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  1. Terrorists, savages, whatever you want to call them.
  2. Not safe anywhere. Wild where this is going.
  3. Sweden continues to help boost NATO.
  4. Trump Says He’s Cutting Off Trade Negotiations With Canada - The New York Times President Trump said late Thursday that he was terminating all trade negotiations with Canada, throwing America’s relationship with one of its closest trading partners into turmoil once again. On Truth Social, the president claimed that “Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement” featuring former president Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs. “TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A.,” Mr. Trump wrote. “Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.” Mr. Trump has taken an aggressive stance toward Canada, which is the second largest trading partner for the United States. He has imposed double-digit tariffs on many Canadian exports and repeatedly suggested Canada should be the 51st U.S. state. The United States, Canada and Mexico have been preparing for a review of their shared free trade agreement, which is scheduled to be completed by next summer. The ad that Mr. Trump mentioned in his post was taken out by the government of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province and a key nexus of economic cooperation with the United States. The ad, which according to the government of Ontario cost 75 million Canadian dollars ($53.5 million), uses audio from 1987 from President Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs as destructive for the economy. The ad was to begin airing in the United States this week on Newsmax and Bloomberg, the Ontario government said, and then on several other U.S. channels over the course of the following two weeks. “When someone says, ‘Let’s impose tariffs on foreign imports,’ it looks like they’re doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products,” Mr. Reagan’s voice narrates over a video of generic images of economic activity. But, the audio warns, tariffs cause damage. “Markets shrink and collapse, industries shut down and millions of people lose their jobs.”
  5. Would like to see Ukraine cut off more bulges and get their lines straighter, reducing the amount of territory they are having to cover. Won't matter as much if the Russians start running low on fuel. Meanwhile Frontline report: Russia's military cracks - Shootings, shortages, and World War Two ammunition - Euromaidan Press
  6. In a follow-up remark, Trump stated that FlightRadar24 "is frequently wrong, look at all of those idiots who bought the Saban-to-Texas rumors based on a couple of flimsy plane flights."
  7. "I have responsibility to my animals" In September, American journalist @ZarinaZabrisky interviewed 84-year-old Lora in Antonivka, Kherson. Lora explained why she stayed despite daily Russian drone attacks: she had over 20 goats and felt responsible for them. Her house was destroyed by shelling, but she refused to leave. "All the cattle herders who herded cows in the village have already been killed by Russian attacks," Lora said then. On Monday, a Russian FPV drone struck Lora while she was walking with two of her goats. She was killed instantly—her legs blown off. Both goats died with her. "One of the hardest deaths to look at in my three-and-a-half years of reporting on this war," Zabrisky said about the aftermath. Lora is part of what Kherson residents call "human safari"—Russia's systematic targeting of civilians with drones. Nearly 150 civilians were killed in the initial summer 2024 assault, with hundreds more injured. Zabrisky's documentary "Kherson: Human Safari" captures this unprecedented form of warfare, available free at http://khersonhumansafari.com to raise global awareness. Tap the link below to find out how Russia transformed a Ukrainian city into a hunting ground for drones https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/22/the-film-showing-how-russias-killer-drones-turned-ukraine-into-a-human-safari/
  8. Reporter: Why not just ask for a declaration of war? Trump: I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We're going to kill them. You know, they're going to be, like, dead. Okay?
  9. Still wild to this 80s kid seeing Ukrainian MiGs firing American HARMs at Russian radars.
  10. Because Corrl is far, far worse. I don't think any of the major streamers want to push something like that.
  11. I don't see what new jobs are being created that can be filled by the people being replaced by automation/AI. Waymo is clever and well-liked, but what new jobs will be created by people who were driving on the side (or even full-time taxi drivers)? And what happens to the people who helped develop Waymo when it reaches a point where it "learns" much more rapidly and has even more data, negating the need for some of the humans behind it? When Amazon has all of its warehouse hubs automated, where do those workers go, especially when other companies do the same? What happens to Thelma down on 290 and South Congress when the sex bots arrive and can work 24/7?
  12. Yep, this is not about narcotics. Otherwise, we would have invaded Mexico long ago.
  13. Cinema West.
  14. The Venezuelans actually have some relatively modern Russian anti-ship missiles on their newish Su-30s. If we invade - it sounds like we are planning to, there's no reason for Maduro to hold back, since he knows he's going to end up dead or in a US prison. Trump is giving off those vibes, and we saw how much he enjoyed having that Iranian general killed in Iraq. I'm worried a bit that we'll get an HMS Sheffield or SS Atlantic Conveyor.
  15. Ukraine might not want to fuck with pipelines feeding China. Let China figure out on their own what to do.
  16. Would be enough to later go out on a hunt, come across a sabre-tooth tiger, and stab Grog in the thigh and then run off and watch the ensuing hijinks.
  17. I'm having a hard time buying the below mattering - there are a myriad of ways they can get that cheap oil, and Beijing isn't going to give it up - Iran could serve as a proxy. Also, this says "seaborne" and nothing about pipelines, of which I'd guess China has a lot of. If China reduces purchases in a huge way (not just "seaborne" but pipelines), then I'd feel like it means they know shit is going down and either they want to contribute to the post-Putin chaos, or they feel like they can wait and get a better deal when the dust dies down.
  18. He'll be shocked when the pitchforks come out. He better be reading up on his Aldous Huxley and figuring out how to keep the out-of-work masses placated. Neil Postman wrote a book back in the 1980s talking about Huxley (contrasting with Brisketexan George Orwell's 1984) and summed it up nicely (decades before Facebook and streaming): What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
  19. These two words are what concerns me, because what do these even mean (and "value" sounds like tuition-related, but maybe I'm reaching):
  20. One chair? Hell man, you could apply to be chair of GeoSciences, Natural Sciences, and Engineering with that kind of paper. Maybe even Pharmacy as well.
  21. Aimed slowly at making Trump squirm, because the reality is that Moscow is fast approaching a point where they can't export anything oil & gas related, maybe not even crude oil to be refined and re-imported. Hell, that refinery they hit last night, if it's completely down, means Rosneft won't even be selling much fuel internally.
  22. I enjoy the fact that he is telling ranchers to get the price of their cattle down if they want to compete with Argentinians that we just gave billions of dollars to, as well as telling the oil & gas folks that he wants really cheap gas. It has to make some of them squirm slightly.
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