I grew up exposed to French and European media. A few shows come to mind.

Nobody’s Boy: Remi

If you can find it, it is a powerfully emotional watch. Unfortunately I don’t know if an adequately dubbed or even subbed version is available. It is on YouTube in French but the auto translated subs are awful.

The Mysterious Cities of Gold

A great Franco-Japanese classic. Dubbed versions are out there.

All of the Asterix cartoons are decent and available dubbed as well.

Fast forward in time to the 90s and the show called Reboot is pretty solid. It was made in Canada and I heard that most Americans never heard of it. The first entirely CGI show. Someone rescued the original high def footage recently too so it should be out there.

Kevlar only stops very low power rounds and shrapnel. A typical rifle round is much more powerful and will go through too many layers of kevlar for a vest made entirely of kevlar to be effective and practical against that. For that you need ballistic plates that are designed to shatter on impact, absorbing the bullet and its splash and dissipating its energy in the process.

The total can probably weigh something around 30 lbs for something Trump-sized and can stop a typical rifle round. But the worst is that this stuff isn’t flexible or breathable. It’s hot and sweaty, chafes your skin, hugs your chest tight and you are sandwiched between two rigid and heavy plates. The front one goes way up to the base of your neck and can press against your throat when you’re sitting down and slouch, which Trump does. It’s a miserable thing to be wearing all day.

Immediate profit vs long term profit. Squiggly line must go up in the next 3 months. Who cares about in 30 years?

Everyone’s credit card is maxed out. The country’s debt is spiraling out of control. There is no more money to borrow from the present. Now it is time to put the future in debt by cutting back things like science and education. This will cripple the country on the long run, but who cares when that squiggly line is going up right now?

That has been going on for decades. Meanwhile China has been playing the long game and it is now reaping the benefits.

There is no way he will wear a proper vest with the plates required to stop a rifle round. His old spoiled rich unfit lazy pampered ass would find it too tight, heavy and uncomfortable to wear.

You keep the progressive values, but you keep the center of attention over the blatant corruption and show a genuine commitment to correct it. Otherwise the conservatives will hijack the attention away from the corruption again and continue the perception that “either side will sell the country to billionaires anyway”.

They won by focusing on fighting corruption instead of culture wars. I hope the Democrats are paying attention. They’re probably not though.

Nothing says unbiased like naming your encyclopedia after a political alignment…

They’re islands in North America that are French territories.

Wait until he learns about the Saint Pierre et Miquelon islands

I absolutely love that in Deep Space Nine they had one episode where they go back in time to the TOS times with Worf in tow, they see Klingons there and acknowledge that they look significantly different.

They turned to Worf and said something in the lines of “Those are Klingons? They look so different! What happened?” And Worf just said “It’s embarrassing. We don’t like to talk about it”

Great work! Hopefully this will spread.

We’ve been at it for a year now

There has been tons of products with fake reviews for over a decade as well by now.

I remember back when Amazon was a source for trustworthy products in the earlier days. Then they let the shady sellers in. Then they hid the country the product ships from. Then tolerated blatantly fake reviews. And now they’re hiding the reviews they don’t like? Why would anyone want to purchase anything from that service at that point?

If I want something I have to order online nowadays I’ll go out of my way to find an online store that isn’t Amazon. And if it’s something I can’t find anywhere else, I’d go on AliExpress. It’s likely going to be a junk product but at least it’s priced accordingly. Amazon products nowadays are just AliExpress products with a 5000% markup.

I doubted the validity of it but there has been news articles. It’s the sailors on the ships in the Gulf of Oman who are running out of food. They probably had to forego replenishment because of the sheer unpredictability and chaos in their operations caused by the Trump admin’s incompetence.

Turns out aliens visited the Epstein Island

I wouldn’t have believed that there was this many pictures of him smiling

What if he’s just really short so that’s the view most girls will have of him by default?

Every car sold in Canada should have its internet connectivity easily disablable by the user and maintain functionality without it except for features that obviously need connectivity to work such as live traffic data.

We should even extend that to all consumer products.

I hate this Putin’s cock-sucking traitor so much.

Blatantly corrupt judges are the real threat