Food is not the whole picture:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/251215/dq251215a-eng.htm

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 2.2% on a year-over-year basis in November, matching the increase in October.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-rate-unchanged-november-2025-9.7015905

Overall inflation rate came in at 2.2 per cent. But that rate has been largely outpaced by food since August 2024, and in November it rose 4.7 per cent compared to this time last year.

So Canada has their overall inflation under control, despite increasing food prices. Where I live food is only 10-12% of an average budget, and so similarly is only 1 part out of many when the CPI inflation number is calculated.
Transportation, heat, clothes, rent and other things are also included in the inflation number, to better reflect a normal budget. Rent is often a bigger expense than food.

Compared to Canada having 2.2% inflation YOY in November USA has 3%. In USA it may be even higher than 4.7% for food IDK.

Also in USA where many people live below the poverty level, increasing rent and food prices are more serious.

How can you have democracy if the rich control the media?

$6 billion in aid to Ukraine from Japan is amazing IMO.
AFAIK Japan is considering beefing up their military a bit like Europe has already decided.
Maybe Europe and Japan could cooperate on research/production/acquisition of weapons a bit like we do now with Canada entering the SAFE agreement. Japan is a very politically stable country much like Canada, and could be an excellent defense partner.
Europe and Japan definitely have common defense interests, and USA becoming an unreliable defense partner must be just as much a problem for Japan as it is for Europe and Canada.

Stupidest question of the day.

For now Russia doesn’t even have a suitable launch pad for their rockets!
Their last functional pad collapsed with the rocket they launched last month.

https://www.sciencealert.com/russia-faces-space-mission-crisis-after-severe-soyuz-launch-pad-accident

Russia is collapsing just like that launchpad did, and this will never go anywhere.

Corrected to almost half. Still insane that so many voted for Trump, and that Trump broke the Republican record for Latino votes!?!?

Of course it is, but some people habitually think of it as the other way around.

Most Hispanics voted for this.
Almost half of Hispanics voted for this!

Remember all gods are created by man not the other way around.
But IF it actually was the other way around, it would be just as likely he looked like a baboon as anything else.

Try to look up white hen, and then look up white cock.

That’s not a cock, that’s a hen.
My guess is the joke was supposed to be about something about a big cock.

Otherwise I simply don’t get it.

I hope they have the right guy, because it seems the evidence is inconclusive, at least the article doesn’t really show it to be very strong, and the guy having an inflated ego is in no way evidence of anything.
This is where we are supposed to trust the system, which can be tough sometimes.

They chose not to.

Not really, Belgium wouldn’t budge, there was a clear majority in favor of using the frozen assets. This is mainly on Belgium.

We have had several Drone incidents here in Denmark, and after the first, police was quickly equipped with equipment to detect them sooner and shoot them down.
Next drone incidents however absolutely nothing happened. Except closing the airport again.
The reason is that it is illegal to shoot them down in peace time, if they are near anything civilian, and in little Denmark it’s basically impossible to not be near something civilian.
So the article is based on a false dichotomy that doesn’t really exist. We absolutely have the equipment to shoot them down already. Especially if we allow the military to do it.
The basis for this article is exactly what Russian propaganda is trying to do, raise opposition to help Ukraine, under the guise that helping Ukraine is harmful to ourselves.
Poland already has shut down drones that flew into Polish territory. Every single European country can do the same, all they have to do is make the decision to do it.

This is really good news, but it would have been better to take the money from the Russian accounts IMO.
Belgium being afraid of Russia is so embarrassing IMO. Denmark is building Ukrainian weapons factories on Danish territory, something Putin has stated makes Denmark a valid target. But he won’t do shit about it, because Russia is already losing this war, their economy is in ruins, and attacking another country will only make things worse for Russia, and when Russia loses this war Putin is finished, as in literally finished.

He specifically said that shootings was a cost he was willing to pay for 2nd amendment rights. He just got what he asked for, contrary to most victims.

That’s not even it, MAGA idiots are lying pieces of shit that will degrade anything they don’t like with lies no matter how decent and respected.
Charlie Kirk was an evil piece of shit, and the MAGA fascist fanatics can’t bear to hear the truth about him.

Healthcare is very much a Trump problem, and some have seen doubling of the price in December of the health insurance.

Absolutely, they probably have a pretty serious circle jerk going on there.

For sure we know Waymo is far ahead, there can be absolutely no doubt about that.
In much the same way we also know that Mercedes is ahead, as their autonomous driving has been legally acknowledged for partial self driving.
Cruise (General Motors) was also clearly ahead of Tesla, but General motors ended the competing program to Waymo because after an accident it wasn’t considered safe enough, but it was still way ahead of Tesla. And the program had actual self driving services without a human supporting it.
But Also Ford was recognized as being ahead of Tesla, but despite that, they have backed down and has decided to slow down on fully autonomous driving.

So we know for a fact that Tesla is at best number 5, and that’s assuming every Chinese company is behind.

GM and Ford have switched to use their research for driver assist systems, and are no longer focusing on or claiming fully autonomous driving. So if we count them out, Tesla may be as high as number 3 now.