My company made significant investments in doing business with our brothers and sisters to the north in Canada. That segment is entirely dead now. Our clients are apologetic to us personally but its pretty clear they don't want to do business with a US company. I don't blame them one bit. trump is killing us all.
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USCIS spokesman Matthew J. Tragesser told NPR that the goal is to prioritize the denaturalization of people who have been found lying or misrepresenting themselves in the naturalization process
...and from this source:
“When they did fund us,” Kimbal Musk recalled, “they realized that we were illegal immigrants.”
“Well…” Elon Musk interjected.
“Yes, we were,” Kimbal Musk pushed back.
Video of the remarks shows Elon Musk laughing as he jumped in with a different interpretation: “I’d say it was a gray area.”
Here are the two most important sentences from the entire article:
Weiss has said she was concerned about the episode airing without a sufficient response from the Trump administration.
“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Alfonsi wrote.
I'll go one further:
- Assumes the bulb is in reach. When I read the problem I assumed the bulb was in a ceiling fixture out of reach. Nowhere in the text description did it specify the physical location, except "in the other room".
The tune from South Parks “Blame Canada” Just doesn’t work well with blame trump but some the lyrics are spot on.
For the chorus, instead of the 4 syllable line of of "Blame Can-a-da" substitute"Blame don-ald-trump".
I doubt I ran into that, and I think a lot of it is just moderators removing things
Have you confirmed moderator deletions from the modlog or is it just a sense you have?
The Fragmentation Trap If you try to do everything yourself (the “solopreneur” route), you theoretically need a “tech stack” of 4-5 different subscriptions.
I'm not sure you appreciate how amazing it is today that a single "solopreneur" can actually perform all those roles all by themselves with software and skills of their own. Each one of those used to be an entire profession that required years of school and tens of thousands of dollars of tools and materials.
That said, there are good free open source tools that do most of those big things you cited. Examples include
- photo editor - GIMP
- Kdenlive - video editor
Would love to hear your thoughts on navigating this expensive landscape.
Starting any business requires money and time. You can "buy" shortcuts in time by spending money on more expensive tools. Alternatively if you have more time, you can do things more manually.
Considering OP has a Taiwanese flag in his username as well as a Japansese anime character name (with the kanji as well as the romaji, and a Chinese name (the hanzi as well as the pinyin), I'm guessing OP is at least moderately aware of non-Western cultures practices on the topic and I don't immediately suspect OP is judging people for their answers either way.
At 40 your dad is probably relying on you for many basic life needs. You're no longer living with your dad. He's living with you.
When somebody publishes their playbook saying “this is how I will win,”
I'm sure you're aware that military fiction is a whole genre of books. Yuriev probably did the same thing Tom Clancy does to prepare for novels and simply researches geopolitics, military strategy and tactics.
I don't ignore the threat of Putin and Russia. Quite the opposite! However, looking at this novel and assuming it is a complete battle plan is equally worthless as far as determining a strategy to counter Russia. As we've both said, too many of the details from time and events of the war have already altered anything that could be gleaned even if Putin himself wrote it.
I would say what’s most surprising to me is how much of the fanfic has already come true
Very little came true.
Early in The Third Empire, a pro-Russian, Kremlin-sponsored uprising occurs in Ukraine. ... as well as the rejection of the anti-Russian NATO bloc.”
The people of Ukraine were the once to oust Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, instead turning toward pro-Europe, rejecting Russia.
In The Third Empire, Russia wins World War III because the West fears nuclear war.
The opposite has been true. Russia has made "red line" after "red line", with zero nuclear response. Even if Russia did decide to become nuclear serious, theres a good chance most of their nuclear arsenal doesn't work, and no country believes the sabre rattling anymore. There's a whole Wiki of Russian "red lines" of threats that went unanswered by Russia when they were crossed.. Russia's nuclear threats are a joke.
It was stipulated that Russia renounced any encroachment on the territory to the west of that demarcation.
Nobody believes that either. Crimea was invaded in 2014. If Russia wouldn't be encroaching, then the "little green men" would never have occurred. No one, especially Europe and Ukraine, believes Russia will ever stop invading. Sweden and Finland are NATO members now. Where was that prediction in the book? Russia is worse of now than they were before.
“You don’t like us?” the emperor mocks a French-television interviewer. “All right then, go to war with us and conquer us … Or refuse to buy our energy products, oil and gas, so that we starve to death.” The narrator notes that the loss of Russian oil would have raised prices and “brought down the European economy.”
Hey look at that! Europe was drastically reduced its Russian energy consumption with further plans to eliminate it entirely. Europe seems to be doing just fine economically. Russia's economy is in the toilet.
Further, new capacity is coming online from the Caspian region through Azerbaijan, Georgia and other non-Russian nations completely bypassing Russia and supplying Europe.
Yuriev imagines that Russia has a secret weapon that makes the country invincible to nuclear attack.
Fiction frequently employs a Deus Ex Machina or Wunderwaffe to seem militarily superior. Russia doesn't have it. The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal certianly isn't it. Ukraine has already shot them down before with US provide Patriot missile defenses.
The Russian government was letting its own citizens and the whole world know that Russia had fought with and vanquished not only the American army but the American civilization.
Russia is marching over 1000+ of its reproductive age men into their deaths in meatwaves every single day and has been for well over a year. Russia past the point of demographic collapse. And for what? More Russian captured ground lost since the initial invasion that they started with with all of Kharkiv and half of Kherson. They Russian Black Sea flagship sunk by a nation without a navy.
The biggest miss of Yuriev's predictions is that he didn't see that what remains of Russia after its defeat in Ukraine will be a fully controlled vassal state of China. Any future "leader" of Russia should really be learning to speak Mandarin.
What is most surprising about this fanfic is that apparently the nation of Ireland conquers and occupies most of Antarctica. Sláinte Mhath!
On the downside, Energy Dome’s facility takes up about twice as much land as a comparable capacity lithium-ion battery would. And the domes themselves, which are about the height of a sports stadium at their apex, and longer, might stand out on a landscape and draw some NIMBY pushback.
This is surprisingly good! I would have figured it would have taken far more than twice the land than a Lithium battery solution.
yeah, sure thing buddy. the CO2 will be in a closed loop until it won’t. just like Fukushima and Chernobyl were supposed to be closed loop systems, until they weren’t. disasters happen, no matter how much the techbro mindset insists that they’re impossible.
So you concern is the ecological impact should this bubble fail and the entirety of the CO2 is released to the atmosphere as pollution? Did you even read the article? They discuss that.
First, a full on failure would be rare. Then, a full on failure of 100% loss of the closed loop CO2 is equivalent to 15 round trip flights of a jet flying from New York to London. To put it in perspective there about 250+ flights of this length per day from London, with many being much much farther.
So you're comparing the impacts of a once in a lifetime nuclear power plant failure to the impacts of another source 1/16th of something that already happens every in one airport. Your logic is why out of whack on this if this is your concern with the bubble.
I was thinking about much larger scale bubbles in "unwanted" geological depressions such as old open pit mines or rock quarries. The depression in the ground might offer more protection allowing it to scale up higher in volume.
Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.
You don't get the "s" until you have the "https". Your DNS request which turns www.TheWebsiteYouDoNotWantKnown.com into its IP address happens before you have the "s" in "https". By default, that request is sent in plaintext, and frequently by default, to your internet service provider. So an outside monitor may not be able to see the contents of the website once you establish your https connection, they likely know that you went there and have a good idea how long you stayed on it.
While its also possible to encrypt the DNS request with DoH or DoT, its not on by default and requires the user to take configuration actions in their browser. If they're looking at VPNs for the first time, they likely don't know this and are sending their DNS requests in the clear.
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A lot of people say things like “marriage is great, but its a lot of work”. Those are the people that I’m like “really? Sounds like you maybe did make a mistake there” because (and I’m not expert, I’ve only been married once) it’s really easy being married to my wife.
I think you may not be understanding the meaning of “marriage is great, but its a lot of work”. Its not like work meaning carrying lots of bags of gravel or something.
The "hard work" in marriage is being truly open to communication, working hard yourself to communicate accurately, and being honestly self reflective. Its recognizing your own shortcomings, and trying to better yourself, but also being open to being told by your mate where your thoughts or efforts or deficient. A natural human reaction is to be defensive, possibly even striking back with your own criticisms of the other person in the moment, but that's immaturity. Its hard work making real positive changes in yourself as the result of all of this.
When you have a mate you love and a mate that loves you, you can know these are things not said in malice, but in a genuine effort to make you a better person. All of this is a balance with your own sense of self-worth and critical thinking to properly evaluate your internal and the external criticism.
All of that is hard work.
Then there's another part too that I'm seeing in the years ahead: seeing your spouse's health decline and being their caregiver as your own health is failing from age at the same time. Alternatively, being that first declining health spouse, and watching your mate grow ever more tired caring for you. All of this effort are expressions of love, but it is most certainly hard work.
That said, these things will never have no emotional toll. Nothing in life is free. To be totally detached isn’t being there for someone and that wouldn’t be the right way to handle these situations either.
Let me try again to explain what I meant with my statement on detachment. Lets imagine two people:
- Person 1 - They are someone you have no history with, but you are pretty confident they are a regular well-adjusted person just going through life. They're no hero, but also they are no villain. Lets say you know "of" them, but you don't know their personality, history, goals, or life desires. Perhaps they are an acquaintance of someone you know.
- Person 2 - This person is from your past that you had a deeply involved relationship with. You trusted them and were vulnerable with them, and this person intentionally harmed you emotionally because it got them something they wanted or perhaps your pain just was amusing to them or made them feel powerful. They used you and threw you away when they were done with you.
Your phone rings, its one of these two people. You've expressed you like to help people out in a jam. The person is in a jam asking if you can come and pick them up and drive them to their place of employment:
- If the caller is Person 1, then you are emotionally detached from them. You have only the slightest of history with them and no bad memories (or good for that matter) of interacting with them. They are totally benign to you emotionally. You'd grab your car keys and head out the door to pick up Person 1 and probably be thinking about what activities you'd be doing afterward or perhaps what you're planning to have for dinner. There is no emotional cost to helping Person 1 out as you are emotionally detached from them. This is simply an errand no different than going out and picking up a loaf of bread from a grocery store or a bakery.
- If the caller is Person 2, then you are very much emotionally entangled with them from your shared history and the pain they inflicted upon you. You run through mental scenarios about if this is an emotional trap of some kind. You work the mental angles to see how you need to protect yourself emotionally and physically. As you leave the house you mentally prepare yourself and armor yourself against what this person knows of your weaknesses. You drive there filled with anxiety and worry about how you might be hurt yet again by this person that has caused you so much pain. In the driver's seat you're reliving the horrible events from your shared past and feeling those negative hurtful emotions roll over you as though it is happening for the first time. Even if you complete the pickup and dropoff entirely uneventfully, you're waiting for the other shoe to drop. You drive home worried if letting this hurtful person back into your life will mean more emotional pain in the days ahead. Even without any negative things happening during the drive when they were in your car, this has cost you greatly emotionally, and it can for days afterward.
You are NOT obligated to be a tool of help to those that have wronged you in the past. The world is filled with millions of other people that have done you no wrong. You yourself are worthy of caring. There are so many other people worthy of your attention and goodwill. Leave the toxic people to their toxic lives. They are not entitled to your generosity. If they ever were, they harmed you, and lost any sense of privilege to your kindness. You don't have to be hateful to them, but you don't need to continue to invite them into your life at the cost of yourself.
Please, pick up a history book.
"Forgotten Veterans: The Americans who died fighting for Canada in WWII"
"Alfred Parkyn was one of nearly 9,000 Americans who volunteered to fight for Canada before the U.S. had officially entered the Second World War."