The UAE in general is an interesting experience. I've only been once, but my wife has been several times for work.
The face they want to present has a kind of a Pan-European middlebrow banality (i.e. you want to impress many people who may or may not be all that thoughtful and who definitely speak many different languages and have different cultural touchstones... I am thinking of stuff like the old BASF "nothingburger" ads or the "anthems for Eurovision or Champions League football), combined with an American-like sense of recklessly cheerful enthusiasm for development and economic growth, but wrapped in a cloak of religiosity and always with a barely concealed underpinning of oligarchic authoritarianism.
To be perfectly honest, it felt a lot like what I expect the evil, but less mustache-twirlingly evil, hope America will be. Still open for business, and even superficially welcoming, but with true wealth only going to those selected by the entrenched power structure, with all others allowed to serve at their pleasure and under a bedrock expectation of not disturbing their preferred social order.
I've had chocolate made with camel milk. It was good, though being positioned as a premium thing it probably would have been just as good with cow milk.
Love After Lockup is full of extremely healthy relationships.
Yes, yes, I know, and in fact one does lost interest after a while. Still, some reality trash can be interesting in the first season or two when they're gathering the initial crop of free-range crazy instead of raising their own herd. Frankly, I'm surprised we haven't seen a proper "SovCit" reality franchise.
I particularly remember the heart-dropping feeling of the repeated changes in pitch as it negotiated a lower baud rate to account for the shitty wiring my dad DIY'd.
Somebody's pet ferret once showed up on my parents' back porch in when I was in college. No way to track, and signs resulted in nothing. They gave it to my sister's then-GF.
Cute little bugger, like a cat but friendlier. Kinda stinky though.
She has laid the groundwork as a kind of MAGA-acceptable Super-TERF. She's a power-fantasy for all the evangelical stay at home moms, the Boss Bitch who will protect them from the bad people: yes rapists, but especially any trans women who make them feel uncomfortable.
She'll be given a leash exactly long enough to bite anyone who is less powerful than she is.
Yup. The word "legitimate" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, and he's just hoping that no one asks the follow up, "How do we determine whether a use of power is legitimate?"
Partly true, but as we've seen from the Steamboat Willie thing, the specific aesthetics of the Beatty movie, and even elements like the two-way wrist radio (introduced 1946) or any villains who came along later than 1932 will still be protected for a while.
The Venn diagram circle of constituents who are complaining now is about 99% inside the one of constituents who will vote MAGA no matter what.