Yup, that’s another one! Some of the tunes from Windwaker and other games in the series also.

Lots of songs from the Zelda games. Gerudo Valley and Lost Woods from Ocarina of Time come to mind.

Same!

Basically the justification for bombing Yemen, “they’re threatening the sea lanes and international shipping!!”

Nevermind that they are doing a targeted embargo to stop a literal genocide, the specter of treat stoppage is used as justification for violence in response.

I’m not sure that’s 100% accurate. The indigenous peoples represented by CONAIE are a well organized political force and they basically brought down the three administrations prior to Correa, they helped create the conditions for Correa’s citizens revolution and were supportive of it I think? They were essentially part of his coalition but the schism where they became critical of him I think revolved around extractive industry. Correa used oil revenues to fund infrastructure and social programs (whereas prior to him almost all oil revenues went to paying interest on IMF loans). The indigenous people basically want the oil to stay in the ground, as the extraction industry is highly damaging to the environment. But the revenues from that industry provided the basis for a lot of Correa’s developmental program. This is a legitimate point of contention that could have been handled better all around. For what it’s worth, these people were part of rising up against Lenin Moreno after he went full traitor and started taking IMF money and implementing austerity, and were part of bringing down his administration to where he had to resign and call early new elections. So they are basically responsible for ending most of the terrible presidencies in Ecuador over the last several decades, but never organized that sort of action against Correa’s own admin. The national police are the ones that tried to take Correa out and failed, and these indigenous people frequently find themselves in pitched battle against those same police during neoliberal admins.

I bought one of those as a gag gift, it went over really well.

Aircraft carriers are powered by on board nuclear power plants, they don’t use conventional fuel at all.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a version like that. It’s possible since she was half asleep she’s misremembering the order of events, because Tiny Tim does die in the hypothetical future shown by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

But after Scrooge changes his ways, Tiny Tim lives. That’s explicit in the original work and all the adaptations I’ve ever seen.

Whenever I’m walking up stairs I worry I might trip and hit my teeth right on the edge of a stair and knock my teeth out

That’s right, it’s just the Germanic name for the same deity.

Donnerstag means “day of thunder” and is named after Donar, the god of war in old Germanic mythology. Donar is better known by his Norse name, Thor.

It’s only fair, that’s what they ask countries like Venezuela and Bolivia to do. Oh wait no, it’s actually even less reasonable, they just demand the results be reversed when they don’t like them lol

I’m pretty sure the Reagan hostage deal stuff is actually confirmed, I don’t remember though whether it was tied into his illegal arms sales to Iran or if it was entirely separate from that

They’ve been calling for it for ages. But peace predicated on an actual end to the war which means a full end to the illegal occupation and siege of Gaza etc.

Didn’t she?

It’s been a while since I felt like that, though I know what you’re talking about. I think I’ve come to terms with it and have a really healthy outlook now. I don’t want to die or anything, there’s a lot more I want to do and see and learn, but I also don’t fear death whenever it comes. In some ways it will be a relief.

Let me know if you find something like that, I’m also interested.

Ukraine wasn’t present for the vote apparently that’s why it’s black and not green

No problem. The author is definitely a lib who wrote it from a pro-US perspective as a warning basically, like “if you don’t stop treating Puerto Rico like shit they’re going to leave you for China” but if you can look past the ideology I think it’s got some good info.

If Puerto Rico were independent it could start doing deals with China which the US doesn’t want, I read a whole book about that once which I can’t remember the details of super well but maybe the book would interest you.

America’s Last Fortress: Puerto Rico’s sovereignty, China’s Caribbean Belt and Road, and America’s National Security

By Alexander Odishelidze

Well she has no chance of winning, so it’d be sort of weird if she did care about that or was talking like it was a real possibility. It’s still good that there are anti-genocide candidates like her and the PSL candidate on the ballot. I don’t think people who vote for them are expecting them to win, they’re signaling their disapproval of the two candidates who might win.