It's a proxy server that works kind of like an Advanced version of the Wayback Machine. So old PCs like this, can connect to something like what the internet would've been like when they were first made.
I have the Protoweb browser on my Linux mint machine, running through wine. It's fun to poke around at, and great for internet archaeology
As an ML, I'm quite fond of other leftists, thank you very much.
While we might have our disagreements, some of them quite stark, I still get along with my Trotskyist or Anarchist friends, and their struggles are also my struggle. I might disagree with how they're going about it, but that's what critical support is for.
That's because the west exported all of its manufacturing there.
China is among the highest in raw carbon emissions, but has an extremely low per-capita emissions rate. Compared to the US, who's per-capita emissions rate is among the highest in the world.
Plus, China is making a sharp pivot towards the development of renewable energy, electric vehicles, and transit oriented development.
And the global supply chain its been building, whatever one might think of the Belt and Road initiative, allows them to cheaply sell things like solar panels and rail infrastructure back to the countries supplying them with raw materials. Allowing those countries to electrify in such a way as to skip over more carbon heavy forms of power generation.
There's context here, and saying "But China burns so much coal!" doesn't tell the whole story. They're not burning it in a vacuum, for funsies.
While Maduro himself isn't a very well liked leader, his party, the PSUV, and the social movement base that put Hugo Chavez and the PSUV into power to begin with, is very popular.
And that social movement base is made up of a network of communes and neighborhood committees which run their own infrastructure, train cadre, operate people's militias, etc. In addition to the traditional, top-down organs of the Venezuelan military.
Plus, the opposition is even more unpopular than Maduro, within the country, and can't even scrounge up anyone to represent them politically. Sure, right now it's Machado, but does anyone remember Juan Guaido? A man that the US arbitrarily recognized as the real president of Venezuela, despite 80% of Venezuelans having never heard of him?
That's much more significant than Sadam, who's Baath party had no real social base by 2003, and was highly disconnected from the interests of most Iraqis.
Not to Mention that the geography is very different. Iraq, save for the northern mountains, is very flat. While Venezuela is very mountainous. The coasts aren't flat, easy to land on, beaches. They're giant mountains which give a lot of cover from naval artillery, and the rugged terrain means insurgents in the mountains who are nigh impossible to root out.
Honestly? The kids cartoons are kind of a beacon of good storytelling in Star Wars, nowadays.
Obviously they're for children, and some arcs are boring filler, so YMMV, but they're also able to tell these smaller, off the beaten path, stories that you don't get elsewhere.
I said this in another comment that Star War's big problem has been that It's very in love with itself. It's a self-referential fever dream that feels more like a child smashing their toys together, than a real show.
So ironically, the shows for children don't have that problem quite so much. For instance, there's an episode of The Bad Batch where a bunch of miners rise up and kill their boss. That shit rules! That's a fun story that happens to take place in the Star Wars universe, and isn't concerned with the fact that it's Star Wars
I really liked Andor, but that's because it was trying to be a political spy thriller first, and a star wars show second.
Most Disney Star Wars is really in love with the fact that its Star Wars, to the point that it feels like a child smashing their toys together, than an actual show or movie
Ok but those Call of Duty games for the DS were always so interesting to me. The attempt to take such a bombastic console experience and squeeze it onto a handheld often produced janky results, but it was a charming kind of jank
I was on a forum, back in the day, focused on weird, or otherwise niche DS ports, and those games were easily the most popular.
They even had tournaments with the Developers, which was neat
https://protoweb.org/
It's a proxy server that works kind of like an Advanced version of the Wayback Machine. So old PCs like this, can connect to something like what the internet would've been like when they were first made.
I have the Protoweb browser on my Linux mint machine, running through wine. It's fun to poke around at, and great for internet archaeology