Koryo Tours, based in Beijing, China, offers several marathon packages to foreigners, departing from Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang.
Packages start from €2,190 ($2,529; £1,894) for 2.5 nights in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, including a marathon place and “highlights” of the capital and tickets were sold out this year, according to the agency’s website.
Is this just an ad for a tourist company that got smuggled into a BBC article?
Democrats haven’t given a shit about cost-of-living since… LBJ?
Like, Carter practically campaigned on not giving a shit in 1980 and that was a big part of what sank him. Clinton ran on immigrant bashing. Obama ran as an antiwar candidate who promised to give people coupons for private insurance. Biden was the closest president we’ve had who ran on populist cost-of-living pressure (cribbing generously from Bernie Sanders), then immediately shat the bed once in office.
When the economy is growing, you can get away with not caring. When you’re staring into the recessionary abyss, it’s not something you can talk your way past.
It’s talk until it isn’t.
they would do this is if they knew that there weren’t going to be anymore elections
Ballot box or bullet box.
You’d get street protests from sea to shining sea that would make BLM and Occupy look like the Macy’s Day Parade.
The US is enormous, authority is devolved, and a lot of what keeps the wheels moving is voluntary compliance. Elections help people to believe that government is popular and their own stupid opinions are just in the tiny minority.
When you try to force these systems of power through brute strength, you break them. It’s a recipe for balkinization and civil war. Same as what happened in the run up to the Civil War, when slavers and abolishionists came to a head.
You had low key insurrection all through the North long before Buchanan left office. Southern states effectively denying Lincoln a ballot line only fueled his popularity in response.
ICE repurposed to chase down draft dodgers and press gang anyone under 40 into the war effort
It’s just clown on clown violence. Different factions within TrumpWorld undermining one another.
If you think David Navarro and Scott Bessent aren’t getting their own licks in, you haven’t been paying attention.
Trump’s cabinet is Oops! All Scheming Vizers! Miller is just one of many and they generally all hate each other.
It’s honestly kinda gross to see people blink past the bombing of schools, hospitals, and water treatment plants - the outright massacre of thousands of people - as though it’s a distraction from your domestic pedo politics.
Americans can’t even prosecute Woody Allen for this shit. It’s an absolute joke to think “Release The Epstein Files” is going to come to anything. Much less that it would preclude anyone from talking about the carpet bombing of Tehran.
Deliberately formed a number of minority controlled governments, with a mandate to kill the majority ethnic group if they got out of line.
Israel was one of these, but hardly the only one.
The main players in the Middle East have been fighting for the last 3,000
That’s wildly ahistorical.
What you’re describing is the Ottoman Empire, a region that was largely stable and peaceful for centuries.
In and out. Twenty minute quagmire.
You can just withdraw if things go bad, because it’s not like Iran will continue to bombard US and Israeli bases if we just shout “Time Out” loudly enough.
Speed running the Tet Offensive in weeks rather than years
I dont think you can blame everything Orban does on Americans
Sure. He’s got a huge network of domestic supporters who are along for the ride.
Every fellow American I know hates and mistrusts their government? To be fair, all of the people I spend energy associating with are strongly progressive.
Will you distrust the government when it flips back to Dem control?
Obama currently has a 90% approval among liberals. It doesn’t seem like they’ve learned anything.
Orban is a fucking FSB puppet
He came up through US anti-communist front groups and has turned his country out to Silicon Valley goons and evangelical reactionaries.
So had Putin, at least during the War on Terror era.
They’ve been peas in a pod under every Republican administration since Bush 41. At best, you could describe them as Rogue Assets, assuming you ignored how often they work to benefit American industry.
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We’ve seen the American hand behind Orban since his days in the Alliance of Young Democrats (ironically enough, founded by Orban’s favorite whipping boy George Soros).
He’s an American proxy and always had been. If he’s been a wedge into the EU for decades, that’s by design.
Orban is a fucking russian asset
He’s more bound up in American geopolitics. But then Americans keep smelling shit, then blaming foreigners for the load in their pants.
This seizure appears in response to a gas pipeline that Ukraine destroyed during the war.
The price shock from the Iran War is driving people to do desperate things in order to stay in power. You can get mad at Orban for being a POS. But he’s not the prime mover here. This is all downwind of Israel/US closing the Straight of Hormuz.
I give it another two weeks before CBS runs an hour long special explaining how the Iranians bombed their own girl’s school.
So yes, you can visit your favorite blog, but its still not the same as it was in the 90s or early 00s.
It absolutely is. I might argue podcasts have kinda usurped the old blogging space (or, at least, supplanted it). But I’ve got an RSS feed full of blogs I follow that are barely different that what I was looking at 30 years ago. The 90s is alive on Feedly.
Fucken computers bullshit, its fucken sick
Lolz.
One method was to lower the quality of inputs. Plywood instead of hardwood. Then fiberboard/chipboard instead of plywood.
In fairness, hardwood is in limited supply. It takes a long time to produce, is expensive to harvest correctly, and typically means demolishing old growth forests to obtain. The “lower quality” products definitely have their trade-offs, but a lot of the quality issues are resolved through engineering improvements and materials sciences.
I would argue the real downside of lower quality inputs is the advent of “disposable” furniture (the IKEA brand crap most notably). Stuff that could have been designed to last, but isn’t, and ends up in landfills after moving day as a result. Rather than a savings yield, what you get is a waste surplus.
And later, CNC machines stepped in to produce delicate and complicated designs in a fraction of the time - and frequently even more precisely and more cleanly - than anyone with a carving chisel could do.
And that is the part which is NOT being effectively duplicated in IT.
Lolwhut? We’ve come so far even in the last ten years, in terms of IDEs, deployment pipelines, and automated unit testing.
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