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Rural Cosplay is, Unfortunately, A Thing
By: Bob Nelson • Travel, Geography and Foreign Cultures • 35 Comments • 1 Like • 3 days ago
“When you're done donating your tax dollars to subsidize the lifestyles of self-identified ruralites, consider making a charitable contribution that...”
Mirror, mirror, on the wall....
Immigrants
By: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 63 Comments • 5 Likes • one week ago
“What do they contribute to the nation? What harm do they do to the nation?”
A few days ago, I was very upset with NewsTalkers. The Powers That Be had just trashed a couple of my seeds themselves, and then stood by impassively while the Usual Suspects trashed another. I was not happy, and decided that from the on I would post but not seed. That resolution lasted as...
The Inverted Morality of MAGA
Via: Bob Nelson • Op/Ed • 58 Comments • 5 Likes • 3 weeks ago
“Trumpism represents an alternative value system. The people I regard as upright and admirable MAGA regards as morally disgraceful.”
David Brooks is a card-carrying conservative. I rarely agree with anything he says. This is worth thinking about.
Huawei's Mate 70 smartphones will run its new Android-free OS
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 3 weeks ago
“Huawei's new Mate 70 lineup will be its first smartphones offered with the company's Android-free HarmonyOS Next”
Forbidding the use of Android in a smartphone would be crippling, right? No. China, through Huawei, has built a separate, competing system. This is another case where countries like India, Mexico, and Brazil must decide whether they want to be tied to Google, the USA and NSA... or to China,...
Trump vows new Canada, Mexico, China tariffs that threaten global trade
Via: Bob Nelson • World News • 302 Comments • 11 Likes • 3 weeks ago • LOCKED
“President-elect Donald Trump on Monday pledged big tariffs on the United States' three largest trading partners - Canada, Mexico and China -...”
Drunk, maybe?
Trump's Cabinet picks send a clear message
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 1 Like • 4 weeks ago
“Picking Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., and Linda McMahon, Trump is making a victory yell”
Remember Boris Yeltsin? Remember Russia then? There was a hint of democracy. Then came Putin and kleptocracy. This cabinet's mission is to convert the US into a kleptocracy on Putin's model.
The shocking truth behind China’s EV dominance and America’s uphill battle
By: Bob Nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 33 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 weeks ago
“With cutting-edge advancements and massive investments, China is outpacing the U.S. in EV development, can America catch up?”
This is from Autoblog, a very standard gearhead site. Not an EV site. Sam Evans isn't alone in seeing what's happening in the world.