Demanding a short term fix from the government that will cause issues in the long term that they’ll also demand from the government to fix and compensate.

Putin thinks you’re a pussy, Donny boy, and knows just where to grab.

King Leopold II has entered the chat

Players: it’s not unique enough and that makes it boring. It’s like they rushed this one with some standard stuff.

These countries whose diplomats were shot now have the right to defend themselves, what in Israeli terms means invade the entire country

Regulators figured nobody would be stupid enough to mess that up and no paragraphs are needed to make things explicit. Then came Elon who thought that technically correct is the best kind of correct so he made this abomination of a manual release.

And if Trump pulls USA out, the rest of the world will see this as America losing yet another war. It’ll be seen as weak despite all that hardware, troops and bravado. That’ll undermine its negotiation position against China and encourage others groups to just ignore Trump when he threatens someone, like Panama.

But it’s unthinkable for these leaders to change the policies that gave them the power and wealth they desire, so they’re gonna run with it until it falls apart, no matter the cost for everyone else.

Giving weapons to Ukraine is what counts as bargaining with Putin. Phonecalls don’t matter.

Meanwhile the rest of the world continues to negotiate and make deals with each other to operate without the USA.

Useless people are perfect as cannon fodder and human shields.

Wikipedia:

The first volumes were much criticized because, although they were called “Children’s Tales”, they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter.[3] Many changes through the editions – such as turning the wicked mother of the first edition in Snow White and Hansel and Gretel (shown in original Grimm stories as Hänsel und Grethel) to a stepmother, were probably made with an eye to such suitability. Jack Zipes believes that the Grimms made the change in later editions because they “held motherhood sacred”.[4]

They removed sexual references—such as Rapunzel’s innocently asking why her dress was getting tight around her belly, and thus naively revealing to the witch Dame Gothel her pregnancy and the prince’s visits—but, in many respects, violence, particularly when punishing villains, became more prevalent.

Fucking Nazis ruin everything

Historical facts!

Eh, the original version was basically pre-internet porn fanfic. Brothers Grimm cut out most of the x rated stuff. Disney cleaned it up further with a lot of bleach to get the smut and kink off and made it into movies.

Yes. We’re now going to redefine the word Grok as the reverse of Woke. That means that “do you Grok” and “the Grok mind virus” now means a hodge pot of racism, white supremacy, corruption, hyper capitalism, fascism, social media influence and oligarchy.

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Strict rules on EU data and heavy fines for breaking those. Tariffs on taking EU data out of the EU. Changing tax rules on services and advertising. Basically make having a foreign digital service in the EU unprofitable.

USA us now classified as chaotic evil. Never know what wacko stuff is going to happen today.

China is more lawful evil. It has its own logic so you can at least anticipate on what it’s gonna do and work with it.

He’s not completely wrong. EU can be nasty, but it takes time. It’s pretty bureaucratic, so it moves a lot slower than China. And at the moment EU is moving towards killing the US’s entire digital services in retaliation now that normal negotiations failed.

There’s also the social cycle theory. Things always change.