“People shouldn’t be allowed to buy elections”

“Well maybe you shouldn’t have that chair! Did you ever think of that?”

Billy Bonesaw. You know they have LADIES just walking around over there?

Article 7: All organizations and citizens shall support, assist, and cooperate with national intelligence efforts in accordance with law, and shall protect national intelligence work secrets they are aware of.

Trusting ambitious Chinese citizens is like trusting an American corporation. Our governments are big, the things they want can be small, why would the average person say no?

“Chinese spy” is a silly narrative but it’s even sillier to have a government say “I get to do this” and just… ignore it.

The Denim Leisure Suit! Feels like these guys would move once and rip the seams off that kind of outfit.

Too many biographies: he was born into an influential family; he had money to explore a burgeoning science/industry; he committed an outrageous crime/stunt but was given a slap on the wrist; he was awarded a nobel for his work.

Would you say that you’re wearing imperialist clothes then for the tactical benefit, like a soldier on a secret mission disguised as the enemy?

Everyone understands Russia is correct to invade because NATO can’t be a neighbor, and that NATO is correct to “take” Ukraine because it’s possible and useful in keeping Russia in check. The problem is that this is imperialist logic. The common sense that runs the world of zero sum capitalists. The “think of the shareholders” of geopolitics.

Plus, vampires are a cultural tradition. The Prime Directive is on Edward’s side.

That would be very ambitious. It sounds dismissive but I wonder if anyone would care… we all seem content to focus on Palestine and ignore what’s happening in Africa. The countries of the world aren’t gushing with altruism unfortunately.

People pointed out that any financial support frees up budgets for offensive weapons and she changed her stance. (Or maybe it was the backlash in general.) I don’t know what votes have come up since.

I feel like most of his movies are like this.

He is impervious to doing good things. That early “concession” just couldn’t last.

Could a god make a bean so large that they couldn’t eat it?

Roy Mustang?

Reminds me of “we’re anthropic, we’re selling a text transformer that you should use for everything. Also make sure to enter the correct text for us, manually, so it doesn’t get trained wrong”

Or “we’re Google, we’re selling AI that you should weave into everything because it’s revolutionary. Also we can’t just turn off AI for schools because it would be difficult to program and maintain. You know how it is”

I think Canada, Australia, Britain, and Europe are weak ghouls who stood by our side while we inflicted evil and misery on the world. At least in a moral sense, I’m glad Trump stuck his fingers in the pie and made all these Five Eyed goons run away.

It was especially disgusting to see everyone post pictures of dead soldiers and act like helping America fight all these wars was a noble thing that Trump was denigrating. Imagine being proud to wage war at the behest of corporate America.

At the end of the day, these ghoulish cultures didn’t rebuke American policy, they rebuked Trump. They didn’t like that their slice of the pie was being stolen by a conman. It skeeves me out to think we’re going to grow closer again after all this. Really hope I’m wrong and we snap out of it.

Juryo seemed more brutal than at the top. It must be such a hard check on a 20yo’s skills to navigate former ozeki and everything.

That was such a crazy moment that ended up not mattering much.

This rhetoric always makes this place feel like stepping into Alice and Wonderland. It’s like when liberals pretend Taiwan is about democracy and not about shipping lanes. It’s just so transparent to people on the outside.

When I got my hands on one it disgusted me to see Google recommends throwing them in a landfill once they end support. I didn’t know people were just throwing these away. I mean how many got saved by someone with the tech literacy? 5%? Less?

Feels like websites should start listing system requirements. Why can my laptop run songs of syx with 10,000 citizens but it can barely navigate news websites? Why does Steam take up more resources than a game? Everything that views web content is bloated except for things like Lynx.