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  • What is JD Vance's problem with Europe? Former diplomat shares his theory

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  • The USA national debt is a good proxy measure.

    The world outside the USA needed us dollars for petroleum and international trade. One of the major us enterprises has been to supply these funds in exchange for goods and services.

    It is currently running at $1T every 100 days.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/the-us-national-debt-is-rising-by-1-trillion-about-every-100-days.html

    This means the world is selling more to the USA than equal exchange. They take those dollars away and buy oil and other international trade, or they hold the money. The us is being paid to create the currency that is used.

    Frankly, the growing national debt is not as big a problem as the alternatives.

  • IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

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  • Some things that just have high prices are worth it, because all the alternatives can be worse.

  • As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia

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  • You jump to the assumption they weren't on an innocent beach holiday in Russia? You're paranoid.

  • Pete Buttigieg: Trump Cabinet's use of Signal app for military ops is ‘highest level of f**kup imaginable’

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  • No it doesnt.

    But there was a simultaneous hack from a person in the US military that proved they had weak passwords and didn't have 2 factor security on their devices.

    Same time that happens, the Chinese were identifying these same devices and those of many others in government. And the official account is "nobody knows how much access they had with their hack.". This is clearly a very serious hack.

    If that wasn't bad enough, they learned nothing, apparently.

  • Pete Buttigieg: Trump Cabinet's use of Signal app for military ops is ‘highest level of f**kup imaginable’

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  • JD Vance's whole phone was already hacked by the Chinese state. He's part of this chat thread.

    (Salt Typhoon... They hacked the entire phone system and infiltrated Trump and Vance's phones.)

    Whether it was "signal" or not is missing the bigger context, this fucker is a total buffoon of incompetence because this is time #2 within a short span of time. He literally is stupid.

  • Pete Buttigieg: Trump Cabinet's use of Signal app for military ops is ‘highest level of f**kup imaginable’

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  • At least Trump's bathroom doesnt delete the documents.

  • Pete Buttigieg: Trump Cabinet's use of Signal app for military ops is ‘highest level of f**kup imaginable’

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  • The only way to respond is to blitzkrieg the media cycle and get them talking about something else outrageous.

  • IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

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  • Yeah, its a circular economy. So for example, all your federal workers spend, save, invest and pay taxes in the country.

    I think this a good small example: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/new-report-shows-nasas-75-6-billion-boost-to-us-economy/

    NASA budget is about $25B

    That money (which is respent in the national economy) adds $75B to GDP. 3:1 multiplier effect.

    So by finding NASA by $25B you get most of it back again in taxes AND you get all the jobs, services, technology etc. Its a huge list of benefits that is basically paying for itself. That's 300,000+ jobs and $10B in more downstream taxes...that counts against the $25B budget...it is really a net $15B tax spend to bring in $75B in GDP increase.

    If you cut this program, you shrink the overall economy, drop.GDP AND lower future tax revenues. So when the money these programs spends is multiplied out through the economy in a circular way, the high price tag is a useless / pointless way to analyze the value of the return. You need to have the full systemic analysis or you're just doing damage...

    This is every government program. My own small business I can track higher sales when SSI checks go out. The grocery store lines are longer and all the seniors are lining up to get groceries when the checks arrive...

    And even if you "save money", what would you turnaround and do with it if not fund NASA and social security? Do they have a better idea? What else do we need that money for?

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  • The common wisdom in the reseller community about PayPal is to never leave any funds inside the paypal wallet, do not use them for large transactions and do not use them to transmit money that you depend on.

    You can read many horror stories online about people who "trust" PayPal and then get blindsided and lose their money with no way to appeal or recover.

    There seems to be a pattern where PayPal just steals large account balances and burns those clients. PayPal will take money for no reason or without providing any reason at all. They just fall back to "we are a service you agreed to use, we are not a bank or financial institution". There is a whole reddit community with people commiserating. Lots of people lose their rent money, their business funds, their huge consultant contract payments, their school tuition etc. Often using paypal without imagining that its not a real company with a phone center and a system you can go to for an appeal, but some rinkydink black box of thievery with no real human contact and no legal presence anywhere you can tackle them and make them accountable.

    eBay is the man in the middle between buyers and sellers, and overall the total marketplace is in decline in terms of buyers, dollars and sales volume. There is a situation where eBay has this shrinking pool of people spending money, and so they have enshittified their system by breaking search results and charging sellers to advertise/promote their listings. Essentially, surplus sellers compete to purchase the scarce buyer now. Its a doom loop. EBay is cutting a larger and larger piece of the sales and this makes everything on there more expensive, which makes the sales dwindle...rinse and repeat.

    In both cases it is hard to understand why all their competitors aren't beating them. For example, things like Craigslist or Facebook marketplace have a very lucrative opportunity and a big head start, but nobody has really challenged eBay....its confusing. They botg killed their golden goose but somehow they keep going as.zombie businesses.

  • IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

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  • What are the odds that they saved the US money and kept it a total secret rather than to brag about it.

    So low that I think this is a smoking gun that they failed to do so. We now know it didn't work out because they are quiet.

  • Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server

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  • US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resigns

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  • Presidents were above the law for the final year of Biden's term.

    He chose to do nothing.

  • Trump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private server

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  • This fuck-up was strictly due to the fact that they're incompetent morons just randomly inviting people to group chats and shit with no guardrails.

    No.

    These fuckwits were handling classified and top secret information in the open on their cell phones.

    It doesn't matter what specific app they used. This is not about the technology. You missed the point.

  • Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?

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  • My friend said that if Steam and Netflix both went down at the same time there would be huge riots. I am not sure they are wrong.

  • "They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring

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  • What odds are they giving for "shitty rocket accidentally blows up on launch"?

  • Bird flu continues spread as Trump’s pandemic experts are MIA

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  • There is no biological difference between innate and acquired immunity, right? Right?

  • Trump freezes $175M of UPenn funds over trans women

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  • Slavery was perfectly legal according to the votes at that time.

  • Frontline report: 50% of Moscow’s fuel supply at risk after Ukrainian drone strike on its largest oil refinery

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  • They don't have the cards?!?

  • 'Enough is enough': Greenland flatly rejects Trump's calls for annexation

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  • ...and make Mexico pay for it.