WANT!!!

Off to Temu, brb

Bro those screenshots are too blurry, can read but its hard. Use the high res upload option.

Yes, Pentagon planning ground operations for sure.


My hopeless government censor RT using DNS poisoning only.

I use Tor with nearly everything, so I didn't even notice until my mother complained :D Setting her DNS to Cloudflare fixed her problem, since she's a video-watcher and Tor would be too slow.

We should probably stop co-locating US military airbases inside Gulf Arab civilian international airports. Imagine the screeching headlines if Iran did that?

Having worked with waste industry clients, I can assure you that nobody will notice.

My protest against that system is to learn to repair and reuse, and to buy replacements without using the on-shore tax-paying retail sector.

Will build my own aluminium micro-smelter one day, its not even hard if you have the space and the off-grid energy. Which is what I gotta work on today, should put down the phone... :p

Recycling plastics is actively harmful to the environment. Burning clean, refined fossil fuel (and money) to gather up the post-consumer equivalent of wet peat is as stupid as it sounds.

Glass most places is net negative, too. Paper / cardboard is on the fence. Organics - why???

Aluminium, now that stuff is win. Copper and steel too.

If you truly hated the environment, you would recycle more, to accelerate the end times!

When those Volkswagons getting delivered?

AH was far from innocent of this himself. He had a more modest lifestyle than Stalin, credit there, but all forms of Statism tend towards banditry over time.

LOL I read half a page of Twillight over somebody's shoulder, and I already wanted to stake someone (Stephanie Meyers, for writing that). Wouldn't go near anything of hers after that

Some popular culture isn't so bad though.

Fourth Wing is surprisingly good, if uneven in the later books.

True, but those empires came no mass population movements except under the French, and that was reversed. And before that under the Abbasids (lots of dark-brown Arabs from Arabia).

I suspect the Berbers must have been pretty fair-skinned already when the Phoenicians founded Carthage and started written records there.

Berbers are extremely light-skinned for their latitude, that's why they cover up so much.

My pet conspiracy theory is that they migrated in from Europe during Iron Age prehistory. How and why may never be known...

The drought made them vulnerable, but the expectations of free stuff made them brittle.

"Purchase not your friends with gifts, for when you cease to give, they cease to love"
- Khalil Gibran, quoting from memory

All true; but when a government gives away that much money to people, it has to steal it from somebody else.

When the music stops and the comfy chairs a fewer, some people miss out and get mad. Then the CIA whispers promises of a better free chair, just kill this guy and eat his lungs on camera and it can be yours...

I remember talking to a Syrian guy in 2013. Loud & proud Sunni from an area that later supported the CIA-backed takfiris.

He was very proud that when Assad's government asked his father if they could put a highway through his lands, his father said "no", and the government said "oh well" and went away. Ten years later they sent somebody else to ask him, and he agreed on the condition the road be named after him. Wouldn't accept any money for the land.

My government wouldn't "ask", and they certainly wouldn't accept a "no".

Assad's government was the wimpiest and most peaceable in the Middle East. That's why it was sanctioned, terrorised, invaded and replaced with Al Qaeda at great expense to the Western taxpayers...