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by adamc 1y ago
I buy dish soap on a regular basis. Not sure where the soap is produced, but I would guess the bottles might be from China -- a lot of packaging is. Sure, there are some US companies that make bottles, but can they expand their capacity? Pr
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by adamc 1y ago
Makes sense and yet it doesn't, because the more they degrade my experience, the more I turn away from youtube.
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by adamc 1y ago
Having gone through a divorce... no. It would be better if people tried harder to make relationships work. Failing that, it would be better to not marry such a person.
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by adamc 1y ago
Or maybe you need a different language, where implementing an efficient tree traversal operation is easier?
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by adamc 1y ago
Although the president was caught on mic musing about deporting American citizens.
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by adamc 2y ago
And the effect of consumption taxes is generally to reduce consumption. The economy is likely to shrink a bit as a result of these taxes. It's hard to see how that helps anything.
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by adamc 2y ago
It tells you a lot about him. Honesty is not a defining feature.
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by adamc 2y ago
That's fantastic and congratulations!
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by adamc 2y ago
I remember loving that book. I would describe that process as kind of the opposite of the DOGE-mentality.
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by adamc 2y ago
The Cabinet was all selected by DJT and approved by a compliant Senate despite historically poor qualifications. It reflects the dynamics of the Republican party, and that they won the election tells you something about America.
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by adamc 2y ago
Fair. I sit enlightened. Although the court cases so far didn't seem to end up there.
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by adamc 2y ago
You have case law to back that up?
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by adamc 2y ago
"Getting in trouble" at work and being disappeared are so freaking different that there is no discussing it. If you cannot see a difference, you are blind.
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by adamc 2y ago
1) Plenty of "Polarizing rhetoric" has come from the side of the current administration. 2) "Polarizing rhetoric" is not remotely a valid justification of disappearing people.
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by adamc 2y ago
Thank you for what has to be a tough job.
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, I'm hoping he will break that record. Not too fond of Strom Thurmond.
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by adamc 2y ago
It's when if we are still a democracy.
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by adamc 2y ago
The market seems much smaller, though.
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by adamc 2y ago
Not to mention... if/when there is a change in administrations, his lucrative contracts with the government will likely be canceled.
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by adamc 2y ago
Just to drop a link that is largely consonant with this viewpoint: https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/ "Silly" and "backwards" aren't the terms I'd use, though. What bothers me about a lot of i
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by adamc 2y ago
In the USA, where an increasingly authoritarian government has come into power... I think many would stop using the internet if that happened.
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by adamc 2y ago
Yes. Maybe PG doesn't care.
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by adamc 2y ago
That people are flagging this as somehow irrelevant says a lot of bad things about the audience at hacker news.
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by adamc 2y ago
I hate this new world and the rise of selfishness.
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by adamc 2y ago
Why do people flag posts like this?
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by adamc 2y ago
Exactly. If we get to elections again. A lot of Trump's actions seem to only make sense if you believe he will stay in power forever.
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by adamc 2y ago
Presuming we get to free and fair elections, I think this is going to have to be an outcome... but whether it can be passed while the country is so polarized, I don't know. The alternative might be cycles of political violence and pard
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by adamc 2y ago
It's striking how little discussion there is of the underlying risks that now make the US cloud less attractive. Trump is doing a lot of damage to the US as a services provider.
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by adamc 2y ago
Trump is so chaotically aggressive that it is easy to imagine this going very poorly.
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by adamc 2y ago
This was just splendid.

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