good point with the belt and road initiative as well as brics!

i am not sure what else the us thinks it can leverage to demand that high of a tarriff.

i’ve read trump say china needs us demand and consumption. i haven’t seen any facts and numbers to back that up.

what

mr. grab-em-by-the-funding doing his thing.

looks like more reason to qualify as most.

one of them is big oil. they lied about climate change.

there’s also big plastic. they lied about recycling being sustainable.

my bet is he will walk the threat back again and declare it a victory.

saved america again from a looming “trade war”.

imo, ‘gringo’ has no special meaning unless it was given one from a local group. like how “let’s go brandon” only makes sense on a specific group.

‘yankee’ used to have a specific one before, i.e. north-eastern US bros, but it got saturated and now could be used generally. imo, ‘yankee’ usage has ye olde vibe to it, but maybe that’s just me.

EDIT: corrected ‘southern’, thanks to Denvil

i thought the plan was to have Zelenskyy and Putin talk in a room… in moscow if I remember it right, then sort it out.

“peace through strength” is pretty much donvict doing the and now kith to both parties.

as with other people’s suggestions, i am not really placing any hopes on the grand reveal.

mmm… a long long

no proof, but it can be attributed to a kind of addiction and dopamine association.

it is not that you start hating the average food, but your mind misses that dopamine hit the good food carries. think of it like a withdrawal like effect where your body is now conditioned and has a “higher bar” for things.

the music goes back again to be later re streamed to other people that might need it

i think there’s something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.

also cowball for the artistic license.

portable swamp cooler. it leaked and makes your carpet a swamp and maybe cooler. also luggable.

roller-type kitchen knife sharpener. the finer edge sharpener actually dulls the knife more.

tile tracker. it was so big, I didn’t lose it. I also hate the concept because it works like insurance does.

same reason a painting or drawing is named, i guess.

this reminded me of the clock girls story, “radium girls”, I think.

but since bioluminescence is powered differently, it’s a way better approach than artificial splashes of paint.

for the ones missing the marvelous HTML, I gotchu bro:

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where’s hackerman when we need him?

oh. anyways.

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you have a good point with “use” as a differentiator.

this is similar to buying non-potable water vs potable, with pretty much the potable water being more expensive.

I think it’s within reasonable bounds because the extra cost comes from the added iodine or the minute minerals in maldon to add the extra taste.