You're right, and I was being facetious.

You responded well and explained it for all. Thank you.

But they couldn't do it for Apu... Cowards.

While on average assaults and violent crime are lower in Budapest, I'm not sure that that will hold true when comparing the experience of gender non-conforming folks in those cities.

Have you ridden on the Pyongyang metro? What was it like?

Where's your favourite place to go in North Korea?

What're some of your favourite books and films?

Complicated. Big.

A collection of a wide range of geography, languages, and peoples. Held together by a mix of national pride, iron fist, and a solid record of on the whole very good for most people improvements in life quality in living memory.

Big. Brazen. Splashy. But with an inability to face problems, and a resignation to the world as is. An almost fatalistic attitude paired with naïve or blind optimism on its dexter side.

A place filled with potential, as well as already existing food, culture, history. But hard to find much of it as modernity does a speed run towards uniformity and mass production, while historical sites are rebuilt as poured concrete facsimiles.

Disregarding fictionality, it also includes moths, at least one plant, and maybe arachnids (and controversially perhaps, an ape).

Like a dime store Werner Von Braun.

That's a lot of stuff, but we don't call Alphabet/Google a US Military company do we?

Though I'm down to call them both military companies.

I blame the gay panic of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Mostly agree... Not sure why you think it's limited to Western countries though unless you're including India and China as well as Japan as Western.

And since it's a feature of Capitalism, I don't imagine the rest of the world is immune to it.

My favourite is the one where they use bananas as proof of God. (Always boring monothiests, too..

"Destroyed"? Could we perhaps use more specific language?

Does this petition mean shut down, or a loss of bug fixing and anti-hacker support, or something else?