Some of it was invented by Japanese-American restaurateurs (fortune cookies are one example), who were in the same business as the Chinese ones: using their knowledge to make cheap, satisfying food that the locals would like, authenticity being no consideration. It all got labelled as “Chinese”, because that’s where they assumed the cooks were from.
Like a transistor only larger, less efficient and more fragile.
Also, he had, by all accounts, a crush on a noblewoman named Beatrice, whom he made into the embodiment of beauty and goodness in his books.
They know his type too well
TERF Island in fascism shocker
Possibly not, but it may take you longer to return to the nitrogen cycle
Is it legal to not be a Muslim in Saudi Arabia? I thought it was a crime unless one had special dispensation (typically granted to foreign advisors and such).
The real-world equivalent of a typical fediverse account
Is this another proxy for the 18th-century Partition of Poland?
That colour scheme is the wrong way around. Looking at it and knowing nothing else, you’d imagine how dark and grim it must be to be trapped in a hellhole like, say, Sweden or New Zealand, and how much better it would be to breathe the free air in Saudi Arabia or China.
Given the margin they make on games, and their absolute control of games for the platform, they could get away with a razors-and-blades pricing model of making a loss on the consoles and making it back from software. (IIRC, some game consoles historically were sold on this model.)
I am a Divine Being : You are an Object You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue
That’s not even buying it; you’re renting it by the nanosecond.
To be fair, the pensioners only need to install a remote-admin app and click OK on a few dialogs. The nice person calling from Microsoft tech support to help them get rid of their virus can do the rest.
The great cycle of life