If you can’t get to a quorum after the President calls tanks in on your position, I have very little faith in your ability to break a logjam over the North.
Obama lifted some sanctions on Cuba for a few years, but it largely resulted in a flood of removed and agitators to get in through the back door and give us #SOSCuba in his second term.
A serious official end to the war and dismantling of sanctions/blockades/entrenchments and resumption of travel would be a huge improvement for both countries. But if its just an excuse to flood North Korea with capitalist agitprop, the end result will be another pull back and further dissolution of trust between states.
Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies have opened 30 criminal investigations into alleged embezzlement with an estimated total damage of $483mn, according to a spokesperson for the parliamentary committee.
:-/
Can’t believe a kleptocracy would go down like this.
That’s okay, because Ukraine is going to get the ultimate weapon for entrenched fortification - long range cruise missiles.
If they can’t get an impeachment vote through on a guy who literally orchestrated a coup, I’m not holding my breath.
I don’t feel excited about a Korean Obama approaching the DPRK, given how the American Obama fumbled Venezuela and Haiti and Cuba. They’re still all mobbed up, even if the mob running their cartel is the “nice” one.
I imagine a lot of paranoia and superstition about who is or isn’t a carrier.
Reads like the fine print on an insurance contract
System is working as intended.
The post-COVID degradation of general preventative care and the anti-vax hysteria might be playing a role, as well. How many hospitals don’t have enough saline to treat the influx of flu-victims during the peak of the season? How many clinics and ERs have simply shuttered due to skyrocketing costs and skinflint insurance companies? How many elder care facilities have lost too many staffers (traditionally popular jobs among now-unwelcome migrant workers) to function as anything except morgues?
Even absent the threat of COVID, domestic society is being hollowed out by finance and private equity.
Sure, but people in Jamaica love anime.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202404159
Researchers at TAU and the University of Lisbon have developed a nano-vaccine against COVID-19, delivered via nasal spray without requiring cold storage. Preclincial studies show the vaccine was effective against all major SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Hopefully this brightens your day.
Pre-vaccine COVID was significantly scarier, especially in the early incarnations of the virus when the death rate was at its highest.
We’re getting back to flu being the predominant lethal strain of disease… which fucking sucks, because masking and hygiene and distancing had put the biggest dent in flu mortality in my lifetime. But its becoming a poor / vulnerable / elderly disease problem instead of a People Who Matter problem, because there are so many effective (expensive) interventions available to treat it at onset.
Vanity Project is when the government builds something and it works as intended
And Russia is full of evil removed who care only about slacking their thirst for the blood of the living.
Why would either side balk at joining in the legendary struggle of Irredeemable Darkness v Angelic Light?
Ukraine/Russia feels more like Iran/Iraq in so far as we’re actively facilitating both ends of the fight hoping they annihilate one another
You can play Halo 1 online and that game is old enough to run for Congress.
You can play old school TF online and that’s pushing 40.
There’s a moment when Jinx is grappling with her revolutionary impact and Ekko is struggling to salvage his eco-socialist collective and Jayce is facing the consequences of his vulgar materialism when you get the sense they might have something to say.
But then it crumbles into Monster of the Week, in the race to set up the next round of action scenes.
Death to piltover
The dilemma of Piltover and Zaun is fundamentally the dilemma of waste management. Piltover dumps it’s exhaust into Zaun, poisoning the citizens. Then Silco uses the desperate Zaun residents as canon fodder for his own play to the top.
But the idea that Piltover going away solves the problems is as misplaced as the Vander-esque submission to overwhelming power. The problem is, at its heart, the pollution and its consequences. Shimmer presents all the same hazards as the Hextech of Piltover and produces all the same negative externalities. Silco longs to sit on the council, not abolish it. Jinx longs to get even, not lead a revolution. Ekko is the only real decent person in this story, and he’s perpetually sidelined by the plot.
It was all over the place, without the steady escalating tempo of the original. Even the fight scenes were clipped and visually abbreviated - switching to these dramatic vinettes in a bunch of the Warwick and Vi combat scenes.
S2 had some interesting and clever movements… but yeah. It was 2-3 seasons crammed into one, and it showed.
I don’t even not like the “Perfection isn’t something you attain, it’s something you pursue” moral at the end of the show. But season 1 felt so dialectical. You had these historical moments building on themselves to a stunning climax.
Season 2 was handed this dramatic historical pivot, kinda-sorta looked like it was going to grapple with the fundamentals appeals and consequences of fascism, but then stumbled back down into “Everything gets solved when the Special People duke it out”.
The fundamental plight of Zaun, the cost of pollution and the failure of equitable distribution, is lost in the race to fight Evil Foreigners and Fifth Columnist Traitors. A real squandered opportunity.
This is more like the very tiny Old Ones
An Insurance Company Culture of Violence has no place on our streets or in our schools.
We need to shut this whole thing down until we can figure out what’s going on.