Being able to write click bait articles that will catch people's eyes on the internet for advertiser's money?

Doubtful that he'd be assassinated. More likely as in previous examples, he'd be arrested and secluded and not see a court room till he was willing to say what the government wants him to say.

The US is already metric. It was the second country after France to adopt the metric system in the 19th century. All our standard units are defined in metric units. the thing is, it just doesn't force people or industry it doesn't deal with to use it. About the only thing they could do is post signs in metric, which they have already attempted several times, and the experiments pretty much failed. Currently this in the US not using the metric system aren't because there is no reason to and for those who are, there is.

...and they'll answer "the good looking one with the motorcycle".

Technically, becoming a fascist state would require the government taking control of the corporations rather than the corporations taking control of the government, a one party government rather than two, and a nationalistic sense of ethnicity within the country (targeting enemies of the state) rather than "I got mine, fuck you" sectarian agenda. Whatever the US is working toward, it is not a fascist state, but something else, perhaps "neo-fascist". Still, we are not there yet. With respect to those that have actually survived fascist states, while observation and intelligence gathering on the population might be up there, they have yet to actually utilize it as much as they could, not that we shouldn't worry about that.

Better to think of Canada as a collection of US provinces currently tied to a future independent French speaking state.

And that few if any professionals have heard of XCF. Really, making something that is "eXperimental" in the name part of the default workflow?

...and people who find installing and keeping such ad block software up to date as tiresome as the ads themselves as they must not go to the same annoying ad infested websites as most people (probably porn).

Of course they didn't. It's an AC and pure trolling.

I suspect these catch up to the perpetrators in the college years. I can see such cheating working in large undergraduate classes, but have a hard time seeing it working later on once they get to upper division courses. By then, class sizes are smaller, teachers get to know their graduating class members and have the same students in several classes across multiple semesters. Unless there is some complacency going on such as the school wanting the football player to pass and putting pressure on the teachers, I have a hard time seeing it being a reliable method for getting a degree.

In other words, ability to succeed in the real world working at a job.

Something else to passively aggressively show that the US is thinking about separating from Russia and having a possible three way space race, or even giving China some aid.

Bush wanted a plan to explore space, the Moon, asteroids, and Mars when it was a nice speaking point on his state of the Union addresses, but he never even allocated any money to NASA to begin such programs. Year after year, he said we were going to Mars but had nothing but words to back that up. Their budget had a hard time keeping up with inflation. Additionally, if we were really going to Mars, not only would we need the ISS, we'd probably have to build another one to do all additional research needed for a Mars mission that couldn't get done there. Normally, I wouldn't reply to an AC troll who doesn't know what they're talking about, but the above was always a sore point with me.

China asked to join in on the ISS and we vetoed it. China said that they would launch their own space station. This is scheduled for 2020. We have already started a space race and are quite simply, waiting for the Chinese to catch up. They just got to a person into space in 2003 and landed something on the moon in 2007. Their proposed time table has them returning moon rock to earth in 2017, launching a space station in 2020, and a moon walk in 2024. So arguably, in a little less than ten years from now, they will have caught up with where the US was around almost two decades ago. Still, China proposes lots of things and fails to come through on them. If they actually get a space station launched and the ISS is retired with no replacement in the works, then I expect that the US will pay attention and start running again rather than walking.

Personally, I expect Musk to have his own space station up sooner.

We haven't forgotten. We're just still upset about De Gaulle dropping out of NATO, saying the Soviets would win the Cold War, and then going about being an asshole to US and Britain in an attempt to prove that France is still a super power. That is when all the surrender stuff began. In the end and after WW2, it is true that the US troops identified more with the German people and culture, but I have found no claims of the French being "surrender *anythings*" even in literature bitching about the French from that time period. It's always just been a cheap and easy shot used due to geo-political leanings. This is true with the "Freedom Fries" thing also. France was against the invasion of Iraq (along with Germany), but then again, guess which countries oil company (again, along with Germany) was dealing with Saddam to pump and ship their oil? Rather than explaining these reasons to the American people (who really probably don't care for the most part), they just rename "French Fries". "Freedom Fries".