politics

You can experiment on middleschoolers

I'll build working weather satellites

that don't blow up

what is this referencing?

ok I did not remember that being the setting

The setting is one of the most recognizable parts of Index

once we own greenland the north pole space elevator won't be external to the US

I didn't remember it being an artificial island

Trust The Plan

You sucking off america is more cringe than america's believing they are the best thing in existence btw Dane

You didnt even know the pledge of allegiance

SMH

hey

I knew half of it

roughly

I know the opening part of it

or at least I roughly know it

I know the Canadian slogan

I think that is a silly thing to know (except you dane, you should have it memorized since you want to be american) if you are not american

it has to do with stolen land

lol Spooky

the native shit is one of the most cringe things Canadian institutions do

kind of a hard attempted pivot after the whole force steralization camps in the 90s was outed

You will never be a real american

I sadly know both the pledge and the national anthem by heart

Because I was in American school most of my grade school life for the pledge and in acapella my college life for the anthem

Star spangled banner sadly clears O Canada because it has lore

90 to 0 is pretty massive

vietnam is also third on the original list so they must be a pretty important trade partner

Thats where a lot of our electronics manufacturing is

they need those masks and ear protection

China offshores to Vietnam, so they were a major hub for this

vietnam has been trying to be both like an early 2000s china in terms of handling all of our cheap labor needs, and also a kinda want to be a client state like sk/taiwan

but not fully western aligned

idk, it was always too late, now it is very much too late for them although that was kinda the point 'oh we'll fill in that gap china left'

53 brilliant lives extinguished in a second 😢

These could have been our finest immigrants

That is funny because I think if you had the option, literally everyone would choose fresh baked over cooked previously

Cooked?

here, the guy above meant baked previously!

honestly, I'd respect the atlantic more if they took the even more based stance

that he should be eating his dough raw

They are saving that article for the RFK piece

Oh I see

where the picture is just RFK shoveling raw materials into his mouth or something

I thought this was some weird joke about cookies not being cooked

No I just mentally consider all acts of creation involving heating usually in an oven cooking

baking, reheating, cooking, its all cooking

lmao

I think "unbaked" is not a real word, so raw dough is "uncooked"

yeah that's a weird word, I think there are rare occasions where unbaked sorta sounds workable

but I feel like common vernacular has sorta excluded it

just calling it Raw dough is enough. you don't even need to say uncooked or unbaked

raw implies that already

There's something really cathartic seeing the whole world economy bend to the US's

is there a list of the 50 countries that have come to the table?

All of Asia hit their stop-loss circuit breakers when markets opened, so yeah they have

imo, the worst move would be to pause tariffs and punt a month

that'll net you nothing, and then everyhting will dip again after the month pause

I think most of the world/elites were getting ready for a general recession late this year, so its in everyone's interest to not have two massive drops back-to-back

so we'll see who moves quickest, and what the net effect of the first couple trade deals being struck are

and if you're trump, you probably coincide that with reducing interest rates, to drive money out of bonds back into the market

is like the good old days yeah

I think Canada and Mexico are the two biggest losers from all of this because they're not going to benefit from the better US trade deals, while we're holding firm with them

like in the 1800s

yeah bob

thanks leg

canada and mexico should just join the union and ignore tariffs entirely

I dunno about all that

it'd be really funny but I think it's a little bit hasty

tangentially related to politics I kinda like

just wait for trump to start a land war with mexico because of the executive power to fight terrorists

I had to give a presentation for my intro to communications class and so I gave a short powerpoint about investing and it was basically just like 4-ish minutes of glazing microelectronic producers and the current government in the unitedz states

it was funny

lol bob

i don't really want mexico

the worst part is I don't think it was very bad advice at all