AstroStelar [he/him]
20 y/o, autistic, AroAce, Marxist with Mega Man characteristics (also Kirby)
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19·8 days ago
15·8 days agoSounded familiar, so I checked and it’s from 4 years ago.
Faced with these serious allegations, Cuomo at first attempted a bizarre defence. “I’m not perverted, I’m just Italian,” is how Fox News characterised it, which was amusingly accurate. Cuomo suggested that the fact that some women had perceived sexual abuse might be attributed to differing “generational or cultural perspectives”. In a video statement, he proceeded to show lots of photographs of him kissing people in public – a gesture, he said, that is intended to show “warmth”. He further admitted that he sometimes calls people “sweetheart”, as if that were his greatest fault.
I also found this in the search results:
10·8 days agoSomeone here defined it as knowing when to follow authority, which I found a good one.
11·10 days agoProfessor Yu says China’s expansive internet infrastructure plays a key role in driving the trend. “Internet connection is everywhere. The internet connectivity in the small villages is no different to Beijing.” And this had allowed young people to both share their lives and earn an income using digital media, Professor Yu says.
“The old kind of rural lives are limited to farming or herding, but digital media has created new opportunities,” Mr Chen says. “For example, what I’m doing helped the farmers to sell their products and brought more attention to the village.” “Our town has become quite commercialised now,” Ms Wang adds. “There is a mixture of local and outsiders’ shops. A mixture of old and new things.”
32·12 days agoSome of the opinion pieces in the sidebar while I was reading this:
Earlier this month, another disgruntled Brit slammed a tourist hotspot in Greece for serving “no English food” - describing it as “the [worst] holiday I’ve ever been on”.
Susan Edwards, 69, from Westerhope, in Newcastle, said the all-inclusive TUI getaway to Corfu offered guests “no hot bacon or sausage”, but a buffet of salads, fish and rice, which she was “sick to death of looking at” by the end of her trip.
I found the article, but be warned, it’s stuffed with bloat in between paragraphs: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2065841/british-tourist-benidorm-holiday-ruined-spanish-people
Read the article here
A British pensioner was left in tears after her Benidorm holiday because there were “too many Spaniards” at her resort. The coastal city is well-known as a mecca for Brits abroad, but Freda Jackson’s expectations of being surrounded by fellow tourists during her trip may have pushed the stereotype to its limit.
The pensioner from Blackburn in Lancashire, who is in her eighties, raged over the number of locals she saw during her summer break in 2018, insisting that Spaniards should have “gone somewhere else for their holidays”. While protests against an influx of foreign tourists has defined discourse across European travel hotspots in recent years, Ms Jackson’s complaints tackled an entirely different issue. “The hotel was full of Spanish holidaymakers and they really got on our nerves because they were just so rude,” the grandmother-of-six said.
“The entertainment in the hotel was all focused [on] and catered for the Spanish,” she added. “[And] one evening, a Spanish guy nearly knocked me flying and he just walked off without even apologising.”
The Brit said she and a friend had paid for the trip using their pensions, but claimed they were given a hotel room on a slope despite requesting flat-ground access, and were allegedly forced to travel 1,500 miles from Manchester Airport to Alicante after they weren’t told their flight dates had been changed.
“I have never complained about a holiday before - but this one was a disaster from start to finish,” Ms Jackson said. “My friend and I paid for it from our pensions and it was a struggle trying to fund it over 12 months. The holiday was totally ruined. I cried after.”
A spokesperson for Thomas Cook said the pensioner wasn’t told about the change to her flights until six days before departure due to a “system error”.
“We are very sorry for the inconvenience this caused and are investigating to make sure it doesn’t happen again,” they added. “We … offered Ms Jackson and her travel companion a gesture of goodwill to try and put things right, which we hope she will accept.”
Earlier this month, another disgruntled Brit slammed a tourist hotspot in Greece for serving “no English food” - describing it as “the world holiday I’ve ever been on”.
Susan Edwards, 69, from Westerhope, in Newcastle, said the all-inclusive TUI getaway to Corfu offered guests “no hot bacon or sausage”, but a buffet of salads, fish and rice, which she was “sick to death of looking at” by the end of her trip.
Trotsky is missing his bunny tail (the set of radial lines)
On that note, China also recently made headlines with a ‘quantum-proof’ encryption system: https://hexbear.net/post/5176306
A few years ago, I learned that the official typeface used by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is called “Bandera”.
The Mandarin-language videos are modeled on a series of videos the agency made in recent years asking Russians to spy for the United States, appeals that previous C.I.A. leaders said helped develop new sources.
Sure…
Last year the C.I.A. released instructions in Mandarin [on Youtube] about how people in China could safely use the dark web to contact the agency. The text-only instructional video was viewed 900,000 times. While the Chinese internet is locked down and censored, American officials believe that more sophisticated Chinese officials know how to work around those controls.
Aren’t VPNs very common in China?
Here is how NYT described the videos:
Oh my God, yes!
The study cites this for how they measured each form of “authoritarianism”:
The study it cites about “left-wing authoritarianism” explicitly states that it “strongly correlates with engagement in political violence” in the abstract and for why they think their research matters, which makes it sound like they want to get some phrenology-based “Minority Report” thing going.
I find this kind of research very suspicious overall.
Then Elon Musk would be Yegor Gaidar. This photo strengthens my case:
And Peter Navarro would be Jeffrey Sachs, I guess?
3·2 months agoLegal or not, the firings were unjust. That they are illegal by bourgeois law is just icing on the cake that makes it more palatable to believers in the status quo
At the same time, I’m reading about how they’re missing other targets, so overall I’m confused: https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-briefing-6-march-2025-two-sessions-climate-news-new-vice-minister-targets-missed/
:spidermans-pointing:
…wait, there isn’tan emoji for that?
Uhhh…
The Spanish royal family constitutes the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon (Spanish: Casa de Borbón), also known as the House of Bourbon-Anjou (Spanish: Casa de Borbón-Anjou).
I… didn’t see that.
