Some “fancy” ones do taste different, but the basic ones do share a clearly distinguishable common taste.

Yes, and the taste of what’s in most energy drinks is what’s being sought for here.

BBC News says it was said using a megaphone when talking to a large crowd:

Petro shared a video on social media of him addressing a large crowd through a megaphone in Spanish on Friday.

He called for the formation of a “world salvation army, whose first task is to liberate Palestine”.

“That is why, from here in New York, I ask all soldiers in the United States Army not to point their rifles at humanity,” he said. “Disobey Trump’s order! Obey the order of humanity!”

You forgot to read the end of my comment.

We are almost completely in agreement.

(Of course Trump’s rhyme and reason are irrelevant here. The president of Colombia is not known as a moron and there is a demand for him to act like a diplomat even when visiting a moron. But, Trump, Mussolini and similar make an exception: the charter of Human Rights is the most important piece of rules there is, and it basically requires everybody to behave that way. Therefore: unusual but acceptable.)

I’m a big fan of Shattered Pixel Dungeon!

“Disobey Trump’s orders” is what he said. Disobey horrible orders whether legal or illegal.

A ballsy thing for a president to go to a demonstration in another country and tell its military to disobey their own president. If the president of Portugal did the same in Denmark, I would absolutely expect him to be expelled from the Danish territory.

Personally, if any country’s president was to do the same in Finland, I would see that as an actual act of war by his country.

This all having been said: whatever is done against Trump is done for USA. The president of Colombia did an awesome thing and I’m happy he did it!

I almost completely agree with PM_ME_etc. Even to the part that yes, you are afraid of China and Chinese cultures in ways that are not necessary.

At the same time, it is China’s goal to turn the west towards authoritarianism. Many parts of MAGA’s political goals are coaligned with those of China, even if their goals regarding economy politics are extremely different.

Currently an increasing share of the western consumption is fed by factories in China. We’re currently practically completely able to produce mobile phones without China, because even if the phone is made in Mexico or South Korea, it is still made of Chinese components, such as the tiny torx screws not made in scale in a reasonable quality anywhere else than China.
Eventually China will shut down that trade. It will hurt China, but if as a consequence China can get us under its command, they will gain more than they lose.

Currently it would be extremely crucial to support industrial production practically anywhere outside China, some clear cases, such as NK, of course excluded. An amount of sinophobia is very necessary to make this happen!

This shows very well to what extent China is communist.

• nationalizing industries: yes
• making industries worker-controlled
• private property partially abolished
• workers’ rights even less supported than in USA
• capitalist class being steadily empowered (they are getting increasingly rich and disconnected from the workers, even if their companies do have to follow the state lead than in more civilized countries)
• wealth is being moved to the wealthy (albeit not nearly as fast as in USA)

Of course this only tells whether China is.following its own official ideology, not whether what someone else does fulfills that ideology or not.

Because entities Trump likes to please say that they are a hoax.

Those entities include at least several companies of the oil industry, predominantly in USA. Then obviously the Russian Federation. Or actually Putin,not necessarily the Russia?

Calling green alternatives a hoax might also be one of the services that earned Trump that fancy huge jet plane.

Then there’s the share of US residents that see green alternatives as project to deprive them of comfort of life. They are more loyal, and therefore less likely to rebel, if they hear someone call green alternatives a hoax.

And Trump himself is one of the people who consider a need to change the everyday life a personal threat. That probably plays a role as well?

Some people do.

These ones:

Kerbal Space Program
Morphblade
Dicey Dungeons
Fallout 3
Endless Sky
/usr/games/sol

(Plus on my phone Feudal Tactics and Shattered Pixel Dungeon)

You can of course remedy the risk of corruption by making several compressed files instead of just one. Then you will lose only part of the data in the worst case scenario.

Africa: Cameroon and 2 other countries?

Seen several occurrences of Somalians fighting for the Russia.

In year 2000 Ukraine knew there will never be a war in Ukraine. In 2013 it still knew the same.

In 2013 Ukraine knew perfectly well that Poland will never attack it. Nor Hungary or Slovakia or Romania. And the most ridiculous thought was that Moldova would attack. Heh.

In 2013 Ukraine knew that if it was ever attacked by the aforementioned countries, the Russia would come for help.
In 2013 Ukrainians knew that the Russia has a powerful army.

Because they knew this, their army was a joke. They had tanks, but everything inside the tanks was stolen and sold on black market. “Military training” consisted of building huge “summer cottages” for the highest ranking officers. This made sense because there was no war to be seen. The only war there would ever be would be some Russian expeditional war, and the worse Ukrainian soldiers perform, the less likely they are to ever be sent to one of them. It became a virtue for the army to be bad.

There was no need to prepare for a war, therefore they didn’t.

And then the Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014. It could do that because there was nobody to oppose it (except far-right extremists funded by the Russia itself, which is otherwise a hilarious turn of events, but made less comfortable by the fact that far-right extremists are a very bad thing in the long run)

But yeah. It’s good that Sweden has now decided not to be Ukraine of 2013, after all.

I don’t think he does thinking as complex as you describe.

I actually can.

The thing is, Vance is the same but without being a complete fecking moron. And if Trump dies, Vance will be POTUS. The same will continue, but in a way that is consequent. And horrible for the west.

I don’t think he said U.S. would back them up.

What he said was that it’s okay to do something bad to the Russia. I don’t think he has said anything like that since year 2019 or 2020.

He’ll flip-flop from it anyway, but like a curve that goes up and down and up and down but still has a rising trend, this also means that the lowest downs will be a bit higher up, and the highest ups will be a bit higher up as well.

It’s a promising trend. And still: The wave will soon reach another bottom. That’s how it goes with Trump.

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I wonder why he says that?

The Kursk operation made a huge difference in the Russia’s diplomatic position.
Without that, they could have done “an act of goodwill” and “agree to” a ceasefire with the front line as a de facto international border, then gather their strength for a year or two and attack Ukraine for good.

This would have enabled Trump to drive home a “peace” in under 100 days, at least if he had gotten Germany and France to join the plan. And there was a high likelihood that they would have done that, “in the name of peace.”

They couldn’t do that when part of the front was inside the territory of the Russian Federation.

I always understood the Kursk operation as the most crucial part of Ukraine’s front because it tied Putin’s hands diplomatically, making it impossible for the Russia to convince the west to stop arming Ukraine claiming that would be “in the name of peace”.

Now Trump has been president long enough that the momentum of “I’ll get them to make peace within 100 days or at least only a bit more” is gone, it’s not so important to have pieces of the Russia under Ukrainian rule.

Although, there’s also a secondary reason why that territory was good to have:
While the Russia did use its inhumane tactics of obliterating people’s homes even in Sudža, the intensity of that tactic was very visibly lesser than in Ukrainian villages. That meant, the Russia had to expend more soldiers in the fight than they would have expended in Ukraine. And then, when they do obliterate parts of a village, it’s a thousand times better that it’s a village in the Russia, not an Ukrainian village. They do that obliteration with all available resources and all resources spent for obliterating homes in the Russia are away from doing the same to Ukrainian homes.

I believe Zalužnyj has political reasons for saying it cost too much.

A container container container? Obviously, the planet Earth is a container for the oceans.