It really was. I’ve watched it several times.

I’m not really sure what’s well known unless it’s enormously popular.

I’ve looked up the director, writer and actors from Rubicon to find similarly great work but this seemed to be a special convergence.

Rubicon

If you like espionage but from the analytical side.

Counterpart

If you like espionage, JK Simmons, and parallel dimensions

Berlin Station S1

If you like espionage and postwar Germany

BRICS is taking great strides forward. The rapprochement between China and India is necessary for that.

They have a new designation, partner country, allowing countries to take part without full agreement on all BRICS policies. Turkiye is joining as a partner despite its membership in NATO.

A grain exchange is being created, with other commodities exchanges to follow. Discussions on resisting sanctions, guaranteeing food security and energy security.

We are seeing the emergence of the new global organization.

Jelly beans. The fancy ones with many flavours like butter, apple, and cinnamon.

You’ll surely have those bean flavours to talk about, if nothing else.

I use Keepass2Android. Is there some reason Keepassxc is better, or just an alternative?

Good film. One of the few good Lovecraft adaptations, IMHO.

Richard Stanley was hired to direct “The Island of Doctor Moreau” but was replaced by John Frankenheimer after a few days of shooting. However, Stanley considered the film to be his baby (he co-wrote the script) and didn’t want to leave. So he disguised himself as one of the mutants and secretly remained on the shoot.

You can watch the documentary about the shooting of this B-movie and it’s full of weird details like that. It’s called “Lost Soul: the doomed journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Doctor Moreau”

Don’t eat between meals to re-establish your saliva microbiome and pH. This will do a lot for prevention of carie growth.

They have noses worthy of being our successor species. Something you’d see on the cover of a sci-fi novel called “Children of Earth” or something…

Some horrors need not be shown in the light of day

(This is) me, (a person) who doesn’t use AI.

And to celebrate that fact, Europe is joining the US in imposing massive tariffs on China’s electric vehicles and solar cells. Yay.

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Someone could build an army of clones of you, launch galactic war, and then you’d be hated all over the galaxy. Assuming you have good genes. Probably they made a bad movie about this.

Municipal drinking water is tested multiple times per day in Toronto, as it should be. Testing once and assuming the complex machinery and chemical levels are the same a week later is pure folly.

Note that this is different from testing well water, which shouldn’t change much. Testing well water once a year is a good idea though.

Yes, he is essentially pro Western which is why the NED funded the Levada center.

Putin had a meeting with the other candidates yesterday, by the way. I think that opposition is likely kept our of power by various means.

Especially important if the opposition is funded by the UK and US, like Navalny’s Democratic Alternative

Navalny’s support was at 9% nationally. A large percentage of Russians had never heard of him.

The Russian communist party is controlled opposition, likely.

But Putin himself doesn’t control everything. Just read Medvedev’s scathing speech criticizing him as Putin sat on the stage next to him.

We can criticize their system and say it isn’t a fair system so that’s why Putin is popular. But let’s not pretend he isn’t popular. And let’s not forget that Putin brought Russia out of a the economic collapse of the 90s and into the fifth largest economy. People appreciate having jobs, housing and food. A lot.

The point I’m making is that he is popular in Russia. Ergo, why wouldn’t he get elected? And more specifically, his election result is exactly in line with the US-backed polling company prediction.

As for how he runs the country, whether there are lies, I’m not making a point on that.

We should question the original Western narratives about a stolen election when we can see the evidence of Putin’s popularity. You can read articles in western media that affirm Putin is popular in Russia.

Check the second link. It’s a National endowment for democracy backed polling company. NED is founded by US Congress, has US Congress and State department oversight and funding.

Putin got 87% of the vote and yet in polls he only got 86% support. Definitely rigged.

https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/

https://www.ned.org/democracy-story/russia-polling-for-democracy-the-yuri-levada-analytical-center/