“I’m not dead yet!”

I bike a lot in San Diego, which has a decent amount of bike lanes. Not a ride goes by without me having to leave the bike lane to go around someone parked in the bike lane. A law is only effective if it is enforced.

The man was living the dream!

This is the cornerstone of a consumer economy. Planned obsolescence is also part of it, with the “next generation” of whatever becoming the “must have” thing. Consider the styling changes to cars, especially the tail fin wars of the 1950s, or the cell phone market today. My Pixel Pro 6 running Graphene OS completely fills my needs, though it’s 3 generations old.

What could possibly go wrong?

Any trade deal they strike with Trump is illusory and not worth the paper it’s written on. See, e.g., what happened to the NAFTA deal Trump signed during his first administration. The EU should refuse to play his games and quietly start dumping their substantial holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds.

You and me both.

First thing I thought of when I saw this post!

50% on Brazil, same as China. What is so stupid is that it is completely obvious that Trump doesn’t have a cohesive strategy for his tariffs. Rather, they’re just a convenient weapon he can wield as a bully. Why should any American not want a country to criminally prosecutes their corrupt former leader, let alone pay higher taxes on goods as a result? Eventually, this raising of taxes on Americans with tariffs on foreign goods will have a bigly negative impact on the U.S. economy.

Homes aren’t selling because they aren’t affordable. High interest rates are a big part of the lack of affordability, given the federal government’s large budget deficit and it’s impact on the long end of the yield curve, I don’t see that changing anytime soon and it will likely worsen. Pulling your home off the market because you won’t cut your price isn’t a great move unless you want to continue holding on to your home for many years to come.

You make a good point. I see it as the U.S. being in a Cold War type situation, but as you note, there are already regional conflicts. However, even during the Cold War the U.S. was involved in conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, where it saw itself as trying to stem the growth of Communism being spread by the Soviet Union.

Well, we are currently teeing it up.

They must have contracted with the Democrats to use their machine.

Underscores the fact that “deportation” is just a political tool to punish the people that Trump doesn’t like.

I think it’s appropriate to note here that during his first term, Trump tore up NAFTA and negotiated his own trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. Now, just a few years later, he’s torn that one up too. If I were a country considering negotiating a trade agreement with him, I’d keep in mind that any agreement struck could evaporate on his whim.

He knows, but he also knows that his base is too dumb to recognize it, so he lies because raising taxes on Americans is unpopular.

And now they’re pissed off and look forward to using the bomb they develop.

When I say ‘OK now you have 12 hours’, you don’t go out in the first hour and drop everything you have on them.

What did he expect? They had 12 hours left to bomb the shit out of Iran before the cease fire applied to them. Of course they were going to bomb Iran, and naturally Iran would retaliate. Why didn’t the cease fire apply to everyone at the same time?

Only psychiatrists who have been involved in psilocybin clinical trials will be allowed to prescribe it, and they must strictly report its use and keep detailed records.

Unfortunately, there’s only one such psychiatrist:

The psychiatrist, Cameron Lacey, who was behind the first clinical trials of psilocybin, has been identified as the only medical practitioner to prescribe the drug.