adespoton

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He’s already had a fit with Canada. If his response continues to be to raise tariffs until all the affected sectors of the US economy just move to Canada to avoid them….

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

They’ll be cutting off funding for the program as well. So why not… move it to Canada or Germany?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Nice that watches ranging from £16 to £200 already support USB-C. My two Garmin watches both have (incompatible) unique charging/data ports.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you’ve gone and taken my simple statement exactly backwards.

How much we make is comparative. It’s a fiction imposed by those at the top. By the same people who want the ratio to always be that we spend more than we earn.

But no matter who we are, if we don’t spend more than we earn, we don’t end up in debt to the rich. It’s just that for an increasing proportion of the population, this is becoming impossible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (15 children)

It’s never been about how much you earn; it’s always been about being willing to live beyond your means.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So… states just have to change their rules such that Israeli products don’t qualify for some reason other than being Israeli. Like, no products from nations recognized to currently be carrying out genocide by the UN, or “no middle eastern countries whose name starts with “I” (Iran is already illegal, Iraq gets dinged, but not buying Iraqi oil at the state level doesn’t sound too big a deal).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I have no reason to believe them either though. The numbers are the news. They’re not sharing the numbers, so they’re not telling me something new.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And being the US, that “bond” will be treated the same way damage deposits are treated by landlords.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not quite sure how this is an exclusive — it was obvious at the time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think you’ve got most of that right, except that Gen-X felt ignored and overlooked and so didn’t really have a rebellion. Gen-X was the “get stuff done in the background while others said you weren’t ready and gave the accolades to others” generation. There weren’t enough of us to make a difference with protests.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The only thing I get irked by is gen z mistaking us for boomers. Despite general world view etc. being so obviously different.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (14 children)

To me, it’s too late for NIST there. China is driving the agenda in AI now, because the US took too long to get organized.

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