This kind of stuff now regularly spilling across the pond feels so completely absurd that l have a hard time grasping them at all for total lack of sane real world reference.
Sometimes feels like the US drifted into some alternate dimension based on some Vonnegut novel or so, and the space-time-ripples caused by this are mangling the rest of the world.
Edit:
Also, as someone raised as a Catholic l feel mocked and want to slap him in the face even harder.
Unless “lottery” is a euphemism for some other means of acquiring a large sum of money that doesn’t provide a receipt…
Well, after 3/4 or so of a rotation l usually run out of hose to coil around me, so… no.
I am also in the shower while not doing it, so the question wether l am facing the shower somehow doesn’t make any sense…
… What??
I think your question just broke my brain.
No, quite definetly not.
At least not in the role of a journalist.
Private vacation would be ok for most.
Probably all the dark red ones on the RSF index, and for me personally also all of the dark orange ones (yeah, I guess I am a coward… but there are reasons l am not a journalist…):
Same l wouldn’t visit as a conservative journalist?
Meaning countries that have a problem with the concept of journalism and free press.
The “leftist” in the question really doesn’t make a difference.
Not USA centric.
It is also solid advice here in Germany and probably many other countries.
Your comment might be UK centric…
Must have been living during a different 2000s than you…
Progress was crazy during the 00s.
In 2000 we still had clunky stationary computing only, in most cases without or only with modem speed online access.
Photography still was analog, music came on huge, physically fragile silver discs.
By 2010, wireless always-on access had become ubiquitous, fully digitalized private life for most.
Everything coming after 2010 feels like almost complete stagnation in comparison.
Only exception: recent generative AI technology. And l am not sure if I am happy about that…
How bad is Scottish English in reality?
Did you understand anything at all when first moving there?