Buelldozer

This is strange.

Let me know when you figure it out. I’m happy to revisit.

You may be correct on MB though. I pulled that number from a news article that I can’t get into again because I exceeded my daily threshold of free ones. I’ll just concede that I’m incorrect on the case count in MB specifically, at least until I can get into the dang article again.

Western Europe has way less cases…

Fair enough, so lets move those goalposts to the west a bit.

Here’s the EU data from April 2024 to 31 March 2025, which seems to be the latest available. You’ll note that in that time period there were 26,222 cases. Romania, Italy, Germany, France, and Belgium reported the most.

…and nearly all of them in Romania.

True but Romania is part of the EU and so they count against the numbers. Just like Texas does for the US.

Looking at the data we can plainly see that in 2025 the EU has reported more cases of measles every month than the US has in all months combined. The EU had 4482 cases by the end of March while the US is still under a thousand partway into May.

For funsies though let’s remove Romania from the data completely and see what it looks like.

Of 26,222 cases Romania accounted for 21,620 which leaves a remainder of 4,602. On the United States side there has been 935 cases YTD and there were 285 in 2024 for a total of 1,219 in the past 16+ months.

I’ve linked and quoted Official Sources from both the EU and the US and the data clear; the EU is having a worse measles outbreak than the US.

Lest you feel I’m picking on the EU I’m also going after Canada because they too have had more cases of measles since just last October than the US has had in the past 16+ months. You can find that data linked in my post here.

Where are you getting your info from?

The OP’s article.

"One in Ontario, Canada, has resulted in 1,243 cases from mid-October through April 29. "

It’s literally the 2nd sentence of the 3rd paragraph.

Additionally Canada’s Health Minister has updated the total to 1,384 as of today, May7th.

If your own Health Minister being quoted in a Canadian News Source isn’t good enough then I guess this conversation is over.

I always roll my eyes when I read hyperbolic comments like this; both the incident rate and the absolute case count is higher in Manitoba Canada than the entirety of the United States and if that isn’t enough the European Region has a skyrocketing case count with over 120,000 cases reported to the W.H.O. in 2024 which is more than 10 times the cases in the United States.

So the numbers say that the Europeans should ban themselves first, then the Canadians, and then the Americans.

“Starting” is somewhat of an understatement; since October of 2024 Manitoba has had over 1,200 measles cases. In that same time frame the United States has had 951.

With less than 1% of the US population Manitoba has nearly 30% more cases between 10/1/24 and 5/1/25.

I honestly had no idea there was even a problem in Manitoba until I read your comment. Now I’m wondering why the US is headline news for this.

Got a link to an article or something discussing that?

What I do not get is why Trump isnt championing this as the right move.

Trump isn’t aware of anything more than 1 foot from his nose. Frankly he doesn’t need to be aware of this, the US Is already selling a crazy amount of LNG on the Global Market. Here’s the graph of exports.

Oil is a different matter. The US can produce plenty of crude but is seriously constrained by refinery capacity. No new refineries of significance have been built since 1976 and all of the existing refineries are already working flat out. It’s why the US was importing so much refined petroleum product (Gasoline, Diesel, etc) from Russia prior to the Ukraine war.

The move to green is the way forward,

That isn’t exactly true with Steam. Valve does allow a dev to offer a discount at a different store as long as that same discount comes to Steam in a reasonable amount of time.

Straight from the docs:“It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.”

Samsung Dex already does this with Android.

Good.

Franklin is famous. So is The Kid.

I always forget about this perk of my Amazon subscription so thanks for posting this. I jumped over and claimed all the GOG codes. I’ve never tried the Lego games using Proton so I hope they work.

Yeah, no shit it’s hostile. This Administration is being hostile to their business! What in the fuck did they expect to happen?

1965 was good but why not the Blackout of 2003?

I feel ya. Two still in their boxes JetKVMs and a new Pi 500 is just the start for me. Soooo much stuff, so much money, and hundreds of hours of research into all of them.

It’s the other steps that make it ADHD.

Oh man, this one is a direct hit.

Slackware 3.1.

Maybe shoot kidnappers?

Normal people cannot legally carry firearms into a Court House.

And for a lot of people I would still recommend Windows.

Eh, only if someone needs it.

For instance my 75 year old father is happily using Linux Mint on his laptop. Why? Because all he’s doing with it is web surfing, watching youtube, and checking his email. At home that’s all most people are doing, especially older people. I set his up so that it backs up his stuff and auto-updates. It just works and if it does get broken I can recover it with minimal effort.

It’s the same for me at home. My main PC is Linux Mint where I do almost everything. For the occasions I need Windows I have an Intel NUC attached to my KVM. For work I’ve got LM installed on my work laptop and when I need Win11 I have a VM setup in QEMU/KVM with it.

Are there people who have workloads, or gameloads, that only run on Windows? Sure there. We all know that.

But there are a lot of people, especially home users, who could easily run Linux and don’t.