So, what is your plan, General? Invade a country of 93.4 million people who have history of not buckling under to anyone? You first.

Of you could inflict some serious Christian War Crimes on them in the hopes they will buckle and won't hold a grudge for the next 100 years. Hint: look at the history of the Middle East and how long their grudges last.

Or you could bomb the rubble some more and watch Iran take out what is left of the U.S. bases in the region and destroy the region's oil economy. Frankly, it would do a world of good for global warming, so that might be a good idea....except for the number of dead people around the Gulf and beyond.

All la Presidenta has succeeded in doing is spending down our treasury and the U.S. munitions piles, and simultaneously given the Iranian regime a new lease on life. Prior to this, the Iranian people were thinking about putting the heads of Iranian leadership and their stooges (Rev. Guard, Basij) on pikes. Now, that crowd looks like it will be there for at least the next 100 years.

Is there anything el Bunko cannot bankrupt, financially and morally?

If you are talking about worlds in our solar system, then possibly. Otherwise you cannot get there from here, at least not withing several 10s of years travel time.

Or you could be one of those AI Techno-Babies who think they'll transport their consciousness into a bot and send its ass there from here. The only thing is, hardware tends to break down after roughly a few years. So unless you go way faster than we possibly can below the speed of light, you are not going anywhere you care to be.

Only if they solve the space radiation problem first. Without that anyone going there is deado.

Except that they don't. Data centers create a tiny number of jobs and not for the people who usually are looking for a job in rural communities, they don't draw in visitor, tourists or other kinds of customers for local business, they don't create any product that the community would benefit from - what benefit is he talking about, much less "transformative" ?

So many words for "lol, yeah that's a them problem, we don't give a shit".

That this is even a matter for insurance is pathetic. The police caused this to happen, it needs to pay the bill, in full, including any costs the innocent person had for the time they kept the vehicle illegally.

Once cases like this drain the police budgets, they'll have an incentive to actually do a good job instead of fucking around and offloading the cost of their stupidity on ordinary people.

Yes. But folding clothes is not high on that list. Of the entire wash cycle, that's literally the easiest part. Now if it could put together all the socks into matching pair and store them away, we might be talking.

Other companies have moved us away from that model. It used to be that you buy a washing machine and you're done for most of your life. Ok, maybe you'll need a second one one day but that's about it. Not anymore. I'm on my third fridge since moving into this house a decade ago. They barely offer repairs anymore and it's often cheaper to buy new. It's ridiculous, really.

If it would iron, fold and put away, I might think about it. Folding is not the time-consuming part there.

Lol, yeah. 99% of cats will ignore that. :-)

This is a fucking bug in Outlook that I've been putting up with. I thought the days of pasting MS for buggy software was over, looks like I was wrong.

You are forgetting private credit in your screed. Private Equity has been buying up small-town America in the forms of their dental practices, vet clinics, farm land, etc. Any type of small Ma and Pop businesses that provide the same goods and services is being hoovered up by Wall Street Private Equity vultures. So now there are networks of dental practices in many different towns all owned by one private equity firm. That way of doing business will prevent other small businesses from getting started because they are big enough to snuff out new ones before they can build a business. Farm country is replete with this sort of feudal economics.

To make matters worse, there's no corralling Private Equity because they have gobs of cash. They can buy off government and get rules and laws passed to preserve their little feudal kingdoms.

Yes, but la Presidenta has stacked the Supreme Court with Nazis who see no problem turning the U.S. into a Fascist state, dictatorwise and the state in bed with companies. And Alito has been making noises about retirement which would give el Bunko a chance to extend their Nazi reign of anti-Democracy terror a bit longer; that is if the Democrats fail to win back the Senate and that asshole doesn't resign right after the midterms so he could be confirmed by the current bootlickers in the Senate.

A lot of companies changed their maps etc when your idiot in charge used his crayon to rename Lake Ontario.

Does it matter much whether sunrise is at 11 or noon? Yukon changed a few years ago and they haven't changed back yet. Here closer to the 49th parallel, we'll see. It also depends where in the time zone you are, they're an hour wide on average.

Here in BC, the DST law was passed in 2019, originally using it was dependent on our neighbours to the south also changing it. Our neighbours turned bad, the government decided in March to change it this year. So companies like MS had over a half dozen years to prepare.

Even in BC, the towns in the east took a while to decide whether to align with the rest of the Province or Alberta with some towns even changing their minds. Most all ended up opting for Alberta time as Calgary is the closest big city for them.