If you’re using a vpn and your location is Albania you won’t have any ads.

Various Christian denominations, and big crackdowns on the house church movement for one.

Poor working conditions for many workers. Long hours, low pay, often dangerous conditions etc.

Still have a wealthy capital owning class.

Crackdowns on non approved religions - not religious myself but I think people should be free to worship how they please (within reason - no human sacrifice lol).

Chinese foreign policy is often disappointing. But I don’t have any experience of navigating the global stage as China so I guess I’ll leave that to the experts I.e. the Chinese.

Keep heat out, a white bedsheet or better yet tin foil outside your window to reflect away the sun is great. I would also back the tinfoil in something so it doesn’t directly touch the glass, cardboard or something. You want it outside the glass rather than inside. At best inside is much less effective and at worst you can break window panes with foil on the inside due to the concentration of heat (though unlikely). Try not to cook too much or use other heat causing appliances.

For dealing with the heat that is in: I’m a big proponent of soaking a T-shirt in cold water, then sitting infront of a fan. The evaporative cooling effect is really quite strong. Otherwise stay hydrated, keep your salts high so you can sweat more effectively. I like to keep a water bottle in the freezer that I keep pouring glasses from and topping up. It’s always just partially frozen ice cold.

whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

Good thing that applies to nobody else!

Pax Americana - you can’t make world peace Without world domination first!

Sorting the feed is literally what any algorithm is, choosing what content to show when. I think what you’re against is personalised algorithms, but even for algorithms that just prioritise engagement or retention, it could be argued that hexbear’s algorithm does exactly that too. Albeit, not in as sophisticated a manner as say instagrams.

Hexbear also has an algorithm. Upvotes increase visibility, age decreases visibility, posts are weighted by community size etc.

Mural of a kingfisher on a wall: cool.

“Wigan Athletic tour 2017”: firing squad.

It’s probably that the plug is retrofitted into the wall after construction and it uses a different type of plaster which carries a diffent moisture level.

The fuck? “Thinking about how weird some of my family members have tuned out to be” - just zero self awareness.

Exactly that, it’s fine walking around any individual neighbourhood but the neighbourhoods are separate by quite a lot of distance.

I like mountains and sea and city, it’s a really cool combination. My only complaint is that I would say it’s not very walkable between districts.

My favourite city in South Korea.

If you haven’t already, there is a really nice coastal walk from the Oryukdo skywalk, to the Baengnyeonsa Temple with great views back to Haeundae beach. I also recommend orienting yourself to the cities geography from Hwangnyeongsan Mountain observatory. Really cool at sunset. You’re right too, there is so much excellent food in Busan!

Busan is good.

To be fair that’s part of a proud British tradition of spending fuckloads on planning projects and then not building them.

See the £43 million cancelled Garden bridge, half of HS2, Lower Thames Crossing etc etc

Reminder that they only released the torture images featuring the adult male prisoners, because they feared the backlash if the other torture victims photos were released.

Readers can be identified as undesirables, not committed enough to maximising value for the Chaebol who owns them.

Yeah but you have to do it from a .world account

Hard copy of a “thoughts and prayers” reply. Incredible.

If a fascist man, who nazi salutes at public events and who publicly supports nazi and fascist aligned governments around the world cannot be called a nazi, who can?