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notabot

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  • Trump tariffs: How island of penguins and seals ended up on list

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  • Seriously. Can you imagine, you've had this process running quietly for years, and it's getting you round some awkward tax or import restriction somewhere, you're making a tidy extra profit, and you don't even feel too bad about fidfling the paperwork a bit, after all, who's going to notice, a bunch of flightless birds? Then along comes the orange idiot and his cadre of fascists and accidentally expose you because they don't understand how to rationally calculate tarrifs and just get an intern to copy and paste from the nearest LLM.

    It's laughing at this sort of thing that's jeeping me sane right now.

  • Trump tariffs: How island of penguins and seals ended up on list

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  • It's got to be something like that, there was something like $1.3m of machinery exports from an island populated by penguins. Someone was doing something naughty, and whilst the way these tarrifs are calculated is idiotic, it's fun that it's exposed sonething like this.

  • As markets melt down, Trump touts $5m gold card for wealthy immigrants (featuring his face)

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  • That probably explains why he wants to buy one despite being a citizen already. I'd guess he thinks it'll mean he wont be taxed on overseas income either. Figuring out whether he's currently paying any, and if so how much is left as an exercise for the interested reader.

  • Why do some say they own or have bought something that they technically haven't (e.g. domain names, expensive things, etc.)?

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  • I'm not sure where you are, but typically even if you rent rather than owning you pay the normal taxes, either directy or via your landlord, so they have little to do with owning a property, and more to do with occupying one, as a proxy for the demands you put on communal services. In most places you would also not lose your home for not paying them, you'd get dragged through the courts, possibly jailed for some period, and the tax authority in question would just end up with a lien on the property, entutling them to recompense when you sold or refinanced it.

    I'm not discounting the possibility you live sonewhere with different property tax laws, but you've been making extremely broad and general statements that don't match reality in many places.

  • Kitties From Heaven!

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  • They say that an ordnance tech at a dead run outranks everyone else, but I'd say a cat making a bee-line for shelter probably outranks them if you want to remain in the same number of pieces. Cats have good hearing and the nous to associate a stimulus with bad things happening and to get away in time.

  • Yale ‘Fascism Scholar’ Announces On MSNBC He’s Leaving the US for Canada Before Trump Starts ‘Pulling People’s Passports’

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  • Canaries were taken into coal mines to warn the miners of poisionous gasses by dropping dead. When the canary metaphorically picks the lock on its metaphorical cage and literally makes a break for the border, I think you can consider that a sign of a similar magnitude.

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  • All great, until he decides those bits of paper are worthless. Would that be an insane move that would destabilise the whole world economy? Yes. Does that mean he wont do it? I see no reason to assume that.

  • France’s far-right leader Le Pen guilty of embezzlement in ruling that could end her career

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  • Even in cases like this justice must not just be done, but be seen to be done. It seems her guilt has been established, which is good; her sentencing comes next. It seem unlikely that there are any mitigating circumstances to reduce the punishment, but that judgement must be seen to be fair. The French citizenry are not renouned for their forebearance in the face of injustice, so I would be tempted to trust their system for now.

    ETA: In fact, it seems like the punishment has already been decreed: five years ineligibility to run for office, four years in prison (two suspended), and a fine. That puts her out of tbe running for president, and likely tarnishes her enough to keep her down even after 2030.

  • SUCK! SUCK! SUCK!

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  • That's just crazy talk. If we don't listen to the billionaires the line might not keep going up quite so fast. For the purposes of this argument, please ignore TSLA, the climatologists obviously got to that one.

  • Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells

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  • Funny story.

    That's not funny. Not funny at all.

  • Anyway, here are terminal commands you don't understand.

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  • That's interesting. I've often wondered what it must be like programing or using the CLI if you aren't familiar with the English language, but I hadn't considered the dyslexia/graphia type issues.

  • China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

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  • The rules also ban the use of facial recognition equipment in public places such as hotel rooms, public bathrooms, public dressing rooms, and public toilets.

    Why was there facial recognition, or any other sort of camera, in those places in the first place? Has something been mangled in the translation, is it a fuss about nothing, or were organisations genuinely going "hmm, we need to check your face before you can use the restrooms"?

  • I tried THIS and it actually works all the time

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  • According to the book, there's no need for them to eat it, you just have to give it to them, although I think they may have mixed up 'fascinate' and 'confuse'.

  • sussvival instinct

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  • Thank you for the summary. I don't have time to go down a rabbit hole at the moment, so this was just enough to sate my curiosity until I do have time.

  • Anyway, here are terminal commands you don't understand.

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  • Now that's a better reason for looking for a GUI solution than the OP had. I hadn't really considered how dyslexia would affect CLI usage.

  • Shell Sounds

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  • It sounds like you've had more than one traumatic trip to the beach. I've never really seen the point of listening to a shell to hear the sea, you're at the beach, it's right there, being noisy at you!

  • No Chance

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  • It's the look in their eyes and the beard that really set the pose off I think. ...I meant on the Owl!

  • As Economic Indicators Point to Recession, Trump Moves to Hide Key Data From Public

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  • It'll turn nasty long before then, when they're told (again) that it's all the fault of those 'immigunts' who are taking their jobs and eating their food.

    Once that bloodbath starts, few of those involved will think to change target, and most of those who aren't will be hunkering down, waiting for it to blow over.

  • Trump says he wasn’t the one who invoked Alien Enemies Act: ‘Other people handled it’

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  • So, he's admitting he's ignorant and not in control of this administration. I wonder if his worshipers will ever notice that their idol isn't the one pulling the strings?