Their recent attempt at launching a destroyer ended in failure when a transport cradle slid off and the ship is now lying on its starboard side and partially submerged.

It's probably a good thing they consider anything from the West as decadent or beneath them or else they might not have this problem.

The pyramids were not built by slaves.

Condiering Trump doesn't hire Americans at his failing properties, he has no right to tell a company where to build its products.

Of note from the story:

I bookmarked the page but now it still looks the same when I click it again. What am I doing wrong?

You could always clear your cache, but since that is such a difficult thing to do, it might take some time to do. I've never had an issue with a web page looking the same after I bookmark it and come back later, but that's just me always clearing out crap and forcing the browser to get new info.

Since prices will now have to be rounded to the nearest five cents, which way do you think businesses will go? Will they round down to .00 or will they round up to .05 (or even the next .00)?

Taking bets.

On the rare occasions I use cash any pennies returned in change are dropped in the parking lot.

Those must be the ones I keep finding and picking up to use later.

I don't like the first example. To me, having two independent sentences is better than using a semicolon. In fact, most of the examples I don't like. It might be a preference issue. I like the two separate sentences as they have more punch (to me).

Of course, I'm the same person who doesn't like how Lee Childs writes using that same style, so go figure.

The Elements of Style by Strunk and White takes care of both. How to make things clear and easy to read as well as proper punctuation.

It's the only book you need when you're writing anything (other than your research material).

The Light of Other Days, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, starts off the story with one of the main characters using a set of glasses which is connected to the worldwide network to get information on everything they see. It identifies the people at the gathering, what they do, and so on.

While Clarke is not the first one to come up with the idea, this device sounds eerily similar.

Considering AI is already being used to create new drugs and develop new interactions, as well used to detect breast cancer long before a human can see it, or used in large dataset interpretation, it seems you are wrong.

It's cheaper to make products overseas than in this country and people love buying Chinese-made* crap they don't need. Look at all the ads on here from Temu and Etsy, for example.

If you want to see the trade deficit go down people will need to stop buying stuff. Which of course runs contrary to everything we're told, so it won't happen.

* It's not only China, but Vietnam, Honduras, and others as well. But China is the most noteworthy. I know someone who works in the construction industry and they get their steel from South Korea because it's less expensive and of the quality they need.

we could easily stop him from committing any other crimes that he is at all likely to commit.

If we get rid of him we're assured he'll never commit a crime again.