Never read about SK or China (just not familiar, not to say it doesn’t exist) doing this but Thailand went all in.

https://www.foodrepublic.com/1318428/how-gastrodiplomacy-brought-thai-food-world-stage/

that is great

yeah that worked so well in 2024… fuck’s sake

I think that bad built bleach bond basic bitch is actually the victim, she’s the poster child for FAS. no eye brow ridge, soft features, tapioca brains… that level of crazy isn’t typical.

I’d be afraid of him retracting his head back into his shell and hitting that instead.

I couldn’t stomach it.

spin up 5 projects. hire devs from all over the world, make them work on site in person. people upend their entire lives for a chance at a stock option.

cancel 2 after 10 months.

cut the teams on two of the others.

cut the teams again.

and again.

oh wait hire like crazy and overcorrect so we can

cut the teams again.

Then cancel 1d3 of remaining projects, announce <OLD IP>REMASTERED

All devs cut never neared their stock vestment, all shares returned to the mothership, start to consider spinning up 5 more new projects.

Some asshole wanted for war crimes wants to nominate some other asshole for a Nobel Peace Prize?

I forgot, when Stalin nominated Hitler, did the stache get one?

priceless

for everything else there’s mastercard

indeed.

also, what if… they ate their own immediate family?

wait, which thread is this?

why should reporting be limited to immediate family?

if the neighbors see mr. jones take out a shrub or hop curbs the rest of the world ceases to matter, just immediate family?

typical boomer privilege - oh wait, now I’m old? no don’t test me…

god forbid we let people customize these things. we’ll jam AI into the fucking appliances before we let people have actual QOL advancements.

huntsville only existed and continues to exist because of their congresscritters kept the federal funds coming. There’s nothing intrinsic about alabama to the space industry.

Yeah the US sucks.

not going to argue, but, joe rogan is not the US.

I stopped streaming and just buy albums. crazy days

Spotify supports rogan with those $$$$s. fuck that guy

Even worse still: you’re supporting joe fuckin rogan and the payments music get from spotify are pitiful. you’d have done much better by the artist by cancelling spotify and buying an album or shirt or ticket.

shit like this makes TEMPLE OS look better every day lol

It still baffles me that Bush won in 2004. People saw 9/11, saw 3 years of Bush’s response, and then said “Yes please, more of that!”.

unfortunately I can offer insight into this aspect. I lived in south texas around that time.

the GOP is really good at sussing out divisive politics. in 2004, they knew they were in deep deep shit. so… and I really don’t understand the how of this succeeded - but some how they convinced religious white latino and african americans that gay rights - people being able to marry the person they loved - was going to directly disenfranchise them or destroy the concept of marriage. a ton of people who normally would never vote R, and often never vote at all, were whipped into frothing mobs by their clergy to come out and make sure that didn’t happen by putting georgie back in office. and that’s not an exaggeration, they were told by their preachers to come defend jesus by making sure the gays couldn’t marry.

it’s 32 flavors of fucked up racism and hate. then in 2005 katrina hit and any illusion people had that the GOP / Bush admin cared one fucking wit for anyone besides rich white people evaporated. too late.

you know he’s gotta be thankful trump came along and DECISIVELY made W look almost kinda vaguely… presidential. not competent per se but compared to trump, holy hell…