Enjoyable American interview with understated nonagenarian vaccine recipient - shows the best stereotypes of both countries, with Americans genuinely touched and the pensioner complaining about the p… (View Post)

As the vaccine results come in, if most of them work there are going to be knotty nice-to-have problems for every government. Do they prioritise the one they can get most of quickly, the one that wor… (View Post)

Some of the tariffs do come down to standards of production. Generally, it is illegal under WTO to prohibit imports on the basis that one dislikes the way the produce was made (70-hour working weeks,… (View Post)

In general, "progress", defined as raising standards and assisting poorer people, is potentially held back by the prospect of being undercut by other states. Normally, this is avoided by a … (View Post)

It's a common pattern in massive multi-player games where you're mostly interacting with people you don't know. I always prefer to attack someone called Mighty Beowulf than players cal… (View Post)