theturtlemoves [he/him]

California gives the federal government way more in tax money than it gets back.

Yes, but

The US needs California way more than California needs the US.

this is not true. California benefits from access to the US dollar. An independent California would either have to come up with its own currency - one that is not artificially inflated by being the world trade currency - or use the dollar at the mercy of the US.

For some reason the solution is restart the laptop with its actual power chord unplugged.

Microsoft creates weird issues no one else can even imagine. At this point I’m no longer pissed, I’m just curious how they did it.

In Oliver Twist, the workhouses abuse the children in their care by not giving them enough food. Now we’ve somehow crossed even that line.

*holomodor

US: moves Bishop to Rome

UK: moves King to Canada

Wonder what US will do next.

Ehh, that’s the one humanising thing about him.

Taking out just Turkmenistan here for instance completely blunts this and Uzbekistan while possibly to bypass by a long routing around via Kazakhstan is also pretty important.

I’m guessing these countries will be making bank on tolls on these routes. Even a pro-US government would not be very happy if asked to shut them down.

All’s quiet on the well front.

Lol no. But he could, for example, declare it a sin to not help migrants. He can’t enforce it, but it would be funny.

Ironically, global warming could green the Sahara.

Expecting logic from the stock market was your first mistake

Weak. That’s what the cats in my house do.

they’ll accept a ceasefire now if they get the four oblasts in their entirety

Why are they askiing for this? Wouldn’t a Ukraine with even fewer Russian speakers be even more Russophobic? I thought they wanted all of Ukraine to stay neutral, but this is just asking for problems down the line.

That’s just the most efficient shape considering air resistance. Bullets, rockets, airplane fuselages etc. all look like that.

The whole idea behind the formation of the EU, which the US helped push for, was to squash this rivalry

But does the US want to maintain this system now? Perhaps they see the EU as a competitor and want it to gridlock, or even fragment.

To be fair, at least personally, I learned the word ‘cylinder’ long before I learned ‘rectangular prism’. Maybe because the latter is usually called a cuboid or box, while there is no simpler word for a cylinder.