I think a significant number of states will now want to develop their own nuclear weapons. The US has been teaching people for the last 20 years that there is a significant difference in how they will treat countries that have the bomb like North Korea and those that haven’t, like Irak, Iran, Afganistan, Denmark and other NATO countries.

NATO countries I believe will mostly ralley around the UK and France. But even among them, in the medium run, I believe there might be some wanting their own. Turkey has just recently announced a missile that basically only makes sense as a nuklear weapon.

The rules based international relations was something making countries believe they don’t need nuclear weapons of their own. This premise doesn’t hold in the same way anymore. We’ll probably end up with 30-40 countries with nuclear weapons.

That last part is essential. People learn much more habits from observing people than from being told. Best one can do is be a good role model.

It’s the other way round. Trump repeated again and again and again that the borders were a problem until people believed it and believed it was something important.

That gave him something none substantive to run on without coming up with real policies.

Property taxes are local — they fund schools,

Funding schools by highly localized tax isn’t universal. The US adopted it to make sure less affluent areas have worse schools. I believe the UK does similar things, but they also want marked differences between public and private school alumnus.

but most that tried it abandoned it — capital flight and valuation headaches.

And most importantly: relentless lobbying by the wealthy to get rid of those taxes.

They’ll probably try to argue the war powers act “clock” resets with the name change: look, totally different operation, we have another 90 days… And if they get away with it, expect a new stupid name regularly.

And then you have the heretics that load up viper in emacs to use vi keybindings =D

Some would argue it misses the topic, but I’ll offer the Unix text editor wars. Vi vs. Emacs is pretty much the epitome of a pointless religious war in people’s favourite activity, though for some that’s obviously their job.

Why do I mention it? Because most would just look at it and say: obviously none of the above, what are you even talking about? But those in the know have been heatedly debating the topic since at least the 80s… (I’m team vi for what it’s worth)

Well, Andor seems to be worth the watch. But I’m not subbing to Disney for that and generally share your sentiment. One of these days I’ll find Andor in Discs…

Nah, the reason is the Byzantine law enforcement structure in the US. You can’t just say “the police” because they have so many officers running around enforcing parts of the law that are not police. FBI, DEA, ATF CBP, ICE and god knows what else are state agents, are involved in law enforcement and are all arguably not police.

So to get a proper generic term, of course they add another TLA to the alphabet soup.

Surely, that means if the politicians fighting for this break one of the commandments they will immediately resign, right?

Hm, I wanted to respond it seems more like the 500€ note, but it appears to not be produced anymore since 2019.

Those noone really wanted to have to deal with.

You are thinking the wrong place. Not Waco, but Tulsa 2.0. The Tulsa race massacre is more what would happen, unfortunately.

You can buy modern wood gasifiers as central heating options. They are efficient and clean, but unfortunately more expensive than simpler options. I would have quite liked one myself, but the 8k € surcharge over the cheaper option went over my budget. Fore mobile applications: too bulky and heavy.

Probably the only real answer here is: ignore hydrocarbons, their age has come and is waning. Going fully electric with better storage removes pretty much all troublesome steps and leaves only muchore efficient processes.