Sounds like you live in a contrarian chamber. People really do hate the “new Outlook” (basically it’s just Hotmail) and Windows 11 adoption has been slower than for most other versions of Windows. The requirements often mean needing to buy a new computer which a lot of people can’t afford, especially if prices go up because of tariff nonsense.

There will be a lot of people still running on out of support Windows 10 systems at the end of the year.

Really, Mark Carney is what a conservative used to be. These days people who identify as “conservative” are internet weirdos that stress over “wokeness” and whichever conspiracy theory is popular on the internet on that day.

Russia had term limits… until Putin just changed the constitution to remove them.

But why would you assume having some other fascist in charge will fix the problem? Trump is old and unhealthy, so there’s a good chance he’ll before the end of his term from natural causes. Sure JD Vance isn’t nearly as popular as Trump, but if elections are rigged and the media is under the control of the President (as things are in Russia), that won’t matter much.

Trump is the symptom, American proclivity towards fascism is the real problem.

What makes you think it makes a difference? Targets in Russia are blowing up either way.

Also some of the big booms in Russia happened far enough away from Ukraine that it’s unlikely a drone strike. I suppose they still could be, but the drone operator would need to be inside Russia to make that happen.

Sure there will be elections. But what do you do when Trump gets 90% of the vote like Putin does?

There are elections and then there are “elections”.

A lot of them were literally living in caves, so…

Also I think we can relax the PC rules a bit when we’re saying someone that thinks women are property is a caveman.

Weird, I seem to recall there being some very big explosions happening in Russia like all of the time.

I guess Russia is very good at rooting out organized dissent and preventing commando operations, just very bad at enforcing no smoking rules around explosives?

We don’t exist to fix your broken country. Y’all need to stop buying in to stupid ass theories on how this would be good for the US. It won’t, many of us Canadians would rather be dead than to be American.

A better solution for your political would be for the USA to break up and no longer be a country. If you honestly believe your politcal problems can’t be fixed without someone giving up their country, then it should be you willing to give up your country, not someone else.

That show wouldn’t work anymore, Colbert got out of that at the exact right time. No matter how ridiculous of a parody of the right wing he could come up with, the real life idiots would be saying and doing things even more ridiculous the next day.

Why am I now picturing a chain smoking Forrest Gump? “Life is like a pack of cigarettes, you never know what’s gonna blow up.”

Tankies are permanently stuck in backwards day. Left is right and right is left. They do this because they’re just fascists that don’t like to be associated with other fascists. So they call their fascist group “leftist”, but they hate democracy, liberalism, the jews, etc just as much as any other fascist.

I’ve heard a carwash will take them out.

Yeah it will be much worse since so many things people use are a lot more technologically advanced and therefore more complicated to replace. Like my grandfather was a young man in the 1930s and he used a horse for transportation. Didn’t have a landline phone much less a smartphone. Much easier to replace imports with domestic production when most people just needed food and maybe electricity.

Are people now willing to go back to that kind of a life even for a few years under the promise that things will be better someday? It’ll take at least two years (in most cases, closer to five) to build a factory to produce many of the products we have.

And who’s going to invest the billions of dollars needed to build the factories? Wealthy people under the belief Trump will keep the tariffs in place for years?

Yup. There’s a significant cost to having a war with a country you do a lot of trade with. You don’t want to pay that cost while having a war at the same time. That could lead to economic collapse. It could even result in your military lacking the resources need to execute the war.

But if you sever trade beforehand, pay the costs of that first, then once your economy has stabilized you can invade other countries without risking economic collapse.

As a child, I thought hammers were bad. Now that I’ve hit myself in the head with a hammer repeatedly, I’ve now confirmed that I was right all along.

Cool… if I ever need leather boots I’ll check out the ones from Germany or Japan then.

Do you think water boils at 212F at high altitudes? No matter which temperature scale is used, the “billions of people” living at high altitudes need to understand how pressure affects the boiling point of water.

I think the billions of people you imagine living on top of Mount Everest understand they may need to make adjustments to cooking instructions regardless of what temperature scale they’re using. If they don’t, using Fahrenheit won’t solve their problems.

It indicates you might be a psychopath.

It’s just a movie so it’s it’s not you’re definitely a psychopath, but if you were your politcal views will be determined by whatever benefits you without any regard for the well being of others.

Yeah I feel like Lucas didn’t really understand Star Wars. He had to follow a lot of studio notes for the first one and thought it made it terrible. Instead it was the most successful movie ever and he didn’t understand why. It was a smart move to get someone else to direct the next movie. Unfortunately because of his petty squabbles with the director’s guild he didn’t just keep on doing that and instead got a non-union director for RotJ (and ended up pretty much directing it himself anyway) and directed the prequels himself. He just saw it as a way to make money by selling toys in the end.

But the throne room stuff with Luke, Vader and the Emperor was pretty great. The action was fun in the Jabba part of the movie, but of course that didn’t have anything to do with the rest of the movie. Overall not a good movie, but pretty fun.

The big problem with Star Wars now is that because it’s so popular and makes so much money, people take it way more seriously than they should. Ultimately it became popular because it was fun action adventure movies, that can at times have interesting subtext. I think only JJ Abrams has made Star Wars movies like that, the rest are trying to do Saving Private Ryan in space or Citizen Kane in space, which results in a mediocre versions of those kinds of stories.

Marx had some interesting things to say about economics, but he was a complete bonehead about politics. The works of John Maynard Keynes supersedes everything Marx did on economics, so we’re just left with a boneheaded political ideology which is more of religious movement than anything else.