He cannot retain information for longer so whatever the last person he talked with said that’s what he’ll repeat.

tl;dr: tankies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Peace#Invitation_accepted

Arms deals already underway.

people whose every fifth sentence is “death to america”

I wonder why they say that.

All 3 members of the so-called board of Peace

What a farce

What’s US America’s obsession with Iran? Oil?

Is she even slightly more than just a US puppet?
What do these amnesties signify?

Opposition figures in Venezuela have expressed reserved optimism about the changes, wary that Maduro’s closest allies remain in power.

The overall response seems positive, but I have difficulty parsing the intricacies. Not fluent in Latin American politics/history. But I know that yet another puppet regime can’t ever be a solution.

Holodomor

edit: whoeverthefuck downvoted this, it’s a valid comparison

Thanks! Many more countries than I thought. Ultimately no surprises, but still: This is really, really sad. Considering the whole thing is a grift and a strictly top-to-bottom structure, in other words autocratic.

My guess is most countries who got one will just leave it to rot somewhere. Unless it’s an election year, apparently.

Right now I’d be highly interested if anybody accepted at all…

Huh, TIL that Germany has such a big gold reserve - 75+% - and stores half of it abroad. Most of that half in the US 🤦

The Eurozone’s gold reserves are much larger btw.

In the lead-up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow moved the National Wealth Fund into 60% yuan and 40% gold—a clear hedge against expected Western economic pressure.

So since before 2022. Very interesting detail I was not aware of yet.

If this analysis is right, the chances of democratic political reform in China remain just as dim in the future as they were in the past.

Did anybody think otherwise?

But he already got it, that Venezuelan politician gave it to him! Totally voluntarily of course! (Don’t tell him it’s not the price itself but only the medal)

I listened to a primer about this board on the local news last night; apparently quite a few countries rejected it outright, and most of those that didn’t basically have it lying on their desks like a paper turd, not knowing what to do with it. AFAICS the majority says “not in its present form”, which would amount to a separate UN with a god king.

Ironing out usually means post-installation hands on

Mint is fine.

I ended up formatting one of my drives I didn’t mean to.

Ouch. Did that once or twice with really important data, resulting in all-night sessions with photorec/testdisk and secondary and tertiary storage. Files restored, but just the directory structure and filenames missing can be a huge downside.

Wake from sleep is a thorn in linux’s side.

Has been working fine on my laptops for years, across Arch and Debian. Maybe because they’re both ThinkPads.

Acacia gum? I don’t believe that “widely used” and “critical” mean the same in this case. (Gum arabic is used to cover all sorts of processed foods - famously M&Ms - so that they don’t stick)

That said, I wish the Sudanese people all the best.

Qt does render fonts differently than GTK.