When I bought the 8 Pro I went caseless, no screen protector, and no sleeve. The screen was pretty scratched after 4/5 months. Then I dropped it on concrete and put a skin and screen protector on the replacement, and travelling with a sleeve.

I’m going caseless with my 10 Pro but I’ve put a screen protector on.

Chinese propaganda depicting dragons as ‘lame floating snakes with mustaches’. I’m so offended! 😆

I wonder if the any Russians reading this might wonder if this was how their government sounded when they invaded Ukraine.

While this is true, I would also add that it’s ok and valid to be sad and unhappy. There is no obligation to put on a smile.

In a country were people believe that practice of safe sex can be taught by 14, I can’t fathom why they think responsible Internet practice can be taught earlier than 16.

I don’t think the killing them all part is necessarily a motivator. Perhaps more so that solar and wind have become price competitive, and that investing in renewables have the additional benefit of helping China lead in these crucial areas.

Tolerance of intolerance is not a path to freedom. Choosing to do nothing will only mean that rights and freedoms will be destroyed. Call this the lesser of two evils if you must.

If you let intolerance fester, it will grow and take control, then it will start hurting and squeezing others. It’d be foolish to sacrifice freedom in the name of freedom.

An unusual counterpoint. The ‘krompomat’ the Russians wasn’t really proven, and at this stage I think if they threaten him with releasing whatever Trump can just go ‘LOL like I give a fuck. You seen the shit I did to their face? They still voted for me!’

Things will have to be really really bad for MAGA to notice and then actually acknowledge issues. Even then they might use excuses and blame others.

COVID handling was objectively terrible, with plenty of examples of mismanagement, but they’ve basically completely forgotten about it and the ‘mismanagement’ they might point to are the availability of vaccines, or the ability of workplaces to make people wear masks.

They can also completely ignore the blatant corruption with employing close family members as advisors and diplomats, while on the other side, even leaning on a family name to get a job was too much. Don’t forget that they’ve also come to the conclusion than Jan 6 wasn’t bad.

No, the path to an election win isn’t to appeal to the far right cult and hope that enough of them switch sides. They appealed to people switching sides this election and it failed miserably.

Some ways needs to be found to energise your own base, and find a crisis to run on, real or exaggerated.

There are many other things too of course, but this isn’t an essay. Last thing I’d say is that just because one side embraced lunacy, it doesn’t mean the other side has to