A big drying rack for things that don’t go in the dishwasher. Drying with a towel sucks and is unhygienic.

Maybe (probably) I’m just stupid and clumsy but cleaning as I go means cooking takes even more time and effort. I do it exactly the other way around, to minimize cleaning time I only clean my kitchen every few days when my counter gets too full. YMMV.

Both is best.

Enlighten me which part of the Netherlands doesn’t eat bland food ;)

No, exactly the same parts of Europe. Both the Dutch and the English were know for their spice trade and are known for their awful food. The rest of Europe has better food and terrorized and colonized for other reasons.

But would the current administration be the current administration without wealth hoarding psychopaths?

You’re going to need a team of people, fly them in and out and make sure they get back home alive or it might hurt the president’s polls. It might be cheaper but it’s much riskier. Nobody in the US cares about those 52 other people so that doesn’t really matter to them.

I’m surprised they didn’t use drones.

It is mentioned in the text, but I don’t see anything redacted in the screenshots either.

Edit: It could be in the very first message, it’s not clear if there is text between the first and second screenshot.

A CIA spokesperson asked us to withhold the name of John Ratcliffe’s chief of staff, which Ratcliffe had shared in the Signal chain, because CIA intelligence officers are traditionally not publicly identified. Ratcliffe had testified earlier yesterday that the officer is not undercover and said it was “completely appropriate” to share their name in the Signal conversation. We will continue to withhold the name of the officer. Otherwise, the messages are unredacted.

Imagine if those people looked up to us, we’d have to really question our values.

Yeah, I don’t understand who’s still in doubt about Russia’s true motives

What I mean is the pivot to the east was pretty clear with Obama. With Trump? I think he sees China and Russia more as a role model than an opponent, but who knows what’s going on in his mind.

Maybe you weren’t paying attention when Obama was president? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration

The US has a trade deficit because everyone wants dollars, even though the US keeps on printing them. You basically get free stuff and complain about it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It’s not that hard. They don’t need aid to continue to fight, but they do need aid to be able to win.

There are plenty of companies that never pay dividends, yet people buy them.

II struggled with this as well for a while. You can look at it this way, they are worth money because they could pay dividends, but they don’t actually have to. Your bar of gold is worth a certain amount of money equal to the money you could sell it for, and your money is worth something because you could buy something with it.

Because that’s how the stock market works, the price of a stock is the current value of assets (including cash) + expected earnings (with some correction factors for risk and time). If the company pays out $x of cash it’s $x worth less. You might not always see it it the stock price because expected future dividend payments are also already priced in.

How do you think it works?

Imagine you have 10 stocks worth $10 each.

Scenario 1: There is $1 dividend per stock. You now have 10 stocks worth $9 each for a total of $90 in stocks and $10 in cash.

Scenario 2: There is no dividend but you decide to sell 1 stock, you now have 9 stocks of $10 for a total of 90$ in stocks and $10 in cash.

These scenario’s are equivalent unless the stock wasn’t priced correctly.

A dividend is just a forced sale of your stock

I think that can be explained, but tell me how someone can be in favor of the death penalty but be against assisted suicide.

And different opportunities, going MIA on a construction site is suspicious, but during war? Who can tell whether they defected or died?