Russia famously being an African nation.

MS have been pretty good at putting their games in rival stores to appease regulators, I could see them trying to get them on Mac too, especially with apple playing for the games market now too with their new chips.

It happens everywhere.

It’s an unfortunate side effect of an unequal society where people feel left behind and then see a lot of people who had the advantage and privilege to go though years of education lecturing them on how to live. This breeds resentment and makes them targets for movements and groups that oppose these ideas.

You’re going to see more and more of this all over Europe. Nearly half a billion people have seen their quality of life drop in the last decade or so from the post 2008 austerity to the current post Covid inflation with governments seeming powerless to make anything better anymore, seeing their government then allow tons of new people in who need assistance, whether you understand their plight or not, rubs people the wrong way.

I know theres the argument that there’s plenty of money in the system to help all these people if it wasn’t being horded at the top bymillionaires and billionaires, but how we access that money is very complex and abstract and requires global cooperation that isn’t going to happen any time soon.

With countries pulling back on climate policies meaning climate change will continue to pick up leading to mass migration from no longer habitable equatorial areas, I fully expect to see guns on the beaches of the Mediterranean in my life time to push boats back.

I know it’s a horrible view of the future, but I don’t see anyone trying to find other solutions.

Seeing footballers who’ve spent the last decade preaching to their domestic fans about progressive politics bugger of to Saudi Arabia as soon as the money was better was hilarious. There’s montage that Al Ettifaq put out of Henderson when they brought him, where they went as far as censoring the LGBT armband he’s worn in the Premier League and internationals.

Humans adaptability is what makes us different from animals who treat this stuff as second nature and are straight into their warrens, dens, etc the moment the sun goes down. A circadian rhythm in a human should allow for an hour’s shift either way. Otherwise we would never have been able to migrate and spread around so many different parts of the world with different daylight cycles to begin with.

But everything else shifts by an hour too? I literally don’t even notice the clocks change these days until I look at a non-connected clock, everything connected to the internet just shifts automatically, alarms and all. An hours difference shouldn’t put a healthy human out so much.

Surely your job also shifts with the clock change in a country that does DST, you don’t suddenly have to start work an hour earlier.

So by shifting the clock, it would get dark at 5pm, the time the majority of people leave work anyway (later for retail workers). Seems like your best solution is to move to southern Europe if you want more sunlight.

How hard is it to adjust. My clock on my phone updates itself, my alarm shifts accordingly, I don’t even realise it happens until I look at the coffee machine or microwave, I reset them and then forget it happens for another six months. If one hours shift effects you that much it seems like a medical issue.

Or not everyone lives in the same latitude and changing the time effects you a lot more the further from the equator you get.

I don’t like Musk, but this is false. South Africa became sovereign in 1934. Musk’s grandad moved from Canada to SA in 1950, 26 years later.

The hilarity being that in Breath of the Wild Link earns and furnishes that house, and when you go back there Zelda has clearly now moved in and replaced all the furnishing you did with her own stuff. Link is totall a man who’s willing to put up with that stuff because he’s getting laid regularly.

I’m looking forward to going over there and watching the test matches in the new year. I’ll give a proper opinion after.

Yet one of those countries is rapidly becoming a developing superpower.

If marrying cousins is the criteria, it’s probably somewhere like Leeds in the UK, not because of any British culture of cousin marriage but the high Asian populations there that have a lot of arranged marriage between cousins.

As a Brit I’m happy to admit we did some shitty things in India, as well as elsewhere, during the colonial era. However at this point we’re both happy members of the commonwealth with a decent relationship and a decent amount of cultural osmosis from each other. I mean our current prime minister is of Indian descent.

There’s a different between India and some other ex-colonial nations in that they aren’t still moaning about it and saying they need reperations, etc 70 odd years after the end of the empire. India got on with it as an independent nation and become one of the world’s fastest growing economies.

Have the six forms gone on half term already?

We do, these firearms officers would have only been sent out as the car was linked to a firearms offence, they aren’t regular officers. The case is no to determine whether him letting off the one (note only one shot, not clips worth), shot was justified in terms of the threat he perceived to himself and his fellow officers or if he reacted against his training and procedure.

We can’t help it if the US doesn’t teach it’s population proper English, take it up with your education system.