I’m sure the LNG will make its way to China and India eventually.

Maybe via North Korea through a pipeline that goes directly to the Chinese border and absolutely nowhere near any North Korean cities.

Who believes that authoritarian regimes care about inclusivity?

Clearly they hadn’t reached O’Brien’s status in the Party.

Virtually the only data that Amazon has about you is when you’re browsing through Amazon, and its associated webstores, and there are a lot of those.

Possibly more if you’re a regular Twitch viewer, or watch video on Amazon Prime.

Also if you’re stupid enough to have an Alexa, which listens to everything inside your household says, Amazon doesn’t dominate the tracking cookie/consumer surveillance market.

Google has a much better ecosystem of consumer surveillance, by owning products and services that are indispensable or unavoidable parts of internet infrastructure.

It eavesdrops on your Android phone, tracks all your web browsing through its Doubleclick cookie network, all the videos that you watch on YouTube.

The world’s most popular browser? Chrome, also owned by Google.

When they get their orders and talking points directly from Russia’s FSB, they don’t have to hire legislative staff to work for their constituents, do research on issues, and solve problems.

They can use the money for political campaigning instead. No wonder they’re successful!

Good thinking! /s

When you need to escape bad conditions by migrating to Syria, things must really be bad.

Hopefully everyone made it out safely, but I doubt that there are any reliable sources for that.

They still have to form a coalition with other parties to get over 50% to form a ruling coalition.

If they don’t ally with either of the Russian-backed anti-Ukraine parties AFD (right) and BSW (left), it’ll take just about everyone else to get over 50%

Okay, but will it be replaced by something better, or just the most ruthless, violent and opportunistic who can rush in (heh) and fill the power vacuum first?

The usual assortment of anime, Agatha All Along, and a moving trans/crossdressing documentary Casa Susanna from 2023

Language is much more than words in a dictionary.

Each language carries its original cultural concepts and ways of thinking.

Henry Rollins show on KCRW https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/henry-rollins

Zelensky should have piledrived Modi while he had the chance a couple of days ago.

Fuck off Israel!

Team names were originally tied to local history, local flora and fauna, and nicknames for the locals.

For example, people from Indiana became nicknamed the Hoosiers.

Then the Hoosiers nickname got picked up as the sports teams’ name for Indiana University Bloomington.

Similarly, (University of Tennessee) Volunteers

And so on and so forth

My favorite of these is the Toledo Mud Hens minor league baseball team.

Then came major pro sports… The pro teams started out as named for local things, but as they discovered national sports broadcasting and marketing, the names became more and more generic to appeal to a wider audiences, so now you get names like Washington Commanders (which is a vast improvement from their long standing insulting name of Redskins, BTW).

Then there are the teams that moved whose names don’t make sense for where they’re located… The Minneapolis Lakers were named after the Great Lakes of that region, then they moved and became the Los Angeles Lakers, which doesn’t make local sense at all.

Pathos Nethack on Android. It’s a version of Nethack that’s optimized for mobile screens and interfaces. It still takes skill and knowledge to play well, but the RNG can screw with your character in amazing ways to make every game just a little different.

And most importantly, it doesn’t require a network connection, so I can fire it up wherever I am.

Successfully replaced my car’s accessory power socket/cigarette lighter socket. Now my phone can be plugged in and charge while I drive without dragging the cord from a further socket!

If you read the list of news sources that MBFC considers “Least Biased” they’re mostly local newspapers, or local broadcast stations, or specialized industry publications.

With the notable exception of the Christian Science Monitor.

i.e. Pretty much any org that covers national news uses loaded language, because that’s the language of politics.

Women can perform support, strategic, logistics, and some frontline roles just as well as men.

Or maybe start designing small arms and body armor for women, artillery and other hardware for woman-sized operators, etc.

Don’t distract from the issue with whatabout-ism arguments.