It is, but the problem is less the foundation but more the leading people - as long as they reside in the US they can and will be put under legal (and other) pressure and will at some point comply. (Same issue Proton and to a lesser extend signal have,btw) A regime that imprisons judges and imprisons people without due cause is totalitarian. Period.

I got grilled on any social media channel I use (including here) for having reservations about free speech oriented foundations being set up in the US. (And in Switzerland for that purpose, btw)

Funny enough,my friend who had (for work reasons - humanitarian aid) travel to Afghanistan didn’t have to provide his social media.

Just saying: Her car wrack story has been proven as bogus/phony. But it sounded like a cry for help/attention.

That doesn’t rule out,that someone wanted her death - but neither does it rule out suicide.

And sadly victims of the unspeakable abuses she endured often suffer for the rest of their lives with mental health issues. Very bad mental health issues. And as someone who has suffered from them right where she lives I can testify that mental health care in WA sucks ass. Even if you are in a much more privileged position than she was - as a healthcare professional I had much better options than most.

Either way it’s a fucking sad story. No matter how you turn it she might have never had a chance. Either to the outside forces or to her inner daemons.

In the end it’s an education problem:

The easier solution is training your own doctors - there are numerous studies that it is possible to increase student numbers in medschools if far more government support would be provided. Make medschool cheaper and easier to join, set up corresponding specialist training based on the need of the population and offer huge incentives (up to “free medschool rides”) for the ones that sign a contract to work in a bulk billing capacity for X years in a needy region after they finish training. Maybe even attach visa offers to this.

That takes time,but it is far more helpful and sustainable in the long term.

Well, the Olympic Games will be as international as the NFL is, if shit goes on like that.

Thankfully I don’t have to. Not my apes,not my circus - but living in totalitarian and (various) post totalitarian societies over the last decades (my first protest was still again the Iron curtain) and decades of activism I am fairly sad for anyone in the US but feeling also relieved that this shitshow is reasonably far away.

Glashouse it is, isn’t it?

Same to you and your faith and not fact based approach,mate.

And you fundamentally misunderstand how post- totalitarian societies work. It’s not about data availability but will to pursue these things. Which to some degree can be necessary to avoid final decomposition of civil cohesion.

Besides: Crowd sourced data collection is rarely viable as judical evidence. Very rarely. And then it becomes either a witchhunt or a nice to know thing but nothing more.

EVs (at least well build ones) are far less depending on AWD (and 99% of the people telling me they require one should buy fucking proper winter tires instead)

We have meticulously kept personal records for the majority of all SS,SD,Gestapo and for a fair share of Wehrmacht soldiers. And due to the way German records work (mamdatory resident recording offices) and the fact that almost everyone was “involved” (almost all men were either with the SS, the Wehrmacht or other organs or belonged to the small number of people in jobs though important enough to be needes on the home front)the chances for people to actually evade were rather slim. Claiming you were not “not doing anything” wasn’t feasible and claiming you were with a unit that was “not doing anything wrong” was rather hard as well and could easily be disproved when none from that unit knows one. (Not to mention the SS tattoo)

The issue never were the few guys that made it to South America. The issue was never that people did not know who was a member of the SS or the Gestapo. The issue was that none fucking cared. The US couldn’t care less as long people were staunch anticommunist or helped them otherwise,the UK were a bit more involved but mainly wanted to get their own economy back up so the empire didn’t fall in shambles. The French did have a bit more vigor,but not for long. And the Germans just wanted to “leave shit behind them”.

And unlike the US we are talking here about a post -facism occupation period. This won’t happen. It will be, if the US will be able to overcome it within the lifetime of the current perpetrators(which, given the technology advances in mass suppression is not necessarily a given) a democratic revolution more like what happened in Spain or Chile. Look how it went there.

And… unlike paper which is harder to get rid off than people think, data can be deleted within short notice. Just as the last Trump administration did.

I simply fire them if they do that.

The problem is that I work in Home Office exclusively…

So you literally linked to the Starts and Stripes, a newspaper by the DOD, and the Asia times which claims for itself to report on Asia “from a US perspective” and claim you found more information there while the first article is not even reporting on the cases mentioned in the original source.

Yeah. Sure.

Don’t forget that artillery shells need charges to work. And these weight more than the actual shell.

The current South Korean government after the failed coup is caught between a rock and a hard place - first because they need to keep the followers of their domnestic mad man out, the fat mad man in the north out, the Winnie the Pooh lookalike madman out and the orange mad men out. All combined with a challenging internal and external political climate even without all these factors and you have a job none really wants.

So I can absolutely understand for them to defuse and hoping to weather the storm out and see how things develop - even more so,since the Japanese tried to have trade talks and found out the hard way that the current US administration has no idea what they want.

Funny enough, that’s not even necessary in the short term.

Delta is refusing to take the delivery of various Airbus modells planned over the year unless Airbus guarantees to “pay for” all tariffs these might incur. Which Airbus of course won’t. While it looks more like a cheap way out for them, various aviation news sources have already reported that Chinese airlines have declared their interest in these aircraft - both because the Anti-American sentiment and the lack in confidence in Boeing in their audience.

And ramping up the production isn’t that easy - significant parts come from abroad and even with them, they would have to massively expand production - their production lines are fairly slow

Yeah. It’s more than annoying, especially as it’s the same old Vance joke again and again and again. Which isn’t even clever.

I am not a Christian by any means but I worked with them quite often. Francis did change a lot of things and while he wasn’t in no way perfect - he did have his drawbacks, for a fucking pope he was much better than anyone before him within the last few hundred years. People (especially on the internet)nowadays expect other people, especially political leaders to “check all their boxes” and if one thing is not going as far as they want, they are alienated.

Often I have the impression that as long as someone is not going “all the way” in the right direction they are seen as bad as someone who does not do anything at all or goes in the wrong direction. (Which is ironic because the church itself has evolved past the “saint or sinner” directive)

Francis has been going in the right direction probably 60% of the way and 10% in the wrong direction. Is the Catholic church there yet? No. Is there a big chance it might turn back? Yes. Would he been elected if he was so reformist it was sure he would topple everything and go 100%? Surely not.

But he did much more than any of his predecessors did.

Any much more most commenters do.

Besides: It’s okay to feel sorry for an old man dying. That’s called fucking compassion. I work in healthcare and have seen a lot of people die. I feel sorry for almost all of them.

In the end a human has died. Period.

Contrary to the others here,while I love Paperless,using it for textbooks and notes only worked “somewhat” for me - it becomes quite clunky after a while.

Personally I would rather go with Calibre if I were you if you have more textbooks than notes. Even for notes, they can be attached as well and better organised than Paperless.

(And don’t get me wrong paperless is awesome and I use it heavily)

It’s simply a power move to test out how submissive the UK government is

Definitely not the best, but still worth a mention is “Stormworks: Build and rescue”. Basically a Lego like “build a ship/plane and do missions on the oceans” game - missions nowadays are also including far more than rescue.

Btw: There are USB foot keyboards on the soulless online marketing platform of your choice. They can usually be programmed to different keys or combinations. While it is not something I would use for FPS gaming, it can come handy in situations like yours. I have one with three different switches that are programmable which is quite handy.