Vritrahan

What Cowbee said. But to simplify, a system that is extractive structurally, will always expand that leeching outside it’s borders eventually.

Projection

As a mumbai native, I have to say, foreigners obsess about Dharavi too much. It is just the largest slum we have and it’s not even that bad for Indian standards. There are multi-crore businesses being run from there. We have smaller slums in much worse conditions all over urban India. Dharavi has become like the privileged brand ambassador for Indian slums.

Opus (and its predecessor Vorbis) is intended for telephony. It’s compression algorithm is optimised for low latency encoding of speech.

Rimworld

There’s plenty of Russia and China criticism even on the political comms

According to polling, Israelis overwhelmingly support the genocide. They are complicit.

I don’t have anything handy but I believe there’s a wikipedia page which has references for this topic. I can’t remember which one.

The news about the pilot is correct. Xi Jinping had been pushing for it for a long time and this is all he has been able to get so far. He is strongly against speculative growth of real estate.

AFAIK residents don’t have to compete to renew the lease. We have seen the first batches of leases expiring in recent times and no one got evicted. What I understand is that, you can’t sell your house after the lease expires, but you can continue living their indefinitely till the building crumbles. If the government decides to demolish and redevelop, then they give you a new house in the same place.

There are no property taxes in China last I checked.

Come to a country that was colonised by the British, and you’ll see a very different opinion. And there’s far more of us than white people.

Aren’t we all working voluntarily? Or are some of us enslaved property?

Checking in

Recently gave in and upgraded to a 9070 XT

+1 to Travelers. It was as a pleasant surprise. Rare to find such a unique sci-fi premise these days.

Upvoted for Stellaris, Hearts of Iron 4 and Steel Division 2. I’ve drained too many night hours on these games.

Not a fun experience on my desktop 1070 Ti

The misc tools drawer? I have one that’s overflowing. My parents have multiple drawers and cabinets of this.

Government officials have also been executed for corruption, especially since Xi Jinping became general secretary.

You either fall in love with it or you get bored.