The most famous case came in 2018, when 25-year-old Tyler Barriss tried to swat a streamer, but instead sent the police to the wrong address. It ended with a father-of-two being shot dead by officers. Barriss was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

And the police who murdered the innocent father? How many years did they get?

No money to fund the “fraud, waste, and abuse” at USAID but easy $1.4B to tear down a government building and build a monument to the most arrogant man on Earth.

They enjoy many many protections that don’t exist in China. Denying this is just ignorant. Its how China became a superpower. Its why the US offshored all of their production to a country on the other side of the planet.

The Chinese can open a factory in the US anytime, but they won’t because its too expensive, and undermines the CCP’s goal of dominating emerging markets.

That’s not a problem with taxes that’s a problem with management.

What tangible difference does that make? The two are inseparable.

No tax is objectively fucking stupid

I agree, and wasn’t suggesting such a thing. But when the govt taxes the same money 5 fucking different ways, and use it to perpetrate crimes against humanity, all while the ultra rich pay none of it, it gets real fucking aggravating, and I want to pay as little of it as humanly possible. The 1% could pay the other 99% taxes for them and experience no change in lifestyle at all.

Waymos do try to find somewhere to park too which has also been the subject of stories like

There’s no parking involved in this story.

Yes, thank you for elaborating on my point.

How dare the government steal your money (the same money over and over) to fund genocide and line the pockets of the Trump-Epstein class, under threat of imprisonment.

Weird. Most free things don’t have a “pricing” page, in my experience.

Its unrelated to a conversation about the oil industry and lobbyists, obviously, yes.

The degree of automation is not relevant to a discussion about why they’re being kept out of other countries, or anything to do with Big Oil.

Yes, I also read the article.

Same reasons I’m against most taxes.

That would explain Chinese dominance in vehicles in general, not EVs in particular.

Do ya see a bunch of Chinese ICE vehicles running around?

Also, Chinese EV manufacturing facilities are so efficient precisely because they’re so incredibly highly automated

They’re efficient because they have no concept of workers’ rights or IP. Not because they’re a country full of geniuses, and not because Big Oil is keeping them down, regardless of your opinion on China.

Yeah I didn’t say “when they exist”.

These are also not “free as in beer”.

Also your Big Capital has a .Claude file at the top of it and likewise Twenty has .cursor so LOLOLOL no thanks

Let me know when your friendly neighborhood FOSS developer creates a CRM or accounting software that doesn’t cost me more in time to get running and figure out how to use than the paid options.

Huh?

This has very little to do with oil industry lobbyists, and a whole lot to do with the whole world outsourcing their production and labor to a country with no worker protections.

“As someone who lives near a Best Buy, I’m at Best Buy often,” Newsom told reporters during a news conference. “And I’m paying sales tax on a lot of this prewritten software. And then I find out that all my friends that aren’t near a Best Buy, they’re downloading and they are not paying sales tax. How is that fair?”

I agree, its not fair, let’s just remove the sales tax, k? 👍

Also pretty sure no one is buying software from Best Buy in 2026, that would be dumb as hell.

“Regular taxis” find somewhere to park. They are not interested in burning fuel for no reason.

Its been happening for 3 months…