Below the Radar (Issues being eclipsed by coronavirus)

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/longcat-internet-meme-nobiko-japan-dies-age-cause-b528190.html

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RIP LongCat

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FTFY >

They should memorialize him with a special edition Slinky.

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This story moved me to tears. I saw these folks interviewed on Friday. So very sad that this beautiful creature has been kept - solitary - in a tiny enclosure for 50 years

"We promised when you hear a drum, it’s your heartbeat, it’s our heartbeat,” Morris called.

“You know you’re not alone, we love you, your people love you …We’ll bring you home.”

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Here’s the crowd waiting to hear the verdict:

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Opinion: yes.

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Running a country of ~61 million people as a tax haven & laundrette for the questionable rich, without a competitive industrial and/or agricultural sector, doesn’t look sustainable to me.

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without a competitive industrial and/or agricultural sector

You have to wonder how much of “Great” Britain was ever really sustainable without an Empire to loot… and I can’t say that we “colonials” are keen for that to return any time soon. I’d say WW1 pretty much exhausted any warm feelings about the “mother country”.

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Yeah, but you see, they had a flag!

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