I took a look at the transcript, and surprisingly it did a good job spitting out the German (I think?). Ran it through google translate because I don’t speak the language.

Anyways, the woman speaking is saying that the request for a moment of silence was already rejected by the President so that’s why she keeps going.

Dude was trying to ignore the ruling that was already issued on his request and go outside of the procedural rules.

Wait, actually, I think the person has fishnet stockings on, I didn’t zoom close enough to see the first time.

Oh snap

Edit: either that or it’s a pattern that gives that illusion to me

See I thought it should have some sort of dress under to cover up the person’s legs completely.

Either way would work well though!

This makes me an irrational level of angry just looking at it.

What sort of crime have you committed here, surely there’s got to be someway to jail you for this travesty /s

You should look at a local university dental school as an option. They’ll often do emergency dental care without payment up front and super affordable.

I didn’t say they were going to save the world, no more than the USA did or any nation state turned empire.

I do think China will eclipse America when it comes to being in a position of strong global leadership and the hegemonic power on the world stage. The USA seems to be shirking our duties, reshaping and destroying our society’s moral fabric, racing towards worse and worse education results and hellbent on making sure our healthcare is broken and our people are fat and dumb.

It’s not a winning recipe, even with a military that can dominate.

Every country has its problems and its demons, China is no different and certainly their problems are complex and grand. As far as greater or lesser evils - I’d put the USA and China about on par for all the fucked up stuff we have done the past hundred years and keep doing now.

I’d love to at least visit China sometime - honestly there’s so much fascinating history and getting to see a different approach to community building and infrastructure planning would be neat.

Sounds like it might be time for a rewatch! I probably should rewatch it too…

But that’s a fun episode. The episode’s plot is basically Alien if the alien was a sentient spoiled food item.

Enjoy this Fun mva from 17 years ago …feeling old yet?

Yeah it’s cowboy bebop. It’s from the episode where they have a monster that was leftovers in the fridge roaming the ship and terrorizing then.

This is the dawn of the new Chinese century. I have no doubt in 20 more years China will be in an even stronger position as the USA continues to decline.

We, the USA, could do all the stuff that would make us competitive. That would require more socialism, more taxing of billionaires, more spending in green energy, education, transportation, healthcare becoming affordable and an actual human right for all in our borders, a real plan to transition off fossil fuels and shore up our domestic energy production and electric grid.

Idk more than that of course but that’s the elevator pitch.

We won’t do it though because corrupt capitalism and the oligarchy.

Maybe we will if at some point enough of us are struggling but we’re pretty fat and have plenty of entertainment to distract us even if we are being fucked. So … Yeah … Desperately hoping I’m wrong about most of my predictions, devastated as I keep seeing them come true.

Having gone from 10 to 11 - it’s pretty much windows 10, at least to an average user like myself … I’m tech savvy enough for Linux but I prefer windows for gaming.

Have to say so far I’m pretty happy with windows 11 but I’m just a random guy who uses it to play video games and that’s about it on that PC so if you’re doing anything crazy under the hood I’m sure there’s some noticeable differences.

As someone who has an undergrad in history … You’re depressingly right. Studying history is just watching people keep making the same mistakes over and over again and every so often there are improvements made to the human condition. A eureka moment here and there.

Mostly, you get to learn humans are mostly terrible. All of us, really, have some serious flaws and arguably that is what makes humans human but it’s insane to watch in slow motion my country succumbing to fascism. I wonder if I’ll get rounded up; I sure hope not.

It does blow to like call a thing years in advance and watch it happen and then have to just deal with it even though we could have stopped this.

Whatever, we all will get what we deserve for electing Trump. Madness.

I think that’s really up to interpretation. Her age seems to fluctuate in historical texts from her time.

She easily could have been younger than 18.

People didn’t really have any age of consent laws or any of that and her birth year can only be roughly estimated. So I’d say pick another princess lol

And somehow this thread thinks that’s harsh or petty?

Is literally any person complaining about this guy setting reasonable boundaries paying him money to do this work?

No they’re a bunch of entitled assholes who need a fucking wake up call.

She’s going to prison for at least another 15 years before she’s eligible for parole.

But I hear you in the car accident bullshit

just gather up some hydrogen/helium from space and transmute it into whatever you need. food, fuel, structures, etc.

Tea, earl gray, hot.

Your comment was on top for me in my app, so I was like “oh how bad could it be.”. Holy shit you’re not wrong, there’s some disgusting comments that are getting voted up.

I’m low-key disappointed and appalled by these community members who believe these women “deserve” it for … Trying to help each other be safer?

If by “personal information” you mean sharing their experiences with certain people … Yeah I guess.

They weren’t sharing addresses and social security numbers or drivers license numbers or other things that would lead to identity theft.

How can you not have sympathy for these women getting doxxed because they wanted to help create a safer space for one another and to help each other out? That’s wild.

This is far from turnabout, this is abuse.

Late stage capitalism is kind of broken so y’know, gotta chase the quarterly profit, can’t just enjoy success and pay employees more.

Also, the world produces more than enough food for everyone to get their nutritional needs soundly met. The problem is our food distribution system and profit motives if you ask me

The entire point is for it to be used for political reasons. But y’know good politics.