Raithe

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...

There is also the psychological hit of things. Any group is likely to tighten it's ranks when people are calling them names. The more you scream that a group is collectively X.. the more likely that group is to defend itself en masse rather than give out the ones within it that are utter ****. Altough running a couple of days late..:

I do have to chuckle over the Lincoln Project's latest ad... "It's taken nearly 4 years to get the crowds to the size he wanted..." Apparently, they really are getting under Trump's skin and into his head.