Great post! And I can see the point of most of that take.

My riposte, which I bring up frequently, is that a smart capitalist isn’t going to invest in American factories, knowing damned well they’ll be left holding the bag on a multi-million dollar facility when the tariffs drop.

That’s not even mentioning the employment costs, which are far more than most on lemmy understand. tl;dr: If I’m paying you $15hr., it’s costing me $30hr.

Every civilization rises and falls. We’re on the down slope ATM. Sorry. The 80s and 90s were pretty nice in America!

That number is revenue, we have no idea how much, if any, profit was made.

I’ll never stop laughing when Tony Stark treats Musk as a nobody.

Iron Man II, "Yeah. Later. Blown. Off. Bet Musk is still proud of that cameo.

Don’t have a working stereo in my 22-yo truck or 23-yo car. Bluetooth speaker it is!

(I don’t generally listen to anything driving. I like to chill and think about life. Which ain’t always the wise move.)

I got a tiny HP laser from an old job. Must be 15+ years old, runs perfectly and toner is $20 for god knows how many pages.

I believe that only applies to ink jet. You can hardly make secret dots in B&W.

And you will be the one deciding what constitutes hate, whose voice to cut off?

The state bar is not the state cops.

So they’d smell like a freshly oiled gun? Not sexy, but I could deal with that.

I eat about half that much, but the spread seems perfectly reasonable.

I’m an expert! Apparently I was such a little bitch as a baby that I would get mad and hold my breath until I turned blue and passed out. Well, here I am 50+ years later.

Pussy liberals is why. “Oh no! We must not dox these people! That would not be fair!”

Fuck. Them. I’m done playing fair. Go after every one of them, tooth and nail, every way you can.

Best ever is the pic OP posted along with the game!

In my little Southern US town the lights seems to work logically and traffic flows nicely, noticeably so. I’m never sitting at a light screaming, “Oh FFS turn!” or “Why did that light change and there are no cars?!”

Traffic only gets a bit thick on the main road in late afternoons. Not much to be done there, it’s a major east-west thoroughfare connecting several towns.

Have no idea how they’re doing this. Sensors I’m guessing? Seems like we’re too poor for fancy civil engineering like that and I’m sure we can’t afford what the article talks about.

Anyone know how that might work?

I was the guy people used to think about like OP’s brother. When you see me hog down, it’s because I haven’t put a single calorie in my mouth up until then.

Literally nothing in the article except what appears to be sane company policy. Of course you fire people who leak confidential company information.

Lemmy: “But it must be evil if they’re hiding it!”

Well, in FB’s case, it may well be, but you can’t run a mom-and-pop store with every communication open to the world.

FFS people, it’s no different than “don’t talk to cops”, no different. Anything you say can and will be held against you. Stunning lack of insight from such a privacy advocating community. Same people who rail against others saying, “If you have nothing to hide…”

My Filipino wife, with a strong but perfectly clear accent, gets called Indian all the time and they ask for someone American.

That comment came from a child, sounds like my 10-yo making shit up. Worst case, the very worst, is you lose a solid chunk of foot, and that’s so rare as to not worry about.

Think on it. If that thing starts eating you from the toes up, you’re going to pull free before it gets much in there, even if “pulling free” means no more toes.

I did hear the Crocs are bad on escalators. 🤷 I could see something heavy like combat boots sucking more in, but those are the kinda shoes that don’t get sucked in.

Am I reading this right? You’re for prosecuting people who have broken no laws?

I’ll add this; I have sexual fantasies (not involving children) that would be repugnant to me IRL. Should I be in jail for having those fantasies, even though I would never act on them?

This sounds like some Minority Report hellscape society.