The original arrest of Meng also smells more like geopolitics than law enforcement. (View Post)

Weirdly the states have flipped the whole design around. The Senate is popularly elected and the House is chosen by each legislature via gerrymandering. (View Post)

To counter that with a tale of Japanese efficiency, I have a workshop building next to my house that's on its own power line. It had old-fashioned-looking meter on it from many years ago, but wh… (View Post)

I voted for Nandy over Starmer for similar reasons, but I feel like twatting around with leadership challenges and things is probably not the way forward right now. Dull competence waiting for the vo… (View Post)

This is one thing that blows me away about (small town) Japan. My bathroom windows got blown out in a typhoon, a few panes of glass were smashed but also the wooden frame was snapped. My guy waits fo… (View Post)