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The opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics (2008)

> Thomas Massie > Gets Epstein files sort of released > Makes government mad-mad > Up for re-election this year > Political opponent appears > Look inside > $30,000,0000+ of campaign monies from Israel lobbyists > Endorsements from top officials in United States

I spent weeks on Blender just to make an animation nobody will see

Star Wars (1977)

Clearly the WHO now serves the various interests of its member governments before it serves public health. I suspect it's a sort of Ford Pinto calculation. Member governments feel the possible future economic costs of death and disability are lower than the immediate and definite cost of advising public caution- and the accompanying drop in consumer spending and productivity as people stay home more. Simple misinformation is also far cheaper than infrastructure upgrades at scale. No one is going to riot or burn their city down over a cautious approach, but a cautious population is less economically active, and an inconvenienced population is more likely to be unhappy with the ruling party, so apparently nearly every country agrees their citizens must be assured by the appropriate authorities there is no reason for caution. Like all such entities, WHO prioritizes it's own existence first. They either serve the economic and political objectives of their members, or they cease to exist.

i know this guy he was there with me when i lost everything and he thought it was funny as hell. i realized it was funny too.

Me at night quietly sneaking out of bed to smoke some weed again. 😂

People will look at this and say, “Well, if I show you a picture of people in Gaza living in peace and prosperity, does that mean there’s no genocide in Gaza?” Actually, yes. Please show me a picture of a prosperous and safe Gaza where people can go to school, dance, and cook — or heck, just show me one single intact building in Gaza. You can’t, right? Because there is a genocide in Gaza. And there is no genocide in Xinjiang. It’s very easy to tell where there is one and where there isn’t one.

@AngelicaOung @krislc yeahh insane that it would somehow be a bad thing for a child to be multilingual

What's wrong with the child speaking Mandarin at school and Tibetan at home? To be honest, in order to have the best chance at life and integrating into the economy, speaking good Mandarin is more important, no? Same thing in Taiwan...you can speak Taiwanese at home, but at school, you speak mandarin? Now a lot of young Taiwanese don't speak Taiwanese, but others are picking it up for the love of the game and that's beautiful.

New for The Guardian: Under China’s forceful integration policies, after just weeks in preschool, Tibetan children “completely stopped speaking” their mother tongue, took on a Chinese identity, disconnecting ties that were passed down generations. theguardian.com/global-develop…

@AngelicaOung @SariArhoHavren decades of unchecked propaganda

@SariArhoHavren What gives Europeans their confidence? Truly? I'm perplexed.

The EU could be heading towards a trade conflict, if not a trade war, with China.

There’s something ominous about the speed with which the entire world has marched to require identification on platforms and, as I expected, begin the process of banning anonymous VPNs.

Revenge of the sith stays on during sex

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

Actually, you misunderstand the purpose of the long shower. I'm not doing anything in there. I am literally staring into nothingness and using the sensory input of falling water to temporarily wash away some of the horror of corporeal human life.

unfathomably rich people baffled at why people aren't having kids is always good for a laugh x.com/60Minutes/stat…

🚨🇷🇺Saint Petersburg, Russia is overrun with homeless people, all thanks to Vladimir Putin's war and harsh sanctions imposed by the West! Just kidding - this isn’t Russia, this is Macron’s France and this is the reality called the EU.

Nah I lowkey hope Putin fucks all yall up yall are ganging up on Mother Russia. The EU UK has been fucking with him for ages. Im so Pro Russia i dont even care

China wants a trade deal with the EU. Finland just made that impossible — unless China drops Russia. ㅤ Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen was direct: China's ties with Moscow are a deal-breaker for any EU-China free trade agreement. No negotiations can begin without all 27 EU member states on board. Finland is one of them. ㅤ Beijing has been pitching trade and investment deals to European leaders for months. Last month Germany's chancellor called such an agreement potentially achievable. Valtonen just cooled that down significantly. ㅤ China now has to choose: one of the world's largest markets, or continued partnership with a sanctioned, isolated aggressor. ㅤ That's a real economic squeeze — and it came from Helsinki, not Washington. ㅤ

@TeaTramRussia same brother

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@sashameetsrus well thats just a retarted take

Children deserve a mother and father. Not two moms, not two dads. Russia stands by traditional family values 🇷🇺