I understood them as expensive toys, like an old Italian project car that’s fun to tool around in in nice weather, but when you need to get to work, you drive your car, but experiencing its role in SEA completely change my perspective. They can be cheap, boring, functional machines, with a suprisingly high capacity. that even a dog can perform basic maintenance on and keep running for decades, that work just fine in rain.

Switch to a motorbike, then you can experience righteous anger at the handful of drivers slowing down hundreds of bikes and people in buses.

Yes, it was the US who worked to isolate the democratically elected leftist government, while supplying arms, intelligence, and diplomatic support to the coup who overthrew the leftist government then murdered anyone insufficiently religious, rightwing, and conservative.

If the book on how this incident was a template for future US policy was too much reading, here’s a wikipedia article.

Whats the alternative? Making in-roads with China? Europe trying to join the BRICS+, the equivalent of Russia trying to join NATO?

Genocidal homophobic incel western puppets currently imperializing their neighbors, and were the prototype for America’s anticommunist tactics post-1965.

I mean thats genuinely the least fucked up thing the Indonesian state is doing, look up west papua.

Its quite mid to bad fruity milk tea with pudding at the bottom

There’s a savory crepe place I stopped going to like 80 cents would get you a fully loaded crepe, but it only came with bobba, and I didnt have the language skills to ask for no tea.

Communist countries tend to be more democratic than capitalist countries, but even if every member of the party above the lowest level has to be elected both within the party and in a general election, it can be questionable how much the resulting government institutions actually represent the people.

If you want an example of such a system working well or at least less openly corrupt and distainful of the average person, ask some Cubans (not gusanos) about their experiences with representation. If you want an example where the average person feels pretty disconnected from the party and like their voice is completely drowned out by moneyed interests and nepotism, talk to some Vietnamese.

China has elections though, the average term length for president is like 5 years, they’re just unlikely to replace a leader if things are going well and the leader is perceived as responsive.

If they reelected Hu Jintao while corruption festered and capitalism seemed to escape its cage, how many of the national congress would have been seen the next one?

A dictatorship… of the proletariat?

So you either need to put a custom/global rom on it, get the hk version, or pay like 20% more for a global version.

If you dont want to put a custom rom on it (which is becoming increasingly difficult), you’re can buy a HK version off taobao.

FR though, dating dudes is so much more straightforward.

No way is that accurate, the only time I saw toilets without bidets in Japan were in public toilets in poorer areas, trains, places that hadn’t been renovated since the Showa era, and “someone bought an old building for pennies and illegally remodeled it”. I am happy to report Vietnam is quite high as well.

I think it also functioned as an anti piracy measure

Every time I try switching to Linux I run into some issue I just cant fix and go back to windows, currently pirated win10 IOT LTSC. Last time it was getting the USB ports to recognize an ESP32, the time before that graphics card drivers, the time before that it would either take ages to boot or not boot at all, the time before that software I couldnt get to run.

What is attitude a measure of?

Nobody at any point claimed it was trustworthy, only that it was held.

Kinperor is asking if you or anyone else has any better data on how the people living in the former Ukraine territories feel.

This shouldn’t be too much of an ask given how low the confidence is the Russian-held referendum and how certain yall seem to be that predominantly ethnically Russian people in those areas are yearning for Ukrainian freedom.

Personally, I would be quite surprised if the people who have been oppressed and bombed both sides have anything but disdain for either.

What misinformation? Are you saying there was no referendum? Or that those regions aren’t mostly populated with ethnic Russians? Or that Kyiv doesn’t want to retake those regions?

They are fulfilling their obligations under the convention on genocide by using every means at their disposal to stop a genocide. Or were you under the impression they were risking their lives and what little wealth they have to enforce a blockade because they hate boats and love the feeling of terror?