“If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It’s a country based on theater. It’s a lunatic state - completely insane”.
Norman Finkelstein
The practical reality of short-termism is mugging the textbook theory of democratic innovation in business management and economic science.
No corporation is a democracy, unless if employee owned and employees vote on the decisions. So it is the dictatorship of for-profit private corporations (USA) vs the dictatorship of the people represented by the state (PRC)
Have you considered turn based RPGs?
Shows you the power of soft power propaganda. From the Indian Wars to Agent Orange to the genocide in Gaza, the US has been nothing but a racist and violent settler colonial state, yet it was admired and looked up to.
It is an AMD Jaguar from 2013.
I add my vote for MXLinux
There is no draft, they volunteered.
U.S. has 60% reliance on imports for aluminium, USGS data shows
Gulf nations accounted for 22% of U.S. aluminium imports in 2025
I didn’t know. Then again, I don’t make decisions with any significant implications or consequences.
UAE and Bahrain are the 5th and 6th largest aluminium producers.
Saudi Arabia pumps 8 million barrels a day or 2.9 billion barrels annually.
Didn’t the military request more recently?
Who names an airplane “warthog”? pigs can’t fly and neither can the pig-pilots inside them.
Death to Oracle.
I use LinuxMint and have been since 2018 or so. I have been using since 2007. Though the first time I tried using it was in 2003 but it didn’t go well for me at the time.
Use something stable and boring like LinuxMint. No issues in 7 years.
I am not asking for much, I just want to see the US defeated in West Asia and elsewhere around the world.
Iraq was nothing like Iran. Iraq is a small country, with a small population and a small military industry. Iran is far more advanced and capable, and it also had more time to prepare both strategically and technologically.
Could be that Proton is just a few Wine releases behind, or their customization and extras break a few things unintentionally.
If it is about looks, it is possible to install themes.
Russia isn’t any worse than the US
despite the fact that their regime is brutal and oppressive
True of nearly all countries. For example in many Western countries you can be arrested, prosecuted, fined, jailed and lose your job for supporting Palestine or saying “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. You may be living in such a country.
I will die without aircon, on the upside I will probably die thirsty before summer
I’m glad someone forked OnlyOffice but wish they came up with a better name than EuroOffice