It’s an old meme, but it does check out.

Yeah, but they aren’t Canadian.

I was going to comain until I realized that the fprmat is the one that I prefer.

Has anybody tried the HA voice hardware. Not sure how it works (does it use a cloud AI?)

I blame these f’ing phone keyboards and autocorrect. I can’t see what I am touching, I can’t feel it, there’s no feedback, and I have to look up while I type. Whoever came up with approach deserves… A bad case of indigestion.

You are likely correct.

Did Japan and SK actually announce collaboration with China, or was it only China that said that they are working together?

Whole parts of Eastern Europe still transport Steam for heating.

I inherited a switch from someone who wasn’t using it and was blown away by the prices for the majority of games on it. They were charging AAA prices for Mario titles. If they had priced their Mario. Zelda titles at half the price, those things would have dominated before the SteamDeck’s came out. The switch is barely used.

It is not unreasonable to ask why he didn’t use the filibuster to block actual legislation, instead of just I terupting procedure.

Check the article 5 requirement. I don’t see any “unless another NATO country” exceptions.

Probably moot as all the US has to do is increase presence and wait for an “or else” moment, so that they can rely with “or else what?”

It is still a democracy, but that democracy is in crisis. You will know over the next 2/years if it will survive, although the next federal election will be the real test.

• if the judicial and congress still share power,
• if elections are still fair.

Democracies can recover if they keep their representation.

Google kind of went downhill

Spumoni. They even make that anymore. Probably only in the Mediterranean area.

European garden with some ten different berries/fruit trees and bushes - no work needed, they just do their thing (when they are big enough.) Rotate about one every three years, sometimes move some berries from one place to another.

Strawberries are a ton of work at the end of the year (not the little wild ones though,) don’t do them unless you really love them.

It didn’t include any security guarantees for Ukraine.

The utube “militaryrated” done by a Finn called Tuomas is decent, but more focused on Scandinavia and Northern Europe.

I keep using emacs, mainly because it has an innovative ecosystem that provides interesting ways to work - meow, consult, corfu, eglot, treesitter - so cool how these pieces for together.

To summarize: democracy is waning, and we have some rough times ahead, but there will be wins mixed in with the losses.

Can I reccomend for you Vlad Vexler on utube. He is a polital philosopher in the UK, whp spends most of his time dealing with this topic. He has some wonderul content which is both educated and humane.