How about you give whatever number you think is the accurate one first?

GDP isn’t directly related to wealth, so it’s not relevant. GDP is measured per-year - our wealth doesn’t reset to 0 at the start of a new year.

Total US wealth seems to be $150-160 trillion, so it checks out?

AFAIU you can’t determine whether the state on the other side has been collapsed. All you can say with certainty is the state on the other side after you have collapsed yours.

World Curling rules 2025, rule 5d:

The curling stone must be delivered using the handle of the stone.

https://worldcurling.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Rules-2025.pdf

If there’s a rule saying “you’re not allowed to touch the stone”? No, I don’t really care about it enough to find it confusing.

Alright, then it’s the Canadian guy.

What’s so confusing to you about the idea “don’t touch the stone”?

You’re not allowed to touch the stone with your finger. The swedish guy touched the stone with his finger. This is not hard.

Instead, it’ll just see wages increase more quickly than prices for a period afterwards to restore buying power.

Good one!

Not the only downside - some MS developed extensions, e.g. their Python integration, have to be patched to work with VSCodium: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/discussions/1641

Yeah, they really added DRM.

This happened quite often for various UI settings etc. Often there were technical reasons for removing the option (e.g. rewrites where they dropped features with low usage), but it is a real thing.

When someone doesn’t know an initialism?

No, they did include “trying to stop it”. For example the ICC projections assume that, towards the end of the century, we start becoming carbon-negative by figuring out effective carbon capture.

You mean the ozone hole that spurred quick international collaboration and resulted in effective regulations which banned the harmful compounds wherever possible, leading to a slow yet steady recovery?

Wonder what’s the difference compared to climate change. Oh well, if we keep increasing emissions surely things will get better!

We wouldn’t stop strip mining by switching to hydrogen, but we would increase our reliance on fossil fuels.

He didn’t specify one term in 2020. His aides kept making comments in that direction, but nothing definitive. Back then it made me afraid he’d try to stay for a second term, because that seemed like a sure way to lose…

And the nice thing: mixing solar panels and agricultural land use can increase crop yields depending on the plant!

The dirty part is on the inside. I open the seat by grabbing the outside.

Also, I’m not “scared” of any “poo particles” “flying around”.

Depends. If I only lift the lid no (since I’m not touching anything dirty), if I clean yes.

I just take a quick peek once the flushing is done.

Put seat down, flush, wash hands while it’s flushing, then quickly check (and clean if necessary).