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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023
  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
    toMemes@lemmy.ml•CVE program
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    3 months ago

    You don’t think the program will be picked up by another government actor? It’s only the US that can do this?

    Hmmm 🤔. I think that given how important the work is some other government organisation will absolutely pick up the work if the US want to wash their hands of it.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
    toMemes@lemmy.ml•CVE program
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    3 months ago

    The program will be picked up by others in the fullness of time. It’s a shit move, for sure, but I bet the calculus here is that the US will still benefit from someone else doing the hard work but without paying for it.

    The only thing the US loses here is prestige. And I’m totally fine with that.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
    toAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Impulse buys are bad, we all know, but what was an impulse buy that proven to be a really good decision to you?
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    3 months ago

    I was in Hong Kong and after a glorious day sightseeing and walking around it suddenly started to thunder. Rain everywhere. No shelter in sight. People slipping down the stairs running through the streets. Cars splashing puddles everywhere. Bus and tram stops full of people trying to avoid the rain. I quickly ducked into a department store before I was fully soaked but thought, “fuck I have another twenty minutes walk to get back to the hotel”. So I looked around the store for a few minutes and found the accessory section where they keep the umbrellas. Perfect! This was going to be the best impulse buy of my life.

    I picked up a designer leather belt that I had been searching years for online. There it was, right in front of me, at a decent price. So I bought it.