Food prices are rising and squeezing a lot of families no doubt about it. But widespread shortages? I don't think so.

Did you file counter claims? How did you do that?

I post videos for our local church branch and often get copyright claims, even on music that's actually owned by our church's head office. It's such a broken system. I normally do nothing with these claims since we aren't wanting to monetize our videos in any way, but it galls me that someone else wants to monetize our videos.

Some European trains also get up to 300 kph. I remember riding the train from Paris to Kohn back in 2014. Looking out the window I estimated our speed at around 160 kph. Pulled out my GPS unit and turned out I was wrong. Very wrong. 300 kph. And it was also a very smooth ride. The investment European countries made over the years was very costly but well worth it. I occasionally visit family in the US. Would love to have a fast train that would take me there, instead of driving for 12 hours. But you know, freedom and things.

Indeed. The clip I saw of the meeting with Lee and Trump was pretty weird. It's bizarre that this sort of meeting is now normal. It's one thing to show and express deep respect and understanding of a world leader, it's another thing to unabashedly heap over-the-top praise and flattery, and invite the president to personally profit from a political deal. But that is what leaders are lining up to give Trump. I'm not sure who such naked displays debase more, the groveling world leaders or Trump and the entire United States. But it does work, sadly. World leaders essentially get what they want, and Trump gets what he personally wants. Never mind the interests of the US as a country. As crude and vulgar as South Park's portrayal of this is, it is very, very accurate.

Oh I see. So we should just give up now and let Trump take us over since it's inevitable. With friends like that who needs enemies.

Migration... as in immigrants, emigrants? People moving from one part of Canada to another? Not quite sure what you're getting at there.

I mean never looked like a Fisher Price toy.

Pastels will look dated very quickly. Like 60s orange and green kitchens.

My phone UI has ever looked like a Fisher Price toy. But it is possible to have a nice looking UI with good contrast and decent colors. Pastels just aren't to my liking at all and the older I get the more I have a hard time with low contrast.

And the GOP is full on in favor of the biggest tax rise in decades. And the party of small government and states rights is actually the opposite. It's a bizarre world now.

So? Despite that now the descendants of rich, poor, enslavers, enslaved, are all benefiting from this rich framework. True it took far too long to get to this point, but nevertheless, it did happen. In other words it was the people and the application of their principles that were wrong, not the principles themselves.

Sadly it appears the current regime is out to destroy it all, including the very principles themselves.

I'm really tired of the nasty pastel colors. Please just let me set my own colors. Not pastel colors, but real colors. If I want a bright color and better contrast, I should be able to do that. The old Material look and feel worked great with saturated colors. Currently I make do with an app that forces the UI to adopt greyscale for most UI elements. Contrast still sucks, but at least it's not those sickly pastel colors.

If there was just one application you needed windows to run, then Windows in a VM would be the solution.

But the reality is you're not really that interested in Linux, and won't be five years from now either. And most Windows users are similarly not really interested in Linux, regardless of increasing anti-user rubbish that's coming out of Microsoft. Despite what people have been saying on Slashdot recently.

Cheaper to just spend millions to redesign the web site what's selling seats. Instead of calling it window or aisle, just refer to it by the seat letter. A, B,C etc. It's up to the buyer to determine whether there's actually a window nearby. Or maybe you get two windows depending on how the row lines up with the windows.

Given the possibility in the future of lifting body aircraft with very wide cabins, just put up screens between groups of seats and put on some picturesque view. Get people used to that now.

I see. I'm totally okay with solar being paired with natural gas in the short term. The reason being that the storage issue is a solvable one. And there's a definite path forward with real public support. Investing in solar energy production and storage is a no brainer, at least for most folk. We'd be stupid to not put up more solar. Nuclear isn't so clear cut. I agree we need more nuclear. Maybe when a Democrat king gets elected he can executive order his way to building nuclear power plants. Until then I just do see nuclear going anywhere in North America, especially in the US.

Agree about AI. But I don't quite follow your argument about renewables. Even without them you'd still have natural gas base load power. That's certainly cleaner than coal, and it's quite cost effective. If you were referring to CO2 emissions, yes natural gas has that, but less than coal. Not sure why you tie natural gas to renewables (although they do make a good, reasonably clean pair).

Nuclear fission is the most expensive option on the table. The cost to build plants are crazy high. Extracting uranium to react isn't free or very clean either. I agree nuclear is a necessary part of the mix, but it's not so simple in my estimation.

It's kind of a moot discussion because the US government has now picked natural gas as the primary source of electrical energy going forward.