It’s now a monument to how things used to be

They burned through their Soviet stockpiles of artillery and tanks in 3 years fighting Ukraine, what makes anyone think they could fight NATO?

There’s also a certain pendulum swinging effect. From the prude 1950s to the free love of the late ‘60s, the movies of the 1970s were a lot less prude than the 2000s are. It might take another generation growing up in this environment for them to rebel again and we’ll have another summer of love, somewhere in the 2050s

Yes! And on top of it, embedded YouTube is also starting to block access

And one not shown in this map though…

Well, Hong Kong turned out in large numbers and still was squashed. And Trump seems to like the way Xi and Putin run their countries “with an iron fist”…

The rest of the (western) world has been sleeping when it comes to the 5th generation fighters. Anything European (Rafale, Typhoon, Gripen) is at best 4.5g.

Well, history shows leftists have been known to use firearms plenty

Yes they were afraid of reciprocal tariffs from china, but also many Tesla’s sold in Europe are actually made in Shanghai, the Berlin factory only makes high end model Y’s.

It’s like an arms race, would be good if no-one did it, would be bad if China got there first.

There’s a whole ecosystem of listener-supported podcasts using the “value for value” model popularized by “the Podfather” Adam Curry. You can find most of them on podcastindex.org or through a supported app like Podverse or Fountain.

Kitchen and bathroom shared with up to 4 families

The way it’s off center and out of focus, it’s probably a lens flare.

Liam Neeson: hold my beer

Thanks comerade, here’s 50 cent.

This comment is suspicious to me. It’s been companies like Apple that have pioneered using Chinese labor to increase their profits. Moving jobs to the USA won’t help make them any richer. It makes economic sense but not strategic sense

You may be thinking of iodine?

This is so amazing, I never got this (wine and emulation stack) to work on Mac!

Extreme focus on sports, wearing sportswear (both men and women do this), always “exercising”, mentioning calories on a menu card (a Caesar salad contains 1200 calories!).