Savvy95

Thank you for explaining it to a layperson. Your enjoyment of this hobby shines through and so you've enlightened me to some new in the world.

Has your hobby produced anything useful or sharable? Or is like all the beautiful pictures I've taken that remain on my phone?

Even currently in some rich Middle East countries, there are technically slave workers - construction & household to name 2.

Here's a good podcast about US petro-dollars & how it impacts the world economy

[Congressional Dish] CD276: The Demise of Dollar Dominance #congressionalDish https://podcastaddict.com/congressional-dish/episode/159774687 via @PodcastAddict

Here are some messages sent

https://atlantic-cable.com/Article/1858Messages/index.htm

Also the first message was from Q Victoria to President Buchanan for laying the Transatlantic line.

Tell me more. I'm no rocket surgeon, so use comprehensively monosyllabic word thingys.

I've read that some do it to help the scientific community figure out stuff. What though. Idk.

Is AI doing this too? Is it faster, better, more creative at optimizing?

Aren't molecules already optimized, so what are you actually doing? Folding them? What does that even mean?

Help me understand.

I like calling id xD

Yes. If he talks with Putin about "government policy" or "international relations" then he has to register with the US government as doing so.

It's against the law to privately speak with foreign nations about those categories. It may put you at odds with US policy or maybe you dont see the whole picture, so it's better in the US eyes to ban foreign diplomacy by private citizens.

For those not around when that happened, i remember it this way, after 20 years of booze, weed & hookers:

The student protest was extremely peaceful and organized. There were student delegations that would report up to student representatives, educatio delegation, housing delegation, for example. The representatives were negotiating with Party people. It was unclear at the time if the Party people were indicative of the top brass. But there was a worldwide feeling something good and right might be changing in China. If I recall correctly this went on for weeks, so the implications were setting in.

Then it all changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

What the video & still represent is not 1 man facing a line of tanks. It a culmination of a generation of students frustrated enough but clever enough to find a way to negotiate a change and when the Army came in they knew they failed. The world knew they failed. The question was how badly that failure was. There were a few days when nothing happened after this video. Then it happened all at once. And the rest as they say is History -- repression, violence, killing, abductions, lost family members, and rewriting history.

Like the Velvet Revolutions of the Middle East, it was a short time of hope for a better future, for the students & for their nation.

That feeling stays & that feeling is what China wants their populace to forget - and you forget by meming this historic picture without context.

P.S I don't know if the man was ever found out, but I hope he stays anonymous.

It reminds me of that old joke of the 2 scientists studying a fly.

Scientist 1: Fly, fly! Scientist 2: When fly has two wings fly flies 2 feet.

Scientist 1: pulls off one wing and says Fly, Fly! Scientist 2: When fly has 1 wing, fly flies 1 foot

Scientist 1: pulls off the other wing and says, Fly, fly!. Nothing happens Scientist 1 Fly, Fly! Nothing happens Scientist 1 showing frustration> FLY! FLY! Scientist 2: When fly has no wings, fly becomes deaf.

Bad-dum!

Well the TV show from the 70's wasn't known for its strong dialogue, interesting story line or complex characters either.

A man and his dog. Shazam!

And lol meant lots if love ❤️

Interesting note. That is the 2 maggots, where famous artists in the 1930-1960's would have afternoon coffee and discuss politics, paintings, and everything of the day .