Luxyr

There might be a valid argument somewhere in there that constantly changing the trade policy is worse than keeping a bad one in place? Not sure the trade-off there though. If you know you have a certain tariff in place long term, you can work around that and the tariff can actually do the things it is intended to do. If the tariff changes on a whim, you can’t and the country just becomes a more risky proposition to do business with.

It is very much intentional in a lot of places to keep the status quo.

I see that as requiring an instruction of replacement, like buy a dozen instead.

Thing with this joke that his me wrong is that isn’t how if statements are written. The else does not come before the condition in any language I’ve ever used or seen.

At the very least. It should be that he comes back with 1 or 13 loaves.

Buy a loaf

If they have eggs

Buy a dozen loaves