Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]

British edition: tesco meal deal

Beans on toast

It’s his turn (again)

With the rise of China and Russia and the weakening of US-NATO, countries like Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK etc, will have breathing space to chart their own path, instead of being constantly under the jackboot of US Imperialism.

I don’t disagree, but the path Russia seems to be charting is one of bourgeoisie oligarchy. Not something to admire.

Critical support means supporting a nation fighting back against the other nation that has a global hegemony economically and in military as well against their proxies.

Yes exactly, but we don’t have to (and shouldn’t) like them. The only thing between Russia and the kind of Imperialism that the US engages in, is capacity.

China I think is our best hope, but the rise of this Russia is something to cheer only in how it undermines American hegemony.

I’m not saying that they shouldn’t have critical support, just that people seem to assume they are better than they really are once that support has been given.

People go for critical support because it opposes the US’s interests and somehow forget that the USSR has been dead for over thirty years and the Russian Federation is a bourgeoisie oligarchy wearing its corpse as a mask.

2, Obama did some horrible things, but everything I know about him suggests he’d be a good conversationalist.

Every American either lives like the Simpsons, the family at the start of interstellar, or the cast of Friends,

So offending the state in China invokes the punishment of getting to experience the American reality?

Help, I have an excess of yellow bile and a deficit of phlegm, can bloodletting really balance out those humours?

They have to roll really high on the table. Most of it is just stuff like stunned or bleeding. In previous editions they were more lethal.

Old fashioned pens need to be held at a downwards angle or they might not write. A lot of modern pens as well. Plus it looks nice and it’s basically just a block of wood with a hole and some polish.

That’s the one projectile he’s proven he can dodge

$1 trillion

3-5 years for the first language to a general level of fluency. The impressive part is that they can generally pick up fluency in a second language in a year with minimal instruction, and they can learn multiple at the same time.

Unless it’s the only thing you’re doing, you’re not going to be fluent in a second language as an adult after a year of study.

On a chemical level, children’s brains work differently to adults when they’re learning, it’s not a question of effort.

Babies have special brain shit going on the helps them learn super fast. My ancient and decaying brain matter is no match.

Surely slate and tile have to balance out in price at some point? The slate on my home’s roof is ~120 years old and only needs a little bit of maintenance every 5-10 years.

I can get behind partying forever.

They’d almost certainly lose the referendum. The SNP is not a very popular party at the moment with the recent corruption scandals, and Brexit and the collapsing price of oil seems to have cooled opinions on how favourable independence would be as well.

Plus, Scotland is seeing huge immigration from England at the moment as living there is slightly less unaffordable, and the English transplants aren’t going to vote very much for independence. (There’s also no mechanism for determining if someone is actually Scottish, and that was never a requirement for any referenda.)

Polling doesn’t matter when you have such a large majority. Labour could lose a Theresa May level of seats every year through by-elections and still not have to call an election until 2029.

Without Brexit as a dividing issue or an organisation like the ERG, we’re not going to see a mirror of the Tory’s leadership contests, and the mechanism for changing party leader is completely different as well.

A lot can happen in five years, but I’ll buy a hat and subsequently eat it if Kier isn’t PM in 2029.