speak for yourself, im
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Navy ends tradition of Chinese laundrymen on warships over spying fears (Telegraph, 23rd of October, 2023)
The Navy is ditching its century-old tradition of having Chinese servants on warships amid fears they could be spying.
Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on British ships since the 1930s with most from Hong Kong but will now be replaced by Nepalese Gurkhas.
The Sun reported that the Ministry of Defence had made the decision over fears Beijing could obtain secret information by threatening the loved ones of laundrymen.
The paper said that three Chinese nationals were barred from joining HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier, on her strike group voyage to the contested South China Sea. A fourth Chinese laundryman was dismissed this month after 39 years of washing and pressing sailors’ uniforms and officers’ white tablecloths because his family lives in Hong Kong.
The tradition began as a local custom early in the last century and was formalised through contracts with various Hong Kong companies.
gamer: a woman?!!! * unintelligible *
spider solitaire enjoyers: ha ha, yes.... that spider IS scary!
if true then 
Exclusive: ‘Mutiny Brewing’ Inside State Department Over Israel-Palestine Policy
Morale is low, and some staffers are preparing to formally express their opposition to President Joe Biden's approach, officials told HuffPost.
Israeli politician: “The children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves” (18th of October, 2023)
It really is hard to imagine a more malicious statement than “the children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves” when children in Gaza are now being massacred by the hundreds. But this was actually said in a recent Knesset session. And it wasn’t someone considered an extreme right-winger, but a liberal centrist – Meirav Ben-Ari from Yair Lapid’s opposition party Yesh Atid.
i finally finished writing the first chapter of my first novel!!! it's dogshit, and there's so much editing to do, but still... i did it?!!
[Not the Onion] Kevin Spacey Gets Standing Ovation After Oxford University Lecture On Cancel Culture
how the hell are they gonna drag this corpse through another election cycle?
and we will stand forever
paying for netflix isn't fine either