Gotchu fam

Also, reports of the largest BVR engagement (not a dogfight/BFM fight, good job fucking up terminologies once again, legacy media) in history are coming in

All gas no brakes wcgw

There we go. The first domino.

I would honestly support this historical reenactment

That’s what we needed to do with the Republican Party. They’re one and the same at this point.

Letterkenny and Shoresy are great fucking shows. Fight me; see what happens.

I know exactly what the RTO mandates are about.

My point is that I don’t care, and it’s not my problem, and I ca. elucidate specific ways in which it makes my job harder as a data pipeline engineer.

It’s a fucking dumb requirement, and it’s a particularly fucking dumb requirement for my particular job role.

As an American, I’d like to say “I’m sorry that we have inflicted this Orange Buffon on the world. TWICE.”

In light of this, Carney really should just walk into the Oval Office, say “fuck you, eh?” and then walk out.

I’m being entirely serious. Orangeboi wants to play hardball? Play hardball.

I say this as an American.

Which, as a salaried engineer, is the stupidest fucking thing ever, and something I’ve dealt with over the vast majority of my career. You pay me to solve problems, not warm a chair and look over my shoulder. If you give me stupid metrics to hit (coughRTO metricscough), I’m going to maliciously comply and hit them in a stupid way that you won’t like, but that still abides by the rules and regs. If you are the problem, I will solve you.

From an American: sorry that our government and a lot of our citizens are complete fucking idiots, because it’s probably our fault :|

And I’d bet a year’s (or a quarter’s? Or a month’s?) salary (that’s a joke about hyperinflation) that they’ll blame it on Biden, and their imbecilic cult followers will believe it.

Of course!

It was honestly a masterclass in geoeconomics. Canada coordinating this response, and Japan being one of the biggest components of the scheme, was absolutely the primary reason that the whole 90d delay thing happened. It was, in geopolitical terms, this meme:

The world dumping US bonds en masse would herald the destruction of the USD global standard. It is difficult to overstate the economic chaos and destruction that would follow.

So, yeah, I wouldn’t be shocked if someone in the orangeboi admin had a brainwave and decided “let’s get rid of US Government Bonds”

To be perfectly blunt, I don’t think the presentation of a united front is the issue. The wariness is from China wanting to fill the power vacuum left by the US, and many countries being extremely wary of hitching their wagons to an authoritarian superpower (which is what the US is turning into, and one of the primary reasons outside of the tariff idiocy that a lot of countries are stepping away from the US now). And the PRC is absolutely an authoritarian superpower.

This is Japan starting to play hardball, and I gotta say, it’s a fantastic play by them. They are currently holding a $1T fiscal knife to our throat (their US bond portfolio, and the threat to resume/continue a coordinated sell with other countries), and it’s absolutely a reasonable strategy under these (admittedly completely insane) circumstances.

Loooooooooool

This is the geoeconomic equivalent of using the canned sunshine. And I can’t say it’s not justified.

I mean… Boeing is a pretty low bar to jump over these days

Really wish everyone would put the canned sunshine back on the shelf where it belongs :/

Imagine if the world shifts to the CAD standard lmao