Places in Africa are finding out about this the hard way right now.

For the most part what’s happened is that China is not longer funding new and more Africa infrastructure. A lot of this is due to the infrastructure having now been built, and the economic benefits from said infrastructure being used to pay the loans back. As intended.

I also question if powering all of Cuba is really something even they could do in a span of weeks.

They utilize I think 20% solar currently, but the problem is also storage for nighttime power consumption. Even if they could generate 100% during the day they also need the infrastructure to store or generate for nighttime.

Septic people have fun with it where they can.

American English with a specialty in the dialect of American Regulatory Legalese.

Spanish, Arabic, and Irish I used to be able to read and write, but was always terrible at understanding any of them spoken.

I learned bits of German by proxy from having friends stationed at Heidelberg.

Neat! I am glad to have helped connect some dots! Your description fired some neurons and I had to think back to a Halloween party in maybe 1993 or so.

Shot in the dark here: “The Willies”. It’s kids telling horror stories and there’s one story about a bully killing monster “Bad Apples” is the story.

Really young Sean Astin.

Edit: found a trailer, excuse the youtube.

https://youtu.be/yT6lRRuMZyQ

Out of curiosity, was the monster humanoid and it dragged a teacher into the ceiling?

This war?

I always have to remind myself being able to stream audio from a cellphone while driving across a city is also a pretty crazy development.

TVs became SmartTVs and now need the internet to turn on. The TVs need an OS now to internet to do TV.

Antennae broadcast TV seems like an ancient magic.

The best single pizza was a pepperoni pizza from a street vendor in Hawaii many years ago, with hot sauce I still special order from the islands.

However… if we’re just talling toppings a pineapple, peppercini pizza is my dark horse favorite pizzas. I first tried essentially on a bet. Never would’ve expected it to be so good, and have since determined it’s best (optionally) with chicken, feta, and/or roasted garlic.

Even Reaganites thought it was insane to continue the embargo in the post-USSR world.

There’s this one neat trick: Just call the communists fascist!

Now you can support foreign invasion and regime change as a proud member of anti-fa!

…Still won’t oppose capitalism though.

There’s much less direct military funding and support fueling Sudan so most people have no real outlet or mechanism for addressing it beyond support for humanitarian aid efforts and the UN.

There’s not an easily identified or direct policy that can be pointed at, as if an actor were receiving billions direct military aid and support. Like, even Israel is split on which side they’re supporting. Ukraine and Russia alike have supported opposition to the RSF.

They’ll point to how Republicans are the party that removes unpopular and incompetent leadership. And it’ll work.

Not just the pup.

https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/05/02/noems-dog-killing-was-bad-but-consider-the-goat/

That’s how you make more flies. The idiom is about catching them, not attracting more.

More in the honey means less flying around. It’s a flytrap.

I hear you, though I am more inclined to take a Gramscian view that cultural hegemony of capitalist/imperial core entities convert those anarchists to libertarians, or some form of compromised anarcho-syndicalism or libertarian socialism. So I wouldn’t call them anarchists.

But it’s not a True Scotsman thing for me, so I don’t fundamentally disagree with that perspective.

Anarchists usually don’t need the kind of deprogramming of capitalist, monarchist, colonial, or imperial systems that socialist and Marxist theories typically focus on.

Oh it can all be found if you look for it, no doubt, but CNNworld has the story down with the monkey with the stuffed animal story.

APNews does not appear to feature the story on their main page at all. They’re running a Today In History story on Rodney King’s beating.

USA Today does have the story on their main page, also fairly low and with the headline: “Who attacked a girls’ school in Iran, and will there be accountability?”

But mainly the pundit circles have been ignoring it. But that’s what the punditry circuit does. Hyperfixate, ignore anything as needed.

And on the interior. I patched many pairs of waders and just an exterior patching will wear out.

*If its an honest leaking crack then your best bet it to make the seal meet on either side.