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Commissar SFLUFAN

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  1. I've stopped consuming any sugar at all if I can help it!
  2. Let's check-in to see how this experiment is going... El Salvador’s plan to create the first Bitcoin-powered nation is tanking the economy—and is a mess by every measure FORTUNE.COM "El Salvador now has the most distressed sovereign debt in the world, and it's because of the Bitcoin folly," says Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University. Yup - that's pretty much how we all expected it would go!
  3. Chile’s president-elect names progressive, majority-women cabinet | Chile | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Gabriel Boric, 35, picks youthful team including at defence the granddaughter of Salvador Allende, who was overthrown in a military coup
  4. Ukraine: US offers Putin summit with Biden in effort to stop slide to war | Ukraine | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Move comes amid ‘frank and substantive’ talks in Geneva and announcement by Russia of new military exercises
  5. The Ukrainian president was rather displeased with what Biden said at his press conference: Ukrainian President pushes back on Biden: 'There are no minor incursions' WWW.CNN.COM Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly pushed back Thursday on US President Joe Biden's comments that a "minor incursion" by Russia into Ukraine would prompt a lesser response than a full-scale invasion, in an implicit rebuke of Biden's comments.
  6. In case you're wondering, it appears to have been COVID-19.
  7. I gotta say that I REALLY do like this "working class"/underworld side of the Star Wars universe a HELLUVA lot more than the "grander", higher stakes Jedi/Sith or Rebellion/Empire dynamics. I just feel much more "connected" to it as a piece of entertainment.
  8. I wonder if there was a consciously deliberate decision to "subvert" people's expectations about the character of Boba Fett, who really was a blank slate up until Season 2 of The Mandalorian. For example, everyone pretty much assumed that Boba was some kind of "complete badass" as @brucoe described him, but as it turns out, he's really kind of sentimental and thoughtful. Like, I'm not sure that Din Djarin would be all that fun to hang out with, but it seems like Boba would be pretty chill.
  9. The Call of Duty reference is so delightfully, deliberately, corporately vague that only Warzone could remain on the PlayStation and it would still be "technically" true.
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