On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
PetVille have given their flower pots a makeover. There are new flowers to choose from. There are also brand new flower vases. Every day when you change the flowers a golden butterfly will come and sit on the flowers which you can click for bonus points. User however do not seem to like the idea to much. Feedback has been that the vases are too big. Users want the old flowers and vases back. Changes to the basic element of the game always seem to bring about an uproar. Since players are used to the way things are and do not really want any big changes. [Photo: PetVille] PetVille starts you off with a new green flower pot for every pot you had in your pet's rooms. Instead of buying flowers and waiting them to wilt to drop a bonus, the objective of this new system is to arrange flowers each day so that when the Golden Butterfly makes its daily rounds, it'll be the one to drop you a bonus. This Golden Butterfly Reward is totally dependent on how many flowers you have in your v...