For how many centuries have you owned it? I think they're explicitly looking for vintage rocks.
I was going to point out that some of the stones you mentioned are semiprecious stones but it turns out that "gemstone" actually includes precious and semiprecious stones. Also, the distinction between the two is arbitrary and mostly based on how expensive they were in the Copper Age. TIL.
Not really.
We already had the "now everything will get better" moment when Obama replaced Bush Jr. and brought promises of change and the USA becoming a better country. He was a lame duck for many reasons but he did make an effort to short up the country's reputation.
Bush had demonstrated that the USA were perfectly capable of suddenly tearing up agreements that had been stable for decades. Obama's case was that this was a one-time slip-up, that the USA were still a reliable and trustworthy partner. It was a hard case to make on an international stage where treaties are expected to remain stable for decades if not centuries but he made that point by leaning on the States' accumulated goodwill as a trade partner.
Then Trump I shat all over that and made clear that no, American policy could pivot on a dime and having to renegotiate everything every four years was just the cost of doing business with the USA these days. And you better did business with the USA on their terms or they'd get mad.
Biden tried to do an Obama but a) was even more of a lame duck and b) tried to argue a point that had become thoroughly implausible at this point.
Trump II now shows us that four years was actually restrained by American standards and that American policy can now change whenever and however he wants it to, continuity and common sense be damned. L'Etat c'est lui. On a stage where a decade is a short time he changes the country's tenor on a weekly basis.
The EU's reaction? Trade deals with just about everyone else. Mercosur. Canada. Japan. The UK. Singapore. Vietnam. New Zealand. Ukraine. Moldova. Georgia. Kenya. Plus several others in early stages. Which European trade deals are staling out? The ones with the USA and China.
The world is pivoting away from the USA because it lost its trust in America as a trade partner and it's going to take decades of concentrated and stable good-faith effort to regain that trust. The States won't just have to make a case for keeping them as a preferred partner but for making them a preferred partner again. The hurdle is higher now.
Mind you, openly defying the ICC (and thus subverting the idea of a rules-based world order) and breaking the WTO are much older than the Trump administration. Randomly fucking with foreign countries has been going on ever since the USA had the ability to project power.
The USA have been a bad friend for a long time. They had a bit of a redemption in the 40s but just kept coasting on that one moment (and fear of a belligerent neighbor), assuming that their popularity comes from them being inherently awesome and always right. The luster was already rubbing off in the 2000s with Bush's bullshit wars.
But now Trump is openly showing that the States feel entitled to whatever they want, are simultaneously subservient to much smaller foreign powers, and have zero respect for human rights, long-time friends, the values they supposedly stand for, and themselves. The belligerent neighbor they've been using to prop up their image is a broken man now and they kiss his feet.
Uncle Sam is not just a bad friend, he's a washed-up unstable asshole whom nobody in the friend group actually likes but who keeps showing up and threatening people if he's not included.
Wouldn't that tool be called "Save As..."? If the suite supports both formats, converting a document is as simple as opening and saving it.
And they could absolutely just default to OpenDocument and also support OOXML, just like LibreOffice does.
I think what you're thinking of is a limited free trade agreement. The UK is free to pursue one of those. The UK would probably have to play by EU rules regarding things like product standards (with little say in what those rules are) but free trade without freedom of movement is absolutely doable.
A military alliance is also no problem.
Anything beyond that is going to be difficult, though. For countries joining the EU after it's inception, points 2 and 3 are hard requirements. The UK doesn't have much to offer that would justify giving it special treatment.
Let's see how many governments will end up with a D rating. The USA are probably a given but this might set a lot of major companies on fire so who knows who else will run out of money.
Of course China is laughing all the way to the bank. Their economy isn't super healthy right now but they aren't reliant on semiconductor companies that chained themselves to the AI racket. So they might weather the crash mostly unharmed and we'll all end up buying Loongson in the future because all of the x64 and ARM companies have folded.
Too much typing. Real men just press Alt+SysRq+L.
Right. I did get it backwards. Guess I also didn't play the game for a long time...
He's trying to guess what she's thinking about. She says it's not necessary. He flips down "food". This reveals nothing about her attitude towards food, only about his.
The array of flippable pictures is specific to each player and tracks their knowledge of what has been ruled out.
The Cachy kernel is in the AUR if you're brave enough.
I gotta say that I agree with many of Cachy's choices. I use Garuda, which makes many of the same choices and uses them effectively. For example, BTRFS is a good default choice if you also have default Snapper with pre- and post- update snapshots.
So in meiner Verwandtschaft gesehen. Oberes Management bei einer Spedition, vom Mechaniker hochgearbeitet. Der Inhaber verkauft die Firma, der Käufer vertickt sofort alle Assets und macht den Laden dicht. Schon sitzt man mit Mitte 50 beim Amt und erfährt, dass man für Managementposten unterqualifiziert und für alles andere überqualifiziert und zu alt ist. Langjährige Berufserfahrung zählt halt einen Dreck, wenn man kein BWL-Studium vorweisen kann.
Nach ein paar Jahren "nicht vermittelbar" wurde dann empfohlen, einfach in den Vorruhestand zu gehen. Keine weiteren Vermittlungsversuche und dann Frührente sobald möglich. Arbeitswille und -fähigkeit wären da gewesen, aber mit dem Profil wollte ihn halt keiner haben. Und schon wird aus einem Einzahler ein Auszahler.