would still get restricted because they’re contentious. Like if you start talking about how you believe in equal rights, that’s something most people agree with (at least in principle,) and it shouldn’t be political. But it’s going to ruffle some feathers anyways (especially if you get any more specific than that,) so it’d be restricted.

If this is the best example you can come up with, it is fairly unconvincing that any mainstream political will be restricted.

*cheapest and the best

Fast-travel

Bong Joon-ho said it best. We live in one country called capitalism.

Essentially the goal is this: to use a giant electromagnetic launch track to accelerate a hypersonic aircraft to Mach 1.6. The aircraft would then separate from the track, ignite its engine and enter near space at seven times the speed of sound.

Does no one read the article anymore before commenting? I’m not responding to all the comments here since it’s clearly a waste of my time, but every single one of the concerns that people mention in this thread so far has been acknowledged in the article already.

Works for me

Market analysts said that there is no relief as of yet from this difficult period. They urged the government to play a role as a mediator, so companies can map out more specific investment plans by clearing away any lingering uncertainties.

“The government is advised to stand at the forefront in discussing subsidy-related issues with its U.S. counterparts, so local chipmakers and battery firms’ uncertainties can be alleviated,

Give more money please lol. These global companies just keep a train of endless grift going.

We’re not paying Dalai Lama to stay quiet. Have him say “to the last Ukrainian” immediately!

GRRM poured his heart out on it instead of working on Game of Thrones so that might be why it’s so good.

Noooooo but quantum mechanics affecting brainero means we are freeeeeee

In my early 30s. I think your age is the cutoff for when the circuses were good and original.

For younger Gen Zs and Alphas, it’s nothing but remakes of what we got when we were kids. Pokemon, Harry Potter, and Minecraft are what my nieces and nephews are still into because companies barely invest in new IPs anymore. Even the snack isle look the same as it did 15 years ago, with food companies not investing in new products since the corporations consolidated and there’s no competition anymore.

It’s not that I don’t like the new thing now that I’m older, it truly feels like there’s less new things since late stage captured markets deemed it inefficient.

Quite possible. Maybe I am the old out of touch person who’s yelling at everything without reason sometimes. Now that you mention it, I’ll admit that the camerawork was decent at least.

I don’t know if anyone saw the Superbowl but it was pathetic. Not the game itself but the production value behind it considering that it is the biggest event of the year for America.

The halftime show was cheaply done, commercials looked cheap, the Apple music logo that was repeatedly shown looked like it was thrown together by an intern in about two hours.

It was the same for other “big productions” from the imperial core in the past year such as Kohaku for example. I’m predicting that 2024 Eurovision will look like crap too. We’re already not getting bread but the circuses also look terrible.

In Capital. A Critique of Political Economy. Volume IV: A Freudian Collaboration.

It’s an unholy book that you should be glad that you’ve never read. It came to me in a dream!

Edging is a psychosexual manifestation of the capitalist mode of consumption. By artificially limiting the number of orgasms, the capitalist now controls this once limitless resource that was freely available. The proletariat is forced to acquiesce to ever-smaller proportion of releases while tricking themselves into believing that they’re getting a good deal while the capitalist is getting fat off of proletariat labor.

No more landlords? That sounds like communism.

A contrarian or a true believer?

They’re the same person

There are some exceptions like Naughty Dog (is there another one?) that kept their quality after getting acquired. But I agree in general with your thesis.

Historical sticklers could also note that Latvia had a brief past as a colonial power. The Duchy of Courland, an antecedent to Latvia, held territory on the island of Tobago in the Caribbean and on the Gambia River in West Africa in the mid-1600s.

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