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someone finally told him about how much oil passes through Hormuz.

“The beatings shall continue until morale improves”

I doubt outright imploding, but, definitely certain elements that they need the votes of to pass legislation are probably telling his people they won’t vote for the bill unless certain things are removed, things that other elements said were mandatory for them to vote for the bill. It only takes a handful of intractable issues like that to prevent them having the numbers to pass legislation. Unless the senate agrees to pass the exact version the house did, it’s going to have to go back to the house again, and there are a lot of representatives who have buyers remorse after realizing what was in it.

I think the strategy was basically to go to everyone they needed to vote for it, ask them what they wanted in it. And just welded all that together along with the stuff trump wanted, tell everyone what they asked for was in it, then rush it through before anyone could take a close enough look to see anything they would object to, which worked for the house, but has failed in the senate by the fact it hasn’t passed yet and that certain figures like Rand Paul have objected to it.

I’m from America, I’ve never heard of it being used in a derogatory context. i’ve heard it used in a couple of contexts, one being out of AAVE as an endearing term, usually used between women. The other being a shortening of the term drag queen, again, usually in an endearing context. I think the two uses have a link in the past as drag shows have a lot of roots in the queer African American community, but I haven’t looked that deeply in to it.

Generally I think the “it’s not ok for people outside of the group to say it” kind of terms are usually reclaimed derogatory terms or slurs, and I’ve never heard of queen being used in a derogatory sense, outside perhaps the term “welfare queen” coined by regan to disparage people who relied on various welfare programs, specifically single African American mothers. But, that context is kind of a race and class context and not where I think the term comes from even in AAVE. Could be wrong, maybe it is a reclaiming of that, but that wouldn’t really be a LGBTQ community thing.

There’s probably a different history in the UK, maybe something to do with the monarchy, but at least in American English if there is any sensitive element there, it probably links back more to African American culture than to queer culture.

it’s so crazy that areas of the country where air conditioning wasn’t really needed for comfort in the past are now places where major heat wave events can make a lack of one a safety issue.

the consent manufacturing machine is really at full tilt right now.

I think Israel is reaching the end of the patience of a lot of public figures in the west and they’re trying to regain the news cycle by pivoting the focus away from their attempts to clear out the strip of people for the sake of land development.

Major mainstream media outlets were finally starting to go “hey they shot at a bunch of people waiting in line for food… what the fuck?” and so now a new conflict must occur to lead news cycles and force public figures to take a side.

Probably because threads is dead and has almost no native content.

If you take the numbers for spending and just look at competitive elections, the correlation is very weak if non-existent. Harris and Clinton both outspent trump and yet lost their elections.

More money tends to be spent on individual competitive elections, but the spending on competitive elections is not correlated well with winning, and there are way more safe elections than there are competitive elections. So more money tends to get spent over all across the many safe elections than on the few competitive, and very few donations go to the unfavored candidates in safe elections. Creating the illusion that higher spending correlates with success.

Ultimately the money flows to those liable to win because that is the best spend per dollar for someone trying to buy influence. And those safe seats need lots of money for their campaigns as a way to reward to those who have worked for them, but can’t be guaranteed further promotion do to a lack of opportunities. The rewards being things like lucrative consultant positions.

It gave CEOs an excuse to do layoffs even though they knew it would hurt their human capital long term, and that they would probably have to hire back a lot of those positions long term at higher wages. In the short terms it gave them a few quarters of increased profits. It also let them push out blatantly unfinished products on the promise of future improbable improvements. This will hurt companies reputations long term, but in the short term is let them juice the stock price.

They needed the increased profit and the pie in the sky growth promises to game the stock market, say all the right buzz words and show an improving price to earnings.

Sure they made the companies worse and less sustainable long term, but, they got huge compensation packages right now thanks to the markets, and they probably won’t be running these companies long enough to see the true fallout.

Lmao, who needs a processor?

Like, people really do be showing how little they know about consumer electronics when they say “yah this phone was 100% built in America”, or that they’re a grifter lying to their audience.

I don’t think there even is a facility In the US that could even potentially make the panel for the display. And there is exactly one fab that could make a modern processor for a smartphone SOC, (excluding intel’s facilities, but they do X86 chips so not really relevant for a smartphone.)

I think Google is doing this specifically because of the anti trust trial against their ad monopoly/monopsony.

Like they’re clearly loosing the trial and that means they’re probably going to have to sell off parts of their advertising company, or at least massively alter how they operate to end the anti competitive practices.

It used to be that Google made money on every user, even if they left the site, because they served all the ads on every other site as well. Now that they won’t be making money that way, so they don’t want people going to other sites anymore.