American sports fans literally don't know any other chants besides "Let's go (Team Name)! clap clap clapclapclap" for domestic games, or "U-S-A! U-S-A!" for international ones.
I feel like it's just going to be round 1 of Canada and Mexico all over again. The pause for them didn't make a difference. He said "let's make a deal", Canada and Mexico made a deal, and then 30 days later the tariffs began regardless.
No one is making deals this time because everyone knows they won't affect the outcome. What is affecting the outcome is making threats. So either he just stubbornly waits it out, getting nothing in return before they happen anyways, or he chickens out and walks it all back.
The only thing I did recently was buy a replacement device for one I had that was crapping the bed and would need to be purchased soon anyways, but decided to buy something now before it completely died just in case prices sharply rose in the next few months.
Other than that, nothing really. I am putting away as much money as I can in savings, avoiding large purchases/being generally frugal, and taking good care of my things so they last as long as possible. Life's not perfect, but I'm making as soft a cushion as possible in case things do get worse.
Not to say the future is set in stone or that we shouldn't be worried, but even the Great Depression only lasted about a decade, and it's still crazy to me just how quickly the last one went by. I have a place to live, enough money put away that I could probably last it out that long one way or another if I was laid off tomorrow, and a generally supportive community around me where people look out for one another.
But I'm lucky, I know not everyone else can say the same, so I hope you're all doing alright out there.
For what it's worth as well, I would bet that there are different points during the year where substantially more devices are sold than others. Holidays, launch days, back to school, etc. probably see the majority of new devices purchased, while the rest of the year would be a steady trickle.
I don't think it's building materials that is the question, but rather the multi-million dollar machines that are often designed and imported from elsewhere.
Those fancy Bosch assembly lines your widget factory needs will be hit by that 20% tariff coming from the EU, even if the building they sit in is made of American brick and lumber.
It's no different from Hades 1. It was exclusive to PC and Switch at launch, then released for other consoles 11 months later. If it worked out for that game, I don't see why it wouldn't for this one.
Billionaires successfully dissolved the left into factions of people who all in-fight
I think this goes all the way back. Leftist groups have been competing basically as long as there's been a right and left. Going back to the OG "Left," the French Revolutionaries, you see the Jacobins seize power from the monarchists, after which they start to eliminate competing revolutionary groups who have some ideological differences. In Russia, you've got the Mensheviks being eliminated by the Bolsheviks, and then the Trotskyists being eliminated by the Stalinists.
Wherever there is a small difference in ideology and people willing to die for it, the left will always be at each other's throats.
On the other hand, I think the right keeps succeeding precisely because of identity politics: they unify under an identity instead of an ideology, or I guess maybe more specifically they succeed at turning identity into ideology. Identity politics are pushed by the right as a way of forming out-groups so that the majority can remain unified and always have a "them" to distract from what the ruling "us" is doing.
It could, in theory, if he succeeds at his plan of eliminating birthright citizenship.
Not European, but on my mom's side, my mom is only an American citizen because she was born in the US, while my grandparents didn't become naturalized until a little bit after. So that sort of thing terrifies me.
Around 20 ad-tier Big Macs, or ~31 shrinkflation Big Macs in 2025. Unfortunately the Big Mac as a unit of measurement was standardized way back in '89 so it may not be as consistent with modern-day readings.
Now measuring in Baconators is likely to be more reliable when looking across a longer period of time, but you'll have to factor in the different conversion ratios depending on whether you're dealing with a single, double, or triple. The double is the base unit and is defined as 1/71 of a 1995 Ford F150.
I mean, we all know why: they agree with it and so do their constituents. Kilmar is brown and that makes his legal status inherently less significant in their eyes. America is still racist AF and everyone voted to keep it that way.
This is the correct take—no matter what the heart tells us in the moment, it's important to remember that citizenship is a big deal.
I'm more inclined to look at it from another angle, that if he has citizenship in Canada he should, as a person of means and influence, also bear certain responsibilities to preserve the shared values of Canadians and respect the rights of the people who live there. Deliberate acts which endanger those values, particularly given his degree of influence, should face penalties or some other punishment based on his responsibilities as a citizen, and if he disagrees with that he is free to give that citizenship up.
If Canada is looking for ideas, I can say that the US has it in law that all American citizens are still required to file taxes even on income earned abroad, which is crazy but has been a thing for a long time. Maybe Canada could come up with a nice billionaire's tax that applies to expats and their foreign assets, which could either bring in some good money or drive away the leeches for good.
Well first you ask, and then later you give a completely unrelated donation. After all, buying favor would be illegal, this is just free speech, which is fine as long as you don't talk about Palestine.
You can, though from personal experience it can be a bit finicky if you're trying to emulate the better PSP version. There are some optional patches that can be applied to it to improve stability, but it still crashes on me a few times in PPSSPP.
A native PC release would have been nice to have. It's one of the few FF games still not available on PC/Steam.
Alternatively, one could grab the Android version and try to run that on PC through the now-deprecated WSA, but the mobile port is touch input only with no controller support.
I think they mean not letting the ideas go unchallenged. If someone is reading through and sees a bunch of Nazis posting hate all up somewhere with no one else saying anything, they might assume that sort of behavior is just tacitly accepted and influence their perception of the community as a whole.
When there are Jewish students participating in these protests, there should be no room left for the "antisemitic" argument. But here we are.
Israel played the religion card, and by doing so they did a great job of establishing the narrative that opposing Israel means you are an antisemite. The word has been weaponized. Actually antisemitic people like Trump who support Israel for political reasons get to hide behind it as a shield, meanwhile semitic people are being labeled as antisemites.
American sports fans literally don't know any other chants besides "Let's go (Team Name)! clap clap clapclapclap" for domestic games, or "U-S-A! U-S-A!" for international ones.