay for it. Checkmate :)

I don't think anyone think of China as a communist/socialist country for a very long time. Maybe except older generations and tankies.

Ironically, I have met more tankies in six month on lemmy than my 18 years growing up in China. It is truly a wild culture shock that I didn't expect. LOL.

I personally do not find expensive wine and liquor worth it. That obviously don't mean all cheap wines are good, but I find the percentage of bad wine I had at $50 - $70 range is pretty much the same as wine around or under $20.

I find the best way is to research online before you buy or go for couple known-good brands. Most of the results actually tend to be on the cheaper side (around $20 for wine, around $35 for liquor).

Not only was my workout undetectable by any apple watch, I also cannot afford an apple watch. Checkmate.

Every monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, it is literally the definition of monad. But what do you expect from clippy...

quite ironic this meme is graphical...

I always make sure all my work are freely avaliable on the internet, even when I have to pay to do so.

Chinese have similar words for "nerd": "书呆子", literally translated to "book doofus". However, It is not used nearly as common as "geek" and "nerd" in English.

It also has a much thinner scope. It only refers to people who are too dogmatic about theoretical knowledge, yet lacks real world skills.

I know this a a joke, but please use a password manager, it is such a game changer.

Bitwarden is free and E2E encrypted and if you want additonal feature, they only cost 10 bucks pre year. You can even use it with anonaddy to hide your email, which is also totally free and open source.