The name already made me think: "they slapped 'Bohemia' and 'Moravia' together", interesting to learn it wasn't a pure coincidence.

I also struggle with this mentality. When I do introspection, I find the following thought patterns:

• Not wanting a hassle, as you mentioned (risk aversion, lack of self-confidence)
• Constant messaging by society and parents that I can be taken advantage of and to mind my own business (individualism).
• Knowing that someone or a cause needs much more help than I can provide, like you also said, so any amount of help I give feels like a pittance and I feel guilty. ("letting perfect be the enemy of good")
• Knowing that many people or causes need money but I can't help all, so any choice I make feels random or biased to the most sympathetic.
• Getting a sense that the only moral thing to do then is to give up my relatively well-off existence to charity, mutual aid etc. and me not wanting to keep money for myself is selfish and "treatler-brained".
• Rather than accept the imperfect, I avoid the matter altogether and try excuses like: "I don't have cash on me right now, sorry"

I also find 6.1" to be ideal and anything larger to be cumbersome. Dad got me a Galaxy S24 last Christmas, which is the same size as an S10 and the same size as the Huawei P8 I have fond memories of.

Note: I actually wanted a Xiaomi 13, but dad buys everyone Samsungs and found that "too Chinese", his words which he couldn't elaborate on.

I'm in the same boat and so I find such charged characterisations pretty jarring. I at least appreciate people imagining a futurist aesthetic that isn't Silicon Valley minimalism, the "Society if" meme or grimy cyberpunk. I ignore any political programs that people tie into it.

I have no idea what any of this is about, as per usual

A few years ago, I learned that the official typeface used by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is called "Bandera".

I wonder, does Lemmygrad take a lot of flak for being 'tankie' too or is it just Hexbear?

I remember when the family separation/kids in cages story blew up during the first Trump administration, a woman defended her description of the detention centers as concentration camps by saying:

"Do we have to wait for an actual Holocaust to happen before we speak up?"

That stuck with me.

The Mandarin-language videos are modeled on a series of videos the agency made in recent years asking Russians to spy for the United States, appeals that previous C.I.A. leaders said helped develop new sources.

Sure...

Last year the C.I.A. released instructions in Mandarin [on Youtube] about how people in China could safely use the dark web to contact the agency. The text-only instructional video was viewed 900,000 times. While the Chinese internet is locked down and censored, American officials believe that more sophisticated Chinese officials know how to work around those controls.

Aren't VPNs very common in China?

Here is how NYT described the videos:

It's just branding, because it's a shuttle service between a mainline stop in a nearby village and their Gigafactory outside Berlin.

The best part is that this train isn't made by Tesla, it's just them leasing battery trains from Siemens, and they don't even operate them:

Tesla plans to switch to operating battery-electric trains from the Mireo Smart family, manufactured by Siemens, replacing diesel trains currently transporting employees to their factory near Berlin.

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The trains will be leased from the newly established leasing company, Smart Train Lease, founded by Siemens in early 2024. The operation of the trains will continue to be managed by the passenger transport operator Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB).

Source: https://www.railway.supply/en/tesla-is-transitioning-to-environmentally-friendly-trains/

As a history fact, Iranian Azerbaijan (which includes the provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan and Ardebil, sometimes Zanjan province is also included for being majority Azeri) is the OG Azerbaijan, with the modern country of Azerbaijan having historically referred to by other names:

The name Azerbaijan was first adopted for the area of the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan by the government of Musavat in 1918, after the collapse of the Russian Empire, when the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was established. Until then, the designation had been used exclusively to identify the adjacent region of contemporary northwestern Iran, while the area of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was formerly referred to as Arran and Shirvan. On that basis Iran protested the newly adopted country name.