You have absolutely no clue how any part of our economy works, do you? Even if we could change the rules with a snap of our fingers, it still wouldn’t happen instantly since the actual physical capacity does not yet exist.

That’s not the kind of thing you can do instantly, and it’s definitely not the kind of thing you do while publicly shouting about it.

He already hates Trudeau and is taking it out on Canada. There’s not a whole lot more he’s going to be able to do without pissing off all his non-russian masters.

To this day, I will not drive directly behind a logging truck because of that scene.

The purpose is to destabilize.

If you are referring to Iraq, not selling oil to the US wasn’t their big sin; it was trying to establish international oil trading in a currency other than USD.

Maybe it’s just a generational difference, but when I was a teenager, who I thought was cool was usually just band members of my favourite bands. Since social media wasn’t a thing, there was nothing they were trying to sell us other than CDs, t-shirts, and concert tickets. Even then, there was usually a mental separation between the person and the art, so when the person turned out to be a trash bag, it had very little influence on fans.

Without. I’m a fairly tall dude myself, so looking upwards at a woman was a bit of a novel experience.

Hey, there’s nothing inherently wrong with frequenting strip clubs. Where else are you going to have a beer and watch a dude in playboy pyjamas wearing a dog leash get walked around the place by a 6’ tall stripper in stilettos?

I didn’t use it at all. I just pointed out that it’s only sexist/homophobic if other arrangements are given a pass, while the male-male arrangement is used in a pejorative manner. (On an unrelated note, it’s a fun fact that we can now safety assume that you are a male. I’m curious what the male: female ratio is among tankies). If anything, it’s the s+m community that should be offended, since the phrase implies that being the sexually submissive partner is inherently bad.

Are there any female authoritarian leaders? I can’t think of any current ones, so it may be simply descriptive instead of sexist/homophobic.

Man, did you somehow manage to skip the “Western Culture” class during your re-education? Not a single part of that statement makes any sense.

What part of that statement gave you any clue as to what their political leanings are?

Apple is what Microsoft wishes it could be (minus the difference in market share). That’s personally why I won’t give Apple any of my money. Really not interested in that locked down ecosystem.

Yup. OpenSUSE here.

Gotta have an in-group and an out-group. Might as well have the most blindly obedient, and least critically thinking people as part of your in-group.

I think it’s also going to depend on who the Liberals pick. I think Carney will have a better chance of winning than Freeland.

Just looked. Mine’s showing “Gulf of Mexico” with Gulf of America in brackets underneath.

I switched to contacts when I got a job where I am required to wear safety glasses. Contacts + the normal plastic glasses is just easier to deal with than having to get and replace prescription safety glasses.

Him looking vaguely like Winnie the Pooh, and more being mad about it.