Maybe for you, but not for the people who rely on tourism for a living. They're losing billions of dollars because your guy has turned tourists off from visiting. They have begged Canadians to come back, with billboards in Canadian cities, special discounts, offers to accept Canadian money at par, and so on.

There are tourists from other countries, but Canadians are -- well, were -- among the largest groups of international tourists, who stay longer than domestic tourists and spend more money.

So you just want to laugh, as your Nero fiddles and your country burns down. Sigh. I hope you wake up in time to put a stop to it, peacefully and democratically.

You must be an American. I'm guessing you're one of the 77 million of your fellow citizens who voted for Trump. A president who mocked and threatened the sovereignty of a neighbor and historical ally.

You think the joke is even funnier because Canadians don't think it's funny at all. If you maintain an attitude like this, don't be surprised if Canadians don't come back to the USA for a generation or longer.

Well that's news to me. Arizona does not observe DST because summer evenings would be too hot. And yet the Navajo Nation (most of which is in Arizona) does in fact observe DST -- they even had their own tzdatabase entry for awhile (but now use the Denver code if I'm not mistaken.)

If a state or a First Nations tribe can decide whether or not to observe DST, why couldn't they decide to observe it permanently?

Friendly tip: don't say anything about the "51st state" around Canadians. Not even if you're joking. It's uncool, and one of the big reasons Canadians are boycotting the USA right now as a travel destination, and avoiding USA products in stores.

Then their parents will need to start work an hour later. And other businesses will need to change their start-times. And so on.

BTW, the sunrise times I supplied were for December, the month of the winter solstice.

Don't be so envious. It will mean that children will need to go to school in the dark. Typical sunrise times for southern BC are 7:45 to 8:00 AM, and for norther BC it happens around 9:00 AM. All Pacific Standard Time. With Daylight Saving Time year-round, those times will all be one hour later.

Google says:

par-tic-i-pate
verb
1. Take part in an action or endevour.

So, Israel did indeed participate, according to the plain definition of the word. And calling me names does not strengthen your argument.

Note that I qualified my statement with "seem to think." That means your post left that impression in me. And I have good reason to have that impression. You asked rhetorically when was the last time people asked the USA to be liberated, thus implying that this was the objective of the current offensive in Iran.

I have a ton of sympathy for what the people of Iran have had to endure over the past several decades within a fundamentalist religious state. I'm just not convinced that the current US administration was motivated to attack Iran for that reason.

No, and I didn't say I did. Netanyahu may not mind that the attack helps Trump by distracting the American public from Epstein, but I don't think that's why he decided to participate.

Nice. You think that I have a fictional mental illness. That mocks and insults people who actually do suffer from legitimate metal illnesses. You stay classy, h33t l4x0r.

No, I didn't know that. And if it's true, I don't care. If it's true.

Before anyone else points this out, I do consider Stalin to be an exception to those who were "respectable." Having him in the group was a marriage of convenience, followed by a quick divorce leading into the Cold War.

You seem to think that the current strikes against Iran by the USA and Israel are an attempt to get Iran to treat its people more humanely.

No, they are a pressure tactic to bend Iran's resolve in nuclear negotiations -- which would not have been necessary if Trump hadn't torn up the JCPOA signed on July 14, 2015 between Iran and China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, and the USA. But that agreement happened during Obama's administration, so in Trump's mind, it had to go.

And, perhaps -- oh, say -- these strikes are meant to distract the American people from the Epstein files.

Germany and Japan faced allied forces, not just the USA on its own. And those world leaders were a tad more respectable than the ones leading the current aggressions in Iran.

In short, I don't have the same hope for a positive outcome as you might.

As TFS points out, Iran cutting off the internet is basically just Tuesday.

The real story is what induced Iranian authorities to cut it off this time.

You're not wrong, but by how much? Even if this plan gets anywhere near a scale that yields useful energy, I think it needs to be weighed against the kinds of energy-generation methods we use already that unquestionably warm the planet -- and may also produce greenhouse gasses.

And for the record, I'm not exactly a fan of this new idea. I like night skies and I want to keep them.