I can attest to this story. And of course they never bring their own, so they’re consuming all of your stuff, throwing your carefully planned intoxicant inventory completely out of whack. But also don’t get them in groups of more than 3, or they’ll wake you up before breakfast making a racket playing basketball.

Headline: Trump says Putin agrees with him US should not have mail-in voting

FTFY Subby.

I speak for all of Canada when I say that you are fucking nuts.

I prefer to unfold a map to read it, as opposed to doing origami just to figure out where I’m going.

Beat me to it. Except it’s more like 25 years. Now get off my lawn.

Navigation isn’t the only purpose of maps. You can display geographical, social, economic, and a whole host of other datasets on to maps. And since maps with fidelity to lat/long lines are no longer a requirement for navigation, there’s a good argument for accurately displaying relative positioning and size.

There’s actually research that shows that farming under solar cover increases moisture retention and the crop yields of certain plants. You’ll also note that a lot of these installations are on marginal land- steep hillsides, arid land, and even floating on reservoirs. The latter slows the rate of evaporation from the reservoir as well, so it has a net environmental benefit.

You’re right though, not every installation is perfect. But we seldom ask these same questions when it’s a new housing development or a Walmart with a moat of paved parking around it.

Why bother? The US is doing just fine destroying itself.

Private equity really is the last step in late stage capitalism, isn’t it? When the profits have been wholly privatized and the externalies wholly dumped on the public will the cycle be complete. We see this with oil and gas assets all the time- as a well or production site falls out of favour by a large oil company because they are unprofitable under their metrics, those assets are sold to smaller, leaner companies that can make a profit on them. Right up until they are owned by the smallest, shadiest companies that ring out the last few dollars before abandoning the asset altogether and declaring bankruptcy. And then who gets left holding the bag on the cleanup of that orphan well? You and I. There is nobody left to hold accountable.

Because explicit or not, we expect governments to backstop this activity. And when it all goes wrong, the fingers get pointed at the government for not properly regulating the activity in the first place.

Most people don’t think of it this way, but if you live in North America or Europe, you are part of the global 1%.

It’s not like he needs to uphold the deal beyond ending the war. The US certainly doesn’t honour its agreements anymore.

Thats how the murder of a Serbian devolved into a world war

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was Austrian.

A balloon full of jam

The USDA was certainly not spared the doge axe, they closed offices all along what will soon be the battlefront in this war.

That’s what Mexico is for. And the food is better.

If I was the IOC I’d be worried about empty seats as well. Fascism is poor for tourism.

You’re right. I mean, the nazis had the Olympics in Berlin in '36 too, what’s the worst that can happen?

Depends on your definition of ‘war’. They’ve definitely been in rightist America’s ear about abandoning NATO since 2016.

This is why they invaded Afghanistan in the first place. Their next step after what they thought would be a quick toodly-doo over the Afghanis was presumably to take a piece out of Pakistan in order to get a warm water port on the Arabian Sea.

It’s also worth noting that you lumped St Petersburg and Kaliningrad together somewhat, but they are vastly different. While St Petersburg has challenges getting to open ocean, it’s not the full-on exclave that Kaliningrad is, completely surrounded on all sides by the baltic states. I’m sure you know all of this, so this is for folks that don’t. It wasn’t entirely clear from the way you worded it.

I would have never imagine that Russia would have won the Cold War, let alone like this. I guess all of those decades of honing their misinformation and kompromat skills really came in handy.