I'm saying "cool, cool, cool, coool....." a lot more than I used to i find.

Europe does do a lot to have good public infrastructure, we sink all our public money into pensions so our public infrastructure all looks old

They can't even root Hamas out of Gaza, where are they going to get the manpower for this?

it's not inability, the guy spent literally his entire life as a politician, and not a backbencher politician, he just thought that good works were more important than good words in a presidency, and he was wrong

No one told my wife this apparently. People aren't comfortable enough with their partners for this?

Especially when the extreme vulnerability of seaborne commerce has just been brutally exposed. How many China-bound tankers do you think the US has to sink before they are uninsurable? If it's announced in advance I bet 0-1

Oh, they notice.

The comments are ripping him a new one at least.

Counterpoint, just be like my family and give up on free time.

Iran turns into a failed state in the middle of an active civil war.

Its genuinely possible he doesnt no what no quarter means and thinks it’s just some hoorah phrase

Would dependent almost entirely on volume, no?

Ehhh, the main mechanism that causes prices to rise for the US is the supply restriction, we get most of our energy locally. If there is enough supply coming through to lower prices the pain for the US goes away.

a man says but you are not serious people in a dark room ALT: a man says but you are not serious people in a dark room

Lmao, this admin

Ukraine has been doing this for years now, it requires an integrated system and *lots* of sensors and light AA, but you can conquer the shot exchange problem.

Its insane because bananas are regularly some of the cheapest fruit at the store, <$1/lb

It actually occurs to me that I *never* lived alone as an adult. Went straight from roommates in college to a stint living at home, to living with my now wife.

He's personally unpopular, but his most plausible replacement has roughly all the same foreign policy views as him.

Problem is that unlike trump Bibi is actually pretty in line with Israeli public opinion.

Paranoia hack?

im just really fucking sick of spending my entire adult life lurching from one worldwide economic disaster to another all because people pretend republicans arent dumb as dog shit morons completely detached from reality

If it wasn't so expensive id be driving one already

You realize this means starving a lot of people, right?

Only thing that could make it more peak is if the "bluesky elder" tag was the other way around

If it had been affordable I'd have gone for one last year, range for road trips suddenly matters a lot less when you have a little kid who cant really handle more than 3 hours in the car at a time. If we need to stop for 30 minutes anyways....

As a non-american thats all you have. American power isnt going away anytime soon, for better or worse

If educational polarization (and creeping racial depolarization) leads to white people in Mississippi voting the way white people in Kansas do that would be all it takes. But thats a big lift.

Depending on context this could be really funny, but im guessing it wasn't.

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

My favorite single WWII history book and I have a lot of them.