Oh for fucks sake.

I’ll be a little surprised if he addresses it more than a passing comment - the US conservative population doesn’t actually give a shit about canada (unless they’re told to be mad about it for some specific scapegoaty reason, but they’ll just forget. Like they’ve all forgotten about the lumber issues, or eggs, or how ‘canada is killing the US garment industry’ that one was cute…). At this point he’s got enough other things to distract them with, so why waste his very limited attention span on something he’s declared a solved issue?

Why?

“WE TOLD YOU SO” is starting to get a bit old, does anyone have suggestions for something else we could shout impotently from the rooftops?

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That’s not gonna be hard, fortunately.

Christ, do you realize what a jerk you’re being right now? Someone lamenting that an outdated content release model is outdated isn’t an inherent sign of addiction and there’s absolutely no reason to be forcing this conclusion on them like it’s a golden and unimpeachable truth. All of human behavior can be reduced to the terms of a skinner box, if you’re willing to ignore enough nuance to get there. It doesn’t make an argument valid just because you make the comparison, because the world isn’t populated entirely by coke-addicted rodents.

Morticians hate this one weird trick!

Sure, but we won’t be able to afford them because of the tarrifs…

Edge case here: my hands are constantly dirty with things I don’t want to get on my phone (relevant hobbies include machining, gardening and calligraphy). A smart watch means I can check to see if a message is important (ex: kids/partner attempting to get ahold of me) and I can answer calls and texts just using my nose/tongue + TTS. I never understood why they were such a mainstream accessory, but they are very convenient in some circumstances.

(Edit: I just remembered another use case, my partner is medically “a dingus” and constantly loses their phone as a result, but habitually is always wearing their watch. Upgrading them to a smartwatch has meant our relationship no longer suffers the daily turmoil of tearing apart several rooms looking for it. Again pretty niche, but a wonderful QoL improvement)

Oh you’re fine, given the severity of the disinfo around this one (people here in the US are already calling for retaliation over the supposed deportations, rather predictably) I just wanted to clarify which part was true, and then I did that with the most pre-coffee phrasing possible.

I didn’t say anything about the deportation of american citizens though, since I couldn’t find a legit source. I think I snagged the quote from OKAY (for some reason, maybe I was high?). The quote is at least accurate in its contents.

But seriously, thank you for the follow up about the deportation being BS.

Yeah, sorry about that. If it helps, they’re kinda in charge of the US government right now so most of those groups have lost their funding through their own spectacular incompetence! So at least there’s hope! But not very much!

I know it’s the whole point of them doing this shit but it’s getting so hard to cope with the constant fucking around. What in the fuck are we going to do? At least for now they’ve realized how spectacularly stupid this move was, I guess.

As much as this comes amid a flurry of “screw the US” sentiment (and fair play for that), this move also included thirty other countries and has been a long-standing political issue in Namibia. It also was announced months ago and went into effect two weeks ago, and we’re only hearing about it now for some reason.

This bold decision, spearheaded by President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is framed as a move towards establishing reciprocity in international relations, asserting that if African citizens require visas to enter the United States, then American citizens should also be subject to the same requirements when entering Namibia. The President emphasized that this policy change is not an act of aggression but a matter of fairness and national dignity.

Smart move, especially with the recent mineral finds in the country. Hope they don’t get obliterated for having the sheer audacity to not bow to imperialism.

iirc this was just an engine that could run on most combustible hydrocarbons, a small gas turbine and some elaborate digestion setup I seem to remember, and the press really stretched a badly worded explanation of how it worked into ‘it eats corpses’. Which is fair, humans are mostly made from tasty biomass, but still.

edit: here’s a couple sources about it, it sounds like it does indeed run on vegetable biomass.

Yeah but howitzers are even more expensive :(

It is also – and don’t let anyone fool you here – absolute codswallop. The video is pure CGI, and even as a concept, this is as blue-sky as they come.

They evidently have a demo model that can “stand and pose” so that’s neat I guess, but sadly it is not real beyond that.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie

Yo we don’t care when americans shoot american children, why should we care if someone else wants to get in on it? No way to prevent this. ('sides, with a name like Omar Mohammad Rabea the kid had to have been brown)

Looking forward to the WTYP breakdown of what happened here, seems like a huge clusterfuck of events that had to line up for this