This really just seems like "I want to complain about .ml" with extra steps.

I don't care for them, so I don't go there.

Open source projects will be used for things of which you approve and of which you do not, that is life.

Ha, had the exact same "huh, wait what?" Moment.

If we want to recruit and maintain the best while underpaying them and reducing physical overhead, remote work seems ideal.

send some signals that that’s happening that you care deeply about this relationship, and you see it as a long term relationship, and America as a reliable somebody that you want as a reliable partner moving forward.

What the hell? Who on Earth sees America as a reliable partner you want for the long term? Did he just forget about trump ripping up the trade deal he himself signed his last term? What kind of a goof would place their trust in America nowadays?

All you have to do is make the best action movie of the 21st century and boom, franchise revived!

Hmmmm, do we want to be closer with crazytown or basically reasonable people? I'm torn!

This has been tried and repealed in a lot of other places. If memory serves, it also led to a significant increase in homicides. (If there's no difference between robbery and murder, there is no incentive to leave witnesses.)

And Trailer Park Boys notwithstanding, it's not like the usual addict criminal is really thinking "well, I'll only get a couple years, no biggie" before committing a crime.

I haven't read it (may try to) but I've been pretty impressed by the way he describes the importance of harnessing markets to address climate change. (I'm of much the same opinion, markets are amazing but require government to address imbalances/incentives and straight up market failures like public goods etc.)

Seriously?!? What funds was he holding? Almost all of them exploded during Biden's term! Fox News is a hell of a drug.

Year to date, stocks are down. 1 calendar year though, most are still up.

I'd say it's a few things:

1. Stock market loves de-regulation. (Fewer rules -> more profit.

2. Stock market loves the promise of corporate tax cuts.

3. Even with tarrifs and nonsense, most American stock indices are heavily skewed to the magnificent 7, all of which besides Tesla are fairly immune to global trade.

When you gear an entire economy to war, you simultaneously run the risk of economic collapse and conquering. It's what happened to the Soviet Union in '89, the economy was in shambles but militarily they were still a powerhouse.

Republicans have majorities in both houses, if they can't pass a spending bill, that's on them.

No. There's no telling what comes after these 4 years. The US has proven that they aren't an ally worth relying on, we should look to more reliable partners and building them up and vice versa. Any concession or help offered by the next administration isn't worth the paper it's written on (just look at trump ripping up his own trade agreement for this nonsense.)

We need allies not a neighbour that on a whim might try to throw us into a recession.