It's a dreamlike feeling, to be a layperson, and see people make decisions that are so obviously going to lead to a huge disaster. You even start to doubt yourself sometime. But they really are going to do it, and it really is going to be a huge fucking disaster.
It's fitting that we are entering Q2 of the 21st century with a crisis big enough to match anything from Q1
One of the fundamental fuckups of western capital is the constant drive to eliminating slack and overcapacity in systems. It turns out, having lots of extra capacity has been one of China's huge competitive advantages. Being able to spin up production on a lot of extra unexpected demand puts them in the position to benefit from black swan events in a way that catches western capital flat-footed.
They're feeling 0.1% of what they make others feel.
That's how every UN vote goes these days. It's basically the explicit, official position of the USA that International Law such as it is:
Without looking into it, I would guess that this particular UN vote was basically just a performance vote to demonstrate just how psycho the USA is about that sort of thing.
What on earth happened in the last couple of decades that caused USA based Capital to retreat from sex so much? It used to be such an obvious adage that "sex sells", and that businesses would always find ways around prudish cultural taboos to sell it. Nowadays, it seems like the culture is fairly accepting of it, but it's the business world that smothers away any potential sexy stuff.
They don't. The DPRK makes no secret about their position: the existence of the ROK is the result of a naked ploy by the USA to create a country-sized beachhead that could be used against the USSR and/or China in an eventual World War 3. The ROK's position was not too different for many decades.
All considerations about political unification aside, what would a cultural unification of Korea even look like these days? Would there be any respect for any of the cultural uniqueness that has developed in each society over the course of 70 years?
This is why the popular kids should never be given power.
Trump's quixotic grudge against windmills is reaching bizarre heights.
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There's a golf course right next to the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, where everyone is taking their Instagram photos next to the hottest temperatures ever recorded.
You gotta think that many state actors are thinking long and hard about how to launch a drone attack against US and Israeli bombers and strike aircraft while they're on the ground. The US B2 fleet in particular is only 19 aircraft, and the locations of their hangars is well known.