But it worked. This kind of shit happens in diplomacy all the time.

And now Israel has a made up award it can give to other leaders as a tool of diplomacy.

It was more Soviet than Chinese, but I agree with the sentiment.

Well, awards have to get invented at some point.

I can also see an award like this being useful for the future.

I’m not surprised, due to the combination of how Chinese lives have improved and how American lives haven’t.

I’m such a mix that really can’t claim a single European heritage. My family has mixed old traditions together and tossed out others for others which conformed more to where my family was.

I don’t see the need to be X enough for something.

Well, when Republicans are in power.

These sorts of attacks is what the US military has been investing in capacity to complete for decades. This is why there has been an investment bleeding edge tech which costs insane amounts of money to develop.

Not every war is caused by the USA. Pakistan and Afghanistan have had low level conflicts since Pakistani independence.

I feel like it’s a continuation of what we’ve already seen with digital animation. You can do traditional ink animation, but no one does it any more because digital is so much cheaper.

This is typical for international sporting events.

But it is the advanced stage which is causing the strife.

Also, understanding that the programs that I mentioned weren’t available to all, they were available to enough to judge their past against the present. A white working class member of society whose family had access to programs to buy a house in the suburbs isn’t going to think about racial inequality when judging their current economic position compared to their parents and grandparents. They are going to compare the economics of the two eras and see that the economics of today are a lot harsher than before.

Yeah. You have a large number of attractive and poor people trying to get prestigious roles and a few gatekeepers who know they can get what they want from at least some of them.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a human was cloned. The issue right now seems to be resolving the ethical issues over the technical ones.

Stargate SG1

Various forms of mental deterioration cause a lot of the elderly to lose their abilities they had when they were younger. Old people doing dumb things is a rather common tragedy.

I disagree.

The American government created a lot of various incentives to encourage ownership to a greater percentage of citizens compared to other countries at the time, including giving out free land, building infrastructure to develop new land, and creating programs which put people into homes that they owned.

That government support in young adults to establish themselves economically has significantly shrunk over the past generation. We’ve also seen an increasingly divergent economy where the split between haves and have nots have only gotten bigger.

A working class American in 1950 could claim that they were better off economically than the rest of the world and be right. That claim is no longer valid.

But what’s sexy for a woman? I feel like most sexy male lingerie is still designed for the male gaze.

Her birthday is close enough.

I kind of dread people celebrating me, usually in part because the times around that celebration are busy and stressful for me so I can do the performative gratitude that people expect when it happens.

Then it devolves into conversations of what is wrong with you (why are you broken) or what is wrong with this (why do you hate me).

Oh, I try keeping my friends away from her.