Pretty sure there was a TV in every home and they were surveillance devices

Hence the phrase, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” If the only recourse to an intolerable situation is death, then someone is going to die.

I had a teacher tell me women couldn’t get hemophilia because it’s a sex-linked gene. True enough, but it’s on the X chromosome, and what do you suppose happens if a woman has that gene on both of them… I lost points on a test because of that.

This was before the internet, so I couldn’t easily find answers to prove he was wrong.

I wouldn’t call it positive, but it is very successful.

Even more fun fact: the masculine is gender neutral, so it also means just “friend”.

So somewhere between doing absolutely nothing to armed revolution. How enlightening.

Was plan B sitting on your hands?

Given the risks, I think caution should be taken. That said, altering even a smaller asteroid’s orbit is a long and slow task. If done at all properly there will be plenty of time to adjust its orbit to make it safe.

A brief reminder, uncertainty, rapidly changing stances, and blustering the whole time is a pretty accurate synopsis of Trump’s last term. Why would we expect anything different this time?

Even worse, it was made “unprofitable” by being required to have a ridiculously high standard of pension coverage, which I believe just ended or ends soon.

Tariffs can have certain benefits if wielded with finesse in the right circumstances. Trump uses anything he has like a blunt object. The goal of the retaliatory tariffs was to cause key parts of America pain, rather than mostly Canada feeling the pain of these tariffs.

As for helping the working class. No tariffs are better than tariffs for that working class, but that group has been neglected or targeted for a long time.

Leadership sets the tone of a community. If the leaders are going to allow hate towards some part of the community, that effect will spread. So why would they allow hate of any type?

Now imagine you were moderating a Spore community. Some pastel-colored planets seem pretty tame compared to the imagery that game allowed.

This is a key point. A lot of Canadians are going to avoid buying American, at which point it doesn’t matter if they’re product is on the shelves or if the price didn’t go up, so there will still be some economic impact even if our leaders kiss and make up.

Trump didn’t piss off one person, he pissed off millions, then gave them a target. And this isn’t a unique event. Similar responses are happening in the EU and elsewhere.

I’m not sure how you’re going to talk politics without personality, and this is both indicative and typical of his personality.

Trump hasn’t liked Trudeau since he won Trump’s stupid little handshake game.

Hence, the plans in Project 2025 to remove people who resist their plans in most bureaucracies and replace them with loyal followers. While they may not be as effective at running the bureaucracy, they will be very effective informants. And the bureaucracy being effective isn’t high on their priorities. And on top of all that, their base will approve of the bureaucracies running poorly because they’ve been taught that they represent government waste. At least until they learn about all the things they do that they never thought about until they stop being done right, on time, or at all.

I prefer the best money can buy. Best politicians, legal system, healthcare, education…all can be had for the right price.

As a general rule, if a politician won’t give an answer it’s because they know it will hurt their chances of being elected or reelected. So which answer is likely to hurt him or the conservatives?

The recent spate of broken underwater cables has been in the Baltic Sea, and I’m not sure if there is a short route between those two locations. I doubt this particular ship has any connection with those incidents.

It’s amazing how little advancements we make when we don’t fund them…