PearlRiver

I watched a documentary about Voyager once. It was fascinating seeing all these men and women huddled around a tiny little screen and a telex printer to see all their theories about Saturn become real.

It was the Neil Armstrong moment for astronomy.

The people arriving on private jets have always bypassed these bureaucratic procedures. Brotherhood and equality.

It was never an attractive choice- people simply did not have options. In my country it was not until the 1950s that retirement homes were invented and the elderly finally got their social security (remember pensions did not exist).

People who think the government is bad have never met a corporation.

The US dumped more bombs on North Korea than all of WW2 combined and it still ended up in a stalemate.

Slovenia and Croatia are members of the European Union- I would say that is pretty relevant.

A lot of people make their job their identity instead of something to pay off the mortgage with. Which in turn creates a lot of denial about your actions.

Germany is a car country. They live in the cult of ICE. It seems to me that the less people give a shit about cars the more likely they are to embrace EV.

The Chinese were smart enough to ban US companies only when their own people could match.

All I know is that places like RoK, Taiwan and Japan get typhoons every year and pretty much the only thing that happens is that flights are cancelled.

A lot of rich people were afraid democracy would change the world but it turns out those with money will always have the power.

And this is not an American thing every country has its lobbying industry.

Is this not the heart of the problem? Israel has been killing Iranians for years. Nobody can guarantee that Israel would not break a cease fire when they feel like it.

I fear that both sides are acting completely rational: Israel wants to wipe out Iran and Iran is doing whatever they can to survive.

Friendly reminder that every member of Trump's cabinet is a multi millionaire. This is just a game for them and there are no consequences for losing.

No plan survives an encounter with Donald Trump.

Imagine you grow up in a pedo cult and one day black vans drive on the ranch with FBI agents.

Government bad is such an insufferable American take and I scream every time I hear it.

Party of family values (just don't ask what goes on behind the front door).

Carpet bombing does not win wars everyone knows that but a ground invasion is off-limits.

Everything makes sense when you get out of your bubble and realise most people don't even own stock options. Do you think ants contemplate how the world looks like from a bird's eye?

Meanwhile China has a 1200 billion trade surplus. They are flooding the world with cheap Chinese shit despite the bloviating orange.

I have a big balcony facing direct sunlight to the south which has saved me a lot of money.

The US killed a lot of people in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq and it didn't mean squat.

Are we just doomed to repeat this bullshit?

Yeah in rich countries nobody is going to starve- at worst you'll have to shop at Aldi. In Africa the price of bread actually matters...

The rest of Europe turned into republics or republic monarchies. The land is owned by the state.

Americans WANT the imperialism and genuinely believe that becoming an American second tier citizen is something everyone wants.

I thought Christians got over this when they lost Jerusalem in the Crusades and switched the holy land for Rome.

I was a PC gamer in the late 90s. It was very expensive. Nowadays you can build a nice rig and you can be sure to play all the latest games for 5 years.

So why not put normal sales tax on it like with everything else? I do not see the difference between taxing Netflix or Only Fans.

We as citizens are supposed to keep ourselves informed and vote on things. Very few of us can fly all over the world to see things with our own two eyes so we have to outsource this fact finding. Priests, journalists, the goddamn CIA- they all have agendas.

I feel the same way with smartphones, everyone wants more battery. Ten years ago it might be difficult to find a place were you can charge your phone but now there are sockets everywhere.

I am at that age were I do not want anything new. Windows is still basically what it was when I was young- with the caveat that you have to spend a few hours tweaking it. Which is not a huge deal for something you do once every 5 years.