No disagreement there.

It's a good point though I prefer to think of it as Parliament reasserting its supremacy.

On that, we can agree.

Only in theory. Shit, King Charles in theory has the power of a dictator. Parliament is Supreme, and excepting the period of the UK being in the EU, has been since 1688. Shit when Charles the 1st acted somewhat like Trump, Parliament cut his head off.
In 1776, Parliament was Supreme, regardless of what propaganda you were fed as a kid.

War of Secession is a better description of the American Revolution, which never intended to overthrow Parliament or the King. Just kick them out, which it mostly succeeded at.

Actually, I've read the 1st Amendment. It simply says the Congress shall not legislate speech restrictions (with the 14th extending it to State legislatures). Nothing about executive orders or other Executive powers like the FCC removing broadcast licenses for bad speech. It is another right given by the courts, which can be taken away by your Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote.
Any which way, the 1st is an American thing with other countries free to pass their own laws.

Yes, that was the American innovation, making slavery about race. Used to be about tribes (then nations), criminals and debt. European's enslaved each other. Orientals enslaved each other. Red people enslaved each other and black people enslaved each other. And they all enslaved other colours.
Then Americans made it about race and how certain people with more pigment in their skin were inferior and naturally were slaves. Now we have people like you still making it about the colour of peoples skin rather then being the losers of war.

Err, King George the third had about the same power as King Charles the third currently has. The last King to govern was James the 2nd and one day when he was out of town, Parliament declared he had abdicated and invited King William and Mary, sister of James to take over, with conditions, namely that Parliament was Supreme. It was called the Glorious Revolution of 1688. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now King George did do some tyrannical things like the Royal Proclamation of 1763 where he proclaimed all his subjects, including the natives of N. America and the Papists to be equal and have equal rights, something that really pissed of the American Colonists.
The King has never been able to tax, that was what Parliaments power was and those taxes that were blamed on the King were laws passed by Parliament and rubber stamped by the King. Its not like he could veto them and keep his throne. Shit as recently as 1936, Parliament fired a King, for being a Fascist and political.
Basically, the actual power of the King (or Queen) is to Advise, Counsel and Warn. That was true of King George as well, though he was louder then the current Monarch, who has a private visit to his UK Prime Minister most weeks.

> What this will do, is that newly graduated STEM masters and PhD will go back to their home country and we lose out on top talents.

The vast majority of H1-Bs are not the top talents.

The computer was 3 years old on release of Win11 and is plenty powerful enough in this day where each generation of CPU only gives a minor speed bump. Even in the 90's when computers doubled in speed every 18 months, you were free to install the latest OS with perhaps a warning that the experience would be bad.

The other year, installing Win11 ended with an unsupported CPU error on a fairly new at the time Thinkcenter with a 7th generation CPU. The last time I had a similar experience with Linux many years ago just meant some Googling and adding a boot parameter to tell the kernel that yes I did have PAE even if the CPU didn't admit it. Would have been easy to use a different distribution then Ubuntu too.
A general use operating system rejecting a 3 year old computer due to it being too old does not equal an easy install.

I read somewhere that even totally annihilating a gram of matter/antimatter only gives enough energy to accelerate a gram of matter to 50% light speed, assuming perfectly using the energy. How to harness the gamma rays is unknown.
Basically current physics says getting to relativistic speeds is close to impossible.

You can't reach the speed of light, just get closer and closer. Takes about a year at 1G to really get the relativistic effects at close to light speed.
Problem is everything you hit, even light, has so much energy that survival would be, lets say hard. The energy requirements make it impossible according to current physics.

Actually about 7.2 years ship time and just over 42 years Earth time, quicker if you don't want to stop at the end. Takes about a year at 1G to get close to light speed and really take advantage of relativistic time compression.
Of course the energy requirements would be huge and current physics says it is close to impossible.

Alberta does like to be different. The rules in BC are more like the UK.