I'm not American, can someone explain why Biden does this when his "one job" for 2024 is to not look like a fash?
Azerbaijan gets a nod to host COP29
Ah yes, host the climate summit in an authoritarian fossil fuel exporting country, it has never caused problems.
With one notable exception: report, inform and spread news about Swedish metalworker union strike against Tesla.
SALAD DRESSING?! Are you Americans going to a restaurant and ask the waiter to bring you a salad with clorox?
Okay now I'm stretching the OPs idea a little bit, but America is big.
How people live in South America never needing to learn other language than Spanish and plausibly never interacting with a foreign language outside movies. I spent some time in Chile, the place I lived in had a nice janitor. He did not speak English, I only knew a few loose words in Spanish so communication was... peculiar. Only after 2 months of awkward interactions he realised, that I probably am not Spanish native speaker and it hit me.
When your entire life in a continent where everyone speaks flavours of Spanish or Portugese, you can have successful, international career only in Spanish, participate in all kinds of rich culture only in Spanish and all signs and labels are only in Spanish, huge majority of tourists speak Spanish... it is not immediately obvious, that people may not speak Spanish.
Don't get me wrong, it's not dunking on "dumb spanish speakers". There are ton of places in Europe where people disregard English, where it's famously hard to communicate in anything other than the local language, but the fact, that other languages exist is apparent to everyone once they learn to read. Awareness that people actually speak these languages is the most natural knowledge from ground school as we learn that "Germany speaks German. Italy speaks Italian" etc. A perspective which does not involve being in constant proximity to numerous foreign languages felt like something that made no sense to me in the past until I actually came into contact with it.
Was there a massive behind-the-scenes NWO plan between billionnaires, old aristocracy and top politicians to fuck up the world, reduce population etc? No, the world ran its natural, chaotic course for most of history.
Is there this kind of conspiracy now?
ABSOLUTELY YES.
In 2023 it is not possible to have any influence and not be aware of the climate disaster. Anyone who does have big influence and does not act to mitigate warming and its consequences is doing it willingly and with full conscience. Doubly so if they act to worsen the situation. It's almost like the elites read some of the crackhead theories and thought "hey, this is actually a decent plan!"
Heh. The same man who was found commiting long-term welfare fraud. He lived in Sweden long enough to get citizenship, then left for Iraq without registering as foreign resident - and collected welfare payouts while on the minister post. No one noticed for years.
Knuth's arrow shows up in... Magic the Gathering. There's a challenge of "how much damage can you deal with just 3 cards and without infinitely repeating loops?". Turns out that stacking doubler effects can get us really high. https://www.polygon.com/23589224/magic-phyrexia-all-will-be-one-best-combo-attacks-tokens-vindicator-mondrak
I like Stand-up Maths, usually starts with a real-life situation and escalates into proper math, sometimes also programming shows up.
It's the "make sure to eliminate as many people as possible so that the unwashed plebs and non-whites don't spoil the view over oligarch-owned estates, cities and states". The corporate probably is fed up with inventing bullshit jobs for people made obsolete due to automation and decided that straight-up culling is better for the bottom line. The most efficient way to curb population numbers is to fuck up climate and starve the undesirables out.
Wait for euthanasia rolled out globally within a timeframe of 2-3 years (2-3 years from the start, we're not there yet) and then promptly made the default at insurers.
Wait for border guards gunning down climate refugees in plain sight, then going with the same guns for whatever scapegoat the corporate+politicians invent. Again, we're not there yet but the first signs are showing up.
And another question: did someone already lay out a roadmap to google's collapse?
Right now we're going through a financial crisis, big tech needs to start making proper money so they try to squeeze the users. Google hopes to "drm the internet" to maximise ad revenue. Let's assume they succeed. 3 years from now the dystopia of dead adblockers is live, google and other leeches make bank off ads.
But there's no more adblockers and no more ad revenue left to squeeze out (because every internet user is already chained to a screen and force fed ads within ads). And shareholders demand increase in profits. What do they do then? Is there any hint of a long-term strategy? How long before the maximum theoretical ad revenue is reached and plateaus? Then COVID29 or something comes, fed raises rastes again and...?
Whether pro-Israeli bots like it or not, numerous acts by IDF do fit perfectly into descriptions of the acts forbidden by the convention. Even if the case is eventually dismissed it will be on technical grounds such as "it's actually a war crime not a genocide" not because "IDF did nothing wrong".