The rest of the world might need to bring the US to heel. We’re exporting hate and racism as a means to build fascist states around the world. Our rich are so rich and protected by the US military that they are becoming untethered from all remaining constraints about law and sovereignty for other countries.

Here be dragons.

The NYPD spent 10’s of millions chasing turn style jumpers on the NY Metro in one year. They recovered around $100k in citations doing it. It’s not about financial sense when it comes to oppressing the poor.

Now, when the USPS can’t “turn a profit” we’ll have to immediately destroy it, of course! That also helps bring equity to our society so it needs to go.

Nothing for the conservative is about helping. It’s all about preserving the hierarchy and hurting people who aren’t rich to begin with.

It’s all about the insider trading for the big bucks.

So after years of “cartels this and cartels that. Immigrants are bringing the drugs!” It once again turns out to be corporations killing us for a profit.

Surprise! It’s unbridled capitalism that’s destroying your life. (Well, not really a surprise at this point unless you’re a complete idiot.)

The calories are very much what matters. I’m relearning that the hard way right now:

“You gain muscle in the gym. You lose weight in the kitchen.”

I’m current adjusting my diet for a lower calorie intake and slowing my junk food tendencies. Hopefully a long term change will pay long term dividends.

So… our children could be in school and ICE officers push through the door to their classroom, snag a classmate, and haul them out in handcuffs?

Yup, we’re headed to quite the terrorist government approach to a republic.

There it is!

Hey look! Let’s just raise a huge middle finger to what’s left of our ecosystems.

How did it go? Yes, humanity was destroyed, but for one moment we maximized profits!

The story just went down a spiral. It’s worth the read. This person needed the timeout.

Desktops: Linux (Mint)
Laptops: Linux (Mint)
Phones: Linux (Android)
Servers: Linux (Debian)
SBC: Linux (Armbian / Raspberry Pi OS)
ESP32/ESP8266: Arduino (I’ve never really taken to MicroPython)
ATMega 328P/etc : Arduino

Dictators love elections as long as they decide who votes and who counts the votes.

They’re hoping the humanizing also protects their CEO, who is a different variation of corrupt and harmful to society.

The prior president pardoned a family member who was blackmailing and raping people, then appointed the same criminal to be ambassador to France. I don’t give a fuck what President Biden does now. We’re a country of criminals and oligarchs now.

The US is already falling behind in education. We were ranked about #3 in 2018. We’re now down to #16 as of 2022. That’s a huge slump. Our graduates are performing notably worse than they used to on the international market.

We also have a bit of an established history invading Cuba.

I’m not saying no. What can we bring for the trade? I’m not really sure what Canada needs from the US at this point, but we’re willing to be flexible.

Mexico doesn’t have to announce it. The US is more than happy to make the announcement before them. Evidence includes “Yellow Cake”, “WMDs in Iraq”, and the fact that our incoming president lies without even thinking at all times.

Land connected countries I think it’s only two (direct neighbors): Mexico and Canada. Is there another country I’m missing? If we can continue down south we get into Guatemala and Belize. If we allow water traversal, then the Caribbean is full of places.

I don’t see many of these locations not fighting back one way or another, either directly or through international responses. Germany at least had some casus belli for annexing territory through ethnic/cultural grounds and/or historical border European nation border changes. The US has no such thing to work with, we’d just be obviously complete assheads to annex anything at this point.

I have great faith in a justice system. Whatever the US has now, though, I’m pretty skeptical that it’ll do anything in favor of the people and not the rich.

Paris is kicking ass on recovering their city from the damage done by car focused development. Lots of new rail lines, removing parking, raising costs of using cars in the core, and making the city more people oriented. Keep it up! Every car removed is a win for Parisians.