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caffinatedone

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  • I've honestly never quite realized up until now how utterly ridiculous it is that people (especially in the US) regularly demand that their food be chauffeured to them.

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  • Well, we have to support the "tech innovator" middlemen who deserve their 20% cut of everything. Think of those poor souls. How else are they supposed to get rich?

  • Israel’s strikes on Iran show Trump is unable to restrain Netanyahu as Middle East slips closer to chaos

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  • “collapse of trumps efforts to restrain netanyahu”.. right. If netanyahu did this against US pleas, then why is the US shooting down the Iranian reprisal? Seems like they’d take trump more seriously he didn’t just support them regardless.

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  • They’re probably going to hold new elections to replace the republican reps in jail now or they won’t have quorum.

  • Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill

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  • Fair point since rhe overrule would now be precedent. So, a republican objects since this is inappropriate, the parliamentarian deems that the precedent allows the Democratic motion, republicans overrule the parliamentarian, and the strategy is quashed.

    Extra steps, sure, but since republicans don't care about norms or hypocrisy, they wouldn't even blink at such a move.

    The only way that it works is if enough republicans don't really want to pass the bill. Then, this might give them an out. It wouldn't work otherwise.

    That said, no reason not to make them do the extra work.

  • Senate Democrats Have Been Handed a Tool to Stop the Big Beautiful Bill

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  • Sure, they should try, but it’s silly to think that this would actually work. The Senate parliamentarian will rule that it doesn’t meet the requirements (and would be correct) and the republican majority won’t vote to override. Attempt quashed and it wouldn’t even be a news story just being a procedural thing.

    I know, it’s unfair and that “they set a precedent” and all of that, but if your strategy requires that republicans not be abject opportunistic hypocrites, then it’s almost certain to fail.

  • Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world's most malnourished

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  • …quickly followed by “Why are there so many refugees trying to get into our countries?”

    Between this sort of thing and pursuing policies that accelerate climate change, it’s almost like they’re trying to create misery to exploit.

  • The Tesla Cybertruck is no longer America's best-selling electric pickup

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  • The backup camera screen on the slate is in the digital instrument cluster. It’s just a small display under the speedo, I think.

  • Scores of Researchers Receive Termination Notices After Federal Government Cuts Most Grants to Harvard

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  • They’re not doing research for Harvard, they’re doing science research for the public which was competitively assessed and awarded.

    That’s how the US has chosen to fund science research for over 50 years. It was considered a public good and has easily been one of best public investments that we’ve made during the period.

    America has been at the pinnacle of science, medicine and education largely through this partnership with Universities. trump and company are pissing that legacy away in an effort to destroy higher education in the US, which they believe to be an impediment to them instituting authoritarian rule.

    They’re happy to loot the country and burn it to the ground so long as they can rule over the ashes.

  • Trump loses his mind over pushback to Qatar jet deal

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  • To be fair, the trump crew don't observe any real security anyway, so all of the more competent competent competitors likely already know our secrets.

    I mean, assuming that trump doesn't just tweet them out, he'd absolutely sell our secrets for some graft.

  • Canadians could stay visa-free longer in U.S. under proposed bill

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  • Wow, coming up with dumb solutions to self-inflicted problems. Woo.

    Maybe just impeach and remove the problem instead?

  • Donald Trump defends gift of 747 jet from Qatar as new Air Force One

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  • Do you actually believe that the press would frame it anywhere near this way if Biden had tried to do something so blatantly corrupt?

  • VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

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  • There’s Openshift Virtualization included, which is based on the upstream kubevirt project. You’re essentially running VMs in containers and managing them (mostly) like the other container workloads in the environment.

  • Tesla’s European death spiral has no end in sight

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  • Because Tesla stock is essentially a meme stock and always has been. It’s not based on the actual boring making of cars, but rather the strength of musk’s bullshit powered reality distortion field.

    There’s always some vaporware next big thing that he pitches, but never actually delivers on which is used to justify their ridiculous valuation.

  • Trump Continues To Push Idea Of Replacing Income Tax With Tariffs

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  • I'd rather have it replaced with a sovereign wealth fund…

    I'd rather not have it replaced with a sovereign wealth trump slush fund

    The reason that sovereign wealth funds have cropped up recently in discussions is that trump really, really wants to have an unaccountable slush fund like his authoritarian buddies.

    It makes like zero sense for a country like the US

  • Slate, a customizable EV pickup for $20k

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  • Supposedly, there’s a display on the instrument cluster for the backup camera.

  • Art of the deal

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  • This would assume that their goal was to bolster American manufacturing in strategic areas or something along those lines. The evidence suggests that this isn’t their goal.

    What that goal might be aside from autarky is a good question.

  • The Galaxy Brains of the Trump White House Want to Use Tariffs to Buy Bitcoin

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  • Nope.

    If we cut the military budget to zero, we’d still have a trillion dollar deficit.

    CBO Budget Infographic

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    China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport.

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  • 25 mins of flight on a charge, and that’s not going to be at max speed , so we’ll ballpark it to 15 miles of range perhaps and that’s assuming no “traffic” or delays on landing. Not terribly practical like pretty much all of these flying car concepts.

    Oh, and if anything goes wrong, you’re likely dead.

  • House Democrats: DOGE is building a ‘master database’ of Americans’ sensitive information

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  • When is someone going to DO SOMETHING ABOUT ANY OF THIS?

    Such as?

    Democrats don’t have meaningful power at the moment due to that unfortunate last election, so they can make noise to bring attention to things, but not much that they can actually do.

    People are protesting and making noise, so that’s a start, but we need more.

    Sounding alarms about these sorts of things are good if they get more people pissed off so they get off their butts and start making noise themselves. No one else is going to save us.

    …and yes, Dems should do more to slow down and block what they can in congress, but none of the stuff the the doggy folks are doing require legislation. I mean, what they’re doing is illegal in many ways, but nothing is going through congress to enable it. It’s more that the maladministration is just not enforcing the law when it chooses not to and if Dems had a majority in at least one wing of congress, they could at least hold hearings with some (minimal) teeth.