At this point, I wish the ICE site to be hacked and prominent Rebublicans to be put on "the list".

Really? Do you realize how many people we're talking about? This is where the idea that the human brain can't comprehend interactions with too many people.

"Multiple indepondant people" might be 5% of the people, some of them under the mob's effect (wouldn't engage alone).

Maybe we miss another point of view, but maybe we don't. This may be a screaming example of what you get as a representative of minorities getting a bit of attention.

No, initial reaction would probably be that "you're wrong", and the importer is trying to stiff him and/or is a Biden's supporter trying to make Trump look bad or some other shit. After some time, he might come around, but the principle of a cult is no matter what fact and evidence you provide, they will dismiss them and refuse to change their minds.

"Friends": people who agree with whatever you say and laugh at you after the call?

And that will come, but unfortunately not before he turned the country into a fascist state with no more balance of power. At that time, oligarchs will have their useful idiot removed and replaced by a real puppet that will be granted absolute power.

So next time it will be fucked up all the same, but using X private messages instead of Signal.

That should do!

Yes, you'll have these weapons, but you'll be facing a drunk moose.

Nemesis Lockdown

We had played Nemesis before, this was our first shot at LD. 5 players, and we had a blast!

Some co-op move, some sketchy moves: a base self-destruction cancelled at the last minute, an assassination attempt that failed and miserably backfired, a well executed plan ruined by the contingency.

It was epic and awesome!

Compared to the original Nemesis, since there is no destination and no engine status to check, the dynamic is a bit different: all players move around focused on their personal goals without raising so much suspicion. The light system adds a bit of tension and more opportunities to play tricks on the other players.

Definitely deserves the praises it received. I can't wait to play it again!

Statistics tell me there is a relation between healthcare and life expectation.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure

Note the US is the outlier here: that's the only country in the world with significant spending and no universal healthcare system (only 10 countries in the world don't have one). And even with that, medical debt is still the first cause of bankrupcy.

If you slash medicaid, you go to the left of that chart, but you also go down. That's a political choice, really.

Fortunately, enough institutions were torn apart that soon the US will also be the exception for being unable to provide numbers for the years to come.

"Yeah but science can be proven wrong an change over time, while my beliefs and biases are forever!"

Don't worry: the law will be very carefully crafted so that it will be legal only if they do it, not us.

For the dishes: I don't know the details of the 2 systems, but is there no way to retrofit the Starlink dishes to use Eutelsat's constellation? I mean if we exclude the legal IP mess for reverse-engineering the electronics and software.

Summary: China is not a friend country. It's a hostile country. Yes, we know.

But the news is... so is the USA to Canada now. A hostile country threatening to annex Canada and trying to cripple the economy as a way to achieve the goal. So either we slap 100% tariffs on US made cars, which would hurt Canadians, or we apply the same tariffs on Chinese cars, so reduce them from where they are at the moment.

Yes, but Canada had implemented 100% tariff on cars from China, following the US. That's pre-trade war. The proposal is to lift that one.

Because that's not about privacy, that's about the trade war. Retaliatory tariffs on US cars increase cost of cars for Canadians, as there are almost no car assembled in Canada. Reducing or eliminating tariffs on cars from China would lower cost of new cars for Canadians while keeping the tariffs up.

For privacy and security, not a single new car on the market is decent right now. That should be regulated, but that's no concern for any politician at the moment.

Or more likely half way through the window, except if you're really really slim!

Joke was on them: no one in France call them "french" fries anyway. So no one cared when they were re-labelled in the US.

They were invented in Belgium...

You're forcing your conclusion on facts that don't align with them. Yes, Biden lied, I literally wrote that, no need to try to further convince me. And it's no well kept secret why: the dems would do nothing to upset their donors, and some high profile donors support Netanyahu. There is nothing to read in that.

There is no logic in your claim about Trump whatsoever, but you're so up in "government lie all the time" that you invent conspiracy where there is none.

Yes, Trump lies. if you ask him, he works for USA's and its citizens best interests. And the truth is he's working for himself, and at present that means doing Putin's bidding. And if you make that hypothesis, everything he does make perfect sense.

There is no need to imagine a more complex scheme. None of these people are geniuses. They are normal humans (well... Trump is the exception, he's abnormally stupid and unhinged) and their plans are never that deep.

And yes, next elections (if there are...), it will be red vs blue again, not because of a complex scheme with Russia, but because most of the medias belong to oligarchs and will shoot down any outlier, and because the system was made for a 2 parties alternance. None of that has anything to do with Trump's behavior, and would he support Ukraine instead of Russia, it would be just the same. Evidence: Biden supported Ukraine. Did that change the blue vs red thing?

So you're saying that as Biden was lying about his efforts to stop the massacre at Gaza so that he would not piss too many of the dems voters, Trump pretends to be a traitor working for Russia so that he wouldn't piss too much… Russia sympathizers in his base??

You realize that doesn't make the slightest sense?

Gaza and Ukraine are 2 totally different cases, using one to assess the other makes no sense. In Gaza, under Biden, they barely announced they would hold on deliveries to Israel, and they did to a bare minimum. There was no secret hidden delivery, it was in plain sight for all to see. One of the reasons is some high profile donors of the Dems are supporting Netanyahu.

Under Trump, the position has changed for a full support of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and they resumed the delivery of larger bombs, that Biden had indeed been withholding.

The US collect intelligence in many different places worldwide. They didn't say they would stop collecting intelligence, they said they would stop sharing it with Ukraine. The goal is not hidden, it's been announced and the acts are consistent: it's to force Zelensky to surrender to Russia, what Trump calls a "peace plan" in exchange of… well nothing, really. Ukraine loses, as simple as that.

There is no secret chess play here. If you ask why Trump supports Russia against pretty much all of the US (former?) allies now, then we venture into speculation, though many of us have an idea. But is he supporting Russia? Yes, definitely, the evidences are compelling. That's no longer a question. It's more than time to accept it.