I have been saying the same thing as this guy for a long time in the various coffee rooms. Maybe not as "dire" as his predictions, but the overall concept is that China's time in sun will be very short.

@Doctor-Phibes I think there's also a section that seems to have admiration for Putin. I honestly don't get that at any level. Support for Putin here exists but it is not at all noticeable unless you actually start looking for it. Definitely there is support among adherents to Russian Orthodoxy but only to those who follow the Moscow Patriarchy or the Serbian Orthodox Church. Other Orthodox churches however openly condemn Putin and some have gone as far as declaring the Russian Patriarchy in a state of heresy over its support of the Kremlin. Likewise there is mixed support among the post Soviet Russian diaspora. Certainly among the Russian Orthodox faithful who came here adults during the Yeltsin era but much less so among their Canadian born children. Indeed it would seem that Russians do not retain their nationalist identity as do Ukrainians from generation to generation. There is also some level of support for Putin among non Slavs. A poll six weeks ago among the various political parties indicated that 13% of the right wing People’s Party of Canada support Putin. I personally do not think poll is accurately assessing the facts. I would suggest that 13% represents supporters who do not believe Canada should involve itself with the war or any offshore war far removed from Canada. I suspect PPC supporters are just isolationist in their outlook but nevertheless find Putin’s actions Ukraine wholly repugnant. Despite that the Party’s leader, Maxine Bernier and the overall party platform is not isolationist on the issue but more in alignment the Realist school of John Mearsheimer regarding relations with Russia. At the same time I do however agree with Aqua, that there is an element of support from that tiny minority of folks out there who just like to see power and force in politicians. Those holding that view, are of course attracted to Putin. There is one group however that unequivocally does support Putin. These are all members of the far left. The same ones who see the Orange Revolution of 2004 and Maidan in 2013 as American backed coups. They are also convinced that Zelenskyi and his government are in the pay of the CIA. They support Putin simply because he is at war with the US, NATO and liberal democracy in general.

Ok, so what is a woman, Ms. Jackson?

@89th said in Elden Ring and Roblox: This morning on reddit I saw references to Elden Ring as well as Roblox. Yes I've heard of each before, but I realized I have ZERO idea what those are, other than video game(s) of some sort? I feel like I'm out of it, but also don't really mind. Two ends of the gaming spectrum right now. Elden ring is the horror-based "it" game this year - only available on high-end consoles and PCs. Roblox is a creativity-based sandbox game for kids. You can run it on a potato and the user-base of (very) young kids is huge.

Well, it’s now safely down in Davy Jones Locker. Probably belongs there too.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Phone Holder for Video?: See, this is what I love about YouTube. I was totally oblivious of David Lynch's channel. Holy shit are you serious? I start my day with the weather report.

@Nunatax said in Greatest movie gunfight ever: Meh, the scene where they put in new magazines was totally unnecessary… I love how that's the one thing you decided to single out as unnecessary.

@Mik 555 You are correct. I was a bit confusing. I should have made the title plural. LOL @Copper My apology. I posted the wrong picture. It was from a June 2021 visit by some US representatives. MOFA has sent out a picture of the current arrivals. [image: P01-220415-7.jpg] But, they still did use a US government plane. Arrivals were US Senator Lindsey Graham US Senater Robert Menendez US Senater Richard Burr US Senater Ben Sasse US Senater Rob Portman US Representative Ronny Jackson They were met at the airport by Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮)

Crying laughing, it's so good. The way he emphasizes certain words.

@jon-nyc said in Karen hits the road: @Aqua-Letifer said in Karen hits the road: @jon-nyc said in Karen hits the road: @LuFins-Dad said in Karen hits the road: You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized. The perfection of power renders its exercise unnecessary. Michel Foucault Foucault's an asshole. Anyone capable of making change for $20 Say what you will about pedophiles, at least they slow down in school zones. Some of 'em are also church-goin' folk!

Ah, a thread with boomers talking about groomers.

They weren’t hard on the eyes… You know, when I first moved to DC I was shocked when I started meeting Russian and Ukrainian women. All the propaganda over the years had me expecting fat women in babushkas with a big hairy mole. The only attractive Ukrainian and Russian women you saw were in James Bond movies…

@taiwan_girl said in Today's Science Lesson: Reciprocity Failure: @Aqua-Letifer Very cool pic!! Thanks, TG. I took it on top of a parking garage, adjacent to a casino. Only it had these massive lights in the corners of the top deck so the entire damn town could see what I was up to. Including some casino rent-a-cops who walk around the parking lots. They started coming up the stairs as soon as I started the exposure. They asked me to leave but I was already packed up by the time they caught up to me.

The first shot cost several billion Then it's $3.50 after that

@Mik said in The average European Medieval diet: Friend them on Facebook and you can ask. They can look up the data over the interwebz, after connecting to Elon's Starlink service with their iPhones.

@taiwan_girl yup. That's the amazing part! But, this being Chicago, he'll probably get a ticket for driving with an obstructed windshield.

@taiwan_girl said in First Movie Release in Five Years: Anyway, she was just given a new house in a new built subdivision in Pyongyang. It's good to be in the nomenklatura!

Thanks, again, everyone.

@George-K said in Shooting in NYC subway.: @jon-nyc said in Shooting in NYC subway.: Internalized white supremacy And cultural appropriation. Betty White smiled.