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Holy shit the quote from Trudeau in that video aged poorly: "Canada and the United States will forever be a model example of how to be good neighbours"

Maybe voting should be by policy. Each party lists, say, their top 8 policy points as a simple summary sentence each (has to be more concrete than just an aspiration like "protect our economy"). The combined points are randomised and printed on the voting paper. Voter marks all the policies they agree with. Each policy agreed with counts as a vote for that party (so each party can get more than one vote per person). The party with most points agreed with by the voters wins. If the winning party goes back on or does anything in contradiction to any of the policies they listed, the media has something solid to grill them on, and maybe could be some sort of trigger for a new election.

Trump really isn't getting off on the right foot, is he?

his honeymoon in the USSR

Fuckin' ironic

Well you wouldn't be driving to the airport if you didn't have a flight to catch! ** taps forehead

Checked exceptions require a function to declare the exceptions it can throw. The caller function must then catch and handle the exception, or the exception would bubble up a level, in which case the caller must also include that exception among the exceptions it declares that it can throw. I don't know if C++ does this, but Java/C# do. It sounds exactly like Rust's system except with different syntax.

My last job was Windows desktop, so I installed vmware and ran Linux in fullscreen mode.

This post made me think it would be good if there was a community where people could post about "stuff to do", eg join a local amateur soccer team, here is how leagues work, here is how you find a club to play for, can anyone play, are there min/max ages on teams, are teams split by gender, what is the social scene like, etc etc. Kind of like an AMA but focussed on things people can do if they need an activity/hobby/sport/place-to-meet-new-friends. There's probably heaps of scenes I don't even know about, or don't know how to get involved in.

I prefer to think of it as likening his opinions to cold sores.

Mysteriously still dry loose washing powder stuck all over clothes coming out of the washer.

TV anywhere you have to wait (eg at doctor's office) always tuned to right wing "news".

Dishwasher starts randomly when not full yet, and gets stuck in some mode where it wont start when you need to start it. The buttons are inscrutable.

Coffee is always burnt.

No socks in the washing you just brought in off the line pair up with any other sock.

Windows is the only OS and it always forces an update at the worst possible time.

TV operating system is slow and laggy.

New toys never come with batteries, and you are always out.

You are always a few episodes before the end of the series before your streaming service drops the show from its catalogue.

Your soap always has a pubic hair on it when you get in the shower, even though you took it off last time.

Mobile phone screen protectors always have a bubble with a grain of sand in it.

Bike tire is always slowly leaking, but there is no discernable puncture.

Mobile phone volume controls are always next to the power button so whenever you want to adjust the volume, you lock the screen instead.

Kitchen sink drains slowly.

Petrol tank in the lawn mower and your petrol can are always empty when you need to cut the grass, so you have to go buy more before you can mow the lawn.

Whipper snipper line keeps breaking within 10s of starting, due to your awful couch grass.

Doorbell battery is always flat.

Driveway camera alerts always come through just as the delivery person is driving away with the package you needed to sign for.

Clothing on sale is always too small or too big.

Any clothes that fit when you buy them shrink in the wash.

Smoke alarm low battery chirps always start in the middle of the night, and you don't have any replacement batteries. Also, they are randomly between 5 and 10 minutes apart so it takes a long time to find which one has the low battery.

Your bread loaf is always mouldy before your weekly grocery shop.

When you want to eat them, bananas and avocados are always unripe, or all brown inside.

Apples have a 50% chance to be floury inside but you can't tell until you bite.

The person next to you on the train always has a cold.

Bus timetables don't line up with train timetables.

Red light cycles are timed so you get the red on each intersection unless you exceed the speed limit.

The sun is always low in the sky and in your eyes (directly or in the mirror), while driving to and from work.

Supermarket workers always give you the product that expires earliest when you order groceries for pickup.

He could throw Musk in Gitmo to stop him fighting back, then nationalise any US assets, and threaten other countries to hand over ownership of any international assets. I'm sure he'd find a way to transfer the bulk of the wealth to himself.