but I don’t think he’s criticizing Canadians

But he put the onus on Canadians to go back to normal consumption - giving up any leverage if that’s what this was about - as a mere peace offering.

That’s like Russian ceasefire terms. The guy should understand that’s not how we restore friendships.

And while I only miss a little bourbon on the high holidays and some ‘medicinal’ JD Honey, I’m starting to think boycotting America is a great operating procedure when they elect cruel and stupid leaders.

“*******” is a weird password. Aren’t there supposed to be letters and numbers ?

I think those robes, the crown, the Sceptre, they were all the Crown’s stuff - aka the Firm, the organization that is the English monarchy - and not his. They existed before him, they will exist after him, and his wearing them lays little claim of ownership past “work clothes” than a pilot can claim to own the plane he’s flying.

Yes, it’s a bad look. The guy at the bank denying loans wears a fancy suit. The lawyers in America fighting to deny healthcare wear amazing suits.

Would you have him sell the crown he doesn’t effectively own to throw money at a problem? Never go to the Louvre, or they’ll toss you out for yelling about how they should sell the art to pay for the French homeless.

In all this you forget: if the pilot sells his plane, if the Louvre sells some pricy paintings, if the Crown’s representative sells the work clothes he’s issued, who’s buying it? That guy, those people buying them, they’ve truly amassed a personal fortune to be able to buy something like that. It’s not work for them; it’s obscene decadence and greed.

THOSE are your villains. Taxation is how we get them to pay their share from here on in, like we did in the '40s through the '70s. And I think the max tax rate above 1mil gross takings every year should be a 101% tax rate: you’re paying everything you took and just a little bit more. Maybe take less. Maybe launch fewer rockets and buy a few less elections and pay to fix hunger and healthcare and all that instead.

Thailand’s age of consent is 15. Colombia’s is 14.

That’s insane.

Linux’s license not count as about Linux?

Philosophically, no.

In set theory, also no.

Legally, still no.

Does it contain similar letters? Like Laughter and Slaughter do, yes.

medias

That’s already plural. It’s like a hat on a hat.

they will need to be constantly replaced.

This is the funniest part. Can you imagine completely rebuilding the average datacenter every half-decade?

source the materials out there

That’s 5 words and trillions of dollars worth of start-up cost.

If we’re so dead-set on flying servers out to LEO so they can be micro-meteor target practice, maybe we could leverage the no-water, solar powered setup we’d have to do there to get better DCs on earth here, first. We’d have gravity and thus convection on our side as we look at cooling, not to mention the vastly better proximity to supply chains during the proof-of-concept phase.

Is there something in print? I get that Ms Psaki needs to read this super-slow for some of the audience, but I read way faster and I am dyin’ when they all do the slow and measured reading.

maxxing

Faxing, taxing, relaxing. Why the exxxxxtreme x?

Point: potential security risks identified

Counterpoint: cheaper

You see how these things don’t really intersect, right?

This is gonna be the way. PR too, America’s second-least-favourite protectorate after Samoa (you forgot it existed, didn’t ya?). PR can shore up a bunch with solar power – and whatever one does for things like storm damage mitigation, the other can also.

And let’s do haiti next, although that’ll need to be a whole new secure endeavour out of like an embassy basement or something that can’t be stolen or blown up.

Probably violates sanctions. With your DHS being super racist and paranoid, best not upset them and get sent to the thunder dome.

Touch grass, my dude.

No. Things are not as I naively wished. Things never are.

But they can be their own kind of awesome, and that’s okay.

You paint Bernie and AoC with the Trump brush?

I don’t really understand the point?

Correct: you don’t. I’m basing this only off what you wrote, but I’m reasonably confident of my answer. Glad I could answer the question as asked.

Shaame!

Well, we get to slam it and heckle its users, because, well, we need SOME joy in The world…

No. Any frustration like this only serves to push all employees a bit.

And the Dead Sea Effect reminds us that the people who leave first will be those who get jobs elsewhere first. These are the most employable, and thus the most capable, and thus probably your best employees.

RTO and other stupid patterns won’t push out the most desperate; they’ll push out the most valuable. And then the most valuable of what’s left. And so on.

Managers who choose pride over effectiveness need to be unemployed.