huf [he/him]

desalinate water? clean drinking water is always in short supply

the thing is, how does this norwegian background actually affect your day to day life? do you speak norwegian? do you follow norwegian politics? do you eat norwegian dishes? decorate your home like a norwegian (whatever that might be)?

cos like, tons of people in europe have ancestry from other european countries but pretty much nobody keeps track of it. eg, a hungarian with of slovak or german ancestry (there are literally millions of them) would not consider themselves to be a slovak or a german at all. not even a hungarian-slovak or whatever.

this is generally why europeans are puzzled by the white hyphenated americans.

yeah but there were some somethingawful posters who could see what would happen as they were watching live footage of 9/11 happening.

it was not that hard to know, apparently.

it goes even further, ostensibly paris was greatly rebuilt under napoleon III to have those wide straight avenues to make crowd control easier in case paris riots again

the things i remember struggling with were getting the stress right and hyperforeignisms (that is, concentrating so hard on getting the difficult “w” and “th” sounds that i would pronounce “v” as “w” and “s” as “th” by accident. i was once asked if my native language had a “v”, because that was the one i seemed to be struggling with)

the tradition of atheist diaspora jews celebrating secular christmas instead of any of the jewish holidays…

this stupid meme needs to die, something like 30-40% of people lived past 60 in the 1600s…

i’m so old i keep all my memes on my personal microcomputer, not my telephone.

oh yeah. and zoom eats up an entire god damned core minimum. jumps to two entire cores occasionally.

you do if you use eg a jetbrains IDE and your codebase is all dockerized and requires 34 separate containers to be running and also the company makes you install a “security” software that constantly scans every fucking file on the machine…

traditional is always whatever was happening when they were a kid. born in '46, so just in time for the total dominance of oil.

well, you’ll never believe what china did. it invested heavily in the region, raising living standards by doing those things you listed. it also stopped US funded terrorists from influencing the population.

the result was an enormous success, possibly the most successful modern deradicalization program. terror attacks have stopped. and they didnt even have to bomb xinjiang to the ground.

just checked your sources and it’s cnn, cnn, some report in the US senate by a US state department employee and fucking adrian zenz. this is exactly what i mean.

one of the most islamophobic countries on earth, responsible for the deaths of millions of muslims in just the last 25 years is bringing this noise.

btw, what do you think china should have done to combat US-funded fundamentalist islam from encroaching on their territory? should it have let it just continue? should it have allowed the destruction of uyghur culture? should it have bombed xinjiang for 20 years?

but the claim “saturn has air on it” is like “there’s genocide in xinjiang”. you have to bring some evidence for it to be considered. but you dont have that evidence, you just have this vague impression you picked up from US propaganda (mainly zenz), which you never critically evaluated because you automatically think china bad (because of previous US propaganda campaigns) and thus believe every bad thing about them.

btw, even the west has mostly dropped this shit years ago, because it became embarrassingly clear that they were lying. please update your programming.

yes, we know you’re not very smart and also have no idea what hexbear is like (which is why you make up silly shit in your head instead)

as far as capital is concerned, all that happened was that the empire moved its seat from london to washington

but also australia has a US spy base in the center

I’m not interested in having a political discussion here

you commented in a thread about politics, but dont want to have a discussion about it…