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It was really odd that the Trump administration announced they were going to allow production of Patriot missiles in Ukraine under a licensing agreement, and then just changed their mind about it.

It would have been a game changer for Ukraine, being able to build their own air defense interceptors, even if on a licensing base.

Komprenite! Dankon ĉiukaze.

Mi esperas, ke vi memoras pli ol kredas, do! 🤣

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Ja bone, ilia unua elektraúto estas iomete konvencia kaj oni devus demandi sin ĉu tia elspezo indas se oni eĉ ne vidas, ke temas pri fanfarona aútomobilo!

Tre bela retejo. Ĉu oni scias, kiun bazan softvaron ili uzis?

I, like Pepperidge Farm, also remember. That was such a massive shit show, I have no idea how the Administration Responsible for PPE Hijacking managed to get a second installment of the show going. That really should have been the end of them all.

Agreed. Also, I want an SU7 so bad!

Thanks to you two. Good to know!

How is Piefed problematic? Honestly asking - the only “controversy” I’ve witnessed was about the list of default instances.

Gallup polling published in March shows Canada’s favourable rating among Republicans has fallen 23 points, from 85 per cent in 2025 to 62 per cent this year.

Thankfully in 2020 Trump said only once that people should inject bleach, or there would be a lot fewer Republicans around today. The stupidity of his voters is shocking.

Congrats, @[email protected] you are my open source hero! Clean code base, performant application, and endless customization. Thank you!!! ❤️

I was at the local BYD dealership and it was a ghost town. More employees than potential customers by a large margin. Honestly, the cars they had on display were all way too big for the local market (France), so that is definitely a factor. But, really, people are concerned about the brand and its long-term prospects, and barely anyone is buying. I don’t think I have ever seen a BYD driven in town.

Having had to drive Vail Pass at night, I’d say the bright headlights are the most dangerous thing I have encountered in years of driving, way ahead of drunk drivers and speeders.

OpenAI and Sam Altman have a long history of hyperbolic claims about the power, potential, and capabilities of their software. It’s usually couched in some doomsday talk, “Our AI is so powerful, we fear for the future of humanity” or some such.

Their idea of marketing is to tell the world we are all going to be obsolete and redundant. And then they are surprised we start hating their stuff.

I vaguely remember that one of the things Trump got upset about was that the Canadians were going to keep most of the tolls. That didn’t even go away when they explained to him that the bridge had been mostly paid by Canada. It was still unfair, according to (my vague recollection of) him.

Die Kartons waren wahrscheinlich nicht gefaltet?

I think the deal was that hé got lucky. He calculated a much smaller earth but it worked out because he thought hé was going to sail to “India”. Nobody knew there was a whole:ass continent in between. Which is why it’s called the West Indies and we still have “Indians” in the American West

“Being unaware of conflict” is not exactly one of the things you want to hear from your top general. But it does summarize Syrskyi’s tenure nicely. Unaware of how Ukraine has changed war, unable to change tactics from the Soviet days.

When I went to Econ class, the professor explained that we call it “Free Market Economics” because of four freedoms:

1. Freedom of entry and exit - participants (buyers, sellers, and prospective such) can enter or exit the market at their leisure, and the market will not change
2. Freedom of participation - every participant is in the market of their free will and can leave the market without repercussion
3. Freedom of substitution - every product on a particular market is essentially the same
4. Freedom of information - every participant has the same information about availability and prices at the same time

The reward is that free markets are efficient: they lead to the lowest prices and greatest exchange of goods. That is the reason we have them.

When the four freedoms are not mandated, the market fails in different ways, and that’s absolutely expected. When information is available to some before it is to others, we get price distortions - that’s where insider trading laws come from.

Health care, the prof explained, suffers from the fact there is no freedom of participation. You either buy care or you suffer the potentially deadly consequences. That’s why free markets and health care are fundamentally incompatible: they are expected to be.