This is the flaw in the hybrid socialist-capitalist system. Billionaires will sell out national interests.

We’ll see if the government is able to rein in Hutchison.

Ghosts expire once they complete their unfinished business. So any Neanderthal ghost around now would have to be spectacularly incompetent. Despite their popular reputation, Neanderthals were quite successful in their survival strategies.

Dinosaurs can’t be ghosts. They can become zombies though.

Basically we can understand ghostliness as a property of the tool-using hominids, and almost exclusively those which have developed civilization.

Personally, I don’t believe in ghosts but their existence doesn’t depend on my belief.

This is utterly ridiculous and also rather interesting. You could buy a house for $80k USD in some parts of the world. That this head-chopper wears it on his wrist shows that he is actually a civilized statesman, apparently.

Egg in a cup Several plates Sitting on pork n beans

“Battle for Pokrovsk: The Ukraine that city could be the most important of the war” Do they check their titles for grammar?

There’s a strong Italian influence in the character names, which are often quirky, pun filled, and dirty. I feel like the movie could be a Renaissance Italy sex comedy a la 70s horror films, but with a comedic twist. Like Suspiria or Vampyros Lesbos, but comedic.

Rules based international order, indeed!

China states that it is to cut off supply for military applications. More likely it was a tit-for-tat response to the CHIPS act. Cut China off from the most advanced chips, they cut the US off from the raw materials to make chips.

If it is actually about military applications that’s more worrisome. US generals have predicted war with China in the near future as a foregone conclusion.

Trade war is one thing. Military conflict between the two global superpowers would be disastrous.