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Sounds similar to what happened to the refugees Australia kept on Manus Island: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/opinions/australia-manus-refugee-opinion-intl/index.html
Fell down laughing when he got to the part where Hitler was told about just the idea and he ordered 20K to ship immediately.
Sounds like something out of present-day corporate management.
Local Kay’s Jeweler ad: “We’ve got 20% off Neptunian rings and pendants just in time for Valentine’s Day.”
I’ve been binging on election followup podcasts while cleaning the house. There were many seats where Tory+Reform would have beat the Labour candidate.
The consensus seemed to be that the Tories are going to lick their wounds, then push further right to gain back Reform voters instead of trying to tack to center and peel away from Labour.
And in one response, he reinforces the stereotype of French men as romantics and makes all the rest of us look like slackers.
Bravo!
The thing people aren’t talking about enough is the depreciation of all the GPU hardware. The $10B Microsoft spends on Azure GPU hardware may bring in only $5B in revenue, but they get to write off the cost against their taxes.
Kansas is linked in there.
It’s a little hard to follow all the double and triple negatives, but their voting ‘No’ on that ballot was what paved the road to this judgement.
The other states listed have their own constitutional amendments lined up to affirm the right to abortion.
In the pipeline this year: https://ballotpedia.org/2023_and_2024_abortion-related_ballot_measures
Lesson to future generations. Run on ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ whenever you can. Keep it simple. The rest is just noise.
FWIW, here in the U.S., we’ve been taking our kids in to vote with us since they were toddlers. This was deliberate so they would be comfortable with how the process works.
Our oldest, when he turned 18, registered to vote. For his first primary election we had a remote zoom call and walked him through where to get as much objective info about what was on the ballot and make decisions. We’ve never pressed them towards a particular ideology. He started off looking disinterested too, but now that he’s an adult, he’s actually looking forward to his first major election.
These things take time. As parents, I feel it’s our responsibility to teach them the nuts and bolts of civic literacy.
