They have Mecca. Otherwise, basically no, AFAIK it’s a one-trick pony. And there’s a bit of a problem getting that trick to market ATM.

(We also have a somewhat larger population than them)

So I know the root cause of what happened to western Rome is still debated, but what about Byzantium? What theories are there for why they started to have these problems after a few more centuries of prosperity?

It’s not like it’s a unique offering at this point either. Everyone and their dog has complicated syrupy coffee/tea drinks on their menu.

I don’t know, maybe the busy-but-nicer-than-McDonalds ambiance is worth it to some people. If it’s anything like Tim Hortons, lots of people just buy out of pure habit as well. Either way, that’s their business, not the person selling it.

To add to that, once the title did pass to one of those guys, after he’d basically been locked up his whole life. It did not go well.

Sounds like a woke Biden policy that might get rolled back.

You could in theory make a channel with a bunch of different stable whistle frequencies, and add some other aerodynamic feature that kicks it through them. I doubt you could reasonably do more than a few notes that way, though, and you probably have to hit them in order.

More likely it’s just multiple bullets, as the other reply said.

I’m going to guess the military wasn’t the main audience here, but rather your typical gun nuts.

Come for the jokes, stay for the unprompted washing machine reviews.

Ooh that would be nice.

Carney’s been ignoring the nonsense in Alberta, probably because there’s existential threats from outside, but eventually shit will hit the fan one way or another.

Hmm. Most of the basic industries would probably pass that margin no problem. I think production vehicles even fall under 10%.

Anything bespoke, from machine tools to Etsy stores, is going to implode overnight, though.

We’re not, basically because none (?) of our resources are Persian Gulf-style money printers. Like, we have oil, but it needs a whole lot of work to get from tar sand to gas tank. Down there it gets close to just sticking a straw in the ground.

The end result is that we’re still one of the richest countries per capita, we just spend a lot of man hours on farming. mining and drilling, instead of on manufacturing like they do in Germany or Japan.

Technically, you do need the provinces to agree if it’s a constitutional issue.

But sure, getting rid of the NWC and bringing in fixed terms+proportional rep would make our long-term stability a lot more guaranteed. Maybe a different federal model where the 8 or 9 Anglo provinces don’t all get equal power to Quebec, as well.

Failing that, basic income.

Flew over the may day rally in San Francisco.

Don’t take the bait.

So not off-grid, exactly. (Although the grid in any poor country’s cities will not be up bougie, Western specs on reliability)

TBF the only people that have to answer for it are the ones still buying them.

Like, he may literally have been thinking “because you dumb bitches will pay that”, but obviously couldn’t say it.

Yeah, an actual African would use wood for the replacement stock, because why not, and they have enough practice fixing their own shit with hand tools it might look exactly like the original.

Plus or minus some uninhabited ocean it (as in the two continents) comes very close. It’s basically down to a rounding error of volcanic islands.

No u.

If you’re actually interested in Chinese justice vs. American justice, and how that’s related to rule of law vs. party leadership, there’s interesting things to say.

However, a month old account coming in and fixating on race, which wasn’t even mentioned in OP but rather later in response to someone else, seems more like trolling.

I mean, you can argue with .ml about political philosophy or economics, but it’s a waste of time because that’s not their real motive. You might as well argue rocketry with a moon landing denier.

“These places you have funny ideas about are real places to me, and they’re not like that” is more productive. They can either actually engage, or run away to protect themselves.