Boris Johnson also knows a thing or two about homoerotic stuff, UK good schools and all.

They say people had fun in Daggerfall.

They’ll likely want specialists from the one that does. Hence the culture.

Either Armenia or Azerbaijan could host it, Armenia endorsed Azerbaijan in exchange for them releasing another portion of hostages (the 2020 ceasefire agreement says that all PoWs must be released, so they are hostages ; and of course people captured after that are).

So in this particular case, apparently, kickbacks did not play a significant role. Which is actually rare for Azerbaijan.

Maybe they’re hoping for a “This is what your country will look like if everyone continues to ignore this problem” reaction from the attendees?

Not necessarily hoping, but this is a useful effect actually.

I like Taiwan (I admire China as a civilization, and the democratic part of it especially), but chip production should be decentralized.

Bleeding edge is good and all, but there are plenty of applications where you don’t need anything near bleeding edge. While centralized production means centralization around one specific chain of countries involved in that production. A major center somewhere else would most likely have a different chain. A few major centers - even more. That would create redundancy and improve competitiveness.

Ukraine’s were Russian honest word.

They had a lot of nukes, shouldn’t have given them all to Russia. It was a case of western pressure btw. Not having too many nuclear powers and all that.

Because in the country where they have the process actually existing, in the company that has the process actually existing, the culture of said country applies. Which means despotism, corporate fanaticism and long work hours.

COP29 is held in Azerbaijan. People are talking as if Taliban going there were weird, but holding any such event in a country culturally and ecologically most similar to Mordor seems weirder.

Of course they do. Holding someone’s leash it’s easier to control them and thus, among other things, prevent them from violating some rule.

Doesn’t mean all people need leashes and collars, except for private life.

No. I meant a modern thing filling the same niche. Palemoon is just old FF supported by a group of delusional people (their attack on OpenBSD with “official branding” or something comes to mind).

Nobody is going to really talk about preserving climate in Baku of all places. The only areas not similar to Mordor polluted wasteland in Azerbaijan are not Azerbaijan, they are occupied Artsakh and sparsely populated mountains, villages with sheep and all, to the north of it. And the main reason they remained kinda green is that they were not controlled by Azeris.

It’s only called a climate conference, in fact it’s a meeting for Azeris to make deals on selling their oil or something.

Oh. F*ck Larry.

The conference is in Baku and compared to Azeris Taliban is almost normal.

To defense as part of NATO - yes.

Nah. It’s a trope all right.

“For 20 years” is fine.

and it’s Holy Book, Modern Monetary Theory.

I thought MMT is the left Dems’ thing? AOC and crowd. Generally no, it’s not something anyone is on the same page about.

There’s still that little issue of building up your own. Most EU countries have been demilitarizing for 30 years more and more, with the strategy being “it’s a new world without wars, and also big daddy USA will protect us, and if not them, then Britain and France will”. Britain has done an exit, and France alone is kinda lazy.

Bring. Back. XUL.

Or at least something as functional.

And HTML5 with modern JS were a mistake. Maybe it all can be made some kind of embeddable content processed in its own sandbox in an optional plugin. Just like with Flash. So something like NPAPI, but for modern age with its security nuances.

I know nobody is going to do that, just if Firefox were still faithful to its initial goal, they would try to introduce their own evolutionary paths and not just chase Chrome (which is a lost cause anyway). Even if Chrome is being treated as standard.

I won’t object to this comment being treated as idiotic, FF is a mainstream browser now, them just dropping half the modern common web standards in favor of some own idea of things would be a weird kind of suicide.

It’s not an argument, just a thought.

That’s what I meant. Phones should be treated similarly to houses.