I won’t name any specific organizations, but the upshot is that you need to consume a variety of news sources from different countries and in different formats. It also pays to get into very specifically focused news organizations.

You would have a point were I simply speculating, but I’m not.

I am simply stating what the most well-informed and knowledgeable sources are saying.

You would know this if you had sanitized and healthy media consumption habits, but you obviously don’t.

Doubt it. The smart money says that he did it because he does a ton of business with the Chinese and is very nervous about being seen to actively take sides in a way that would cause them to see him as a potential security threat.

You say that like it’s a bug, not a feature.

Where, oh where are all of our apologists?

Maybe still figuring out what the “talking points” will be?

We’re all waiting for the inevitable bullshit.

Yeah, it’s so strange that people confuse you with a Kremlin bot when you repeatedly spew the same fucking bullshit talking points as the bots themselves.

Man, I have an iPhone for work, issued by my employer, and I fucking hate it. Sure, it has a fancy camera and a slick-looking user interface together with a suite of proprietary apps that we use to track production, man-hours and the like, but apart from that, it really is a “walled garden,” and isn’t something I would ever consider for personal use.

Again, I fuckin’hate it.

I don’t think “skill” is the right word here. It’s more of a basic competence issue.

Yeah, fair play.

I think she suffered from clinical depression all her life, but that’s just what I’ve been told, so maybe it’s not true?

I don’t know. I’ve never been a big enough fan to look into it and am only reporting what I’ve been told by my wife, who is a big fan.

Also, say what you want about Islam, but it’s just a simple fact that for the vast majority of her life Catholicism would have had a much bigger impact.

And I say that advisedly, as an American of Irish descent, who grew up in the Catholic Church and had some close friends affected by very unpleasant aspects that I won’t go into here, but that were part of what drives my current aversion to organized religion.

Clinical depression is what I’ve been told. Not sure if true.

I’ve said for years that the deniers and fossil fuel barons will be looked upon by future generations as some of history’s greatest villains. They will be seen in much the same light as a Hitler or Stalin or Mao.