It honestly could be great news for the people of the US as well in the long term. If people finally realize that the amount of money they spend on the military is completely out of sync with their military competence, maybe they will stop supporting it and instead invest in things that actually benefit them.
You might be surprised what happens when a bunch of countries suddenly have an excuse to band together against the US. Any individual country probably wouldn’t, but the US is in a different position since the Iran War and there’s safety in numbers.
They’re still in NATO, so several countries in the EU will still have a defense obligation.
Should I take the private jet, or is that a little on the nose?
We’re already working double shifts without leisure time, so there’s no slack to cut. That’s the problem. People who really want kids know that kids require sacrifice, that’s the one thing everyone talks about with kids. If you don’t have any more holes in the belt, trying to tighten it won’t help.
Do those people with kids make it work, or are they doing their children a disservice by being emotionally and literally unavailable to them because they’re trying to make sure they don’t starve? I hope most of them make it work, but I know it’s not all of them. Unfortunately, crossing your fingers and hoping you’ll make it work doesn’t seem like a responsible choice to many of us when failure would so greatly impact an innocent person.
That’s the thing: if you really want kids, you’ll regret not having them. If you really want kids and have them without being able to afford feeding and clothing them, you’ll regret that even more.
I’m firmly in the millennial camp in my mid thirties and I have two pairs of couple friends who’ve had kids. It could absolutely be my friends circle, but most of us are in the trades or have advanced degrees (most of the people who went the college route also have more than a bachelor’s, because that alone wasn’t enough to get a job) and we just can’t make it work. Many of them want kids, but they want to be able to provide for them first, so they’re just waiting
Yes.
I’ve also never spoken to a real yuro-peen before, let alone someone from another continent (I’ve heard there are more, but they beat us for asking questions about unamerican things in school, so I’m not sure).
Aw, did that one land for you? 😘
I’m so glad I got you to educate yourself!
No, American.
Canada uses 120V, Mexico uses 127V, Colombia uses 120V, Suriname uses 120V, Venezuela uses 120V…
Maybe you should learn before you make a fool of yourself, but you probably do that no matter what.
Should he refer to a kettle from Britain as a foreign kettle? Genuinely, what way of referencing it would have been unobjectionable to you here?
The electric nature of the kettle isn’t what makes it abnormal for Americans (it might not be owned by every household, but people aren’t generally surprised or confused by them), it’s because Britain has 240V and the US has 120V electricity in most outlets, so American electric kettles take longer to boil water.
I’d like to think I’d cut people off if they joined the SAS, but is it the whole, assembled (with or without sauce) kebab or just the warm fillings? Because I kind of want to see what a whole kebab tastes like deep fried… /s
They execute a billionaire every so often, but it’s very inconsistent
Side note, I honestly love that people don’t automatically downvote comments with an emoji here though.
I still enjoy many dark jokes internally too, but I definitely don’t share them with as wide an audience as I used to- I’ll make a joke about priests molesting kids to my husband, close friends, or immediate family, but I know that I can’t generally know who has been impacted by that, and I’m not trying to fuck up someone’s day with a flip joke.
I also don’t enjoy dead baby jokes nearly as much as I used to, because I’ve now known several people who’ve had a late miscarriage or stillbirth, or whose children died, and I can’t separate the punchline from the image of their faces while grieving or talking about the loss. I still like dark humor about things that directly impacted me, but for things that only happened to loved ones, I can’t see the humor anymore.
After it applied to the EU? I can’t see them agreeing to it unless they intend to sabotage the international rail networks or get one hell of a kickback
A monopoly concession is an artificial monopoly granted by a government. Artificial in the sense that it’s enforced by laws instead of arising naturally from the market conditions, not that it’s a fake monopoly.
Utility companies often have monopoly concessions for geographic areas.
And we all know, there’s no reason a news photographer would like us to think someone else is spidey…
Especially one who can take getting pepper sprayed and needs financial support.
It should have been Picard/Luc
Literally the “guns don’t kill people” argument.