“I’m not a fan of his politics or anything, but there’s no excuse for attacking other people’s property.” - US conservative “opinion”

More recent development in spoon engineering.

I cloned myself so he could live my dream of multiple accounts.

Ah yes, the dude playing a dude disguised as another dude approach

Silent Hill [Pay Your Respects]

So it’s happening in reverse, he’s burning the place down before his red Swingline keeps getting taken.

It sounds like Hong Kong still has a bit of autonomy. Hopefully this continues and the PRC doesn’t come down on it as administrative oversight on their part.

Uh huh! Uh huh! And all the vendors say he’s pretty fly, for a Valve guy

As far as I know, Tesla owns all of their showrooms and service centers. Sort of a point of contention between them and other American automakers that they don’t use the traditional dealership model.

Tangentially perhaps, what they’re talking about is related to pig butchering scams running out of “business parks” situated along the border with Thailand (in Cambodia and Myanmar). The people operating the scams are essentially kidnap victims lured with false job listings and coerced into working to pay off phony debts. Many of these are Chinese nationals but it seems to be a pretty mixed bag.

The article focuses on Chinese nationals seeking to leave the country to travel somewhere with casinos. Remote casino resorts have been sprouting up around various parts of Southeast Asia over the last decade or so. Many of these are also situated not far from the border with Thailand, but I’ve only heard of Chinese casinos in Myanmar and Laos. Casinos are illegal in Thailand so these attract Thai nationals as well as tourists looking to pass through Thailand to evade suspicion.

The owners/operators of these fraud centers and casinos are thought to related or even one and the same groups of Chinese “investors”/“businessmen”. This is largely anecdotal speculation however, as I’m not able to provide a reliable source for the connection here.

Russia went trans even earlier than that.

Ironic how it’s able to play more older Nintendo titles than the official console

I traveled to Europe for the first time only a few years ago, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to enter (as an American). The customs officer at Frankfurt didn’t utter a single word to me, just checked my passport and waved me through. Guess I’m too used to American government processes and institutions where efficiency and convenience are low priority for the end user.

Hopefully the ETIAS authorization process will bar these types whenever that goes live

The diet Coke of playable.

This is why he’s having such a hard time getting Musk to leave. How do you make a problem go away when your only problem solving skill is bribery and your problem is a higher degree of wealth than your bribing power?

Why not both? Call the nukes a welcome to NATO bonus.

50k gets you an “I’ll see what I can do” .

Toss in cha cha sliding into the macarena while you’re at it.

Don’t forget the various foreign nationals they tricked with promises of well paying support jobs only to hand them rifles and send them to the front lines.