I left a very genuine comment asking how a government can reconcile it’s declared peaceful policies with it’s very non peaceful aggression toward its neighbors it what is tantamount to a colonialist territory grab in the south china sea, but that got deleted, so I can only assume this community’s entire purpose is circle jerking.

Heh, eating isn’t the only time they have to worry about protein absorption.

Are we allowed to talk about Hong Kong independence here without worrying about getting disappeared?

That’s fair, wouldn’t want anyone here to be black bagged by their peaceful government for supporting the continued independence of the nation of Taiwan.

In sum, a constitutional republic requires “moral and religious” business leaders like those of the World War II Era. Business leaders motivated by greed will destroy the country and its people.

It’s funny, the only president to ever serve three terms and actually win a fourth, the one who presided over the entirety of WW2 save for the last month due to his death, who saw the country out of the great depression, was a Democrat and often called a socialist and a communist by conservatives.

It’s almost like conservatives want everything to go to shit so that they can personally profit from the chaos, everyone else be damned. Oh wait, yeah that’s exactly it.

This map, but for coal, tells a far worse story.

Malaysia, Taiwan, Philippines, all those US territories 🙄

and all of them making all those incursions into “china’s historical waters”. sure thing

When you let them know about their grammar mistake and they tell you it’s a spelling mistake.

Goku has died way more times than Jesus. That probably gives him an edge.

I think that’s canonically true for Goku and Hulk

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My kids started getting into one piece, an Anime I admittedly never watched, so I watch it with them. I get the hype now, there have been several times we’ve torn through 8+ episodes in one sitting. Skip Intro makes it fly by.

thank you, that makes sense now.

Ah, well in any case, get those proprietary drivers installed, don’t wait for your package maintainer!

The morales government built the pilot plant for lithium extraction, I don’t get this meme at all.

You can use Linux without Wayland, which is probably the root of your problem (I’m guessing).

There’s an earlier bit that complements that nicely:

“it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can’t actually deliver is highly transferable.”

what the fuck are you gonna do the first time something makes it up the stairs? I hope you have a flamethrower ready.

I stole one of those huge rolls from college once. It dispenses just fine on the floor.

There are so many Java libraries that I would probably set on fire if they were physically tangible in any way.