LG similarly uses Life’s Good as a slogan/brand name in the West. It actually stands for Lucky Goldstar.

Wasn’t it also just reported a few weeks ago that Samsung installs Israeli spyware on android devices sold in MENA?

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-appcloud-spyware-controversy-3616325/

NYT sucks and I canceled my subscription, but the third archive link on removepaywall.com still works to get around their robot messages and puzzles.

Great color on these. Lovely!

The U.S. doesn’t recognize the ICC and sanctions its officials if they investigate war crimes by the U.S. or its allies.

We briefly ratified the Rome Statute in 2000 but pulled out shortly after invading Afghanistan and shortly before invading Iraq.

Alton sure has the best recommendations for getting that beautiful mahogany skin. Perfectly executed! Nice cook.

I agree. Dying is way, way less scary to me than a slow decline with dementia or a long, painful battle with cancer. No issues with death, I just hope it’s quick.

And avoid paying a tip. What a dick.

I have my mom’s 1967 edition with recipes for muskrat and opossum! And as the spine has completely disintegrated on that one, I also have a newer copy without the instructions on how to prepare small game. Still a kitchen staple.

I recommend picking up an analog, wood pulp-based copy of The Joy of Cooking. Pretty much any classic western dish is in there and you don’t need to worry about AI slop.

I also love my copy of The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. That one is a little more global, and has I think 500+ pages of recipes with minimal irrelevant anecdotes.

Retirement planning

Every time anyone rejects Microsoft’s shitty bloatware/spyware it’s a win. I just converted a few months ago. Win11 is going to push more and more people away.

You should look it up. It’s a fantastic story with incredible art and design. Reasonably priced with a ton of content.

I feel like Nintendo gets a consolation slot with whatever the best game was in their closed ecosystem, but it’s not going to be competitive with the other candidates.

I also think they’ll give GOTY to an indie given what an unbelievable year it was for indie titles. Probably COE33, just based on the quality and production value they accomplished with a relatively small team and budget. But Silksong and Hades are also outstanding.

Yes, and the two are interrelated. Scarcity breeds insecurity, insecurity breeds conflict, and conflict destroys physical and societal infrastructure of production that leads to further scarcity. It becomes a vicious cycle. And indeed I believe you are entirely correct that a long legacy of U.S. neocolonial interventionism has contributed to the instability.

This is just the start. A billion people on the Indian subcontinent are next. The tropics globally will desertify as the planet warms. Even the increase in migration from Central America to the U.S. is driven by extreme weather and lapses in agricultural productivity. A 2017 study by the World Food Program found that “no food” was the main reason people from Central America sought to emigrate to the U.S.

40% of the world’s population - 3 billion people - live in the tropics. A single city is one thing. Where will 3 billion people go?

Not to mention the ridiculous irony of white South Africans complaining about “replacements.” You are the replacements, colonial dipshits.

Basically the slogan for the 2020s

I read “when I try to buy some gems” as “stupid.”

They’re already executing Palestinian prisoners. And beating them, and torturing them, and gang raping them, and arresting the lawyers who leak the footage of the gang rape. But now the executions will be legal.