hyperconnectivity
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yamamanamaJessica agrees that Turkmenbashi is at least somewhat humble because he named the worst month after himself. She told me she doesn't understand how dictatorships like Turkmenistan and North Korea and Sudan survive. I know that Karimov successfully portrayed himself as a bulwark against terrorism and Sri Lanka is really good at public relations and Assad survives because even after the ISIS thing backfired dramatically, he's still able to lure us into fighting his war. Ok, I guess Syria was more an authoritarian quasi-republic and not a completely batshit insane dictatorship where the name for bread and snake and Friday and that damn dog are all the same word, where there are ice palaces in the desert and golden statues that rotate to face the sun. I just don't think the Syrian Arab Republic will remain a simple authoritarian quasi-republic if it survives a decades-long civil war. I do think it will be less Turkmenistan-like and more Sri Lanka-like.
It's just too bad trying to remake the world is like casting rocks at the moon.
I didn't tell Jessica this but part of me thinks that if Sterling Archer ran a country, it would be a lot like Turkmenistan. Probably because I just thought of it.
She's never been to Turkmenistan but she's been to various Caribbean islands (and doesn't know what monkeys are doing there) and Japan (the dictatorship fell apart because they antagonized the United States while fighting a stalemate in China) and Germany (where the dictatorship fell apart because they tried to invade the Soviet Union AND they tried to terror bomb the British into submission instead of going after military targets AND many many other reasons).
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are not an anti-Jewish screed, they're an attempt to discredit republicanism by associating it with undesirables, sort of like Democratic Underground and their attempts to smear the Arab Spring by associating it with Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
I did learn that birds, reptiles, and rabbits all have chunky pus that has to be scooped out and then flushed instead of liquid pus that can be drained and flushed because of different white blood cells and different enzymes. And the long-necked varieties are susceptible to abscesses on the backs of their necks because they often have their heads sticking out and when they pull it back in to protect themselves, they scrape it against their scutes.
I really don't know what happened and how I missed both the draining and the hawk getting x-rayed.
The coyotes have radically different coat patterns. That's normal for coyotes around here.
Nina quoted Kindergarden Cop to a ferret (it's naht a toomah!) and I can't say the name Mendoza without raising my hand up and shouting.
Burning Question: Bob's Burgers is getting preempted for football. Ugh, it will be like this until the Super Bowl, won't it?
It's just too bad trying to remake the world is like casting rocks at the moon.
I didn't tell Jessica this but part of me thinks that if Sterling Archer ran a country, it would be a lot like Turkmenistan. Probably because I just thought of it.
She's never been to Turkmenistan but she's been to various Caribbean islands (and doesn't know what monkeys are doing there) and Japan (the dictatorship fell apart because they antagonized the United States while fighting a stalemate in China) and Germany (where the dictatorship fell apart because they tried to invade the Soviet Union AND they tried to terror bomb the British into submission instead of going after military targets AND many many other reasons).
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are not an anti-Jewish screed, they're an attempt to discredit republicanism by associating it with undesirables, sort of like Democratic Underground and their attempts to smear the Arab Spring by associating it with Al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
I did learn that birds, reptiles, and rabbits all have chunky pus that has to be scooped out and then flushed instead of liquid pus that can be drained and flushed because of different white blood cells and different enzymes. And the long-necked varieties are susceptible to abscesses on the backs of their necks because they often have their heads sticking out and when they pull it back in to protect themselves, they scrape it against their scutes.
I really don't know what happened and how I missed both the draining and the hawk getting x-rayed.
The coyotes have radically different coat patterns. That's normal for coyotes around here.
Nina quoted Kindergarden Cop to a ferret (it's naht a toomah!) and I can't say the name Mendoza without raising my hand up and shouting.
Burning Question: Bob's Burgers is getting preempted for football. Ugh, it will be like this until the Super Bowl, won't it?
