They may be able to order the finance people to do it.

It’s probably not personally affecting enough of them yet.

The moral here is not to do public bathroom hookups in Indonesia.

The funny part is that there was a lot of propaganda. Example: no taxation without representation was actually false. The population in the UK was much higher than in the colonies, and since the colonies had members in parliament, they actually had a higher level of representation than other citizens.

But even back then, the UK was a democracy. The US took a look back at ancient Greece and combined that with a lot of 18th century philosophy to make the government we see today.

They basically ran up and said "Hey we are liberating ourselves from the British. How about we help you do the same and with the French too and then we can all be one happy family. The Canadians did a “nah, that’s all right, thanks” and walked away.

Honestly I believe that the US would have been in a better place if we remained like Canada or Australia. We could have avoided hundreds of years of bullshit.

Yeah this was hilarious hubris. The Yanks believed that everyone thought as they did.

You could say the same about Australia and Jamaica being part of the British Commonwealth. Historical politics is complex.

Discovery will be really interesting here.

It may be the one thing he’s been denied in his life. I am enjoying watching this happen.

I honestly don’t think that Trump is going for the personal angle. I think that he genuinely doesn’t understand basic economics and is willing to bankrupt the country in exactly the same way that places like Venezuela and Liberia have.

The fragility is what really comes through to me–and drives narcissism.

Well, yes, people from the global south have, for a century, wanted to get into the global north. This is something we will see change within our lifetimes.

nice one

seriously, though, sailors took over rats and they killed all the birds and lots of the arthropods.

No Japanese grandmother will ever forgive their halfbreed grandchildren for existing. I have known several such people who were treated with hatred by their grandparents while their cousins were showered with love.

As best I can tell, you really need to go there for someone or for some reason. Going just to work and do business isn’t the way.

LOL race to the bottom. They can’t even reproduce but are worried about immigrants.

This was precisely my thought, but I am going to use -bama going forward.

They mention that because people in the US are stupid enough to not understand that residents of Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii, and some other places are US citizens.

There do not appear to be large spiders in Hawaii.

I’ve used a semicolon; I’ve done it many times with confidence.