Live fast, Dyhard

Jon even a few episodes later: 我不懂普通话，为什么？

It's so funny because he isn't even learning the languages he can read through statements. The eye allows him to understand it but he isn't actually processing and learning it he's just reading it through Google translate and then after he's like "Huh, that was all in Hanzi. Why do it feel doomed."

You know, rivers catching on fire used to be a regular occurrence.

Boring, even. Mundane. People just accepted that rivers had oil slicks floating on them that could be lit by somebody throwing their cigarette in the wrong place. Cities had regular protocols in place on what to do when the river caught on fire.

The modern environmentalism movement wasn’t just started by hippies you know. Regular people cared about this stuff because their rivers caught on fire and existing near farms gave them cancer and by the 1970s they weren’t even seeing that much economic benefit from it.