(as far as I can tell, she’s not living in China currently, and is some 1st gen Chinese Canadian YA author who writes Chinese history-inspired fantasy/SF)

Not living there currently. She They was born and spent their childhood there and speaks the language natively.

He gives lots of reasons, but if one of them isn't "oil-producing countries are starting to escape US hegemony and your gas-guzzling motor industry is on borrowed time" then I don't think he's really appealing to the US government's interests.

It's hard to believe. But it's easy to believe the lack of attention this news is getting

Or it's a glimpse at Rom's Dengist arc

The kicker is that Rom eventually becomes Grand Nagus and starts transforming Ferengi society.

The new HBO The Last Of Us series for example has this scene,

I love that scene. It's so authentic: hearing a white American describe his successful living arrangement as literal communism but saying it's not communism, and a black American correcting him. 100 years of Red Scare and minority struggle captured in a few lines of dialogue.

Start learning Chinese, you'll find it useful when you get to the end of that pipeline.

Get in the pokeball.

Church and State will still be seperated; they're just doing a little gerrymandering. Education is church now.

I recommend Dungeon World for the following reasons:

• Zero prep. Whoever's going to be the GM doesn't need to spend hours on planning. There's also shared world building, instead of the players just creating their characters and the GM being responsible for everything else.

• It has few rules, but they're important. New players playing dungeon world tend to quickly pick up on how the game is delivering structured creativity, and once they collectively have that understanding you're in a good place to experiment with other systems or homebrew variations on Dungeon World.

• It has low material demands. Pencil, paper, 6-sided dice. A browser window with tabs for everyone's character sheets in Google Docs will work, but you don't even need that.

• There's a bunch of other themes under the 'Powered By The Apocalypse' system that you can easily switch to.

The pill's effect works on the coffee, not the teacher, and the bewildered teacher is wondering why his coffee sets off his hayfever

Where I live it's both in person and over internet. I can show a QR code to my pharmacist and if I'm too old to know what a QR code is or if my phone is dead I can show the paper prescription or give them my ID

That's not just research, molten salt heliostats are in active use already.

How'd that work out for Australia and Gough Whitlam trying to close Pine Gap?

It doesn't matter what the people outside China think. The people inside China - on both sides of the Taiwan strait - think Taiwan is part of China. They all call themselves Chinese except the tiny minority that speak with American accents. There are indigenous ethnic minorities on Taiwan whose ancestors were not part of China, but they didn't call themselves 'Taiwan' because that's a Chinese word.

It depends on my mood.

Black coffee when I'm about to start something I enjoy.

Latté when I've just finished something I don't enjoy.

Comrade, that amount of humidity is normal in many parts of the world.

The British have colonized parts of the world where people work in these conditions on the daily, but they didn't take any knowledge of how to live and work comfortably in this kind of heat back home with them because the British solution was "make the locals do it", hence the Schadenfreude.

They get turned into AI art

And they're auxiliary to the functional areas of the hospital, where keeping facilities and the spaces between them sterile and well-lit is just basic hygiene practice.

Dedicated garden areas are great. They improve the well-being of in-patients and staff who enjoy them and people who can't or shouldn't use them don't get forced to.

And that still won't help the patients and staff with severe pollen allergies. Get your chest stitched back together after invasive heart surgery and then blow it back open again with a sneezing fit on the way back to your ward.