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I remember when 4chan made fun of Handmaids Tale as some insane liberal fever dream. Turns out there are influential Americans who really want to turn back the clock a thousand years...
I am imagining Mexican cartels smuggling hardware into the US...
(But seriously I do not know how good US Customs is but in my country every day millions of packages from Asia arrive and they are checking not even a percent).
When Escobar was shot did people run out of cocaine?
Americans just want to blow shit up and kill people- preferably with million dollar missiles.
The support of Israel relies on two things: the Holocaust and the old Testament.
And yet this issue only seems to impact North America. So much so that the EU doesn't even consider iMessage a "gatekeeper" of the industry (WhatsApp is though).
Using more difficult words that still boils down to love and sex.
Honestly thank god for J pop and K pop at least I can't understand a word of it.
What propaganda is TikTok pushing?
Besides if your country is strong enough you should be able to shrug it off. France recently put the right to abortion in the Constitution despite American media.
Do you want confessions or justice?
The best I can do is pirate software and use ad blocking tools. Still a slave but not a paying one.
The US invested in an airborne command center so that even in the event of a catastrophic sneak attack someone would still be alive to order a retaliation strike.
What's happening to Boeing isn't really remarkable lots of dinosaur conglomerates rise and fall.
I'm just a casual follower but it seems their glory days are from the 60s and 70s and they've been coasting along since then.
In my country builders didn't seriously start to consider "insulation" until the 1990s.
Gas was cheap so nobody cared. Just turn up that dial!
Modern houses and apartments are marvels of engineering though.
It's just racism and colonial thought. The same happened when that Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia crashed.
It's functionally impossible for Airbus to take over all of Boeing's contracts. Airbus itself has an order backlog in the thousands.
They're not REALLY competing with Boeing.
Volkswagen got big (it's in the name) with building affordable cars like the Beetle and the Golf. Compact fuel efficient cars that a nurse or teacher could afford.
To be fair the US has vast and practically empty States in which you can do land based wind farms. Nobody cares what people in Nebraska think.
Europe never had that luxury. Offshore wind is our only option.
If that 80% kept you alive? No.
But when you are twenty I suppose one sees health differently. When you are 60 and take a bunch of pills to keep yourself from dying it suddenly all makes sense...
Are they? In my country it's Christian Protestants.
The Netherlands is a post religious country now but there was a real belief not so long ago that everyone was predestined for hell or heaven and you couldn't do anything about it.
Protestants make Catholics look sane.
And even if they have a human customer department that you are able to track down it's just some student at a callcenter.
Everything is vulnerable. The US has just been lucky its been fighting yokels who didn't get frequent shipments of modern weaponry.
If the USMC ever finds themselves in the situation of having to storm the beaches of Hainan may God help them. But then the US nor China are dumb enough to get dragged into a fight like that.
Christians had a good 1500 years, although yes thankfully ultimately futile- degeneracy always wins out in the end.
It's about probability. I mean I have my issues with US foreign policy but at the end of the day they are more friendly and reliable than Russia.
Yeah if the US ever goes rogue we're all doomed but then your antivirus software will be the least of your worries.
The reason why mobile internet in rural areas is bad is because carriers are too cheap to put cell towers every few kilometres.
iPhones are status symbols
I can agree with that and it is exactly why I never want one. Cheap Chinaphone, never paying for or subscribing to apps and not giving a shit about optics. That is my special snowflake fashion statement.
When I go to the gym I pass a McDonald's drive in. Feel a bit annoyed we are letting our minds and bodies be poisoned by American culture but they are all doing it voluntarily. It is like a junkie blaming his drug dealer for the addiction.
Some people live in tiny apartments without even a balcony.
"they should just eat the cost"
No consumers will eat the cost of a bunch of boomers who want to keep using cheques.
And here's what will happen: the non boomer consumers will choose a cheaper bank.
So unless the government wants to pick up the bill any sensible company will tell those senior citizens to get with the times.
On the contrary it is literally the only way to beat the big platforms that already have a billion users.