There’s a good YouTube video titled something like “china’s economy is 60% smaller than they state”. It’s worth watching.

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We homeschool in Canada and have done so long before the pandemic. Technically, what we do is distance education, as my kid has teachers, a proper curriculum, assignments, etc. She’s absolutely thrived with this, where rural public schools were a nightmare of bullying and neglect.

But here there are rules and real requirements. Based on Oliver’s video, homeschooling in the US is an utter shitshow. The anti-intellectualism in the US is incredibly bad.

It might surprise you to learn that Canada is really big, not everyone lives in cities, and some places are inaccessible by transit.

I’m not sure where else, but Canada desperately needs more cost-effective electric options.

If nothing else, Zelensky knows he has to toe the American policy line. I don’t blame him, really. It’s self-protection.

Excellent, thanks for the comprehensive answer!

Is there an app or site used to create these?

Kid wanted to be tiktok famous.

I remember when even the far majority on the right thought Freedom Fries was a stupid thing.

ICE. We carry fire with us no matter where we go.

You mean the guy who replaced the Italian Mafia in NYC with the Russian Mafia, then avoided investigation of that because of 9/11, then threw everything behind a president with very questionable connections to Russia, and took several mystery trips to Russia…might have been compromised by the Russians?

Shocked!

Except I am also severely frustrated by how crappy they are, with 50% of my checkouts requiring pressing the bloody assistance button.

Dunno…probably has something to do with their psychotic Russian neighbours lowering property values or something.

Yes, because I’ve seen your posts elsewhere and you are definitely intelligent enough to hold your own.

No objection to you being hot (not sure how to say that without being creepy, but oh well). My objection is only that they could reference the strike first rather than what you are wearing.

Geez, they couldn’t write an article about the strike and the issues rather than how “runway-ready” she looks in a t-shirt?

I don’t understand where you are on that point. He’s in Australia, and their biggest export is iron ore concentrates. He’s got all the things he needs for primitive iron.

He is responsible for the deaths of children.

What’s Pico?

This is a greater overall danger than many of you seem to realize. Their leader was a face and figurehead, the real power of Wagner mercenaries lies with the lieutenants. Without him, they are likely to splinter and become more brutal. Some are likely to be hired by the anti-Putin oligarchs, while others may align with Putin. This may result in Russia having to pull out of Ukraine, but that’s not the end of this. Even if Putin is slammed out of power, that just results in an internal power struggle with deadly consequences. Those will not stay inside their borders.