Horse and sparrow ftw

I find standard time is bad for my mental health actually. It kicks in when daylight is already in short supply and then boom, the sun sets at like 4 PM a bit after the switch so you get NO sunlight after work.

Now the switch to DST is annoying because you lose an hour of sleep, but other than that I much prefer summer time actually.

Unfortunately it may also be the only way they can afford to get an education, via the G.I bill. I think anyone who signed up before the Trump re-election was not expecting to be ordered to kill innocents.

And yet, “Letterkenny cold open” yielded this with the second click.

Yes, that’s the one I meant. I don’t remember if they did another alliterative opener or just that one - I think there may have been another one at some point.

Well I live very far from Canada, but I can tell you that Letterkenny was a ton of fun. If you’ve got a break from chorin’, I’d definitely watch it.

Funnily enough I never really listened to any of Gift’s earlier songs, despite the fact that Freedom Form Flowing is one of my favourite songs. Unfortunately, it’s not alliterative like Alphabet Aerobics, but still a great track with great flow from all 3 rappers.

Why did this read like a Letterkenny cold open

Trump’s friends are buying up all the legacy media too. Hell, Larry Ellison, an Israel loyalist, is buying warner bros to get CNN. Already owns CBS and other stuff through Paramount Skydance. Or his son does, anyway.

Fuel prices here in Estonia went up pretty much the day of the start of this war. Did they go up just as quickly in the US? I hope they did. Might be the only thing to make MAGA types to reconsider Trump lol

While I agree with you, particularly in urban areas where it’s easy for transit to make sense, I do still think we need solutions for people not living near cities too. Makes me wonder if there’s any tire technology out there to be developed that would either shed a lot less plastic, or maybe not even contain plastics.

Inb4 “lighter cars” or “just walk”, yeah I know, and I already drive a wagon rather than an SUV, to min/max size versus practicality, and I usually try to walk to town unless I need to carry something heavy or the weather is particularly shit, but there’s a ton of times where I need to go on a long drive, sometimes through multiple urban areas (that now get polluted with my microplastics), and public transit offers me no solution, or the solution is to at least double or triple the time taken by my already long drive. I’m eventually moving from diesel to electric to cut down on my exhaust pollution, but I’d also like there to be something that people like myself can do about the microplastics. Not because I think me alone doing something would change something, but because once something exists, it can be mandated by the EU or local governments.

I bet they did as well, but outside of Donald Trump’s America, most of the world still operates on empirical evidence so the more things are studied, the better.

E.g yes we already knew that tires shed a lot of microplastics, but now that we know that the majority of urban microplastic pollution is from tires specifically, it’s easier for governments to push through either a ban on cars in certain areas, or weight limits, or heavily weight-based taxation (heavier cars = more tire wear), or something else.

Oh I haven’t even watched recent episodes so I wasn’t in on the joke tbh

No way, John Oliver isn’t that negative. When it comes to animals.

The immigrants aren’t the reason. Not here in Europe either.

It’s well documented at this point that people start having fewer children when medicine and economy develop in a country. It’s no longer necessary to have 10 children just in case a few die in the early years, plus there are social safety nets for the elderly so they don’t have to be entirely dependent on their children to survive when they’re too old to work.

However, while the economy is great on paper, a lot of people are finding life less and less affordable. Since the 2008 crash, in much of the world, buying a first home has started becoming harder and harder. Covid exacerbated things. Food is pretty expensive these days. A lot of people just don’t want to have children unless they can be sure they can provide for them. Now we’re also talking about the threat of being made redundant due to AI, in careers previously thought to be mostly immune to automatization. And let’s not forget the looming threat of climate change.

Really, Japan, and us here in Europe too, have to adapt to a new economic reality. Things are going to be more expensive, and there will be fewer children to cover everyone’s retirement economically - so we’re ALL going to have to make sacrifices in our lifestyles. It’s not going to be pretty, and social safety nets for the weakest among us need to be improved everywhere.

If immigrants have more children, it’s just because they’re from societies where it’s still a necessity, and normal, to have a lot of children. Fairly sure that a few generations in, it becomes normal for them, too, to have fewer children.

I’m sure there will be a quick and peaceful transfer of power to a completely democratic leadership and no civilian casualties whatsoever.

Far as I’m concerned, those two could share a cozy cell.

Foundations of Geopolitics and all that

It’s a question, the first negative doesn’t apply this way.

“Can we go home?” vs “can’t we go home?” are the same question, just different emphasis. Not opposites.

Someone should let them know that when it actually comes to war, railroads can be used to efficiently transport weaponry and vehicles

And the same railroads could be used for civilian transit when there’s no war

I mean you’re right, but also Lieu is a democrat which is already the party that his voters are more likely to vote for.

Since when does the US not have an auto industry? That’s the biggest one being protected with tariffs, same story in EU.

It’s really not, at least for any country with industries that can’t stand up to goods that have been produced at what is essentially a major loss… in a country with already nearly non-existent labor costs.