Not American.

Also agree it’s not great to reduce a nation to stereotypes and make fun of them. But, it’s pretty universal.

Yep. TBF it was a doozy, and the fact it got traction shows just how “far up their own ass” the fall of the USSR put the Western elite.

Once there’s a Democratic speaker, that might be worth something. Right now…

Only if you’re American.

Hmm. It would avert the coming whatever over Greenland, but his successor might be equally fascist and not as dumb.

Yes. What the current batch’s grandparents did is also not really considered cool now.

You would think so, wouldn’t you.

How dare you break the jerk! /s

Huh, neat! I guess it makes sense, light can make all kinds of other chemical things happen.

X to doubt.

You can find single studies claiming all kinds of crazy things. It keeps the popsci sites in business and apparently looks good to whoever is employing the yahoo researchers in question.

If there’s a credible medical breakthrough you’ll know because all kinds of scientists won’t shut up about it. After CRISPR was discovered back in 2016, it was absolutely everywhere for months.

Very partly, since it’s mostly practice and memorisation. It sounds like more basic, intrinsic kinds, like creativity and on-the-fly analysis, don’t enter into it nearly as much. Uneven pairings are fait accompli.

Yeah, Canada is the same.

They’re definitely invited to my imaginary post-NATO alliance, but I’m curious, why do you bring it up?

Well, for one thing, a car is a luxury in most of the world. Ask how people feel about riding on busses. Sometimes the answer is that they can’t for some reason, but usually it’s just that they prefer a private vehicle and no timetables.

For another, a good potion of the population isn’t actually struggling, and has Amazon or Temu stopping by to deliver dumb stuff from China all the time. Like, that entire sector, along with meal delivery, is all about spending surplus income. I’m not talking about the bottom quarter here.

As a Canadian sure, but even together we’d be fucked. Europe is our main hope.

… The arctic is huge, like continent-sized. If they take Greenland, they’ve taken Greenland.

This is also why nobody is doing shit about global warming, because the opportunity for profit is too huge.

That’s also not quite so spooky. Ask the average Joe how much of his salary and lifestyle he’s willing to give up to prevent it. The answer is almost nothing. We haven’t, because we don’t wanna.

Honestly just the nukes on loan would be enough. There’s zero standoff and light defences accross the border. We could supply the uranium or plutonium to make replacements, even.

Failing that, I really hope Carney is eyeing a redundant treaty in case NATO dies.

From what I’ve heard about Windows, it works more like the Simpsons “Barney coming up behind Moe” meme.

So, as it should be, Tux.

I really hope Canada joins in.

It would fuck trade negotiations a bit, but a useful outcome isn’t guaranteed there, and if Greenland falls the loss of our own sovereignty almost is.

It kind of is sometimes, but at the same time it’s hard to do education any other way.