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Wasn't it originally a huge public undertaking? It was my understanding that the rails and CN began their lives in public ownership before being privatized.

Did I misunderstand things?

Ugh. Why did we ever privatize rail. People would riot if we privatized the highway network, and yet...

I'm a woman and I was born in the 1990s. I do live in North America though.

The US are just a bad parody of themselves at this point.

Can you expand on that? Good news in American politics would be a nice change.

Everyone loves Bernie.

But dang it the man is 83. He should be enjoying the last years of his life in retirement. It makes me sad to think he still needs to be working in politics.

He's as old as Trump, who is already too old for this shit, will be at the end of his term.

Maybe there should be a hard limit at 65 or something for politicians. Both to keep out people in whom dementia is clearly starting to appear and to let old people frickin' rest.

Sadly TVs with DisplayPort support are very rare, and mine is not one of them.

Used to do this. I had issues with either the audio or the video feed randomly dying, though, so I ended up finding a way to make HDMI+USB work when I moved.

More reliable, but now that I'm starting to think about reorganizing my office, copper will no longer do for 4K120 as that'll go over the 5-meter limit. And an optical high bandwidth HDMI+USB setup isn't cheap.

Upsides and downsides...

I wanted some foreign goods to get more expensive. To end slavery, not to escalate a trade war!

I should have checked my vicinity for any stray monkey's paws when I made that wish.

Remembering that show frustrates me. How did they start with such a hilarious premise and end up with a show that's okay and not one milligram more?

Upscale it to 4K for no reason

Some people think liberal is right-wing, just not extreme (for example, liberal party of Quebec)

Some people think liberal is centrist. (For example, liberal party of Canada)

Some people think liberal is some sort of wide category including everyone left of center.

As for leftist, some people think it means anything left of center.

Others think it means left-wing, but more so than center-left.

Others yet think it refers only to the most left-wing of political opinions, including communists, anarcho-communists, and adjacent ideologies.

And even "center" is a vague term to begin with. What passes as center in the US is decidedly right-wing in other countries.