I didn’t like the first series, and would’ve quit it at episode 3 or so but I ended up without internet access for a couple of days and the whole series downloaded… It got better.
But yeah, life’s too short for TV shows that take time to be taken on faith. And if you did finish the first series and still not like it, more power to you.
What about a world where we both have $2,000?
Invidious is an alternative to YouTube. It scrapes the content and presents it to you without trackers or googlerithms, or adverts.
So obviously in a big cat-mouse game with Google over it working or not.
Edit: it’s federated, I think - or at least instance based, so anyone* can set one up and stick it online.
*anyone with servers and the hacker chops to be a network admin
Complicated. Big.
A collection of a wide range of geography, languages, and peoples. Held together by a mix of national pride, iron fist, and a solid record of on the whole very good for most people improvements in life quality in living memory.
Big. Brazen. Splashy. But with an inability to face problems, and a resignation to the world as is. An almost fatalistic attitude paired with naïve or blind optimism on its dexter side.
A place filled with potential, as well as already existing food, culture, history. But hard to find much of it as modernity does a speed run towards uniformity and mass production, while historical sites are rebuilt as poured concrete facsimiles.
Myanmar/Burma is more complicated than that.
The PRC also arms groups that are independent from the Tatmadaw (sp?) gov., primarily the Wa State Army.
Thailand is more direct and focused in its aid for the military dictatorship.
Although I think China has been providing much more of the air and drone weapons that the miliatry dictators have been using to punish bomb the people of the region.
Alas, very little good.
Civil war for the last few years, with China flooding the area with arms via the Wa, who’ve been de facto independent for a long time and the PRC’s go between in the area.
Lots of ethnic groups and mostly continued interethnic violence and indepent movements for a long time. This is linked to the Rhoyinga (sp?) getting shunted into camps and pushed between countries.
Arakin Army is one of the big ones, along with the aforementioned Wa State.
China is now getting ready to send ground troops in, and set up favourable economic zones for Chinese economic imperial expansion.
Also famous for scam centres which have been the focus of Thai and Chinese authorities lately, and had been making money for criminals from those countries and paramilitary groups.
Origin Story - two people (from British print media) go into the backgrounds of terms, groups, ideologies, and people in the news.
You just say that since it was, iirc, Draco Malfoy’s mum’s name. So it is a JK level name.
It’s not just directions, you need to pay attention to where the reservoirs of 阴气 and 阳气 are, as well as door ways and windows.
All rules are complicated by practice and the actual situation.
I’m glad to have been able to add more details.
And thank you for the polite reply; I may have been unduly brusque as I misunderstood your “just who happened to be on” comment.
Shanhainese would be 吴语, rather than the 汉语 of Mandarin. And the choice of Beijing Han as the linga chinois was an active choice, not an accident of broadcasting.
Likewise, the first BBC broadcasts were deliberate in their choice of RP as the chosen voice. It had to be “respectable”. If you didn’t speak it, you weren’t allowed on the airwaves until much later.
Some that come to mind, and merely in order I thought of them:
Only finished shows considered, as a poor ending can ruin a show.
Yes.
Speaker + listener + maybe others
Speaker + not listener others
But that now seems small fry compared to the differentiating subject and object’s possessive adjectives.
This, and the lack of inclusive and exclusive 1st person plural, are the biggest oversights in English.
Overall bad, but it’s complicated.
Two bads do not make a right.
But morality is complex and can’t be reduced to equations. (I see you, Utilitarians and latter day Effective Altruists.)
You can find cases where the lesser of two evils is the right path, but that also doesn’t mean you’re more on the path to heaven. After all, you can be damned if you do as well as don’t.
Irregardless - (adj.) an attempted rebuke or rebuttal of a statement that ignores or overlooks already stated facts, which if included in the thought was have already rendered it moot.
Irregardless - (interj.) a response to declare someone’s statement irregardless.
I can only assume that it’s licence to draw hard lines on “spheres of influence” on a map and make Latin America into vassal states.
And removing the neo from neo-colonial in dealings with Lat-Am truly makes America great again.
Because peace of mind and your own view of self worth are priceless.
You can’t buy morals and being happy with yourself. What makes material gain or whatever ends you think would be better chased amorally worth losing that that you can not buy back?
Yet in the Platform it’s the people with more of a mission who get things done and move forwards.
Those content to exist within the system of begging the uppers for scraps and not caring about the lowers don’t get ahead, or indeed any of their wants in the end. They just enjoy hedonism for as long as they can before they meet their end.
That’s fair and reasonable.
I’m curious about the risk-reward chart, where how much you’d both need to end up with at what chance/via what methods to make you be for it.
(I’m probably one who you’ll disagree with a lot, as I think stealing can be OK.)