“Religion is a personal choice.”

Rarely is that true.

“God will provide”.

Teaching English to non-native speakers will fully open your eyes as to how broken and outright ridiculous the English language is. “To” and “too”. “Through” and “threw”…

It’s not bleak, it’s naive to assume that there has been no communication or back room deals between the politicians and the cartels.

She is not an independent candidate, she did not come to power via a coup. She is a veteran politician who played by the rules established before her and emerged the victor of a blatantly crooked game. People simply do not want to accept it because she is a woman.

Why would she? She’s part and parcel of the political furniture.

There’s a book by the same title that’s very good.

Personal recommendations. Sometimes I take a chance on random artists that I see on Bandcamp. Music/artists from TV shows and movies. Music I hear when out and about, Shazam is a wonderful app for identifying tracks.

They don’t believe in that bullshit any more than you do.

If they really believed that Big Brother is always watching them and will pass judgment when the time comes their behavior would be completely different, they might even be tempted to actually read that book they claim is his word. Alas…

I would if I had them.

It’s always advisable that you teach people how to use anything safely.

This really seems like a non-question. What is there to debate?

Artist name, album name, track name, track number, album art. Album artist in the metadata. Composer, label in the metadata.

What more do you need?

I hope you keep that same energy when natural disasters happen in the West…

And policing individual gardens, greenhouses and homes isn’t difficult to enforce?

I can believe that. The last time I lived in London one of the neighboring flats had 4 young women living in a 2 bedroom apartment with a small living area and tiny kitchen.

Britain ending slavery after they used the proceeds of their criminality to build up a technological advantage is not the noble feat that you’re making it out to be. The fact that the British government elected to compensate the criminals and not the victims of that evil trade should tell you everything that you need to know about how Brits viewed enslaved Africans at the time and arguably how they continue to view their descendants (see the offer to build a prison in Jamaica in lieu of reparations). The money spent on the navy was to protect the British monopoly and destroy competition, let us not deceive ourselves. If Britain was really as offended by slave labor as you claim they would not have replaced enslaved Africans with indentured Indians whose life chances were just as bleak on those British owned plantations - 10 years to win your freedom doesn’t mean much if the life expectancy on a plantation is only 5.

As for your claims of stability. That is pure nonsense. The Brits are the ones who fomented anarchy in much of the world by imposing leaders upon the people of faraway lands who would do their evil bidding. They further compounded their evil by forcing peoples who had no legacy of unity into faulty systems that would inevitably fall apart. The only thing that united the peoples of the areas we now know as India, Kenya, Sudan, Nigeria was their disdain of an invading and exploitative force.

Colonialism is a fancy word for armed robbery. It’s not trade if it’s done at the end of a barrel. The Indians could have easily grown and then manufactured their own cotton and kept the proceeds, if it was just about “trade”. Furthermore, much of that “trade” came about from the proceeds of slave labor on land that had been stolen. The important words in all of this are - theft, stolen, force and violence. That doesn’t sound much like trade to me.

And yes, empire and mass population movements do tend to be related. Creating instability and then taking credit for quelling the disquiet that they caused or blaming some third agencies for the anarchy caused by the empire is what empires tend to do.

Tell the Brits to suck it up. They made their flea ridden bed and now it’s time to take a nap in it.

That tends to be what happens when you steal other people’s resources and feed them lies about the “mother country”. Eventually some of those people will follow their stolen wealth.

In Germany (and other European nations) it’s easier to get planning permission to demolish existing houses and then self build.

I use the leech detector plugin on nicotine+. It allows me to set minimum parameters for the number of files and folders that users must have available to share before they can download from me. https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/tree/5fe3aa776bfecc4b06818edf131ae8cc9e8f79bd/pynicotine/plugins/leech_detector

Music that’s available on Bandcamp.

What did Cote D’Ivoire do to you for you to pick that one small west African nation from a list of over 100 countries?