The Western Sahara is an oil rich region populated by an indigenous Berber population that is subjugated by the Moroccan state.
The vast deposits of oil and minerals made the region a prime target of colonization by Spain and later Francoist Spain, and the Moroccan state vehemently opposes any self determination as the region generates billions in profit.
If you think the war on drugs was a failure, just wait till you see what your idea would cause.
Just watched my cat jump up on a cabinet in full view of my entire family, sit down like an old man on a couch with a beer, and then start licking his crotch.
They absolutely know what they’re doing.
Selection bias and easily falsifiable reporting at play here. The cats are definitely lying.
Wilson’s review seems more a review of the intellectual and analytical value of the film instead of an actual film review. Reads more like someone analyzing and critiquing the individual brushstrokes and materials used by an artist then the actual finished painting itself.
I found Oppenheimer fairly underwhelming and a disappointing watch, oddly reminiscent of the mid-late 2000s Oscar bait movies. While I wouldn’t say watching the film is a complete waste of time, as the cinematography and scene work is decent enough, Oppenheimer is not a movie I would ever spend the time watching again.
The overall message seemed fairly convoluted and confused as a film attempting to make a moral point, while simultaneously only providing surface level and disparate biographical information on Oppenheimer or the Manhattan Project. Ultimately, not a particularly interesting narrative film, and a lackluster at best informational film.
There were some cool shots.
I’m going to be entirely honest, this is a virtually impossible macroeconomic question to answer with any concrete number that doesn’t rely inherently on vibes.
What do we consider part of the economy? Consumer? Infrastructure? Military? Utilities? What constitutes “planned”? Very little of the consumer market in China is truly planned, and are we counting extremely heavy oversight and regulation, or only direct control?
Also the number is actually “decreasing” in China, not because capitalists are winning, but so many private businesses are opening and succeeding each year.
North Korea is a black sheep siege economy, plus we have little to no economic data to base any answers off. The Russian economy is nearly entirely subsidized by oil and gas production which you could say is “planned”, because the same oil oligarchs also run the government. I don’t want to touch the US economy with a ten foot pole, as dissecting the largest/second largest economy on the globe is a terrifying prospect.
The ban was put into place for primarily moral reasons alongside combating Triad sex trafficking operations, and no one particularly cares to challenge the law because porn is one of those ‘open secret’ activities that everyone consumes via VPNs.
Because the non-aligned movement was largely lip service and Cuba was seeking any and all allies against the United States. Ideologically and diplomatically Cuba was staunchly in the Soviets corner.
What? In what way were Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, and North Korea true adherents of the non-aligned movement and not merely doing so for realpolitik reasons? All four of those countries were staunch supporters of the USSR and major diplomatic allies, trade partners, and in ideological cohorts with the Soviet Union.
Cuba sent hundreds of thousands of troops alongside the Soviets to fight the South Africans invading Angola.
Did you have a stroke while writing this?
That’s perfectly reasonable, neither me nor my partner smoke, drink, do drugs, or other negative activities, and we are both incredibly happy with each other and the relationship. We don’t even avoid such activities for religious or some sort of moral reason, we just enjoy a vast array of other interests, and drinking, clubbing, and drugs are expensive. Plus, after spending a short stint in the medical field, and seeing firsthand what even light smoking and drug use to the human body, I can’t think of anything I’d want in my body less then drugs.
Lego wasn’t always focused on major IPs, however the company began teetering on the verge of bankruptcy in the 80s and 90s so money ran dry to create novel sets, which only exacerbated the cycle of decline. The only factor that prevented a complete collapse was the partnership with Star Wars which single-handedly saved the company, and pushed Lego to adopt an IP centered approach.
The company did have several independent IP such as Chima, Ninjago, Atlantis, and Bionicle, but the company was aquired by private equity firms in the early 2010 and those IP were tossed in the trash as children were no longer seen as an effective target market. Now, the company primarily targets individuals in the 21-35 age bracket, and seeing as that group enjoys Star Wars, Harry Potter, and so on, the company goes all in on those IP.
The uranium was inside the drone munitions. Depleted uranium is used in armour piercing weaponry. Sadly depleted uranium is still dangerous as the dust formed after the munition is expended is easily ingested into the human body. In the dust form the uranium can stick around for an incredibly long time, and the American use of depleted uranium is one of the major reasons that cancer rates in Iraq remain artificially elevated nearly twenty years after the invasion.
If you can’t delete Instagram or any other time wasting app, download an app called Opal and then put a lockdown block on those apps from 12:01am to 11:59pm. The lockdown block means you can’t simply undo the restriction, leaving you no way of getting around Opals block. Every time you try and open the app you’ll see a black screen with a random quote or bit of snark before the app automatically closes.
The petty attacks and bizarre lines are because the entire post was written by AI
Why would the Western Sahara be a weak state? The nation is largely socialist owing to centuries of subjugation with strong ties to Cuba and China who could provide substantial assistance and protection in exchange for access to the vast mineral and oil wealth of the nation.
Further, the population is low due to purposeful campaigns by the Moroccan government to dispossess and discourage the indigenous population from reproducing and presenting a larger threat to Moroccan rule.
Self determination has always been and continues to be the best option.