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“if you made more money, you could have had your own insurance policy and this wouldn’t have happened.”
My father and I live separately but bundle our cars to save money.
Throw it right back and say if your Mom made more money you wouldn’t need to bundle your insurance.
At the risk of becoming :can-excuse-1: :can-excuse-2:
I can excuse copying proprietary code but I draw the line at stripping attribution of other open source code. 
Taking a break from Baldur’s Gate 3 on the urge to play War for the Overworld DLC. I beat the main campaign years ago, so this was an effort to finish up the rest of the game.
:minecraft: :pika-pickaxe:
I think the whole humanity is selfish it’s evolutionary thing is wrong. Throughout history time and time again humanity has come together and made progress and I think it’ll happen again.
I’m like a one-man army promoting A Paradise Built In Hell because she talks all about this. She even references US Military studies of the WWII strategic bombing campaigns being counterproductive because they galvanized the bombed populace. It is a great companion to the Shock Doctrine book.
Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2, and then Planescape Torment, will absolutely scratch your itch.
I guess they really are “mercenary” 
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Unironically Nixon Goes To China. This was part of a larger normalization of US-Communist relations throughout the world.
Also, throughout the 90s and 00s there was a persistent belief that China was “liberalizing” and they would one day become a Capitalist Democracy like the rest of us. There are shades of End Of History that influenced this thinking, and it wasn’t broken until the mid 10s. Here’s The Economist admitting as much in 2018, and probably the only admission of being wrong by the publication.
Not since Mao Zedong has a Chinese leader wielded so much power so openly. This is not just a big change for China (see article), but also strong evidence that the West’s 25-year bet on China has failed.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West welcomed the next big communist country into the global economic order. Western leaders believed that giving China a stake in institutions such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO) would bind it into the rules-based system set up after the second world war (see Briefing). They hoped that economic integration would encourage China to evolve into a market economy and that, as they grew wealthier, its people would come to yearn for democratic freedoms, rights and the rule of law.
It was a worthy vision, which this newspaper shared, and better than shutting China out. China has grown rich beyond anybody’s imagining. Under the leadership of Hu Jintao, you could still picture the bet paying off. When Mr Xi took power five years ago China was rife with speculation that he would move towards constitutional rule. Today the illusion has been shattered. In reality, Mr Xi has steered politics and economics towards repression, state control and confrontation.
I’m getting a lot of questions about taglines that are answered by the taglines