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The UK is making some progress. I know Edinburgh and Glasgow are building as they can. They need to get back to digging tunnels soon since trams are great, but very speed limited.

London is world class for pedestrian access and the biking infrastructure is coming along nicely. Get Oxford Street pedestrianized and you'll have a jewel in the shopping district.

The smaller cities do hold onto a kind of vision where cars are the modern day horse ride through the countryside, but once the rail network gets renationalized and back up to speed there will be more demand for local transit improvements.

We sold our car and moved to a modern developed city. Only been in on taxi in 8 months, but we ride the trains every day and walk to the local stores for most things. It works great and I would hate to go back to a car centric old world place.

Oh, he's on my grandmother's birth certificate. I've got a complete and solid chain of birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, places and dates of births, the whole thing.

I even have his Canadian draft papers from WWI.

It's basically as clean of a history as you can get when it's back to the late 1800's.

I thought NASA has mostly removed Microslop from places like the ISS after they had the microslop windows laptop infect those systems on the ISS? Why go back to this garbage on important facilities?

I was wandering around Amsterdam and ran into The Bulldog. Their logo seemed familiar. I wonder why there hasn't been legal kerfuffle with Gonzaga University yet.

In my case we'll be staying in Germany, but having an option to move to Canada with our multiple Phds instead of going back to the US (if forced out of Germany for some reason) would be preferable.

We also have some kids who are going to be looking at college in a few years. If they could have an option to to Canada cheap, that'd rock. Then you'd have some more educated Canadians hanging out and paying taxes.

I did make sure to teach the kids the rules of ice hockey. I know it's on the driving test there, right?

We already had much of the family archives gathered for genealogical research done. There was a (mostly unknown) great grandfather that we didn't track down. We just knew he was from canada, fathered one of the ancestors and bailed back to Saskatchewan.

Turns out he's now findable online (new records were added) and he's multi generational Canadian. The birth certificate has been ordered. The process might take a while, but we're filing the day his records show up in our mailbox.

Now we just need Canada to join the EU somehow and all of the stars will align.

It only happened in the last year, or even the last six months to truly be in effect. It was a huge position shift for the German government as part of their effort to increase skilled worker immigration and retention.

Back in about 2010-ish? One of the first "amazon deletes your book remotely" events happened. They removed a Kindle version of 1984 from people's readers.

I don't know how much irony fits into an irony singularity, but Amazon is trying to make the most irony ever.

And even that was a fractured history. The Netscape to Mozilla release was heavily influenced by Netscape being bought by AOL followed by the Netscape team dumping a non functional browser (they ripped out a ton of code they didn't own) on the open source world. People had to basically patch the stubs until it built and then rebuild from there. By the end, Mozilla barely resembled Netscape, but it did get the community finally building a serious open source option.

Too many OSS tools to really be able to mention them all. Thank you to so many GNU/Linus, OpenBSD, BSD*, and other developers!

I'll mention these:

• LaTeX
• Jabref

Without TeX I'd go insane writing technical and scientific documents. You've saved me thousands of hours of work!

Oh, and my current time waster game: Kohan: Immortal Sovreigns.

This whole debacle was a rousing success. The question is for whom. It wasn't a victory for the US citizens writ large. It wasn't a win for any NATO allies. It wasn't a win for the vast majority of the people in the world.

There's a few people/groups we can assume did win:

• The wealthy: they were given insider trading info and made billions
• Iran's leadership: they have come out regionally stronger
• Israel's government: they got to genocide more Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, and Gazans under the cover of a regional war.
• The inside circle in the executive branch that weren't outright fired

It's mostly an insider trading game at the expense of lives, money, and the US' sitting on the geopolitical stage. This is all part of the smash and grab stage of this presidency.