u/troyunrau — Troy

Pissing into the wind.

Yeah, that's been a long term problem for them.

I don't want to see a modern Japan on war footing. I also don't want to see a modern China on war footing. But here we go.

1.5% per month. Don't compare directly to your home country's annual inflation yet. Unless you're Turkey or Russia.

Someone I know was in St Petersburg last week. The government shut down the internet due to this meeting, and we totally lost touch with them. But the internet being shut down in a major Russian city to quash any attempt to protest doesn't even make news anymore.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/01/22/like-the-spartans-in-thermopylae-a-dozen-ukrainian-commandos-battled-scores-of-north-koreans-for-eight-long-hours-in-kursk/

https://www.forcesnews.com/ukraine/british-commandos-helped-generals-leave-ukraine-start-war-investigation-finds

You have a confirmation bias.

American ingredients in domestic made stuff is the next target.

That's paraphrasing a bit. Chekov's rule is about conservation of narrative real estate, no about the gun itself. It wasn't even consistently true of his own works. The real world is not a stage play and armies created for deterrence don't need to be used.

That's a crazy amount of people under any circumstances. World, take note - this is how you protest.

Serious answer to an unserious question: adopting an adult is legally possible in about half the jurisdictions in Canada, and then most of those jurisdictions require the adoptee to be a citizen or permanent resident. https://adoptingback.com/adopting-back/canada-adult-adoption-law/

Oh geez, those registry rules. We used to make jokes about the Soviet Union: "papers please!" US Xenophobia will end up removing all their freedoms. It'll be about "catching illegal aliens" but the effect will be total internal travel restrictions and tracking for US citizens. I really hope they wake up before it's too late.

I have an upcoming trip with a US transfer. We booked it before Trump won and started these shenanigans. We worry that the declining traffic will cancel our direct flight and we'll be left scrambling to find an alternative route. We also worry about US Customs now more than we used to. It would cost us ~$1300 for the two of us to reroute, and we're seriously thinking about it just to reduce our risk.

In unrelated news, most of the lettuce in the store in grown in the USA. We went shopping yesterday and all the Canadian produce was sold out while the US stuff was sort of rotting. Well, we found romaine hearts grown in Mexico, so we bought that. Thanks Mexico-bros.

Good for gaming, good for linux, good for a lot of the other open source projects involved. It's so close to being critical mass :)