Make whatever offer you want to, Delta; you're the ones who always remind me on the plane, "We know you have a choice." If this new pricing system isn't competitive, then it's not competitive.

....and once again MAGA goes green with envy.

Stop ruining his deeply held belief with your 'dictionary definitions'.

My understanding of Cloudflare is that they're a reverse-proxy. So I think the issue is that due to these particular sites using Cloudflare, a legit DNS lookup still resolves to Cloudflare's service.

These websites have chosen for Cloudflare to be the middleman between themselves and all their users.

Of course people just starting their careers shouldn't ask their parents for career advice — it's very unlikely they have relevant, current knowledge and much more likely they'll draw from 20+ year old info that worked for them.

That said, parents are great for doing a "smell test" on an email, a resume, on an outfit, or on anything really. Hiring managers are likely to be closer to parents' age, so it's good to get feedback. Parents are also going to have much stronger professional networks that can help even if you're in an entirely different field — colleagues' spouses might work in the right industry, or someone else might have a good connection. Just a small example that happened to me recently — my daughter was on a group trip that was getting screwed by their hotel, and one of the parent chaperones happened to be an ex-VP of a credit card company, and could make a call to the right person to get the problem resolved.

In short, think carefully about how people can help you and have an open mind about things they might know or connections they might have — you might be surprised.

And have the presence of mind, and the giving-a-fuck (you have something to lose!), to actually bother using them.

AFAIK I've never slipped one past the goalie, but the times I risked it, is when I was poorer and life was generally worse and I was overall (not just sexually) less risk-averse. The more comfortable my life, the more I've maintained safe practices.

True, but it does not stop CEO worshipping Americans from thinking that corporations can act with complete impunity agains nation states despite the fact that every time the EU makes noises about taxing US tech companies their CEOs show up in the oval office to beg Trump for help.

Until they want to do business in your country and you can tax the profits they make there.

I figured the "tastes like chicken" comments were inevitable and then you throw in Peter Jackson, and obviously everyone is thinking about Bad Taste. But then I couldn't think of any really good ones, so I'll just punish the world with the Jackson jokes that I did come up with.

The moas died because they were feeble. As the Feebles, get it?

Um, what did the moa say to the kung-fu catholic priest? "Oh yeah? Well I kick ass for The Lord of the Rings!"

How many moas does it take to prepare ear-pus-custard? Moa than you would believe!

Done with the gain-of-function research, Chang is assigned to clean out the cages. But why throw out the live animals when he can get a few yuan for them down at the market?

Hijinx ensue!

This could be a good comedy movie. Chang should have some amusing [mis]adventures along the way!

I would at least pirate this movie, and then eventually watch it too.

You should post that on Truth Social for the Lulz. I hear Donnie likes big simple charts. :)

It does, but there's a slight issue with that. In terms of the world's largest economies by GDP the BRICS countries rate as:

#2: China
#4: India
#10: Brazil
#11: Russia (sanctions not withstanding)
#17: Indonesia
#28: United Arab Emirates
#38 South Africa
#42: Egypt
#44: Iran (again, despite the sanctions)
#66: Ethiopia

Now it's not like these countries are doing absolutely nothing to mitigate things, but it would be really interesting to see some numbers on exactly how much of a proportionate contribution they are making to "fund mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in poorer nations" when even lowly Ethiopia still has over 130 poorer nations to choose from.

Unofficially, it's already done. It used to be that if you were going to somewhere with a weak and mostly cash-based economy you took the bulk of your cash in USD and the rest in the local currency. For quite some time now retailers in such economies have been just as likely to take Euros or Sterling as they were USD when they are after some hard currency, and on my last couple of trips I've actually been asked for Euros or Sterling in preference to USD. My local contact for my upcoming trip to the Far East has advised me to forget the USD and just bring Sterling or Euros because I'll get a much better exchange rate.

When the hawkers on the street and small store owners don't want USD any more, it's just a matter of time before that sentiment climbs up the ladder to larger retailers, and eventually to governments.

but the tradeoff they are making for us is that everything we import could cost as much as 3X more than it did before they destroyed the value of the dollar.

Before or after you add on the tariffs? Don't forget those are on the sticker price and paid in USD, so if something costs you 3x as many dollars then you'll also need to pay 3x as much in tariffs on top as well (assuming the tariff rate doesn't change again, of course). Even at Trump's base tariff rate of 10%, that would mean something that would previously have cost $100 to get shipped to your door from AliExpress or wherever now costing $300, plus a further $30 in import taxes.

I think there would be a red line when one US Dollar no longer gets you more than one Canadian Dollar, but who knows with all the crazy at the moment? Some people probably won't think it's a problem even when it no longer gets you one Mexican Peso...

So another thing that MAGA gets butt-hurt over has been disappeared. Is anybody surprised? What Was the excuse? Purging satanic anti Trump commie moose-lamb science?