If only there were actual left leaning candidates on the ballot in the USA.

There is a right leaning party and a party that has cranked the wheel off the right side of the road, through the ditch and deep into the weeds.

I’m happy to be considered an enemy of that criminal asshole.

Alcohol sales will skyrocket

I dunno about that one. A lot of people already have a special bottle reserved for that particular celebration.

I prefer to call it “New and Improved Intelligence.”

Improved?

I don’t see evidence to support that claim.

I am happy to be known as an enemy of that corrupt criminal asshole.

Sure people can change.

But they don’t seem to have.

The fact that this is even possible adds to the long list of reasons I don’t want to go to that country

Opinion and insulting other people are not the same thing.

Only idiots really savor the process

Strong “I don’t like a thing, therefore nobody should” vibes there buddy…

even stores in the same city can have different cost amounts for the same exact items

That has been a thing for years.

A local guy did the legwork pre-covid to price check a list of items at every McD’s in the city and found that there was a significant difference in price across the city.

The patterns he found were that franchisees were generally consistent across their own locations, and that the locations in the more affluent parts of the city tended to be more expensive.

The only real surprise was that corporate didn’t mandate exact prices across an entire market area.

When my wife insisted that I set up a porn filter to prevent our teenager from finding “bad things” on the internet, I did the most basic DNS filter, and told our son that there was a filter and that I would be impressed if he found a way around it and could keep his discovery quiet so I wouldn’t have to set up something more effective.

I miss usenet back before it got overrun by the eternal September effect.

if you decide to visit the US.

There is a lot more reasons not to do that than there are reasons to go there.

We all need shitty travel phones with very little on them now.

Or don’t travel there.

The pile of reasons to not visit the USA grows daily.

it speeds me up for tasks I have the skills to verify

The issue is that the executives only see the potential to speed up, and not the necessity of having skilled people who can do that verifying.

E-Bike? E-Scooter?

Not when there is a 6 lane freeway between you and your destination.

of course if you have the option.

And there is the root of the problem.

Those options are increasingly not available in American cities

TIVO still exists?

He doesn’t even care about treaties that he signed.