It is fall of the Roman Republic all over again.

Hasbara, Chinese, Russian bots. Pick your poison.

Was the 2002 a year of recession? Or is the stock market downturn considered a recession because rich people lost money?

I will be honest, I would have run out of things to say after one hour if I am in his position.

Kudos to Booker!

The series have good taste in music tbf.

Can we say that spiders domesticated themselves?

My brother set it up for my parents even though they don’t game. I just think he installed it because it as intuitive as Windows for lay people.

My parents love Bazzite.

Is Pop as good and generally user friendly for those less familiar with Linux? Never heard of Pop before!

And France has the most number of public holidays in Europe.

My Polish mate says there is no regionalism in Poland unlike what you would see in other countries; but said everyone hates the Warsaw people.

It is suspension of disbelief, that somehow, there was only one practical solution to defeat Thanos. And they do not involve Thor going after his head, or Thanos educating the population of the universe about family planning and contraception.

ThanosWasRight is just a meme. Thanos could have gone for the latter option but his faux concern about overpopulation is a cover for his egomania.

Musk is a sleazy salesman. That’s all he is.

Normally, I see any news on government blocking social media for any stated reasons as typically a cover for censorship. But with how Facebook and other social media morphed into something else, I could not care less if they are blocked.

As someone who grew up in Ireland, we are sarcastic cunts. Hence, I always read everything as satire.

We are not meant to be sedentary creatures. We are evolved to go out and about. I think the development of agriculture and cities made us lazier, as we no longer require to hunt and gather foods.

But on the on the other hand, it can be argued that since we have more leisure time as a result of agriculture, we have more time to think of conceptual ideas like science and philosophy-- things that we can’t do without in modern society.

I am of different opinion that these folks know they are wrong, but are too egotistic to admit it.

I was taught at an early age to accept mistakes, learn from it and move on. Now I have grown older, I realised that not many people know this, and society also stigmatises someone making mistakes. I think some people refuse to admit to be wrong because either they are too egotistic to accept and learn, or doubling down assertively on the wrong belief as a defensive mechanism from potential public humiliation.

Even in developing countries, governments do their best to provide free services for those in dire poverty, especially those considered “poorest of the poor”.

Americans are so far to the right that minimum wage, affordable housing, free schools and healthcare is considered “far left”. These are given and common sense in the rest of the world 🤣

We can’t exactly stop shipping that is not pragmatic. That is like trying to stop air travel. What we can do is to promote alternatives where it is more practical and easier like converting to EV’s on the road, and using more renewable energy in power plants. Even if majority of CO2 consumption comes from shipping, a huge portion nevertheless comes from vehicles and electricity generation so switching to alternatives would have already made dramatic changes to reducing carbon emissions. Although, if shipping could sail on renewable energy (not that I am aware of), then that would be even better!

Autarky has been tried before and failed. Good luck growing coffee in China. Speaking of which, China is strangely the new champion of global free trade because they know they can’t produce and grow everything on their own; not because they make literally everything contrary to your statement.

Is this what Project 2025 wants to happen? I heard 42% of their goals have already been implemented. Do they think that isolationism and going back to unilateral, strong armed foreign policy will work? And I thought the Nazis were really stupid…oh wait…