It’s also a personal choice. No, I’m not talking about a person being gay, but a lot of people don’t mind being single. Or if they are partnered, they choose not to have any children. I personally fall in the former category.

So she really IS reading the Art of War!

Carney is still a neoliberal though. His government is pushing for more tech surveillance.

Yeah, a lot of rich folks said it’s been about one-upping each other.

Mark Cuban was asked if he wants to increase his net worth. He responded that he’s busy managing the Dallas Maverick’s. But that interview seems to insinuate that there is an expectation amongst the wealthy to just keep accumulating wealth. Literally like a cancer that keeps growing.

Why does the dude just not retire? Or is someone keeping him alive to use him?

It’s Divinity Original Sins 2 for me. Some side quests are interesting but it is getting cumbersome and a chore for me because getting to some of those side quests are awkward, like I have to teleport my entire team across large crevasses one by one. I think I will just go straight to finishing the main quests and my companions’. I have a backlog of games I need to clear up myself!

I personally think there’s an international cabal of (mostly American or Russian) billionaires who are funding fascism the world over.

Pretty sure it’s proven. I think Epstein has Israeli and Russian connections.

I’m Asian, my experience is that American media in Asia is so dominant that many Asians dream and fawn over the US. Little do they realise the casual gun violence, lack of affordable healthcare and education and the poverty in the country. A lot of Asians also think Trump and ICE only go after “illegals” because Asian media don’t really cover much of that event and is considered an American domestic issue.

The depiction of the US in Asia is sanitised and viewed from rose tinted glasses. That’s not to say America isn’t great in many aspects but many Asian migrants say it’s not what they expected.

They always are. My experience with bullies is that when you hit back, they are more fearful than you initially were.

I’ve seen the narrative that even if Russia doesn’t win, it’s about changing the world order away from American hegemony. Like, what the fuck do the ordinary Russians care about the unipolar and multipolar order? And it’s not like both US and Russia will remain the as influential as before because of Trump in the US and the war in Ukraine taking its toll on Russia. Who will come out on top when the dust settles is China, and I’m sure for Russia who wants to be a top player, they wouldn’t like that.

In anti-authoritarian movies, they don’t go beyond what happens after the revolution or “the day after” as Slavoj Zizek always say. Unfortunately in real life, post-revolutions do not always lead to a happy ending. Just ask most of post-colonial states. Only a handful succeed and become prosperous and secure.

I keep hearing about this Cramer fella, and I still have no idea who he is.

I’m no expert but if you’ve been scrolling that long… that could be a sign of porn addiction. It means no other videos else could satisfy you.

Except the US and Poland are not trying to make excuses to attack Russia?

They had been right since Ukraine though. Nobody, except Ukraine of course, before the invasion believed the US warning because 1) invading a country that historically hates you and expecting no resistance is stupid. That’s like Britain invading Ireland again. 2) the US lied about Iraq before. I hate to say this as someone who loathe US for invading Iraq under falsified intelligence report, but this time the US intelligence is telling the truth. Broken clock is right twice a day and all that while also the US is the boy who cried wolf.

This news is the usual border movement and sabre rattling from Kremlin to compensate from the fact that they are proven to be paper tiger. All bark and no bite. It’s like Kevin Hart wanting to fight Andre the Giant because Kevin feels so insecure.

I mean even without any mobile credit, you can still browse Facebook in many developing countries.

It’s free on poorer countries even for those without mobile internet data. And we know why the service is free…

It’s funny how superheroes are territorial.

In Arkham games, Batman would say Alfred’s name out loud on the comms in front of others. I know that there are many people with the name Alfred but as someone who is thorough, Batman still just gave anyone a possible clue to his identity!

I kinda have the same view as you OP. My parents got married in mid thirties and had my siblings and I within four years after their marriage. So, of course it influenced my view that marriage before 35 is “too young”.