In my country, the local air force would prefer the Gripen because it’s cheaper to keep them flying.

I’m still getting messages from mods of subreddits

Some of them are fucking bots.

Meanwhile, hostile actors are at its boarders waiting to pounce.

Yes, Trump is the useful idiot for those gangsters and warhawks.

Starting to think that series is a futurementary.

Yeah, that and Man in the High Castle streamed entirely by a company run by, of course, an obvious James Bond supervillain.

Congress has basically conceded its power to a pedophile.

And to a bunch international mobsters relying on the motherfucker not only to have the US collapse on itself but also dismantle the embargoes and subpoenas aimed against them.

Country goes down, they’ll have a field day. Interpol would also become toothless as transnational crimes are no longer pressurized.

National anxiety, the fear of an impending collapse. Aged like wine.

https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/

Packaging art in some SME products start to appear suspect.

Not all of them are made by hand. 🤦‍♂️

The fringers must be happy with the implosion of old Microsoft.

Some of it all began with a little secret room inside Excel 95.

What a motherfucker.

Cousin with a spectrum said to me he quits a place as soon as he detects bigotry by the way how other people respond to him. Or why he loves his friends more than his family.

how has your experience been?

Posts and comments cannot be easily deleted, for one.

Otherwise, the general experience is like being at an anarchists’ beer hall.

Or sail the high seas.

If anything, the closest analogue ours and most of developing countries’ systems of corruption are medieval societies reliant on patronage and cronyism, such as those described by Machiavelli in his treatise The Prince.

That I am also reminded of a link sent in by a friend:

https://www.quezon.ph/2008/05/29/malakas-at-mahina/

You just sail the high seas and never pay a single cent.

Merde alors.

There is no way the billionaires are calling the shots, ever, while Xi is in power

Much like Putin and the Russian oligarchy, who they either play with him or be shown the window.

Motherfucker is really such a blight upon the world.

In another time his fucking head would have been on a pike and shown to the world as is being consumed by ravenous crows.

In my part of the world, there’s been alarms raised about growing obesity because of increasingly sedate lifestyles brought upon a lot of entertainment options, but then in poor neighborhoods I often pass by I see a lot of thin kids as malnutrition remains prevalent.

Did any of you ever fucking heard of debt-trap diplomacy? I don’t enjoy the idea of having to exchange one hegemony for another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy#Sri_Lanka

https://www.csis.org/analysis/game-loans-how-china-bought-hambantota

More like “El Douche”.