There’s an earlier bit that complements that nicely:

“it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can’t actually deliver is highly transferable.”

There are so many Java libraries that I would probably set on fire if they were physically tangible in any way.

More than just one, but yeah, the “overall flow” is set in law by acts of Congress, and only an act of Congress can stop that flow, not the executive branch.

There have been U S. officials that confirmed this has happened though.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/politics/blinken-confirms-pause-heavy-bombs-israel/index.html

I’m not even arguing that it’s effective, just that it happened.

But Biden has slowed weapon shipments to Israel, it’s the only thing he can (legally, not politically) do since the aid is mandated by law and his executive power doesn’t extend to negating laws.

First guy looks like hes from Silent Hil 2

It’s one of those cruel ironic twists. Wages actually have increased, but inflation has far outpaced them.

It’s only barely begun to level back out. The real question is if the wages will stay high once inflation (and greedflation) calms the fuck down.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-inflation-us/

Maybe if he forgets half the shit he’s said that directly contradicts the other half, and doesn’t try to nuke a hurricane over Mexico.

Larger population means larger representation. If you say the Netherlands only has about 100,000 idiots, that’s roughly half a percent of their population.

Half of a percent of the US population is over 1.5 million. And I promise you, we have a waaaaaaay higher percentage of idiots than that.

Surely it’s the rapid growth and massive profits that are the problem? Not a lack of energy infrastructure planning or regulation.

Yestsin won with 58 and 54 percent of the vote in his two elections, hardly a ‘landslide’:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Russian_presidential_election

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election

Putin’s lowest was 53, in his first election. The latest was 88%, with most of the others being in the 70% range.

Historically though, Russians, have a way of guaranteeing results like that. Yeltsin is kind of a low percentage outlier by comparison:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Soviet_Union_legislative_electionr

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Soviet_Union_legislative_election

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Soviet_Union_legislative_election

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1196979929/in-unsurprising-result-putin-is-reelected

Ukraine feeds a lot of the world, and it’s in everyone’s best interest that it keeps doing that.

I’m pretty sure Yeltsin is the reason Russia has Putin.

Yeltsin oversaw the dissolution of the ussr and brought capitalism to Russia, of course the west wanted him to be president of Russia. All he did was ask Bill for favors on the world stage (and got most of what he asked for).

Senegalese refugees comprise the bulk of the migrants, and all sorts of things like drought and commodity prices (due to the invasion Ukraine among other things) are driving their economy into the ground. In the end, climate change is definitely a non negligible component of the problem which is only going to get worse.

haha no source, just a dumb joke.

Abbot just creamed his chair and he doesn’t even know why.

Japan: Checkmate

:: Reveals 10X more laws regulating game consoles ::

Not shown: He’s already started to burrow with his feet.

yup, but that answer was based entirely on the assumptions present in the question. D is all divisible work, and C is everything else, because that’s literally all you can assume to make the math work. D has to therefore be 12 months worth of divisible work minus C. C could very well be 12 months of work, meaning D is zero and adding more workers won’t matter.

Well, if T is total time to build, D is the time that can be distributed equally among any number of workers, and C is constant, indivisible time extra time that goes along with construction, and X is the number of workers, then:

T - C = D / X

so, since T is 12 and 6 is half of 12, then:

T/2 - C = D/X * 1/2

or

T/2 - C = D/2X where X > 0, C = 0, T=12, and D = (T - C) / X

which is both the answer it’s looking for (twice as many workers) and the correct answer (it depends on at least two things we don’t know), while assuming what they’re assuming, which is C = 0

(Stupid ass junior high math problems piss me off, junior high is a traumatic experience)