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Make a lovely art display of 7 dildos.

https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-43-23/

(6) A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.

Oh yeh. US the bully. Meat is absolutely the issue of the future. Not electricity, not communications, not water. Fucking chlorine washed chicken and hormone injected beef. Nobody else can grow that.

Let the US deploy their McDonalds & forward bases as a military operation against - what was previously - an ally that provided goods, goods and knowledge sharing.

The US has military might, but they have like 6 months to actually use it. The EU isn't sleeping, Canada isn't sleeping, the world is not sleeping.
After 6 months, the allies they would be invading are no longer relying on "US off-switch" military assets. It will be some fucking washed-out russian "special operation" type failure, where the US either has to commit to genocide or get kicked back home.
And anyone they use their military might on - who has previously been an ally and trade partner - would be instantly backed up by the rest of the western world.
Because the US has turned from ally to hostile. Everyone is now preparing for it.

My comment isn't tough talk.
The US is tough talking. And have complete fucked it up. They have slapped on tariffs then undone tariffs, then slapped on tariffs, then exempted shit, then saying the exemptions are just a different type or tariffs.
They have fucking rang the bell of trade power until it's meaningless and nobody fucking cares.
The US trade talks are bullshit.
Other countries can just stonewall until it's time for the toddlers afternoon nap. Look at China, they aren't relenting. The EU isn't relenting. Canada isn't relenting. Who is the US winning against? Penguins on an uninhabited island?!
Oooh, we fold to the big bad tariffs. Next week, the guy in charge executive-orders some new bullshit against us.
Why not just retaliate, and still new bullshit against us the following week anyway?
It's idiocy to capitulate to the tariffs.

The US won't bomb the EU over shitty meat and trade deals.
The US military might is - essentially - meaningless.

Fuck, I'm sorry that's a part of your growing-up.
Life-for-food is a thing. I know farms, I've raised sheep, I've sent them away.
I hate the fact it's so industrialised. I'm glad I never had to work in a slaughterhouse. Having the vet put an animal down was bad enough.

Sam?

You don't want 10-day aged chicken?
Or maybe you want 10-day aged chicken that has been processed in a way that the 10 days of aging doesn't change the chicken - instead of usual aging processes that enhance meats (well, red meats)

Big Ag, ~~sponsored~~ subsidised by the US government.

Take a hike. The US has lost all its trust and trading power with trump's tariff games.
Things tariffed, things exempt, not exempt but not tariffed, U-turn on tariffs.
The uncertainty isn't bringing manufacturing back to the US. Especially if the US is tariffing raw materiels.
And it isn't going to force the EU to buy worse products than they can grow locally.
I buy milk from a farm that's 70 miles away. It's a bit more expensive, but holy hell does it taste better than the (already fairly decent) supermarket milk.

I cannot imagine a world where I have to refrigerate eggs. Sitting in the fridge, soaking up the random flavours of leftovers. That's weird as fuck, man.

"Big Ag" has power in the US. The US has pissed away their power failing to strong arm dozens of countries. And they've deported/interned (or are working on departing and interning) their labour farm workforce.
Eggs are expensive in the US? Have fun with the next 6 months.

It's not a log scale, it's a wheel scale

I presume "co-invest" means the steel maker becomes partially state owned. Which is only a good thing, or at least a move towards a good thing.
I mean, I'm super happy with both Scottish Water and ScotRail - both (now) state owned companies.

Sounds like it's difficult to make steel these days (financially speaking), and the Chinese owners have kinda run the plant into the ground...

The government has told the company's UK management to keep the site operational, and the emergency law will ensure that any employees who are sacked by the Chinese owners can be reinstated.

This intervention stops short of nationalisation - when a government takes ownership and control of a company - but Sir Keir said the government would do "everything possible" to "protect" the UK's steel industry.

The numbers are interesting for how much the steel is actually worth to UK industry & economics (it's in the article), but it's about 1% of both. And about 0.3% of the world total of steel production.

But in these times, steel is important. And being able to locally/domestically produce good quality stuff is important to economical/military stability.
So, perhaps the monetary value is only 1%, but the intrinsic value of reliable domestic steel production might mean it's worth a lot more.

Perhaps nationalisation with a big renovation to greener steel production is a good investment?
I have no idea, but it's certainly something I would support. Keeps jobs, creates new jobs, reduces carbon of an existing high-carbon industr, and secured domestic steel production.
Seems like a lot of wins.

Client side is cheaper. Vastly cheaper
Server side, it needs to essentially run the same game client for every single player to ensure that what the client is telling the server is actually possible, and to cull unnecessary detail.
Whereas transmitting everyone's position to everyone allows the client to do their own culling (or not, in the case of a hacked/cheat client).

And ICE will pick up those immigrants by Monday, never to be seen again.

Good to know when I bought a muhle razor.
So much cheaper using a double-edge/safety razor! Even when buying "expensive" blades

According to the list of precision metal, probably German.