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We’re prepared to take Cape Canaveral but the rest of it can be tossed. No one wants to deal with Miami

I don’t know what history books you’ve read but the United States has a very long and documented history of not winning wars. Especially when their own population are so against it.

Meanwhile Russia is in no state to threaten anyone. What little they have in terms of military assets are tied up in Ukraine. If they try to attack Europe they’d get flattened in about 2 minutes.

Anyway it looks like trump’s probably going to get impeached and presumably he doesn’t want that to happen so he’s unlikely to actually start World War III for reasons of self-preservation.

Translation for anyone that needs it

The EU is expected to wait with tougher measures after Donald Trump’s recent tariff threat and wants to negotiate primarily, Politico reports, citing sources.

This weekend, the EU discussed tariffs on US goods worth nearly SEK 1,000 billion and the possibility of activating the EU’s so-called trade bazooka, Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI), which could mean that access to the EU’s internal market is closed off.

But so far there is no majority of member states to activate ACI, despite pressure from France, the sources say.

Instead, the strategy is to wait and see what Trump actually does. No sharp decisions are expected at this week’s extraordinary EU summit on 22 January. Any major decisions are expected at the earliest in early February, the newspaper said.

It’s a pretty ironically named option because it requires a 1-year consultation process. It’s hardly speedy and dynamic.

I got a detention for using my backpack full of books as a lethal weapon. I have the English anthology in there and that’s a big book, it does some serious blood force trauma damage. It’s an awful book though.

Apparently that started a trend so the school introduced a rule that said that all backpacks must be put in lockers at the start of each day. Which was stupid because the lockers weren’t big enough for that. So everyone was forced to carry their books to and from school by hand.

Maybe a hot take but I stand by it.

Red Faction: Armageddon. It was just so very boring and inferior to its 3-year-old predecessor. THQ actually tried to claim that no one was interested in the franchise anymore because of the lacklustre sales of that game. But the franchise is excellent, Armageddon was just a bad game.

Canada itself should start a military exercise where it practises laying landmines. No need to practise picking them up though, there’s plenty of time for that later.

This will probably be effective on Trump because he’s an idiot. Everyone else knows it if you want someone dead you don’t tell them about it first.

I’m now older than both my parents were when I was born. The complaining about the lack of grandchildren has already started.

Is not in is it? Society won’t let me stay up and play Xbox until midnight anymore, I’m expected to go to work in the morning.

There’s not a lot they can patent. VR existed before they started this project, inside out tracking existed before they started this project, and there are other products with similar ideas that go far further than anything metaverse ever put out (I feel like it never even released).

Facebook would make considerably more money if he stayed out of the decision making processes and just let talented people do it. But ego is going to ego I guess.

No one wants to buy Florida.

It would be worth it tonwact him run. I doubt he can.

I’m reasonably confident that neither Russia nor China have any interest in Greenland. Primarily because they clearly don’t. They could have attacked Greenland at any point in the last 60 years they haven’t.

China is primarily interested in the Middle East, India, and Africa and Russia is not currently in a state to be threatening anyone else, least of all NATO.

Apparently it’s because the US military are always encouraged to follow orders and not think for themselves. Basically the exact opposite to the way that they are betrayed in Hollywood. They even get trained to creeply talk about themselves in the third person.

There are millionaires and billionaires in Europe though, so clearly it is possible to have decent work-life balance and still support the excesses of a rich upper class, assuming that’s a requirement.

The amount of productivity lost because of paid leave is almost negligible, study after study has shown that people are less productive the more overworked they are. So staff with no time off work longer hours but are less productive for those hours, the end result is it pretty much equals out. If it didn’t, the US economy would be doing better then it is, €1 is $1.16.

That’s my Americans never leave the US. They don’t have time. ,

Do you even know what we’re talking about? Have you ever played any of those games, they are very much in the style of what meta where trying to do.

If you took Meta’s description of what the “Metaverse” is and then looked at chatVR it’s basically the same product.

Sure they do.

Don’t worry I’m not going to explain why that makes zero sense, you can keep wearing your fetching tin foil hat.

Oh I see so now he’s angry at everyone. Not that I think that America should be able to get Greenland but even if I did it’s not as if say the UK or France has any say on the matter, so why are they being tariffed?