The thing is, it’s almost certain that the orange idiot will do this again next month, next quarter, next year, ad infinitum. He’s also shown that it’s mostly bluster, Canada called his bluff and he blinked. So now it’s noise, risk, and unnecessary cost.

There’s also no confidence that this nonsense will stop in four years, no confidence that another Trump won’t be elected next time.

America’s burned the last shred of respect it had left, and it’s gone, for decades if not forever.

Every other country is going to do its best to divest itself of every dependency on the USA it can; find other buyers and find other sellers.

simply driven over

That’s called smuggling.

Never again.

Optimistic

Its very possible to enrich corrupt elites without taking an axe to the US’s strategic position.

Yes. But not for a very stupid easily manipulated “businessman”.

“So our worldview is our maunga are ancestors, they’re not resources but they are living beings and so the notion of legal personhood fits well with our worldview.”

We generally don’t think of people as resources… Human resources… Shit.

Shame that he doesn’t have the capacity to decide when to shit his pants.

I’ve seriously considered burning a handful of books, once. Because they were just such awfully written garbage money grab sequels (by another author) to a series I really like.

Then realised that my objection to book burning in general was stronger than my petulant desire to remove my copies of these books from existence.

The Lord’s work, right here.

But it is a different “almost”.

It is a more accurate and more versatile metaphor.

However, even the stupidest of people know what a clock is, if not how they work. “It’s almost midnight” is about as much nuance as is consumable by the masses.

I suspect it is correct.

I also suspect that common usage as you’ve given is actually a mutation of “the plane [load of people] [were] evacuated”.

Because in English you can omit all sorts of important stuff from a sentence and still make sense :-)

kind of get the whole 'Gulf of America’s, at least conceptionally, America is the continent…

Y’all know that’s not the argument :-)

Deepwater Horizon Gulf

Common parts are available and easy to get, relatively cheaply.

Specialist parts are somewhat more difficult.

You may as well just bring your existing gear.

It’s probably 400’ deep (i.e. draft) too then.

It’s almost incomprehensibly huge.

Climate Change: “acceptable”

I’m reasonably sure that Einstein’s breakthrough was more that he assumed light only travels at the speed of light and the all the equations worked.

Every experiment since has confirmed it.

“war on summer” might be the only one that works

OoOoh, 8-10/18. That makes far more sense!

At this point, in the US, it’s “stab myself in the gonads to spite my face”.