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@ merc @sh.itjust.works

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  • Shopping in 2026

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  • But then they have the audacity to FORCE us all into it by outright destroying anything else

    That's because there's no competition. Capitalism requires competition. Adam Smith thought it was the job of the state to step in and ensure that monopolies were broken up so that capitalism could work.

    You cannot buy a good car anymore

    There are only 2 US car manufacturers, 3 if you want to count Tesla.

    rolling malware that is unfixable by the user

    Because they're weaponizing section 1201 of the DMCA to prevent people from competing with them.

    What you hate isn't capitalism, it's that you can't even get capitalism because the government refuses to regulate businesses. For capitalism to work, the state has to ensure that there's healthy competition in the marketplace. But, when there's competition a rich person who owns capital might lose. So, a rich person much prefers feudalism or a corporatocracy to capitalism.

  • Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

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  • "If I look you up in this database of Trump-era ICE employees, am I going to have to kick you out of this office?"

  • Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

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  • There aren't too many of them, there are only about 20,000. That's 0.005% of the population, or about 1/3 of the number of homeless people in LA. They could simply disappear into the seams in the country and nobody would ever notice.

  • The curse of knowing conservatives in any capacity

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  • My preferred outcome isn't that these people now vote differently, it's that they never vote again. I don't want them to be banned from voting. I just want them to have the realization that they were completely conned and that everybody who tried to warn them was right. If they're that easily misled about basic facts, the world would be better off if they never voted again.

  • The curse of knowing conservatives in any capacity

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  • We didn't try option 4: build the wall.

    You know, the wall that was going to prevent the dirty Mexicans from coming in, and that Mexico was going to pay for. That one that would actually cost about $100 billion to build, but almost none of it was actually built because it's such a ridiculous project? Oh, and the same one that didn't actually stop people, because they were just bringing a ladder and some ropes and climbing it?

    (Point being, the US / Mexico and US / Canada borders are so incredibly long that it's basically impossible to secure the entire thing and stop determined people from entering the US illegally, so the only real options are to try to prevent them from trying, which comes down to the above two options.)

  • The curse of knowing conservatives in any capacity

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  • The curse of knowing conservatives in any capacity

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  • Wow, that's one of the worst paraphrasings of his quote that I've ever seen.

    To paraphrase Socrates, The only true wisdom is you're dumb.

  • The curse of knowing conservatives in any capacity

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  • That we've tried so far...

    Don't lose hope. There still may be better options yet to come.

  • Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

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  • I hope they realize that if the US survives Trump, having "ICE: 2025-?" on your resume will make you completely unemployable in the future. It will be like having "groundskeeper at Epstein Island" under your experience. You'll be radioactive. Even if you leave it off, if you look suspiciously like a thumb and have a blank spot on your resume during this period, people will just assume that you worked at ICE and kick you out of their office.

    It's already too late to just quit. If you were a member of ICE and didn't quit after Good was murdered, people will rightfully assume that you were OK with that murder. The only hope current ICE employees have is to turn whistleblower. Record in detail all the crimes your cow-orkers are confessing to, and then get that evidence to AOC or Elizabeth Warren, or another competent democrat with a backbone.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • Could be.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • Sure it does. And that's why you linked the result, rather than just claiming that Google says you're right.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • Sure, but you still have to respect the form of the statement. You have to pretend that something happened to someone else.

    For example: "How would someone remove a 4 1/2 inch cylinder that's stuck in an m&m minis tube. Asking for a friend."

    Not: "I got my dick stuck in an m&m minis tube, how do I get it out? Asking for a friend."

    Everyone knows that you're talking about yourself, but you're supposed to pretend that it's your friend who's the idiot.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • You're not the sharpest tool in the shed, are you? You can't just invent your own phrase and declare it an idiom.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • That's not an idiom.

  • Venezuela’s acting president says she has had “enough” of US orders

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  • I think Trump assumed he'd already set up a puppet government. He made a deal with the VP, she got bumped up to president when Trump took out her boss. So, she's a puppet, right? But, it doesn't seem like she ever had any intention of becoming a puppet, and Trump has no leverage to force her.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • Aside from everything else, apparently this guy doesn't understand how "Asking for a friend" is supposed to work.

  • Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades

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  • My grandmother had an incandescent light bulb in her house that had been there since the early 1900s and still worked. But, compared to modern bulbs it was pretty dim, used very thick glass, and was pretty overbuilt. Modern incandescent bulbs are not built to last. They're brighter, and they're cheaper, but not as durable.

    Looking at the picture, I wonder if modern panels will last the same way.

    Solar panels in the 1980s were big, inefficient, chonky things. If they weren't hand assembled, they sure looked hand-assembled.

    Modern solar cells are much more efficient and clearly machine assembled. They use much finer wires, which might be more fragile:

    It wouldn't surprise me if part of the trade off to get cells that have double the efficiency at half the price you also have to give up on some durability.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • You're the one who suddenly started talking about buying things from me.

  • Beautiful But Deadly

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  • Not every big change is necessarily something you can meaningfully break up into small changes. Sometimes when you could break it up into small changes, you have to change its structure in a meaningful way to half-implement it and test out that half-version. It takes experience to know when it's best to get the whole structure expressed it code, then to go back and tweak it based on any compiler errors. Most of the time the compiler errors are very minor things like a typo, so you don't lose any meaningful time fixing them.