One thing I’ve been impressed with China for is moving towards greener technologies. They’re a leader in solar, their EV’s are apparently very good (not that I can get one here to verify that), and they’re pretty dogged in their pursuit of nuclear energy.

Meanwhile USA is apparently still in “let’s overturn regimes and take over other countries for the oil companies” mode

A lot of Catholics seem to consider themselves the “uber-Christians”, with the whole Pope thing being their religious king, such as it were.

And the ones like that are absolutely terrible at actually following the lessons of their religion too. Now they’ve got a new “king” so I guess the Pope doesn’t matter as much

Yeah I’m pretty sure their take on it is “her gay leftie lover made him feel threatened”

Aka setting the "don’t worry, she wasn’t ‘one of us’ " distinction for the MAGAtts

I think that the cloud system might be needed to initially pair the speaker to a network+account, but apart from that no. The speakers in my media network are not allowed Internet access.

Pretty sure the rest of the world is also still getting hurt by the current shit…

That kinda sucks, especially since even the older ones work with Home Assistant etc directly now