Em Adespoton

The White House may never be for sale, but it does have a history of being burned to the ground when its occupant provokes its northern neighbour.

I never said it wasn’t a word; it means bully. But hectored doesn’t mean bullied the way we use that in English—it would mean to create a bully.

Sorry… is hectoring supposed to be heckling? Trump is the hector in this case; he can’t make Canada the hector. When the first non-proper-noun word out of a writer’s keyboard is that far off what they meant, I have difficulty taking anything else they write as anything but regurgitated vaguely understood hearsay.

“Factory workers ’on average’ earn 1.9x minimum wage.”

Average is a silly thing to use here. That means the factory owners are making bank while the labourers are making minimum wages for their country — and in some countries, minimum wages is $0.

If they used the median instead, or compared against cost of living, we’d see different numbers.

Well, any game has at least two endings….

This speedrun is 100% tool assisted.

Charlie’s always known how to string words together in accurate but powerful ways.

Every single time Russia has announced a ceasefire since it became a nation in the 90s, that’s been so they can move their troops into better positions unhindered. Often it has been followed by a brutal attack that cares nothing about civilian or Russian casualties.

I’m sure Ukraine knows this already.

Threats and mixed messages? Is the US involved?

Ukrainians have been buying John Deere tractors for years… and reprogramming them.

No reason why they couldn’t do the same with Teslas.

At least sane heads prevail somewhere.

And that’s really the right answer. Let the US randomly punish its citizens and keep the EU as a stable place to invest that follows the predictable rules.

The review of copyright policy is the big one.

I’d like to see the rest of the world return to sane copyright limits.

I’ve been seen as a giant baby-snatching predator by loopy crows defending their nest. That doesn’t mean I am one.

At this point, most of the world is getting past thinking what Trump and his cronies see them as, as it’s likely to change dramatically from hour to hour.

But we might get fed up with the noisy crow.

Congratulations, Trump! You are getting other world powers to work together by being the more difficult one to work with!

Neither can Ukraine.

Bullies aren’t usually the best people to negotiate peace between a bully and a victim who is standing up to them.

Yeah, but Nessie has been folklore for longer than such an animal could possibly have lived. I have great great great great grandparents from the area, and it was older than them. People have been faking photographs since the photograph was invented. Before that people painted pictures or did charcoal sketches.

My point was that the guy didn’t start anything; he just continued the tradition.

Likely, yes.

You can always write your own contributions!

They used a flash that was single-use. When the flash triggered, it burned out and the mechanism rotated. A cube has 4 sides.

That was always a very long distance relationship.

I’ve got pictures of both of them though :D