It’s probably true that not many people use the IM portion of iMessage in the EU. In my experience, I’ve never actually seen anyone use it.
That being said, since it’s the default SMS app, you can’t convince me that most iPhone users don’t use it al least once a month (even if just to get a one time code from the bank). It’s definitely more than 45 million users, at least for the SMS part of the app.
Eh, I thought the same, but then after reading their comments, it’s like going from one authoritarian extremist ideology to another authoritarian extremist ideology. Especially when both pro Nazis and pro commies seem to both boil down to being just pro Putin fanatics. I’m wondering if the propaganda doesn’t come from the same place trying to capture both spectrums.
Well, it’s not like an anime episode is the same as a live action episode though.
An anime episode is like 20 minutes of content after you remove the opening and recap and ending. And if you remove all the filler and repeating scenes, it’s maybe 5-10 minutes of actual content. They adapted like 45-50 episodes into 8, and the first saga is probably one of the most dense in terms of content.
For the future, I fully expect a 10:1 ratio between anime episodes and live episodes. Maybe even more.
That would still mean more than 12 seasons to go, before catching up to now, with who knows how many more before the series ends.
Unlike China who can definitely get real buddy buddy with everyone around them.
Eh, I don’t know. I think they fucked up lots of relations with their neighbors as well due to the same imperialistic politics. They have shitty relations with Japan, SK, Taiwan, all the nation in the South China Sea, Vietnam and India. Relations with Russia, and USSR before that, have always been a bit tense (Mongolia issue, plus claims over Vladivostok). The rest are minor nations, mostly under the sphere of influence of other empires.
From what I can see, they are trying to create a sphere of influence of their own in Asia, propping up the new dictatorship in Myanmar, helping the Pakistani and trying to snatch up the central Asian “-stan” nations from Russia’s influence. Success is mixed.
Anyway, economically speaking these are not real partners like the western block, but more like client states. The real economic partners of China remain the western nations. Without them China’s trade would be non-existent.
Yeah, I was thinking about going into a gas giant, walking on it and exploring it. It didn’t occur to me they were referring to Bespin-like floating cities
Really? How? There’s like no light, millions of bars of pressure, temperatures that rival the sun, and, if I’m not mistaken, once you go low enough you should just end up in a big sea of liquid hydrogen. Not to mention the huge amounts of radiations you’d be subjected to, the thousands of km/h winds and the extreme storms inside.
Thinking about it, entering a gas giant would be pretty terrifying.
Italy here. Usually factories and many offices shut down for at least 2 weeks in August. Essential services obviously stay open.
Some other services may or may not decide to close, like a butcher may decide to close for a few weeks in the summer. Same for some bars/restaurants etc. Not all of them, some of them.
Also there’s a huge difference between where you are. If you live in the industrialized north, then what I described it’s more or less true, but if you live in the south, it’s all completely different. August becomes the busiest period for the tourist-centric south, with bars and restaurants working at maximum capacity, beaches and cities all full of tourists and service workers actually increase in this period.
It’s obviously not 100% all society shuts down, but if you are an American company trying to do business with Europe in August, just keep in mind that lots of stuff will be postponed to September.
Eh, I don’t buy it. To me it seems just an excuse. Both Russia and China at one point were full state run centrally planned economies. Communist countries made up half the world (leaving aside third world countries), half of Europe, lots of population and plenty of natural resources. There was no reason why they couldn’t succeed if they banded together with the superior economic theory.
But now you are telling me that they couldn’t help the global south, and therefore Russia and China had to abandon communism and switch to full blown capitalism? To beat the US at capitalism? And then go back to communism?
Hot take: they are both just as bad and imperialistic as the US, selfish to the core, only trying to become the top dog on the world stage, by any means possible. Not that hot actually, it’s been the same shit since forever
ITT supposed communists suck on Russia’s dick for… some reason?
Someone still has to explain this to me, why Russian capitalism is apparently ok, while any other capitalism is not. Suck on the billionaire Russians’ dicks, with their yachts in Porto Fino, while half the country doesn’t have access to basic necessities.
They’re not even trying to mask it as communism like China ¯_(ツ)_/¯