Wood?

Got an original link?

Thanks for taking the time to go into all this detail. If nothing else I will keep an open mind that everything we know in the west is wrong, and hope that a world led by China is a world worth wanting.

Hopefully they realize the productivity barely drops, and sometimes even increases for the majority of workers, and it sticks when the war is over.

Hippo Fart Creme Brulee. Delicious.

Nor two pigs.

I wouldn’t have thought open homosexuality a possibility in present day Iran.

Men kissing men in public, holding hands, hugging, slapping each other’s bottoms (probably). But always no-homo. That’s the usual way.

If things are indeed that progressive, like the Iran before the current theocratic government, everything I know is wrong.

But do you do it in public, online or offline? What about protests? What about strikes?

Where are the independent news organizations and invitations to during media to prove to the world everything we think is wrong with the Converse government is a lie?

Why the great firewall of China?

You’re right that’s a thing, it isn’t that.

My Chinese friends living in New Zealand as dual citizens are afraid to criticize the Chinese government even in private online conversations. That says a lot, I think.

Hoorah! End of days here we come! Gimme some of that sweet sweet rapture.

We need the opposite though. PC emulation of exclusive PS5 games.

And what do you think will take its place, and how?

That is the most disingenuous interpretation of my comment I can imagine.

You’re finding enemies in your own trenches my friend. The genocide in Gaza is absolutely horrific, and I am not making any excuses for it.

I’m just saying we live in a better world now as a whole than years past, recent years notwithstanding. Think mid-Obama as maybe the most hopeful time in recent memory as far as advancement toward the Global Goals was concerned, and yeah I know Obama was still bombing foreign countries in the name of anti-terror and killing innocents to get at Obama Bin Laden.

Do you find any optimism in the world or are you pure nihilism?

Kidnapping is an emotionally loaded term which isn’t used in journalism. Makes sense. Edit: nah I’m wrong. They’d use it for the actual crime of kidnapping.

I hate this shit. We need media to call a spoon a spoon.

Call lies, lies. “Misinformation”, “inaccuracies” “incorrectly said…” Nah fuck that. Trump lied.

What have I started lol.

Yeah, it’s shit. But if we let bad be the enemy of better, we’ll never get anywhere.

Do you think a world without the institutions o mentioned would do any better for Palestinians?

As t least there’s still widespread support and sentiment among the populations of the western world, and Israel is very much a pariah state in many nations’ eyes. It’s just not within most nations’ power to intervene.

Even then intervention is tricky. We don’t people to do what Trump did in Venezuela, because history has shown it doesn’t lead to better long term outcomes.

Dehulling rice is way harder than processing wheat…

Also eating boiled wheat grains was a thing long before bread was figured out.

You can make bread with rice flour too if that’s your thing.

Of course not, you can’t see very far below the surface.

Delicious.