I agree that it’s multiple interests aligning, but I wouldn’t discount Trump wanting it for himself as well. The man puts his name on everything, being able to add a new state as well as a massive chunk of land would be huge to a narcissist like that. I think the other sides you mentioned are playing off of that desire to convince him it is somehow justified.

Haha, yeah for several of them I have a pretty strong mental image of what I think they’d look like, but I don’t think it actually lines up with how they are described in the book at all.

Yeah, the consistency of quality is really impressive for how much he publishes. In the first shadows if the apt book, you can tell he’s a younger author (compared to some of his more recent works) but it’s still really well written for a first book. I’ve been meaning to give his podcast a listen, but haven’t gotten around to it.

Agree about favorite current author, I’m currently working through the shadows of the apt series after picking up the humble bundle. Children of time was also my first introduction to him, and have been hooked ever since. You probably know, but children of strife cones out in March.

MS CoPilot One 365 coming soon!

If true, then it is beyond dumb. When I need to do office related work, ie typing a document or using spreadsheets, the most relevant term would be office. Not a term that is a reference to flying a plane.

Of course I don’t use microsoft for anything, but it is wild to watch that company completely forget what it is that they do.

I guess so, or atleast that fight he did. The two are one and the same for me so I thought it was the other, and inly remember because there was a video clip floating around that looks like floyd held him up after rocking him with a punch to the face. Pretty sure wwe has or will soon put a championship belt on I think Logan.

It was actually Logan Paul, not Jake Paul, but yeah they fought in 2021 to a draw.

Like when Mayweather literally held him upright so it could go to a draw.

South American countries when the US military shows up to exploit natural resources:

Pearl Jamb of God

To clarify, he believes that there should be no floor to what an employer may pay you. Believes that by removing the minimum wage, it would put downward pressure on all wages, and that would be a good thing. (I assume you recognize that, but just want to make sure you know that he is in opposition to your viewpoint).

Apparently he’s always felt this way, even before retirement. Every single employer he had during my lifetime before he retired screwed him over big time, and somehow he believes that it is their right to do that. It makes zero sense to me.

Recently found out my dad opposes the minimum wage. He’s always the final panel though so I don’t know why I was so shocked to find out. Still, seemed like a new low.

I had dual boot with win10 for a while, but when they had that ‘bug’ that was wiping peoples linux partition I dropped Windows completely. As dar as I’m concerned Linux and other FOSS in general has reached a point where it meets the majority of my needs. Same goes for local storage vs needing anything through the cloud or streeaming.

And, as you are probably already aware with that statement, Argentina is also the country whose crops of soybeans are now being purchased by china as a replacement for the US ones they no longer want.

Remember when he first took power and all the usual suspects of newspapers (NYT, WaPo, etc) were touting his spending cuts as reinvigorating the Argentinian economy? They tried to push the US austerity measures using that as an example. Shocked it didn’t worked out like they said. (Well not that shocked).

Wasn’t it Ruby (or sapphire) back in the day? Might’ve just been the cartoon but I think they had that in there at some point. It’s such a weird power that at I think writers just go with whatever they can to carry the story forward.

Just need a few friendly faces so the US media can push it as ‘it’s what they want.’

As someone that has been to a bazillion fests, burning man never really sounded like one I wanted to go to. Maybe 30 years ago, but it sounds like its all techbros.