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As a nice point on the whole Republic "We are Law and Order first".. The Guardian - How they happily de-funded the police we actually need

Eh, it's a pain to save an image, upload it to photobucket or some such service, and then share it on the forums, so I tend to just directly link them. I've never been able to find an option to delete old pictures from the Forum gallery you can upload to, so it's maxed out from long dead threads.

CNN - Poland accidentally invaded the Czech Republic

I just viewed that as an extra part of the joke when I saw it... On to other htings..

SeattleTimes - The inspiring story of Seattle man's coronavirus survival comes with a 1.1 million dollar hospital bill Not that with insurance and all he'd actually have to pay all that, but it still makes you blink a touch at US health and pricing....

I've been reading a bunch of translated Chinese Wuxia / Xanxia novels the past couple of years, and they can be interesting. However, one thing that flags up an awful lot in any set in the "modern" day world is a slew of casual racism against other nations, some very off-putting stereotypes of other countries, and this sense that China is actually an innocent, naive, very bullied underdog that is picked on by everybody else in the world. It's hard to figure out if it's all a cultural thing by the authors, or just stuff they put in to make sure they don't get censored (or even censured) by The Party...