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When African ministers gather in Cairo, they will not just be discussing action plans and trade figures. They will be testing whether Africa can finally exercise something it has long been denied: the right to choose its place in the world. History will not judge Africa for engaging Russia. It will judge us for failing to turn this opening into sovereign development, fair trade, industrial capacity, and real independence. And that responsibility, at last, rests with us.

And Google Books

Tbf, it doesn’t appear anyone is checking on Lemmy, except for a few of us.

Venezuela is a member of OPEC. Most of the South American nation’s oil exports go to China.

I guess unless KSA, UAE make a fuss, this is fine? Like not really, but can we expect anything good out of them?

Mediate…

Is Germany accepting reality?

That’s where universal comprehensive health comes in.

US proposals reportedly include recognition of Russian sovereignty over Donbass and Crimea, which have joined the Russian Federation by popular vote… Moscow maintains that it is open to authentic negotiations, but insists that any agreement has to address the security concerns that led to its 2022 military operation in Ukraine, launched after Kiev failed to implement previous Minsk accords and continued to pursue NATO integration.

The landlord in retail property struck me, and I don’t know how residential works there, but I recall a young couple I once knew wanting to buy a mobile home on about a quarter acre of property, several decades ago. The bank put a lower value on the property because it was a ten year old double wide manufactured home but the couple “needed” (I am not speaking for or against the veracity of need) an additional sum to move into their next dwelling, so the buyers of the first property got a mortgage for the value the bank would lend, then signed an unofficial contact for the balance the sellers needed. This always stuck with me, because if the sold home would have burned, flooded or otherwise become unlivable, that couple would be stuck with whatever the insurance didn’t pay on two contracts. This was probably 40 years so the insurance companies weren’t as greedy, then.

It’s worse. No anesthesia is allowed in.

It’s almost like the root cause of poverty and despair should be meaningfully addressed.

Welcome back! I missed you. Also for some reason I am only shown the headline and logo.

Go ahead, I don’t know how unpopular it will be. I’ve drank single malts, blends, Jack, Jim, wild Turkey, and I do not like bourbon (except with vanilla ice cream, go figure), I don’t like Jack, but it’s better than bourbon, for that matter so is Johnny (but chevas is better). But a really good single malt Scotch or Irish really trips my trigger. Or did. I haven’t had any of it in more years than I can count.

Anyway, do you. I won’t begrudge you for it, I was more making a joke about depressed wages. Cheers! 🥃🥃

Does sr dev not pay enough for a single malt anymore?

Just Texas?

I don’t know how it works in Venezuela, but people I have personally known working with combustible materials were searched, including removal of shoes, for smoking apparatus, tobacco, weed, lighters, and matches.

Pfft, go real old school and call it thurisaz.

It’s literally a “th” in the old school use of their own language. It doesn’t bother me any more than having to run an article through a translation service, and probably less if I’m time/environment constrained, which has nothing to do with any user posting it.

I have read it. I’m guessing our guesses are aligned.

Why would “enlightened rationalists” and rich people not support something that works in their favor?