It's not our game, perhaps better not to play.
My VPN works, but it's no doubt part of the game too, as are all social websites, including this one. You can run, but you can't hide.
It's not our game, perhaps better not to play.
My VPN works, but it's no doubt part of the game too, as are all social websites, including this one. You can run, but you can't hide.
Trump's the one who's got thousands of them, kept in working order by the military, who are likely to obey him whether they like him or not. Or even if they maintain some degree of sanity they might just take over, which in the long run would probably be worse....but like I've been saying, I really don't believe any of this will happen, at least now, Trump's not really completely nuts, nor is Kim, and none of them rule alone. The Chinese government has more sense in these matters.
But if you want to get rid of all the nukes, you have to start with the US, and they're not smart enough to do that. Everybody thinks they can defend themselves to the point of the death of everybody.
Hmm - I guess I'm just restating the obvious: the species has serious psycho-social problems, nothing new there, unfortunately, and we only have to screw up once.
Good reason to be an alien, and we welcome new members.
Sofitel, damn! Is that what it takes?
If we got smarter we would pay less attention to the antics of these message-sending game-playing 'leaders' and might be able to reduce their collective influence on our ability to reason clearly, which is almost always swamped by the blast of the spotlights. They are leaders because we are followers, and the hierarchy and its spotlights are built on the foundation of economic control, however carried out - we weren't born this way.
How does it become so easy to ignore, or even forget, who does the dying? The serious divisions among us are horizontal, not vertical.
Fun & games - yeah, right, gets their rocks off. We're board pieces.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
发布者Social cooperation is also hard-wired into the individuals of an innately social species such as ourselves, without which the individuals of our species would not have survived to pass on any genes..Rouseau's 'noble savage' never existed, both he and Hobbes were wrong.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
发布者Subjective reports of happiness mean something, but I'm not sure what.
Kunming smells part II: The good, the bad and the ugly
发布者You get used to it all after awhile, as most of Kunming's 7 million inhabitants surely have.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者@nnoble: don't follow - who or what is rotting? I can think of various candidates, but I'm not sure which one you're talking about.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者There are economic issues concerning education in China for very poor communities, which obviously need a bigger share of the economic pie than they are getting. Yet China's 'socialist market economy' is increasing the overall level of economic resources within China.
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