The fediverse can form the basis of the new Internet.

If one is careful to avoid using companies for email, payment processing, hosting, etc. who have any sort of business tie to America.

My feelings on Mulcair are complicated. Policy-wise he was bland. But my god he was a pitbull in question period, he actually did a good job in focusing media attention on then-PM Harper’s BS.

I can see floor-crossing happening if it would put the Liberals into a majority.

I’m wondering if Carney is going to push for proportional representation. It would prevent a Liberal majority ever again, but it would also deny the Conservatives a majority ever again. Carney may gamble on the latter being worth the cost of the former if it keeps Canada independent.

On the plus side, we’ll never have a prime minister PP.

Hey, do I look like a trot?

I treat US military spending as the real measure of USD inflation. The US MIC will never tolerate a drop in real-dollar revenue.

Never get a credit card with a limit higher than a single average paycheque. Treat it like a debit card that’s accepted for things that don’t accept debit cards like certain hotels. If you don’t have the cash in your bank account so that you can immediately pay it off in full within minutes of making a purchase, don’t use it. Immediately trash all offers for increased limits. You do not want to go down the credit card debt rabbit hole. It’s fun for awhile, and then suddenly you’re sending half your take-home pay in interest alone to the bank.

Who?

Implement a new rule that the pope is to be referred to in-person only as “Daddy”.

And it’ll require a phone app to set up and use.

cops

fash

random burglars

There’s a whole lot of dogwhistle language that “Confederate history buffs” would recognize. For example, how Mal occasionally talks about his side rising again.

Firefly, for three reasons.

One, the “heroic” war veteran crew were basically US civil war Confederates.

Two, Whedon’s sexpest behaviour during production.

Three, it cemented Whedonistic dialog into pop culture.

Which is funny because gen Z aren’t even that young anymore but they do seem super obsessed with generational warfare

Especially Texas. The main US nuclear weapons facility Pantex is there.

The only time in the bible that Jesus genuinely lost his shit with people.

In addition to other stay-safe recommendations, try to meet somewhere busy and public before taking anyone home or going to their place for the first time.

Have fun!

The US state department quietly makes threats against the government of the ICC country to leave him alone or face the usual penalties for not obeying American interests.

I think maintaining the ability for people here to agitate there is important.

Buran was probably the best and safest way to built a side-mounted reusable spaceplane. Still not a great idea overall, but Buran’s engineers made the least-stupid vehicle possible with that layout. Aside from the basic exterior shape of the shuttle which was always going to be similar due to aerodynamics, Buran was completely different from the space shuttle internally. It was not a “copy” as some jingoistic American space historians like to call it.

There were plans to develop Energia into a fully reusable vehicle, but then 1991 happened and R&D funding for that dried up. Energia was a really flexible rocket too. Because the main engines were on the fuel tank section and not the shuttle section, Energia was a proper independent rocket and could operate without Buran to lift heavy payloads solo. A lot of R&D work went into making a very smart autonomous guidance system for Energia so that it could basically lift anything that would fit on top or on the side without having to do a lot of wind tunnel testing and one-off guidance computer programming.