Yeah, the first thing I thought of. I bet Joerg could do a wonderful Karl Childers imitation.

I don't understand why people would ride a bike on a wet street without them.

Or perhaps it's suffering from phantom spiral syndrome

"It is unclear why the Sheriff's department elected to use a tazer on the llama rather than tranquilizing it."

Still nowhere near as valuable as the original information is to the Chinese... and wouldn't even be necessary if they weren't stealing on a 24/7 basis.

The difference is that there's nothing of value to steal from China. The only thing our hacking tells us is how much they've managed to steal from us. Not quite a fair deal.

And Reddit ... not so much.

Obvious PLA psyops propagandist is obvious. China is the aggressor.

In which China denies everything and anything and threatens to do more of it if provoked.

There's a big rig from Canada with tons of food and supplies for the folks in Moore at the border that the guards won't let in. Fresh food from legitimate suppliers is sitting there rotting.

Where we are going we don't need writing!

There's something considerably unsexy about the idea of doing it on a bed of loonies.

Ah good. That way the Chinese can benefit from the data as well.

The Great Divergence is NOT over. If you're only considering the US, EU, and China, then yeah you can say it's over. But there are far, far more nations than that. And there continues to be a considerable amount of divergence.

If you are going to go all retro wheel slides on someone, why not put it in the "viewmaster" format?

I'm just gonna throw it out there so everybody knows:

Well, I posted that at work, so it kind of does.