Japan, the EU, and Canada together hold 3 trillion in US debt and they are flexing that muscle. https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet

No.

Bad faith is the term. IANAL but I’ve been married to two of them. “Bad faith argument” for the action, “acting in bad faith” for the actor. It captures the idea of appearing to comply with procedure and orders, but deliberately misconstruing meanings and inventing ambiguities to justify actions. A gentler version of this is “sharp practice” which comes close to, but doesn’t cross the line into bad faith.

I’m not a phone person. What benefit does this provide?

True heterosexual love between a biological man and a biological woman. It’s why he never hooks up with Lois Lane and keeps sneaking peeks at Jimmy’s junk at the gym.

It does, but it’s a reason to regulate the market. Otherwise there is minimal incentive to build affordable housing. The margins on luxury housing are just too fat. A developer is better letting half of a luxury setting sit empty than selling out affordable space. Same reason there is so little competition for affordable cars.

A version of “nice guys never win”.

If you stay in one too long it becomes your space and you know the staff. Ruins the vibe.

I don’t know man. From here I think it could be feet.

Strands #406 “Orange door hinge” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵

Wtf.

Type II Diabetes.

People joke about it, but it degrades every aspect of your life. It’s ultimately fatal in a slow and most miserable way possible.

eta: specified adult onset

I’ll take two!

Yes.

Save 10% of your earnings.

This is the same trade deal that the EU negotiated with Obama. Trump refused to sign in 2017. They are only offering him what was on the table 8 years ago and he refused. Calm down already.

I know. But we don’t really have any attributions before them.

The Grimm brothers died.

Our immune system remembers just fine, but it’s not heritable. Every organism starts with a blank immune system (mostly, mammals can get some antibody protection from their mother, but have to learn to make their own eventually) and the system learns through exposure to the pathogen. No exposure, no learning.

There was a show that ran on Canadian TV called Forever Knight. It was about a vampire detective who could only work the night shift and used the blood bank like a soup kitchen. It had surprising depth and rtich relationships among the the supporting cast. You had a sense that it was an actual community with a history and connections that existed outside the plotline. Also it had the best ending for a series I’ve ever seen.