Dr. Fatima

Unless I want to access customer service…

Can we get our customer service off of “X former know as Twitter” too while we’re at it?

Dr.Doom. He’s got experience and a pretty good track record all things considered.

No they fucking aren’t. That shit would be so much more expensive than a person. Liars, and not even particularly good ones.

So I can steal all their shit too, right? It would “Implausible” for me to do so.

I don’t know about performance, or advantage (and I don’t think it matters since noone seems to care about the performance or fairness of non-proffesional sports unless it can be used as a bludgeon against trans people), but I happened to be arguing with my neighbor about this a few days and found that, according to the president of the NCAA there are “less than 10” transgender athletes in college sports out of about a half million. I feel like the whole discussion is a red herring. 1

It was pretty poppin in my city.

I suspect the devil is in the detail here. China is only the third largest supplier of auto parts overall at ~9%, after Mexico (41%) and Canada (10%). ¹ But for some particular vehicles, China is a much more significant supplier², and for some components, particularly components of EVs China is damn near the only supplier presently ³. Also this exemption seems to be set to decay over the next three years. This all reads to me as Trump making incentives for building out production for the worse kind of car that is less likely to grow in demand, and only putting those incentives in place for 3 years when it would take, like, 10 or 15 years to build the supply chain and production… All while locking us out of the fastest growing market for cars.

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Ubuntu. It was reccomended to me by a few of my mor knowledgeable friends, and I haven’t had any major issues with it. The operating system is doing what I need it to and I just can’t find any motivation to want to change.

As far as I know, they lose money on every prompt, even with the $200/mo “Pro” subscription.

Let’s just call it what it is: An embargo. It’s been an embargo for the last 200%.

I’m just gonna post the Cory Doctorow quote

"Take politics: One common refrain is that ‘‘I don’t even know what right or left even mean anymore, they’re just tribal identities.’’ Many years ago, I said something very like this to Steven Brust, who skewered me with his response:

‘‘‘Left’ and ‘right’ mean the same thing today that they’ve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, ‘What’s more important: property rights, or human rights?’ If they answer: ‘Property rights are human rights,’ they are on the right.’’"

Yeah those bastards should let all of us buy stock with penis.

I really hope he’s stupid enough to fail to understand that this is why most of the ruling class is smart enough to keep their mouth shut in public. He’s the best advertisement of all time for “Billionaires do not deserve the wealth they have”. Keep talking Musky.

They’ll clearly just send them to El Salvador regardless, so Canada will likely be spared.

Great powers rearming will not be good for anyone no matter what the context is around it. After Napoleon, European leaders were so afraid of war between great powers that they avoided it for 100 years. The moment they let their guard up we got WW1. The weapons do not make us safer. Don’t think for a moment it can’t happen again.

If she’s banned from running it will be the first instance of a western liberal country reacting appropriately to the resurgence of fascism. Good on France.

We have to keep in mind that Europe needs to justify austerity for the citizens and rearmament for their militaries. I have no evidence of this, but I think it’s an entierly sensible read that the warning from Germany is an overstatement with that intent in mind.

More risk to the US personnel or assets, and it would be a diplomatic and domestic incident if it came out that US troops or assets were operating in Yemen. It’s much safer to bomb them from a plane.

Also there’s the terror aspect where the US government presumably wants to cause chaos and fear explicitly to make continuing the blockade less appealing to both the Houthis and the people of Yemen.