W, and the pile of money he sent to Africa late in his term, was *very* important in turning the tide on the AIDS epidemic over there. They’re still building statues of GWB in some of those countries.

I meant the former. English 101, day 1: never use “it” unless it’s absolutely clear what “it” is referring to. My bad.

Not sure how much of it is religious and how much of it is petty, grown men jealous of how they can’t monetize their own body. Ever notice these people aren’t fond of affirmative action either? They feel entitled to not just their privilege, but everyone else’s privilege (no matter how small) too.

Don’t pretend that Democrats, who (despite ties to Wall St themselves) created and nurtured the CFPB over strenuous Bank and GOP objection, would then immediately turn around and destroy the thing they just created even though many prominent Democrats ran on defending it?

One of my children was born gigantic. >5 kilos. I told everyone, not as a brag, but because I find giant babies hilarious. Seems like most people do too. Which is why that’s pretty much the only story I tell non-relatives about my offspring.

Depends on what, or who, she was dealing with. I’m too lazy to look it up, which is why I left my last post with a vague “may be illegal” statement.

Yes, you have to deal with the CCP if you’re doing anything close to big in the PRC.

No government lists for you. The only people the DoE care about are the ones with Q-clearance to access actual nuclear secrets. Even then, if you’re reading publicly available material, I doubt they’d care about that either unless you yourself were publicly discussing matters that are close to Q-material.

Also, while AIR-2 wasn’t guided, the AIM-26A nuclear Falcon was.

Exactly the same thing? There is no private Trump any more than there was a “presidential” Trump. There are literally no secrets with Trump. He is utterly transparent. Even when he lies. Especially when he lies.

Son (daughter?), lemme introduce you to the SSALT:

So your alternative to adding the environmental cost to the people buying the product that causes said environmental costs is to handwave the whole externality thing away and instead push some vague “let’s reduce waste somehow and then everyone eats yay!”.

Who the hell calls garages “ramps”? Like, that’s not even midwestern. That’s just wrong.

That’s like $40B/yr. They’re burning 10x that with their tax cuts for the rich.

What stigma? See, that’s my point. It’s an option in the single player mode. The only person who knows the difficulty setting chosen is the player himself. All judgements are from the player.

You can run 20+ year old software on Microsoft’s OS natively and open 30+ year old files in Office. They’ve always been the kings of backwards compatibility, even if their console side hasnt been nearly as concerned with that.

In other words, you felt peer pressure from a game and now want all of us to peer pressure gaming companies into making game that doesn’t peer pressure you back?

1) No, violence against political opponents are for fascists. Assassinations kill democracies far faster than vocally shitting on institutions.

I’m generally on your side here, but I disagree a bitcoin is worthless. It’s worth something, and apparently to some people it’s worth $10,000. I call those people suckers, but suckers and dupes can create value so long as they have the assets to sustain the market. The market needs inflows to sustain it because…

Right...we can’t seem to keep our current fleet at a proficient level of training. Which is the actual reason why we’ve had collisions involving 2 destroyers, 3 (three!) submarines, and what was it? A mine layer? All in the last few years.