I feel sorry for offshore collegues in a third party we use, the ydeal with terrible working conditions, huge commutes, very noisy offices, and yeah long working hours. Working from home was great for them imo and now rescinded so we have to try and hear them over all their shouty collegues

I am genuinely shocked if we got something we didnt expect, that just means half our diplomats and politicians dont watch the news

This sort of thing is going to create generational hate for america around the world in places that are former allies, even assuming the retards ever leave office

One of my favourite books, sure the water divining bit is a bit wierd, rest of the book is great, i liked the characters, its of its age since nuclear war was an immense threat when it was published. At the time it was a fantastic first contact novel and many things it mentions turn up in other books later. The bit about our future selves being incomprehensible was the point.

French stepped in already, officially, my solid guess is my government has their back as well