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SupportED. Not so much anymore.

I bet they could do a healthy export business on those.

That’s the conservative way.

I suspect the Venezuela and Greenland things are really to provoke a war so he can suspend elections indefinitely and have some modicum of support for it.

I read that as “lighter” and [Pam] Bondi at first.

Good on ya, Oz!

The trick is, how do you make a statement federally without disrupting the state?

Imagine if Hitler had sat down with Churchill and presented to him a map showing Poland, France and the Netherlands as German states.

Macron, don’t join. The rest if the world will happily increase our purchase of your wines to offset losses stemming from any decrease in sales you experience in the US.

I’m guessing 30% of Americans think that the king of Norway mints Nobel prizes in Greenland?

Bombardier: we’re no longer Canadian, but we’ll make you a car if you pay us enough!

I didn’t buy an EV in 2025 because they’re too expensive for what you get.

Then again, I also didn’t buy a pickup in 2025 because they’re too expensive for what I need.

Cheap commuter EV? As long as it’s cheaply repairable, I’m in. I don’t expect that to be the case, sadly.

I don’t think they do. But they DO think there are billionaires who will support their personal views and provide dividends to the worthy few right thinkers.

Why are they responding with tariffs?

They should be responding with sanctions.

My imagined Trump response:

“Sure thing! Where is she?”

Are you looking for likeminded individuals with which to cross-train your model?

Vulnerability to whom? Russia is no longer a military threat, and China is a threat in ways Trump is unable to comprehend (considering the US is more at threat than Canada). That leaves… vulnerable to the US? We already knew that.

Not copium when the purpose is different.

A mix of both; finding old gear and combining parts to restore functional units, repairing where needed and learning more about how the systems work in the meantime.

And older SIMMs and DIMMs are relatively cheap right now — you can create a maxed out system for its era and still do everything on the computer that was possible to do when it was new.

There’s even great web proxies for older systems now, so if you want to, you can browse the modern web on a computer from 1996.

Have they detained John Oliver yet? It’s only a matter of time.

Switch to retrocomputing; it’s currently significantly more affordable.