Good one. Or should I say Gud1?

I had a consultant that would frequently forget his password. I finally set it to "I forgot" and gave it to him. Three weeks later, sure enough, he drops by because he can't get in. I ask him "What's your password?" and he says "I forgot". So I just looked at him. Finally he got it. No issues since then.

Stupid Americans. They didn't realize that they too could have gotten rid of most of their "social problems" by throwing them into the meat-blender. And don't get me started on that whole democracy thing they have to waste so much time on...

...and for all the GN's out there, a protuberance is a special case of a perturbation.

Perhaps because the House controls the purse strings?

Careful. Remember what Mark Twain had to say about arguing with a fool.

Shoot 'em all to Mars, let John Carter sort them out.

And we are in uncharted waters because someone decided to cut taxes while still waging a couple of wars "off the books".

We need a government program to fix that.

Group affiliation has always been more important than...just about everything. Groups. Tribes. Territory. It's what mammals do.

In Soviet Russia, government pilfers you. Seems like a trend.

No, no, I'm sure we're due to slip off in the ocean any time now.

Good joke. As a nerd, of course, you already know that "gop" means "Guardians of Peace" in this context.

I've seen it used in archeology and linguistics.

Ur welcome.

They invaded countries that had oil. Can China invade a country that has dollars and basically say "gimme your dough?" Would not that act of invasion itself destroy the target's economy (and dollars)?

And if in the position of securing a political goal the dictators decide that the gain outweighs the damage to their economy, they will--in glowing, happy, joyful terms--tell their population to go ahead and suck it up.

Counting on self-interest to stop bad actors is no guarantee.

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