Hyperreality

Why would you need a freezer to treat rice?

As the article mentions, the trains previously ran on naan bread.

I do genuinely enjoy buying enough rice to last a year. Also bought a great cheap rice cooker at my local Chinese grocer. Idiot proof and almost certainly saves electricity.

I think I once worked out that the rice based meal I'd just eaten had cost less than a euro to make.

They also conveniently forgot to mention that almost 80% of their electricity generation comes from fossil fuels, increasingly from coal. But hey, no problem. Net zero by 2030. Coughcoughcoughcoughcoughcough.

Bit of a tangent, but I find it a bit funny when people say what China's doing in Africa isn't colonialism, because they're investing billions in infrastructure.

Imagine if the British government defended the brutal colonisation of India, by going on about how much they'd invested in the railways they used to ship out all the resources they plundered.

A freeze response is a perfectly common reaction to something like this. Happens regularly in car accidents. People panic, freeze, drive straight into a tree. It's not unlikely that you would react in the same way.

If anything you're the one with the IQ of a cucumber to think otherwise.

Meh. No big deal. Just amputate their legs, give them a shiny medal for their sacrifice, and wheel them out for the yearly may day parade.

Suspect it might have something to do with libel laws and/or Navalny no longer being alive to suffer the consequences of this reveal.

A reminder:

New prime minister refuses to say if he abandoned security for 2018 night in billionaire’s castle ... A trip Boris Johnson made to Italy for a party held by a billionaire socialite ended with the then foreign secretary at an airport “looking like he had slept in his clothes”, struggling to walk in a straight line and telling other passengers he had had a heavy night, the Guardian has been told. Pictures of the now prime minister along with an account from a fellow traveller shed further light on Johnson’s weekend away at the home of the media owner Evgeny Lebedev, who is known for hosting uproarious parties for the rich and famous at his converted castle near Perugia. ...

Italy ‘was monitoring Lebedev villa at time of Boris Johnson visit’ ... Intelligence service believed property was being used for espionage purposes, documentary claims ... Italian security concluded in a secret document that Alexander Lebedev, a former Russian spy who became a wealthy businessman, had continued to enjoy the “favour and friendship” of Vladimir Putin and queried whether he had genuinely severed ties with Russian intelligence after leaving the KGB decades earlier. It stated that Lebedev’s resignation from the Russian spy agency, for which he served in London between 1988 and 1992, was “considered by many to be unclear”.

It's absurd. Biden's position is shit, but at least he's slightly critical of Netenyahu. Trump is quite clearly worse than Biden.

I mean, Trump's position on West Bank settlements is that they're perfectly legal. That what amounts ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is perfectly legal. Biden reversed that, restoring the longstanding policy that it is in fact illegal for Israeli settlers to (violently) chase Palestinians off their land.

I honestly wonder if these people actually give a shit about the Palestinians, or want them to become martyrs for the cause because it's more politically expedient. If deep down they wouldn't rather the Israelis kill as many Palestinians as possible, because they think it'll help them 'win the argument'.

Disgusting.