This is Japan starting to play hardball, and I gotta say, it’s a fantastic play by them. They are currently holding a $1T fiscal knife to our throat (their US bond portfolio, and the threat to resume/continue a coordinated sell with other countries), and it’s absolutely a reasonable strategy under these (admittedly completely insane) circumstances.
Oklahoma:
hold my beer
I mean… is it unneeded and unusable because of sweeping and stupid doctrinal changes that are happening because everything in this country is run by incompetent idiots now? Because I was under the impression for a while now that the M10 was exactly what a lot of the lower and middle ranks were saying was needed.
Jesus tapdancing christ Schumer is such a completely fucking vapid imbecilic tool. It’s like he’s moving deck chairs around on the Lusitania
I’d like to once again congratulate drugs for winning the war on drugs
I’m sorry, but I cannot stop laughing at this hedgehog 😂
Oh, I know; every once in a while I enjoy rhetorically skewering them though.
Are you being serious right now? Is this really the rhetorical hill you want to die on?
I love Chinese culture and food and history. I have more than a few Chinese friends, from both Taiwan and the mainland. I have a couple of friends and coworkers from Hong Kong who I knew while they had to watch the PRC steamrolling the city from afar and tried to help their friends and family coordinate and escape before the crackdowns made that infeasible, and it was heartbreaking to see. I think it’s a goddamn travesty what the Chinese people have had to put up with for literal centuries - imperialism, followed by brutal military occupation, folllowed by a brutal civil war, followed by an authoritarian takeover by the PRC and a shocking number of extremely destructive and counterproductive policies enacted by Mao and his successors.
But sure; “I hate Chinese people”, because you don’t appear to have one whit of understanding of cultural nuance.
Stop spouting lemmygrad dogma. It’s so tiring. And nobody buys it.
I love automatics, because they have zero electronics, and they’ll keep working as long as you wear them. Just tweak the time to correct for any gain/loss every once in a while, and correct the date on non-31-day months.
Uh, just to be clear, I think “AI” and LLMs/codegen/imagegen/vidgen in particular are absolute cancer, and are often snake oil bullshit, as well as being meaningfully societally harmful in a lot of ways.
“But this time, the boss wants us to focus on sanctuary cities”
I am so fucking sick of people demanding perfection. In this case, perfection is very much the enemy of good. AOC and Sanders are some of the absolute best people currently a part of our political class. Insisting on perfection - especially when your definition of “perfection” would likely alienate a meaningful amount of people who currently support them - is counterproductive to the degree that I question whether people who say that shit are even arguing in good faith.
I’ll plug one because it’s local to me and they make really nice quality glasses: Randolph Engineering. If you like aviators, I think they’re one of the best out there. Made in Randolph, MA, just south of Boston. They’re not cheap, but they’re very well made.
This is a comically simple shibboleth. I’m not even sure you can even call it a shibboleth, actually, considering it’s just a simple screening for “I drink the NK kool-aid” lol
who’s gonna stop me?
-ICE and CBP, probably
Yeah the CVTs they use are absolute trash
Nicely done! That’s pretty awesome :)
Though I should point out that it’s also not hard to lock down a windows install a bit more if you don’t make the default account an admin one. But moving to Linux is better imo for a whole host of reasons.
Were you able to get citizenship somewhere, or just permanent residency? I admit idk exactly how that works in terms of citizenship renouncement