I think Russia aa a vasal state is one of his aims.
But defeating the power and will of the democratic world to stand up for human rights, and stand in the way of Chinese expansion is another.

Chinese expansion includes taking Taiwan and ruling the South China Sea.

Plenty of data held by Medicare has good purposes. Some are necessary for service provision like another commenter mentioned. Some are also needed for medical research and Medicate budgeting decisions

I suspect patriots are not inherently that much more expensive. It is just the price they could fetch because there was no competition

Putin’s patsy

The UK monarch is also the head of the Anglican Church. The biggest problem I have with Christianity is how they (we, in fact), supported slavery and colonialism for centuries yet still pose as having moral authority.

What is the point of this kind of post? Many here would not even know what this refers to, or why we might care about it It may not be against sidebar rule 2, but it seems against the spirit of that rule, and in fact the spirit of the Pics community

To me it really doesn’t look like a call to genocide. In a democracy like Australia, religion is being defeated gradually by education, rational debate, and mockery when all else fails.

Great and unique post for this community! We need more post<religionX> posts here

What a wonderful person she was, a national treasure of America and an inspiration to the world.
Without her, the America is even less great.

Children generally don’t have a clear and settled opinion on trans rights. This actress saying she doesn’t agree with Rowling can make them think, so it is useful for trans rights that she said this

Yet her saying this would be noticed by many Harry Potter fans and hopefully make them think. While not taking the role would not communicate anything to the fans

Wow, this guy can write. When I got to “The Ghost Stories of Savannah”, I thought for moment that it was an unnecessary detour - then I saw it.

Wikimedia is a not for profit foundation. Not a corporation.

But it looks like the Chinese car industry may also not be the success story that it seems. Because it is subsidised by the state. Despite that, it looks like BYD is dumping cars into the market, in Australia at least, to support their share price

You can make a change like this? Wow, I’ll have to look into if my fund can do this

People in the rest of the world will also be affected for at least two reasons:

1. Pension funds throughout the world is invested in US big tech, and if these companies fall in value, so will their pensions.
2. A financial crisis caused by US big tech could cause a US recession which will also damage the economies of the rest of the world.

Every other carmaker will do the same if it works, because there is strong competition in the market for cars. For ethics around workers being replaced by technology, changing the law to protect workers is the only way.

“yet it drives me crazy for no good reason” - you said it bro!

For this camera at this place the risk is not a lot. The problem is that if an authoritarian state has the the whole market for security cameras, then there is no other option for places where security is much more important.

Like corruption, imperialism is a human thing. Not only the US or the West can be seduced by it.