I don’t think you understand what being squeezed is like. There is no fighting back when you have no options.

Well yes, this was the original intent of crypto. Putting payment in the hands of the people. It’s only been made terrible by tech bros and greed the same way the Internet has.

Including the word “removal”, I counted four negatives! Word salad.

It’s hollow and thin walled. You’ll be picking shards of glass out of your anus before that thing gets deep enough.

I think this is about chronic, not acute, exposure to alcohol, i.e. developing cancer, not inebriation.

Python is just distancing itself from JS.

A broken clock is right twice a day. Inventions are only good when they reliably work for all the intended solutions.

Not to downplay this, but you had to assume this and far worse was already happening, even before Trump 2

Here’s an idea: instead, ban devices that do not function without an internet connection. Devices are not “smart” when you have no sovereignty over them.

Inhumation has been practiced for hundreds of thousands of years. It’s about as basic to human existence as fire, pottery, and agriculture, if not more. Inhumation will cease exactly when there is one human person left on earth, and this unpopular opinion will be dead and buried long before that.

Why would anyone believe any of this attainable for the average person in the best economy? A personal chef? Common, this has to be some right wing satire.

Horses can go places cars cannot. You have completely missed the point.

Everything on planet earth is finite, without exception. At the same time, everything can be renewed. The question of renewability is more about how much effort it is to return something to its original state to be used again. Iron is comparatively easy to refine back into its pure, usable form.

This is the best way to stick it to fascists.

The US cutting off the rest of the world first does the exact opposite of this. No matter how big the US is, there’s not a chance in hell the US can both compete with China and antagonize the rest of the world at the same time. This is pure fantasy.

Interesting prediction. Here’s mine: American companies will see the isolationist policies and chaos as bad for business, and just pack up and leave.

They’ll order your food and find the best deals on shopping, swipe your dating profile, negotiate with your lenders, and generally anticipate your every want or need. The only ingredient they’ll need to realize this blissful future…

blissful future ??? This sounds like some nihilistic death where you stop participating in society. WTF is wrong with people.

I know you are being facetious, but for the sake of argument, at some point, the tariffs are so big, no trade is happening, so it doesn’t matter how “big” the tariff numbers are at that point, it’s all the same.

Right. The only difference between a tariff and a VAT, is that the VAT applies to all products indiscriminately, where as a tariff only applies to imported goods.

Some of the states are cool. Let MAGA have their own states, so they can find out for themselves how their experiment sucks.