Come to Shaoguan and check out the snow-white sea of reed blossoms! Sunlight filters through the white blooms, giving them a gentle, warm glow. As you walk among the flowers, time seems to slow down. ———————————— by IP GUANGDONG creator: 尘雾 ———————————— #travelguangdong# #Blossoms# #reedflower# #Flowers# #Nature# #Shaoguan# #Guangdong# @MetaGuangdong @ShaoguanH @thisisGBA @RecordGBA @GBA_Foshan

Steve Jobs on why people will still watch Toy Story in 60 years, and it has nothing to do with the technology "I think people are going to be watching Toy Story in 60 years, not because of the computer graphics, but because of the story about friendship. That's something really amazing to me" "Disney released Snow White in 1937. A few years ago they rereleased it and sold 28 million copies, making around a quarter billion dollars profit, 60 years after its release. These stories renew themselves with each generation. You read Joseph Campbell, these are our myths" "I have a young son. We got it, and he watched it 30, 40 times. Everyone I know knows the story of Snow White. Watching my son watch this, it hit me that these stories renew themselves with each new generation of children" "To have the opportunity to put these stories into the culture, if we can work hard and be lucky again and again, is a rare opportunity. We want to make products that will be around for a long time, that everybody will get enjoyment from and learn from"

【Rewards Distribution Notice - Cinderella Special】 During the Doki Doki NIKKE Global Popularity Poll IV, Cinderella, Liberalio, Little Mermaid, Arcana: Fortune Mate and Snow White: Heavy Arms ranked as the Top 5 based on total votes. Plan B also received the most votes in the Cinderella Costume Voting poll. ✨ Commanders, thank you for your continued support. The Avatar Frame, Cinderella costume, and Theme Song rewards will be distributed in-game via the [Cinderella Special] event! Claim period 📅10/8 (After Maintenance) ~ 12/3, 04:59 (UTC+9) *After obtaining the Cinderella theme song, you will be able to listen to it in-game via [Command Center] - [Jukebox] - [Events]. *The Theme Song for the Top 1 most-voted Cinderella, and the celebratory illustrations for the Top 3 most-voted Nikkes will also be revealed on our official channels soon! #NIKKE#

In the snowy mountains of Yamagata Prefecture, a narrow river runs between rows of three- and four-story wooden inns built a hundred years ago during the Taisho era. This is Ginzan Onsen, once a sixteenth-century silver mining valley and now one of the most breathtaking winter streets on Earth. When twilight falls and heavy snow blankets the red wooden footbridges, there are no cars on the street. There are no plastic convenience store signs. There are no harsh white LED streetlights. Instead, warm golden gas lamps flicker to life along the riverbank, reflecting on the dark steaming water. People look at photos of Ginzan Onsen and assume the town was simply forgotten by time. It wasn't. Keeping a town like this took a fierce decision. During Japan's economic boom in the 1970s and 1980s, developers across the country tore down old wooden inns to build ten-story concrete resort hotels with flashing neon signs. In 1986, the innkeepers of Ginzan Onsen got together and passed their own historic preservation ordinance. They banned cars from the narrow river street, buried utility lines, installed genuine gas streetlamps, and pledged to maintain their multi-story wooden architecture through five-foot winter blizzards. Beauty does not survive by accident. It survives when a town decides what it refuses to sell.

In May, Qingzhou's mountains are blanketed in fringe flowers. White blossoms line winding roads like snow, creating fairy-tale flower corridors from above. Immerse yourself in the fragrance, light, and poetic charm of early summer in Weifang.

The Snowball: Picture wealth as a snowball rolling down a hill, growing as it goes. That is what a free economy looks like when you leave it alone. Every voluntary trade packs a little more snow onto the ball. A farmer sells grain, a carpenter builds a table, a programmer writes code, and each exchange adds mass. Nobody has to push the snowball. Gravity does the work. Human beings acting freely, producing and trading with each other, is the gravity. It requires no plan and no permission. It only requires that nobody stops it. Now picture the state standing on the hillside with a spade. Every tax is a scrape off the side of the ball. Every new regulation slows the roll and shaves off mass before it can gather more. Every dollar the central bank prints doesn’t add snow at all. It paints the surface white while the real ball underneath stays the same size or shrinks. British pedophile John Maynard Keynes gave the state a respectable theory for running the printing press, and every government since has run with it. Government can scrape at a rate that matches the snowball’s natural growth, and the economy will look flat. Stagnant. You will be told this is just how mature economies behave. It is not. It is the sound of a spade keeping pace with gravity, one taking exactly what the other creates. Scrape harder than the ball grows and you don’t get stagnation. You get a shrinking economy while the people holding the spade insist they are helping it grow. Argentina has run this experiment for decades. Zimbabwe ran the printing-press version to its logical end. The snowball wants to grow. It has wanted to since the first human traded a fish for a spear. All it has ever needed from any government is to be left alone on the hill. Every scrape, every scoop, every pass of the spade is an extraction made by someone who did not build the snowball and does not own it, but is taking his cut anyway.