The SA (Brownshirts) were the generic rabble with no training or professional education as soldiers. Hitler invited them off the street and gave them a fancy uniform and a mandate to harass and kill those he didn't like. Doesn't that sound a lot like ICE today that will hire anyone with a pulse and a white supremacist attitude?
The SA were replaced in a power by the SS, the professional soldiers, in an uprising initiated by Hitler that murdered the SA leadership.
You’ll usually end up paying more in the long run then if you went with unlocked and a MVNO.
You're missing a component: you can buy used phones and go with an MVNO and skip the contract subsidy requirement for savings
I purchased a used carrier locked flagship phone for $250 when they were still selling for $1100 as new carrier-unlocked, then put it on my MVNO which is a subsidiary of the primary carrier (so the carrier lock doesn't matter).
You can't get those cost savings with a new contract phone nor a new carrier unlocked phone.
I'm all for buying my own phones and not getting one bundled with service. However, many times getting a carrier unlocked phone carries a price premium. As long as you're fine sticking with your current carrier, they can even be carrier locked and work just fine. I agree though, ownership of your phone outside of your carrier's billing is the right way to go.
I didn't say it was on mpr. I gave full transparency it was my setup, and not the source site. I fully agree its my adblock. From the second post I've made in this thread, I've said the same thing and explained why I gave a confirming source. What I have works for me.
Bruley continued. “If it is happening to our officers, it pains me to think how many of our community members are falling victim to this every day. It has to stop.”
Well Chief Bruley, you could instruct your officers to protect the citizens against those that are violating their civil rights.
I took the extra step of verifying the same story from other sources, and added a link here to increase your original article's credibility for the important story you posted about the ICE home invasion. I don't want others reading your post and questioning if this home invasion by ICE is actually happening.
Its Minnesota Public Radio
Nowhere on the adblocked/scriptblocked article page or front page of that site communicates its Minnesota Public Radio. Maybe it would show that with adblock or script block turned off, but visibly questionable sites are the exact ones that should not have those protections turned off.
running an Associated Press report.
Just because a site claims an AP report doesn't mean it is. There's a lemmy poster that created a "satire" community that generates fake stories. The lemmy poster that creates these fake stories also claimed to be posting AP News articles. When challenged, they went back and edited the fake stories to also include fake (but reasonably sounding) news organizations.
Thats the theory, but I'm guessing in real world applications it won't quite shake out like that.
As I understand it, existing bonds paid for past deficit spending by the US Government. New bonds are issued at regular intervals by the US for two reasons:
to replace those bonds that have matured, but the debt still exists
to generate new cash to pay for even more deficit spending.
Buyers for US bonds have two place to buy US bonds from:
the US Government
existing bond holders on the secondary market
Existing bonds that Europe holds have a fixed rate of return from when they were bought. So if Europe collectively started dumping US bonds in quantity, the value of the bonds would start to decline rapidly, but that wouldn't dry up the market for new bonds issued by the US Gov.
This would mean, that selling more bonds would become expensive for the US.
True!
The US Gov would have to raise the rate of return on newly issued bonds so that non-European investors interested in holding bonds would find the new US bonds more attractive because of the higher rate of return.
Potentially they won’t find enough buyers to fund their government.
Unlikely.
This will cost the US Government more to service the debt, but unless the entire world decided to stop buying US bonds, the US would not run out of money. As dystopian as the US government is right now, its still one of the best investments in this category. The USA has never once defaulted on its debt. The worst that has happened has been Quantitative Easing (aka "printing money") for a short time during the 2008 financial crisis, and once again in March 2020 during the worst (for financial markets) of COVID. Even then the US government reversed that with Quantitative Tightening (aka "shredding printed money") to raise the value of each remaining dollar in the system. Even with these historical actions, US government debt has been one of the worlds safest investments. Time will tell if that holds up or if trump blows that up too like all of our historically hard won alliances and soft power investments.
So existing bond holders worldwide would be hit hard. I'm guessing there wouldn't even be enough buyers for Europe to sell all their bonds at once, and they'd only be able to sell a fraction of them before the value of them plummeted. Europe could continue to sell what bonds they had, but they'd be losing significant amounts of money because they'd have to discount them to the point that the lower rate of return for those existing bonds was still a compelling investment for a bond buyer.
I just read an article stating that Ford lost 36k on every EV they sold in 2023…
Ford, and other American auto makers, were asleep at the wheel when EVs were starting to take off. Ford and GM doubled down on selling pickups and big SUVs which had good margins. Instead of investing in R&D to make a solid product they were caught unprepared and had to throw everything at the wall to see what stuck with their first EVs. Yes, they were able to bring them to market fairly quickly (good), but at the cost of efficient of the product and the production method.
This means for every EV they make, they do it expensively where they wouldn't need to if they improved their designs and production methods.
Because Biden said you could? He’s the one that doubled tariffs on Chinese EVs from 50% to 100%. Biden also gave the EV tax credit which was essentially a subsidy to Tesla, which Trump ended.
I don't fault Biden for adding a tariff on Chinese EVs to temporarily protect the American auto manufacturing envornment. We just have too many jobs tied to the domestic production of cars. The immediate loss of those jobs would plunge the USA into deep recession. It looked like this was working too with many American companies adapting and coming out with EVs.
However, most of those American EVs have been scaled back or canceled. Further, with the exception of the Chevy Bolt no domestic maker produced an affordable EV. Since American companies decided they don't want to play in EVs anymore, I fully support removing the tariff and letting Chinese EVs into the USA. It looks like that will be the only thing that will force American car companies to compete. This situation closely mirrors the 1970s where Japan introduced small, reliable, fuel efficent cars, and affordable cars at a time when gasoline was crazy expensive.
It looks like this time around it will be the Chinese that teach the American auto market to adapt instead.
C'mon. I'm a dumb American, but even I know without looking it up about Norway's vast petroleum production as well as the North Sea petroleum platforms off the coast of Scotland.
So what happens if you let the elderly fall off that cliff? How will society look then?
The elderly will starve to death or die from neglect significantly shortening their lives. That's the physical effects. I can't imagine the psychological effect of middle aged adult sacrificing everything to try to keep their extended family alive and having to choose who gets to eat or get care. Alternatively, the government has to make these choices, but the result is the same. This most of an entire generation will die in poverty, or malnourished, or from neglect.
Do you just not understand how governments and societies work to feed and care for their elderly?
Moron.
Yep, we're done talking when you can't use adult words anymore and your resort to name calling. People that do what you're doing don't usually do it to one person. I looked at your post history and see you're toxic in many of your conversations frequently resorting to name calling when someone disagrees with you. This is especially true when someone is correcting your uninformed opinions. You do you, I suppose, but I won't see it anymore you'll be doing it on my blocklist. See ya!
"Please don't get the idea that this is a book for the kind of contrarian-libertarian-blockchain-bro who would like to blow the lid off all that green hype, man. Fressoz firmly believes we're in the midst of a global climate breakdown.
But, if we flash back just a year or two, the dominant progressive narrative maintained that—given enough international cooperation, good will, and younger-generation energy—we could lick the world's environmental problems through innovation and something called the "energy transition." This was backed up by statistics showing that people were switching to electric cars, and that wind, solar, and other renewables were accounting for an increasing proportion of energy generation. This Polyanna discourse still pervades a certain kind of discourse—some people call it "solutionism," or the "California ideology"—that holds that once the little Trumpist blip is over, we'll get back to building a better future by ramping up the green economy and coming up with as-yet-uninnovated innovations that will solve all our problems (cold fusion? solar radiation modification?)
Fressoz splashes a bucket of well-chilled Evian over that Sunkist La-La land dreck. His main thesis is that there is no energy transition, and there never was one. "
The SA (Brownshirts) were the generic rabble with no training or professional education as soldiers. Hitler invited them off the street and gave them a fancy uniform and a mandate to harass and kill those he didn't like. Doesn't that sound a lot like ICE today that will hire anyone with a pulse and a white supremacist attitude?
The SA were replaced in a power by the SS, the professional soldiers, in an uprising initiated by Hitler that murdered the SA leadership.