Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]

Hong Kong is a semi-autonomous region of the country with a history of having a separate trade relationship with the west both before and after British rule.

It’s not ridiculous to specify.

They do say if you want to commit a crime, do it with a car.

British edition: tesco meal deal

Beans on toast

It’s his turn (again)

With the rise of China and Russia and the weakening of US-NATO, countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK etc, will have breathing space to chart their own path, instead of being constantly under the jackboot of US Imperialism.

I don’t disagree, but the path Russia seems to be charting is one of bourgeoisie oligarchy. Not something to admire.

Critical support means supporting a nation fighting back against the other nation that has a global hegemony economically and in military as well against their proxies.

Yes exactly, but we don’t have to (and shouldn’t) like them. The only thing between Russia and the kind of Imperialism that the US engages in, is capacity.

China I think is our best hope, but the rise of this Russia is something to cheer only in how it undermines American hegemony.

I’m not saying that they shouldn’t have critical support, just that people seem to assume they are better than they really are once that support has been given.

People go for critical support because it opposes the US’s interests and somehow forget that the USSR has been dead for over thirty years and the Russian Federation is a bourgeoisie oligarchy wearing its corpse as a mask.

2, Obama did some horrible things, but everything I know about him suggests he’d be a good conversationalist.

Every American either lives like the Simpsons, the family at the start of interstellar, or the cast of Friends,

So offending the state in China invokes the punishment of getting to experience the American reality?

Help, I have an excess of yellow bile and a deficit of phlegm, can bloodletting really balance out those humours?

They have to roll really high on the table. Most of it is just stuff like stunned or bleeding. In previous editions they were more lethal.

Old fashioned pens need to be held at a downwards angle or they might not write. A lot of modern pens as well. Plus it looks nice and it’s basically just a block of wood with a hole and some polish.

That’s the one projectile he’s proven he can dodge

$1 trillion

3-5 years for the first language to a general level of fluency. The impressive part is that they can generally pick up fluency in a second language in a year with minimal instruction, and they can learn multiple at the same time.

Unless it’s the only thing you’re doing, you’re not going to be fluent in a second language as an adult after a year of study.

On a chemical level, children’s brains work differently to adults when they’re learning, it’s not a question of effort.

Babies have special brain shit going on the helps them learn super fast. My ancient and decaying brain matter is no match.

Surely slate and tile have to balance out in price at some point? The slate on my home’s roof is ~120 years old and only needs a little bit of maintenance every 5-10 years.

I can get behind partying forever.