The ones that get away probably never make the news. It's probably less viral and less news-worthy. While at the same time equally heart-warming and heartstring tugging.

This is the lady from the heartwarming story of a homeless vet giving his money to help her out.

There's only a handful of movie theaters in Saudi Arabia and it's only a tenth the size of America in population I grant you. But instead of people we can talk raw dollar figures and get Saudi Arabia closer to China in terms of capital. Factor that with Saudi Arabia's influence with rest of the region and you get a bit closer to a China comparison.

So does the Chinese government.

But the Chinese are eeking their way into Western culture with the knowledge that once they're fully in they can close the trap.

China is a really good example. They have Tiktok.

I really think if Saudi Arabia tried they could come up with something that competes with Wikipedia in the same way Tiktok is competing with Facebook. And the best way to spread influence, IMO, is to follow the China model. Just look at how much China makes Hollywood bend to it's will. Objectively, it's really something. Saudi Arabia can do something similar with all that money they have. And they're trying a bit here and there. That LIV golf thing seems to be a non-starter. But it shows they're trying a different tact. The thing is they have to start now. Before the oil runs out, before EVs take over, before temps reach 65°C in Riyadh.

Where's the "that's not how this works" lady?

Saudi Arabia is fully capable of making its own online encyclopedia. Why doesn't it just do that?

It's like when Ash's hand gets possessed and he's fighting it. Except the possessed hand is showing would-be immigrants the door.

If the US wanted to end Castro's regime it should have maintained diplomatic relations after a much shorter embargo. This decades long embargo is dumb and benefits no one. The US's greatest power is its soft power of economic and cultural influence. There was a McDonalds in Soviet Moscow for crying out loud. Sure, take a hard line on totalitarian regimes. But you can break down barriers by winning the hearts and minds of the people with McFlurrys and Selena Gomez concerts.

Bring back Ms Dewey.

The Alamo was in another country and done by two militaries. Pearl Harbor was also a military action. 9/11 wasn't a shooting.

Rocket fuel can't melt woven seams.

The byline isn't from a person. Which is usually suspect when other articles have a real person. Often this is done when the journalist wants some level of protection.

Most of the entertainment industry is run through who you know. Few people actually rise out of no where. Some do, to be fair. But it's a fairly good ol'boy, nepotistic, favor trading crowd. Even the nice ones.

For AMBER and Clear alerts there's the potential that a kidnapping happened. For Silver, CAMO and Endangered Missing Person, it's someone who may be in distress from PTSD, mental trauma or some manner of diminished capacity (for lack of a better term). It's a way to utilize existing reporting streams and best use resources after its concluded that an alert should be given. The goal is to get people back, which is good. But since there's a limitation on reporting things to the press and such a thing as AMBER Alert fatigue. So you don't want to saturate the public with alerts and making criteria for a threshold is needed to filter some cases out.

"Time to glue myself to the loading dock of an art museum."

-Some misguided protester.

Hey. Remember that easy victory Russia was going to have in its effort to denazify Ukraine? Well, here's a cup. Because in the likely event you don't return we want your wife to raise a baby by herself. Don't worry it's free. Just don't think about who's going to by with your wife as you're cold and alone in a foxhole while a drone hovers overhead.