PearlRiver

Wait until you find out judges are appointed by the president...

It is actually amazing America managed to function as well as it has been to be honest.

Practically drugs comes into the US via containers and packages. And since the government has never even come close to shutting that operation down why screw around with drones?

In my own country the border guard is part of the military- its a special form of military police. They also protect embassies for some reason.

Trust me the US does not have a patent on bureaucracy... Over the centuries things just develop. One can only assume it made sense once.

The Netherlands did not even blink when unknown actors (read Russians) were flying drones around the country but balloons is too much.

My own country was perfectly fine sacrificing a region for monetary gain. In fact most countries have nationalized their oil and gas fields.

I remember with COVID a lot of sailors got stuck and nobody felt responsibility to do anything for them.

Sounds like pretty standard intelligence gathering that every police force in the world does.

Exactly it is not science but purely cosmetic. Which for some reason makes HN mad but guess what people choose cars based on how they look and how they are marketed! There has never been a rational man. Spock is not real.

Read a history book to learn how all this bad stuff was abolished in the West. Ofcourse that requires a basic respect for poor people to develop in India...

And those cost money. That is the crux here. Free parking is frankly insane. It became untenable in Amsterdam as early as the 1960s when most people could afford a car.

If you want trees, a sidewalk and bike lanes something has got to give.

Sure but they will still need to pay up the agreed contract price.

Social media algorithms definitely should. Fourteen year old girls do not need an AI to make them even more miserable.

Competence gives way to ideology.

I once read an interesting book on the economy of Nazi Germany. There were a lot of smart CEOs and high ranking civil servants who perfectly predicted US industrial might.

At least the Chinese are not pretending to be a free democracy.

Turkey is hilarious. It is run by a conservative Islam dictator but their tourism advertising portrays alcohol and women in bikinis.

It cannot be fixed. Red states would have to flip to blue states. I recall general Lee to consider the civil war a stupid mistake but still off he went because he was from Virginia.

Many tech bros have always been racist and misogynist.

Just buy your own phone. A midrange Samsung is like 350 eurodollars these days.

So if you want to pay electronically you have to install their app? That is a pretty ballsy move not many stores can get away with that.

This is an interesting question. I started using computers in the late 90s when there were no guardrails and everything was permitted so I know what I am doing- or at the very least only blame myself if I fuck it up.

But your average 20 year old who only knows an iPhone would be out of his/her depth quickly.

Computers are no longer made for me.

It is not about the money there is so much legislation about government procurement. Unfortunately we cannot declare the US as a hostile nation.

Reminds me of something emperor Trump said. "I can shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and they will still vote for me".

Sometimes people just dig themselves into a hole and they start going off the deep end. Why did it take until 1944 for someone to blow up Hitler?

And the US has a yearly deficit of what, 2 trillion?

Glass stone houses etc etc.

Why not just go to Canada? Montreal is cool.

How many CRTs could you put in one standard sized shipping container versus LCD panels?

This is what the Chinese thought too.

Of course such ideas never explain gun powder or Genghis Khan but nobody ever said racists are smart.

Vote? Do they still do that over there?

The US won't hit the mainland because that would escalate the war into WW3. The rest of the world will likely just give Taiwan to China and move on.

If Putin had stopped at Crimea we'd all have lived with it too.

The US would bomb a bunch of brown people, declare victory, get the hell out and leave it to a decades long civil war. Like they did with Mexico.

Like seriously not even Trump can be stupid enough to actually want to GOVERN it. Can he?

This is what astounds me. Why waste all the money and blood on a frankly failed state like Venezuela that was always a basket case. What's next Haiti?