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Question for y'all living in countries with parliamentary systems. What makes people choose to oust a popular PM? Not talking about True Dope, but one with consistently high ratings. In the post-WWII era, three out of nine German chancellors (their PMs) have had stays in the neighbourhood of...

Too much stuff in play. More than half of all abortions in the U.S. are by drugs, not surgery. It'll have to shake out which states will ban the drugs, and how the Federal government (which has authority over the postal system) rules on mailing the drugs into banning states. Further, unless...

So. . . that's a "yes?"

With you on that. Basically promising to be damn sure there WON'T be a business case by the time he gets done with it.

That is indeed a challenge. As I said, humans are bad at planning.

"Factoring in" is part of building the business case. What the hell are we even arguing about? Obviously, businesses will do what is profitable. Equally obviously, if government wants business to do this or that, it will have to sweeten the pot, by raising revenue, lowering costs, or both. A...

"To a degree but what I'm discussing specifically is the business case." Fixed that fer ya. And in any enterprise more complex than a lemonade stand, government regulation and subsidy is part and parcel of the "business case."

I've been saying for a while that the political spectrum isn't a line, it's a horseshoe, with the two extreme ends much closer to each other than either is to the center.

Humans are good at crisis response. Planning, not so much. You'd think it'd be fairly simple to predict health-care needs, and it is. Not quite 2+2=4 simple, but pretty predictable. Subsidizing education for critical fields just makes sense. Educator and science-fiction author Jerry...

I guess anybody stupid enough to be unable to recognize the difference between personal-care products and classified information is pretty confused at this point.

Meh, partly. I agree with most of what you said, but industry tends to have a "cheapest this week" mindset. That's a big part of what got Germany single-sourcing LNG in the first place. As I said, multi-sourcing critical materiel is vital, as the current flap in Europe demonstrates. That...

Of course it's off. You've got an ideologue in the Big Chair. But the way to make progress for as long as he's there is to marshal your facts, construct indisputable arguments, and present them clearly. Could peel away some MPs. Even if it don't, you'll have all the data you need in place...

How much would infrastructure to move LNG to the eastern ports cost, and how long would it take to put it in, and how long would the Europeans buy it? These are the important questions. I think the Ukraine war has taught anybody with enough sense to pour piss out of a boot that multi-sourcing...

I know, right? 2000 was twenty-two years ago! I want my damn flying car! And my jet pack! I blame. . . *twirls the Spinner O' Blame*. . . Dr Fauci!

To be fair, it doesn't seem to have caused HIM any problems. . .

Oh, damn. . . I sat on my hat.

How could you possibly object to that? It gives everybody what they want!

Well, we got rid of our disaster, Britain got rid of its disaster, y'all's turn. True Dope jumped the shark a while back. Standard disclaimer that this is just an opinion from somebody who neither has nor wants a say in it. Just a view from abroad. Don't call me "a broad."

Coaches can challenge a no-call in CFL, can't they?

Any owner of a slave or holder of a bond could free a slave or an indentured bondservant. I'm not sure I follow your statement. Suffice to say that I believe I have demonstrated that slavery was uniquely evil. Responding to statements about the morality or legality of slavery of Blacks in...