That $18B will be spent by the States on their favorite contractors. I do not see how the fine actually covers anything other than bribing government officials.

While I was reading your thoughtful comment, it occurred to me that people want perfection. Male or female, they want a 'partner' that fits their preconceived notions; however, this is the Real World and nobody will EVER fulfill your (or my) preconceived notions.

In short, 'everyone' thinks they want something; however, upon examination, what they think they want is not what they really want, so when they get what they think they want, they are frustrated because it does not satisfy. And children are expected to be created (and hopefully raised) from all of this. Oh my.

I went through every word of this sentence, trying to make sense of it. It just does not add up. I think it has something to do with the words "big and wide" in relation to Texas that is really working me over. Perhaps it is the location in relation to the equator that is throwing me. Can you restate the sentence in English so I can understand it please because it sounds like total nonsense to me.

No. No. they wouldn't. That is all manufactured. Most people want an equitable deal while some folks want everything. The percentage of folks who want everything is smaller than 30%.

If I were Canada, I would have walked out of the trade negotiations, shut all borders to the USA, and stopped all trade and communications with the USA. The disrespect can not be tolerated. It is rough for Canada that they can not do that. An invasion would be imminent. (I never thought I would say that about "my" own country. wtf happened here? When did we transition to "might makes right" fully?)

Why don't any nations call this out directly and publicly? The USA is not trustworthy right now. That should be called out and paraded around. If a nation can't keep its treaties (Russia), then they should be shunned entirely on the international stage. Period.

Yes yes yes. I am soooo eager to have a fascist dictatorship implemented within my home country. Freedom just sucks and is boring. I would much rather slave away for another person's benefit if it means YOU get to suffer. /s

Apparently, everyone still has FULL trust in the electoral system. I can not possibly imagine why since the votes ALWAYS go in a direction that appears to contradict what everyone says they want. Weird that.

LOL, I love that there is no response. What a maroon, making a claim then not backing it up. I am glad you called them out.

If there is not a headphone jack, I do not want it. Choices are getting MIGHTY slim nowadays.

No. They don't. It is more convenient for them to get this information, but they do NOT legitimately need to know. I am perfectly capable of resizing the window. I am perfectly capable of choosing the correct download link for my operating system. Websites do not "need" to display graphics that are so far out of the norm that a standard graphics card couldn't draw them.

"I" am in control, not "them". Do NOT attempt to take control away from me.

Boomers are a convenient scape (since when is 'scape' not a fucking word Mozilla?) goat. Don't worry though, your kids (if you have any) will be taught to blame you too.

Someone appears to be ignoring voter suppression and other voting related "irregularities" if they think nearly a 3rd of the people want what is currently occurring.

Ever wonder why every form of governance ultimately descends into authoritarianism? It is because that governance, of necessity, needs to claim ALL power in order to feel in charge. Once power is concentrated like that, there is always someone who finds using that power to be irresistible. Once an individual has that much power, it only takes one bad person to get control and ruin it such that the entire system of power collapses.

This has played out endlessly over the millennia. Communist, Socialist, Dictatorship, King, etc all play out exactly the same way. Democracy supposedly subverts all of that; however, it merely makes the game more complex. As we can see, even Democracy ends up in that same place.

In other words, this has NOTHING to do with one generation fucking over another, it is individuals fucking over society as a whole without regard to age or generation.

Eh? The summary clearly states that what is important is the temperature of the top 300 meters of ocean water in the Pacific ocean. It does not state exactly how much warmer or larger this mass of water is, but it is the warmest and largest ever recorded so far...

Ideally, that would work; however, back here in the Real World (TM) there have been zero candidates of the type that you describe. I guess it is possible that some were, but we will never know.