It is printing money but it’s different.

It’s letting the banks print money, as much as they want. When the government go and prints the money directly, the banks also print some, but at least the government gets a small share of it.

Liquid things going in high speed through the atmosphere get atomized. So, yeah, it just became dust and went down in some rain.

People have been using knots for a few millennia.

If we are being really pedantic. Knots is a measure of distance, and the fact that people have been using that wrong for several centuries does not turn a rope tied at one point into a time-changing object.

Because it’s political suicide for her to support Israel now. If it wasn’t, she would still support them.

That’s how politics work. Just take the win.

I wonder if it’s one of those cases of military refusing to follow illegal orders.

The US has been doing it in America for close to an year, it’s pushing for them to start doing it at Asia too.

Well, since it’s suicide, I guess we can count on them dying quietly then.

I didn’t really expect him to lose. But I had serious doubts if he would get out of the government after it.

But then, I don’t know the details.

Apparently, Trump is immune.

If Winter comes close and the US is still blockading their fuel? Yes, I think it’s possible.

The US declared every country where a pipeline could pass from there to any large consumer as an enemy and has been trying for half a century to destroy them.

Funny how the religion of the Trump’s supporters claim almost the same thing, but explicitly single out everybody turning against Jews, and of course Jesus is on their side.

I haven’t said anything about helping the USA.

I dunno. It’s possible that if Trump does indeed close the strait, NATO nations may go and try to open it.

But yeah, it’s more likely that they’ll nope out and stay out of it.

it probably predates that understanding which is only about 14 years old

Yeah, I had to check… Asterisx and Cleopatra had some dialog about how they weren’t slaves¹… Published in 1970.

I’m not sure knowledgeable people ever thought they were built by slaves.

1 - The author had some serious academic credentials.

Running the code again is fast and requires no thinking. Finding the problem is slow and requires a lot of thinking.

It’s worth looking under the light-post in case your keys somehow rolled there. Just not for long.

The fact that this is becoming the most known quote from that mission is amazing on several good and bad ways.

Can the Onion stop writing the script for reality? Comedy is not a good goal here.

Are extensible records usable already?

Not that I would pick TS because of that, but the disdain is undeserved when it has some very useful features that Haskell has been trying to copy for years.