So that explains why some entries on companies don’t mention about their unscrupulous history.

Boomer Asian parents are materialistic. I always say that they have never gone past Maslow’s hierarchy of needs of fulfilling material security needs. They are always in survival mode and are cynical. Asian parents think fulfilling material security of their kids is enough to be considered responsible and loving parents. I can’t exactly blame them having this mindset, because post-World War 2 colonial countries haven’t had it easy as they emerged poor after independence. Many suffered from dictatorship propped up by either side during the Cold War or experienced internal strife in some ways.

That explains about my work laptop. I swear that I clicked shutdown before I went on two week Christmas holidays!

Unless it’s on billionaires.

Two for the price of one.

It’s been reported that the morale of the National Guards and Marines was really low when they were deployed to LA, questioning why they were there to against fellow Americans. Not everyone has the compunction of ICE.

What’s even there to deal on Greenland and Denmark? Denmark is not in any conundrum. If USA invades Greenland, they will lose. There is not even an American public support to invade Greenland. Despite the moral flaws of American military, many US soldiers will feel bad about invading a clearly peaceful and democratic country.

All this nonsense is Trump’s attempt to distract the people from the Epstein files. That’s how sad Trump and his administration is.

Techno-feudalism, ladies and gentlemen.

And the Hellfire missile will fired upon the invading American troops. Did you see how much damage that missile could do? It’s pretty epic!

Because some people go: akshually, we inflicted more casualties on the Vietnamese than they did to us so technically we are not defeated.

It’s an often repeated excuse since the US signed the Paris Peace accords and agreed to pull out of Vietnam. A US official at the time told that to his North Vietnamese counterpart. The based North Vietnamese official quipped “that may be the case, but that is irrelevant.”

I see a lot of right wing influencers arguing a kind of might makes right rhetoric.

Always the case with fucking fascists.

While that is the case, I wonder how many in America actually approves of this given the proliferation of right wing bot accounts. I think that even if the US decides to invade Greenland, that might trigger a US civil war because, unlike Venezuela and Iraq where there are dictators which give plausible excuse to invade, Denmark and Greenland is clearly a democratic and peaceful country. A lot of Americans know this. Invading Venezuela did not even create a rally around the flag effect in favour of Trump admin as some might have expected, in order for Trump to artificially shore up his approval ratings. I certainly thought that more Americans might have gotten on board with Trump admin immediately, considering how they jumped the bandwagon to support the invasion of Iraq.

You know what I’m thinking, I applaud that the Gen Z are into fitness and wellness. But they are influenced by the right through social media, and the right are probably conditioning kids so that they will be fit for a future war. It sounds conspiratorial, but the Heritage Foundation is already dictating social policies in America and beyond. Steve Bannon is their dark missionary by evangelising abroad and wanting the EU to fragment.

I just realised my incorrect wording. I meant it is not uncommon for ordinary folks to bet their entire life savings and even home.

We don’t know who made the bet. But it is not uncommon for ordinary people to make that huge of a bet. I heard of someone who lost his house after using it as collateral for stock trading.

Edit: a word

That’s a bold bet if Maduro escaped capture. But the fact that this bet got media attention after Maduro was captured means this is more like a brag.

I had several issues using teams on browsers before so I felt compelled to use Windows for the app. But I admit that I never tried using it on Chromium so I will try next time.

I am on Linux and never looking back to Windows (except if I have to use Microsoft Teams for interviews).

I know what you’re saying but what I’m saying is that some people feigning concerns tend to lay the responsibility solely on Ukraine to cease fighting. Not saying you’re one of those but the Russian trolls amplify bad faith advocacy.

Sometime after the initial invasion of Ukraine, I see floods of faux concerns from “peace advocates” online telling Ukraine to just stop fighting and think of the men and women dying against a bigger opponent. And yet I don’t see these “peace advocates” turn their attention to Russia, the aggressor and the one who started the war, to stop invading. I mean, peace advocates would usually tell both sides to stop. Why haven’t these peace advocates done that, and instead lay the responsibility of ceasing the fighting to Ukraine alone? It’s very obvious these are Russian trolls feigning concerns on Ukraine. These trolls mention the cost to Ukraine, but conveniently ignores and don’t mention the bigger cost to Russia-- which is the accelerated demographic decline, and loss of economic and political prestige of the country. Even if Russia comes out with more concessions than one would have liked, the cost to Russia is a Pyrrhic victory. And their invasion of Ukraine will pay negative dividends in decades to come; kinda like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan cost them dearly, and the US adventurism in the Middle East twenty years ago is now costing the US democracy.

Where are all the Russian faux concern trolls telling Ukraine to give up and stop sending their men and women to war; while more Russian soldiers die capturing Ukrainian territory at snails pace, which worsens their already dwindling pre-war population, and their economy being constrained by unprecedented sanctions resulting in ever increasing inflation on Russia?