It appears those are specifically problems China is on the trajectory of solving/improving for itself.
The American CEOs going to China are returning to find those issues getting worse everyday with no solution in sight.
It felt a bit implied and would seem really contrived to reassure the reader China has those problems.
Another component is Sevestopol, within Crimea, which has largely been a (colonial) Russian city for almost its entire history. The USSR eedesignated it as a part of Ukraine in the 1950s.
Russia is the greatest nation for having defeated Napoleon.
That’s the example to choose?
I think it is fine. No one should produce or raise children they do not want.
I still support our society focusing on improving the material conditions for every generation, new and old.
There should not be conflict there.
Oh boy, perpetually recovering from surgery at an advanced age!
I am more worried there might actually be a Maximum Overdrive sequel.
They’ve been on social media cheering it on since 2023. Civilians/reservists have been forming human chains to block humanitarian aid that WAS allowed to go in. This isn’t a shocking new development, it is what has been explicitly stated, expressed, and demonstrated for multiple years now.
A state involving itself in wars of aggression found an excuse to crack down on public opposition of the war? Say it isn’t so!
There was certainly no course change, which Uncommitted tried to promote as an option. It was an attempt to make a public appeal that genocide should be an issue worth making political decisions around.
The lesson the victors over Uncomitted demand is that genocide is not a political enough issue worth acting or voting on.
Also known as: hospitals. Organ transplants are performed in hospitals.
See your brain went immediately to a solution based on knowing how something works. That’s not in the AI wheelhouse.
Putin’s power draws from his adversaries and foreign policy. He is very weak domestically, mostly at the behest of the oligarchs that run the entire domestic policy show.
Putin muscling around internally usually has to do with the oligarch’s stance on foreign policy or the other oligarchs are wanting to eat one of their own.
Country buys foreign material, uses security.
The zionists won. It doesn’t need reminding.
A movement tried to make Palestine a relevant political issue for the electorate. It got stomped out. I don’t get this sentiment to keep stomping.
Part of my 2025 mental and physical health plan has been building and landscaping my little slice of land to go from an unfenced hillside of lawn to a walled and terraced garden.
Removed the sod and got a dumptruck load of granite stones at the start of the year. I am building using a dry stone technique and moving it all by hand on purpose. Currently finishing the main terraces and wall base, beginning raised garden beds now. Every day I move a couple stones into place and it feels like an accomplishment that is quite literally building on itself.
I look forward to seeing how it (continues to) come together.
children’s railway
I had to look this up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_railway
Damnit I want these for America.
The first one was fairly clever in that they had probably 50 years of collective ideas and inspiration to work off of. It’s a story that needed to push no boundaries and hold to established tropes, with no expectations because it was a ride: perfect for Disney.
Now when Disney gets their hands on an established franchise full of expectations…
They’re being lobbied to pursue charges against a children show host for expressing sympathy for starving children.
Precedent shows they follow the instructions of the lobbyists with the biggest and/or most recent check.
So it’d be a strongly worded statement of support for the extrajudicial slaying of a human rights activist, because that’s already the norm.
I thought it was George Santos in the thumbnail for a moment. And was not surprised.