are they gonna fire this Jimmy or are they gonna execute him live on air?

Not indefinitely. The minute those reserves run dry all bets are off and y’all are in the rapids with no paddle. No fuel fucks the domestic economy on a level that is almost impossible to overstate and the war economy might as well not exist. The US army is the biggest polluter in the world by far for a reason, all that power projection requires gargantuan logistics chains, aircraft carriers, shipping of personnel, fuel for weapons. There’s also not a guarantee that allies will still have enough reserves to sell to the US or the willingness to take dollar payments when they can see that they can’t project power and the economy is heading for collapse.

Sure, but what happens when the reserves are literally dry, the country swiftly implodes and the stock market blows up and takes the dollar with it? Eventually they have to come down from their numberwang speculative grabathon and grapple with the real economy, the one where you have to manage actual resources and labor.

Cope

I doubt it. You seemed rather eager to clutch at your pearls when you implied tons of people had been clubbed to death.

China won’t bomb the US out of the blue. Start worrying about it once the US bombs them first.

I bet there’s an Alibaba listing somewhere if you’re cool with paying more for shipping than you do for your Saddam

It’s not fascism unless it’s happening to somebody who looks exactly like me and lives somewhere I could see myself living

Is it happening? I hope this means it’s happening

These would be fucking awesome for media storage. A dedicated, no-delete “favorites” disk is exactly the sort of shit that tickles my brain.

Implemented by Reagan and applauded by the NRA in one particular case

Inshallah it’s already here

Can’t even get a nazi tattoo without being called a nazi anymore, wokeness gone mad

Wasn’t that Alex Jones?

Edit: just checked, it was this doofus too

Yes, but line goes up, and by the time it goes down I’m not gonna be holding the bag anyway

That’s the ransom.

The government could easily provide universal access to those, but tying it up into the financial system is how you get people to give them enormous leeway to rob them blind.

They can’t fathom that the US empire might legitimately collapse and take the exorbitant privilege of the dollar with it

Samsung has something like this already with DeX (the dock isn’t even that expensive either, though it’s kind of bad value for money since it’s just a fan and some ports). Not nearly robust enough for actual workstation needs but it works for office stuff.

OpenAI can’t crash and burn fast enough

Hopefully they’re taking measures to ensure that what happened in Tlatelolco in 68 doesn’t happen to them