Switzerland enacted reforms years ago. I doubt they’d go after them when they can go after the Cayman Islands or Jersey or wherever. And I doubt they’d go after any rich person’s money. The Panama Papers were published years ago along with others and nothing happened.
I don’t think many people who pay attention give a shit what the ADL says anymore. Jonathan Greenblatt will happily excuse the far right making “Roman salutes” and then demand upset college kids get deported. It’s not like it’s the Southern Poverty Law Center. His silence against the actual antisemites on the far right in America — the ones who are actually antisemitic — is deafening.
And for the record, I support Israel’s right to exist. It’s been like 80 fucking years. Whole generations have come and gone and it exists. I just don’t support the current coalition leading Israel and especially not the West Bank settlement terrorists. Netanyahu and Itamar Ben-Gvir can eat 10,000 bowls of pubes with a side of dicks. They’re corrupt adjudicated war criminals. I look forward to the next election so they can be put in prison.
Why doesn’t Romania want their political system and economy destabilized because of morons?
Early in my career (a long time ago), I was tasked with ordering replacement chargers for some laptops. I ordered several off Amazon and even though they were labeled as being what we wanted, they were apparently bootleg and were not, in fact, the correct charger. Fried a few laptops before I realized Amazon wasn’t the “Amazon” of yore selling first-party parts and I was ordering from random third party sellers. (That was all relatively new at the time. Amazon was a bookstore branching out in my head.)
In fairness, I was a programmer and not an electrical engineer. And chargers back then weren’t exactly USB-C level smart. The barrel charger fit. I just thought “Oh, what a great deal. I’ll order these and get plaudits from my boss for saving money.” It wasn’t even my money.
The other one is that when I was learning to code — I’m self-taught because everyone was back then — I used Vim and invented my own style. All my code was basically unformatted or, at best formatted consistently in a very non-standard way. That’s easy to fix nowadays where I can hit save and my code gets formatted automatically but it wasn’t so simple back then. I still feel bad for the engineer who followed me who had to fix that shit.
I’m not sure what he’s done to get the benefit of the doubt on intelligence. He literally asked if it was possible to cure COVID by injecting bleach or shoving a UV light up your ass. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
His own staff members have called him a “moron.” And he’s bankrupted 6 companies. If there’s evidence he’s smart, I haven’t seen it.
Because they’re in denial about being conned by an idiot. After all, if you get conned by an idiot, what does that make you? It’s easier for them to pretend he’s got some genius plan.
I know the answer to this but you’d think after almost getting merked twice (and once at his own golf course), he’d play on the secure courses at the Joint Base Andrews for a bit.
Obviously, that ruins the grift of charging the government for accommodations but he’s already or is planning to fire >100k people. Even if 0.01% of those people are unstable, that’s still a double digit number of lone wolves for the secret service to constantly worry about. (Not to mention all the intelligence agencies and terrorist groups currently pissed at him.)
How do you mean? The article doesn’t mention Hamas or an act of violence. The only one who got hurt is him when he cut his foot climbing. It doesn’t seem like it was “literally” anything but a peaceful protest, even if I imagine it’s illegal for lots of other reasons. (I don’t know UK law but I suspect climbing Big Ben isn’t legal.)
That’s why you should bring a bag lunch and water when you climb Big Ben. It’s like hiking a long trail. Well, you can probably skip carrying a paper map but you should always bring snacks and water when you climb up a mountain and/or the world’s most famous clock.
In general, there’s the sunk cost fallacy. But I think there’s an additional, related component in politics. Trump in particular but many politicians (and whatever Elon Musk is) are conmen and not particularly smart. They’re just charismatic — I don’t personally get Trump or Musk’s charisma but apparently a lot of people do. (And their tweets alone are evidence enough to prove they aren’t clever.)
And so any time Trump or Musk or whomever does something completely idiotic, supporters compensate by telling themselves it’s all 12 dimensional chess and they’re actually brilliant. It’s just too embarrassing for them to admit they were conned by a fool. So, they double down to compensate. But ultimately, most conmen aren’t smart. That’s why they’re conmen.
If I was in Congress, I’d get censored every day. Roberts Rules of Order my ass. You’re getting cussed at.
They’re going to be disappointed when they find out the education department is basically just student loans and doesn’t set education policy for K-12 education. They distribute grants to K-12 schools but actual policy is mostly a state and local thing.
Also, they run a continuing education system in DC. I took a course in Mandarin before a trip to China once. I didn’t work for the government there were classmates learning Mandarin for national security reasons who wouldn’t even tell me which agency they worked for.
TL/DR: The Department of Education isn’t setting policy for elementary or middle or high schools.
Alphabet/Google needs to fire their CEO. He’s an obvious idiot, not good with employees, not good with investors, and not good at lobbying. That’s like 99% of a CEO’s job. Just get rid of him and Google’s stock price will probably jump 20%.
I disapprove of JD Vance’s pants so there’s multiple explanations.
Why? Did he do the stupidest things imaginable to hurt his own voters?
Amy Coney Barrett Is from an inner suburb of New Orleans and went to high school in the city. She might be Catholic to a creepy degree but she’s definitely going to vote differently than Alito or Thomas. New Orleanians are delightfully ungovernable. Sometimes for the worse but we don’t even have common law here. She’ll have a broader perspective than someone who grew up indoctrinated.
She’s from Old Metairie and went to Dominican, for anyone who knows the city. She’s super conservative and I dislike her but she’s going to end up a swing vote when a Bible Belt conservative might not.
Release it anyway. Most Americans support that. Just say some bullshit like it wasn’t labeled correctly and got sent to a different warehouse and Trump will forget the next time a shiny thing catches his attention.
I feel like we should have more fear of 50,000 Greenlanders. I don’t know why — we have nukes and a zillion well-trained soldiers — but it’s the same instinct that I feel about fighting someone who is really good at pool or has a face tattoo. They will retreat to the ice and we’ll have a bunch of troops from Florida slipping and sliding while a Greenlander pops out of an ice crevice and harvests their livers for winter.
Don’t fuck with people who live in extreme environments is like History of War 101. I wouldn’t even sass a penguin, much less get in a gun brawl with someone who voluntarily lives in Siberia. I saw Planet Ice. They melt their gas with blow torches just to get to work.
I endorse this as an American (well, New Orleanian so like 30% American, 70% Caribbean). Who gives a shit what Trump says? His diktats aren’t laws here, much less in other countries. You can just ignore him.
Switzerland might really be one of the few countries no one can ever take over. Even if no one else cared — they will — sending troops running up a mountain where everyone has rifle skills and hidden bunkers is definitely not a military strategy I ever heard of.