Interesting, Japan does a similar thing I think and the US is 米国 meaning rice country. Which sort of makes sense since the US has always had a huge agricultural / grain surplus. I wonder if the japanese think / know we’re fat because of the name.
Also england/ UK is the same 英国 as above so maybe they learned about them from the Chinese whereas they independently learned about the US and gave it a different name.
were temporarily transported to heaven
Makes sense, the japanese monarchy is one of the few that still claims divinity and Shintoism still says they should be venerated.
Probably not, the way Russia is right now it’s more likely some nationalist military commander fills that power vacuum then a sane democratic regime.
Sort of like how the lesson they took away from the Holocaust wasn’t that it was bad because it was a genocide, it was bad because they weren’t supporting Jewish people and therefore they must help Israel with there genocide.
Something is bad only if the bad guys do it , otherwise it’s necessary for security.
Yes there are a lot of negatives to drinking but when you do drink socially do you:
You may drink twice as much and suffer more health issues but you actually gain the social benefits of alcohol, which are real. Without those social benefits alcohol just becomes an undeniably bad thing, ie. Drinking alone.
Here’s hoping this ends up like the last time a king Charles got a little too cozy with the Catholics
Due process would be great if there was a functioning court and prison system, but Israel bombed all that
Poles hating russians makes sense historically, but historically Germans, both Prussian and Austrian , have been just as bad, if not worse with the nazis, so why don’t they hate them too?
I think the “russophobia” today has more to do with current events than history. If Germany did anschluss 2 and invaded Austria, I think Poland would be just as scared of them.
Probably will get it anyway, companies don’t like to build and maintain software for two different markets so they tend to just follow the regulations of the strictest market, especially if those regulations don’t really cut into there bottom line like this one.
And just like in Italy with Giorgia Meloni she’s a right winger.
Watch out Germany, Alice Weidels gonna get elected next and bring back the axis, but with girl bosses this time.
No it was a flare that they launched at there own ship because they wanted attention, the hasbara bots told me so.
I assume they already did this for advertising purposes, just like every other platform trying to guess your demographics to sell you more useless shit.
Would’ve been nice if they did this 80 years ago when they started this whole mess
Not only is natural gas dependence a climate threat to Europe, good luck when the jet stream turns off, but it’s also a security threat. As long as they have to keep paying there main geopolitical adversary billions to keep from freezing in the winter, they will never be truly sovereign.
the flying “car” in question. Just seems like a quadcopter to me, but I guess that’s why I’m not in marketing.
IMO, the algorithm is overhyped, and the secret to tik toks success is its scale. If you gave metas algorithm the same amount of data to train on and the same amount of content to recommend, it would be equally as addictive. It might suck at first but give it a couple months and people won’t be able to tell the difference between the old algorithm and whatever oracle creates.
It’s just like chatgpt, given the same set of public data any company with sufficient engineering and compute resources can make there own model that performs very similarly.
In an ideal world we’d have algorithmic choice, like in bluesky sort of, and we could actually compare different ones, but that would cut into the profits of the data monoplies.
I know this is how the fediverse works, and how it has to work. But maybe we shouldn’t be advertising this tool right now when the right is trying to dox people and get them fired/deported for liking a kirk meme.
Damn, making it suck even worse to be a fish. even if you’re not dredged up from a fishing net or choke on plastic you now can die from starving because the nutrients that have been coming up from the deep for millenia aren’t any more.
The thing is if the US just left maduro alone his regime probably would’ve collapsed by now. Every time anything bad happens there he can blame it on the CIA and US plots and half the time he’s right so people still believe him.
If we got rid of the sanctions then the people couldn’t blame anyone else but maduro for the shit economy and they maybe would oust him. But America just can’t stand an independent left wing country “in there backyard”
Ok but what kid is asking their toy about the sovereignty of Taiwan or tibet? If it was trying to fit it in to every conversation like grok talking about white genocide then I’d be worried, but this seems like they’re going out of there way to try and paint the toys as propaganda machines.