Once again they’ll carve out exemptions for the stuff they can’t get anywhere else. And for those things, we need to slap on an export tax.

That’s a very nice way of describing legal slavery.

It really feels like they’re trying to pull a Crimea. They’ve already been amplifying (if not outright fabricating) the voices of the very few sincere separationists to make it look like it’s a majority position. Now they’re setting up a referendum, which will likely be accused of being rigged if it fails or used as pretext if it passes, because it’s obviously not legally binding.

I mostly agree with that, except I think we’re missing a few steps in the middle too. I had a close family member struggle with mental health, to the point it severely affected their livelihood. In moments of crisis, every option essentially came down to “calm down and figure it out yourself, or call us back when you’re actually considering suicide”. Thankfully we were eventually able to find a counsellor, but even with decent insurance they’re very expensive. I’m sure a lot of people don’t have that option, especially if they don’t have a family support network to fall back on if they lose their job (and housing, and if they even had it, insurance).

I don’t mean to sound crass or dismissive, but making the choice to go out in such a public way is pretty selfish. I know a guy who used to be in the coast guard and he had to clean up a few people who missed. I’m sure it’s even worse for someone like a train operator. While you’re absolutely correct the prevention needs to be directed at the root cause, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t also try and prevent it where it’s happening.

No, too many Americans, we’d be a minority in our own country. I think we’d all be happy to visit Washington, Oregon, and California again and more often than before if it didn’t require travelling to the US though.

How are people supposed to know they’re within range of all the vehicles are unmarked and the officers don’t wear distinct uniforms? I doubt they’d have an up to date map, this must just be an excuse to shoot down any drone (operator?) they can see.

Isn’t that why they’re making every non-american staying for over a month register and get fingerprinted?

I’m not religious or American so I may not have all the context, but a quick search shows the Episcopal Church is Protestant (which to the best of my knowledge is famously not the same as Catholic). And from the outside looking through the window of Christians and Americans in general, they seem to be on the more progressive side of things.

Unscheduled emergency water main repairs.

And even saying they won WWII is generous in itself, they joined the winning side in progress.

Western-er Canada: “your tracks are in trainworthy condition?”

I’m not sure if it’s pixel only at the moment but they recently expanded the previously US only feature to screen calls like that automatically. You get a live transcript and if you missed the call you can listen back to the recording. But the biggest feature is actually hidden, if I go look at my call history I’d say a good 75% of it is confirmed spam that was detected and effectively blocked without bringing it to my attention at all.

Ahh yes, famously warm Wisconsin.

I’d say China. Not because they’re inherently better, but because they at least seem to be relatively stable and run by people who appear to be sane.

But really I’d just rather not put myself in any situation where I’d have to trust either of them.

And making it even harder would’ve been the fact that he makes it well known a significant portion of the people working on his show are members of his family.

To me a standard American accent sounds like they’re replacing the OU with AW, “abawt”. Or maybe “abowt” if they pronounced it like the bow of a ship (not like a fancy knot or the weapon).

They didn’t know what country you were from but were fairly confident on continent, and if you had said North American no one would’ve cared.

Don’t forget the other >80 million who, at best, didn’t care enough to vote against it.

£7.50 for a flight? That’s insane! I’d be going on vacation once a month if I could score a single flight for even 10x that.