Hexboare [they/them]

Murmansk is north of St Petersburg and obviously there’s hundreds of miles of Russian coast between Sevastopol and Sochi, but also icebreakers exist?

You’re right about long term terminal navy brain, I found this interesting 30 year old article “The Historic Russian Drive for a Warm Water Port: Anatomy of a Geopolitical Myth”

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44642451

Afghanistan is also completely landlocked.

The US literally just had their Suez moment with the failure of Operation Prosperity Guardian

I was searching for any more information on the wording at the end and instead found this gem of a comment on why the USSR provided support to Afghanistan

I meant in relation to domestic policy, though Australia is closing that gap and exceeding NZ on neoliberal brutality on a couple of fronts

But you still have odd things like no capital gains tax in New Zealand and a very low maximum income tax rate

NZ went super hard on neoliberalism, much worse than Australia - they’ve done some more tokenism (now ripped up by Luxon) but the outcomes are still shit

Glass-ceramic is really the way to go - ridiculously resistant to thermal shock and I dropped a pyroceram pot from about 5 feet and it just bounced off the floor

smol horn

But for real, balancing is a skill that needs to be practised and regular exercise to strengthen your stabilising muscles is important to stay mobile in actual old age.

Common household cleaners can be deadly if combined and should be kept away from the vents of billionaire’s bunkers

With street cars/light rail running east to west every few blocks, dedicated bike boulevards and mass investment in the subway it’s eminently doable.

Alright that’s one option, alternatively we can sell off the roads to developers so they can make a massive profit and turn NYC into megacity one

Depends on the job. I had a staff member who refused to leave until she was 75 because she valued the work and it was a big part of her identity.

I would like to see more mechanisms for low intensity work a couple days a week for older workers - expertise from 40 years of experience is invaluable. Increasing CPC membership among women and standardisation the retirement age between men and women could also be useful goals.

Medical general practice and TCM training for older women would also assist in unfucking the free market healthcare reforms and is the sort of work that would be ideal, not physically demanding and not necessary to be undertaken full time.

Whether the best way to reform this is about slowly dismantling the Hukou system and replacing it with centralised standardisation or providing more autonomy to local government, I’m not sure.

Section 1. Murder committed with deliberately premeditated malice aforethought, or with extreme atrocity or cruelty, or in the commission or attempted commission of a crime punishable with death or imprisonment for life, is murder in the first degree. Murder which does not appear to be in the first degree is murder in the second degree. Petit treason shall be prosecuted and punished as murder. The degree of murder shall be found by the jury.

Sounds like it should have been charged as murder

One thing to remember is that Chinese life expectancy is a few years more than the US

The CPC has a lot of liberals

Australia has a luxury car tax, 33 percent for cars priced above a certain threshold

However the entire government sector is under banking control

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According to Seymour Hersh the fake vaccination work wasn’t even to find Bin Laden, but to cover the actual CIA asset

Hersh writes that while Afridi was indeed a CIA asset, collecting information on militants, the fake vaccination campaign was invented as a cover story for a Pakistani military doctor who had been treating bin Laden for years, and who actually obtained DNA for the Americans.

(Later got locked up by Pakistan, never trust the Americans lesson #286)

if only there was some way of locking down and isolating a virus

They may even show up in this thread soon.

I’m right here bro, you can’t tell me my LLM isn’t sentient when the evidence is clearly there

(Although it’s an interesting tangent that we’re actually talking about machine sapience - the experiential and emotional dimensions of sensation is just taken for granted as something that comes with human intelligence, even though our wetware is similar to all the other animals)