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It is, nominally, not how the US works either.

Dont forget the bank fraud.

The “new money” that was the colonial elite became that way by:

1. Stealing land from first nations, even when British Troops tried to help the natives.
2. Bank fraud. Tactic was to get loans from London banks under a fake company in colony X, get the money and then move to another colony and repeat. One of the functions of the “intolerable act” known as the Stamp Act was to make said fraud functionally much harder to execute, which is actually why the elites pushed so hard against it.

The USA was founded in tax cheating and white supremacy.

For clarity: one of “The Intolerable Acts” was that the first nations of North America owned their land, particualrly the Ohio River Valley and all lands east of it and had the right to it.

Another was the stamp act that would stamp out bank fraud that was extremely rampant across the elite of the colonies. Even many of the founding fathers made money with it.

Or:

1. We’re to primitive to interact with due to missing some critical technology. Like how primitive tribes today would have no idea what radio communication and electricity are, there might be messages flying all around us from alien civs, but we can’t detect them, and they aren’t looking for the radio radiation we put out.

2. We already know of several critical events that needed to happen for life like us to be here: (short list) the rise of oxygen forcing life to adapt to using it as fuel; a slow deforestation giving time for our ancestors to descend from trees and adapt to living only on the ground, and whatever happened that led to the rise of highly intelligent neanderthalis, denisovand and sapiens apes after a million years of erectus without much change. We know something serious happened, just not what.

There is also filters in front of us. Getting over our addiction to petrochemicals looks to be one, it looks increasingly like internet overreliance might be another. Death of the host star or galactic mergers are things too.

3. Space is too big to visit in person. Civs exist and persist, but everything is too far apart, FTL either remains fantasy or is so prodigiously expensive it is not worth it on us.

4. Tied to 2 and 3, civs exist, but are too far apart and don’t last long enough to detect one another. E.g. to get our first radio signals across just our galaxy would be tens of thousands of years. There are billions of galaxies. The earth will be swallowed and die by the sun when the first waves get roughly a third of the way to a far as we can see.

Also power.

Ukraine just before the invasion of Crimea had just discovered that the Donbas region had a massive untapped natural gas/methane deposit. It would have ended Russian control of EU methane. Its suspected that is why Putin has been pushing for all of Donbas.

Its also about trying to make all of the soviet bloc countries stay tied to Russia.

They were flying two flights a day to both locations.

Combined with Westjet dropping a large number of US flights as well, it is a noticeable drop.

As I understand it:

The existing bridge is a toll bridge that was sold by Michigan/Detroit to some fuckwit billionaire. He collects all of the tolls, spends nothing on upkeep.

Ontario and Detroit/Michigan notice the existing bridge isnt enough for the traffic, and forces all of the traffic through residential areas.

Detroit and Windsor worked together on plans for the new bridge that connects directly to Ontario’s 401 highway system. Fuckwit went to extreme lengths to block the new bridge, even buying the votes to block it at the state level.

The Canadian side works with various US interests to secure a US side of the new bridge, then later gets an exemption from the Fuckwit’s state law from the Obama era government.

The agreement reached says that Canada pays for the entire bridge, with the caveat that Canada will see 100% of the toll money until they recover the money spent building it. After that I am not sure what was planned with the toll money. Edit: 50/50 split to Michigan and Canada.

The fuckwit and Trump clearly want to steal the bridge and keep the toll money.

The last reviewer stating that the movie is worse than Cats.

And that movie drove Andrew Lloyd Webber to get a dog.

When the team I was working with at the time used it, it constantly dropped calls, some people couldn’t share their screen sometimes, randomly mics would stop working, it was a bad experience.

Meet was so bad compared to hangouts it drove people to MS Teams

Fair, it was over a decade ago that I used it.

A long, long time ago, there was an online messaging tool called ICQ. You didnt even have callsigns in it, you had a randomly generated number you shared with your friends. You chatted. Had fun. Life was good.

Then there was AOL instant messenger. It largely replaced ICQ in the US. It added emoticons.

Then there was MSN Messenger. It tied into the MSN gaming zone(Before MS killed it to make Xbox Live. You could play games with your friends through it. You could do rudimentary video chats.

Then you had Skype(pre-MS. Better video, not tied to MS).

MS makes MSN Messenger into Lynx and adds it to office. Its not good.

Then you had Google Hangouts. Better chat, fun features, tied to your google account.

Then you had MS owned Skype as Skype for Business. Largely replaces Hangouts because Google enshittifies everything, not because it is good.

You also have former Vancouver startup Slack. Its fantastic. Until Salesforce buys it.

Now we have the bastard officespring of Skype for Business: MS Teams.

My bet:

Its the crowd control microwave weapon they were developing under Dubya and Obama.

The stated reason for cutting it is that the ring was already destroyed, Sauron already dead, it was somewhat bizarre to have a 2nd, smaller final battle.

Yes it adds to the story and gives Wormtongue/Saruman a sendoff the theatrical release lacked. Its great wordbuilding but just like Tom Bombadil, doesnt add to the overall movie.

He can sell the centuries old US /Denmark agreement as one he achieved and the orange moron would believe him?

Because Magats and the GOP insist everyone else is eating the tariff costs.

The terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies involves the US giving up all claims and intents on the island of Greenland as part of the deal that saw the US gain the Virgin Islands.

So there is a 109ish year old law.

Used to work with an Iranian who had childhood memories of being bombed by Iraqi migs, and it was US provided F-14s that saved his village from being destroyed by them.

He said that despite all of the bad things the US is responsible for, he still had hope in the US military because of that.

Because Mitch McConnell and the regular corporate GoP have been planning this for decades, getting legal precedents in place, getting judges into the right spots across the US, all of it.

The religious right were used as tools by them and the GoP elite always assumed they had exclusive control of them. Then Trump comes along and upends their control, and now Trump is a barely present fool and the religious right(see: Stephen Miller) are in full control of all three branches of the US fed.

China has already eclipsed the US on green energy.

France and China are leading the world in fusion research. Canada showed just this week that a liquid wall design can also produce fusion