I came away with that impression too. What vexes me is that she did graduate from Pepperdine Law School. I think that’s probably the USC of law schools but damn dude she graduated from law school? Like how come she can’t read? I didn’t come away thinking that it was just nerves. I think it was an actual lack of ability to follow the text.

Link to the Princeton study that claims the average person has little to no influence on policymaking: https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc/mode/1up

I sort of get why governments and their leaders keep playing nice with trump - they want to keep trade flowing smoothly.

But isn’t it a worse long run strategy to do this no matter what? Seems to me that they are exposing weakness which could hurt them in future negotiations. Not that any future, sane-minded world leader would ever implement tariffs again.

Good! We do not need most of the volume of code that we ship nowadays anyway. Need to get out of the user’s way so they can do whatever they’re here to do, not give them a Hoover dam of bullshit

Forgot where I was! Thanks

Maybe I missed it, but what about environmental lead poisoning? All those slugs in the ground can’t be good

Doubt, unless mention of battle is sufficient to make the list

EDIT: I was wrong. Here’s one of the verses that are not usually sung:

“And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

⁠That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more?

⁠Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,

O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

Fascinating, thanks for your insight

Wow that was well described

Disclaimer: he is a bad man.

I think this meme format is viable.

Fun fact, AFTER he got his JD from Vanderbilt, he got an additional, advanced law degree at Oxford. Yes, that Oxford. Amazing that he was able to keep his accent through all of that.

This thread is crazy silent.

Look, I’m not anything but I just want to say sometimes I just decided to hang out to see what would happen.

Someone in the southern hemisphere loves you

Go to the hospital if you must but just… don’t off yourself yet.

Never EVER would I have thought that Coolie would appear anywhere

Given that this is usually part of the MMR vaccine, I am wondering if there is an increase in cases of mumps/rubella?

This is my understanding too. He’s such a moron, always telegraphing everything. In any other country, and especially without his wealth…

All good points. I gave him a little rope as he has been speaking about these things lately, including in his annual …report? But yeah these comments do seem a little self serving.

Maybe he’s just got a big tailwind and I am overestimating him

This is uncommonly off the mark for Gates. There’s a sort of lack of nuance in these remarks. Too much confidence.