apawloski

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by apawloski 11mo ago
This is becoming a Tim Robinson gag. I wish you would dedicate as much time supporting American consumers and American manufacturers as you did trying to argue whatever it is you’re digging in about food spiciness or whatever. Your points w
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by apawloski 11mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. I’m bummed that I didn’t prioritize going out last night to observe. I was thinking bigger glare would be better aurora tonight.
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by apawloski 11mo ago
That's what I'm most curious about -- how do you see that it hasn't arrived yet when you're looking at SWPC? Here is the SWPC forecast [0] Time_UTC,Nov_12,Nov_13,Nov_14 00-03UT,8.67 (G4),6.67 (G3),4.67 (G1) 03-06UT,8.33
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by apawloski 11mo ago
Is there a way to connect the Alert/Warnings/Watches from SWPC to specific events? It seems like there are at least three different solar events and it's hard for me to understand if they've all passed or if we're e
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by apawloski 11mo ago
Of all the things in my post to address, the fact that you are pulling some random NYT opinion piece from 1975 to say “actually it’s more American to NOT enjoy food” only reiterates my point.
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by apawloski 11mo ago
Frame this on the wall as the most succinct way to sum up the utter capitulation people face in supporting these tariffs. Yes they are raising taxes and making everything more expensive for Americans. Yes they are disrupting the raw materi
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by apawloski 1y ago
> Just five years after the 14th amendment was ratified, the Supreme Court said [...] Cool, but the 14th amendment was ratified. At least we can agree on that. And this is what it says: > All persons born or naturalized in the United
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by apawloski 1y ago
Even if it were just posturing -- which frankly I don't believe based on the fact that they are now going into effect -- do you at least see how disruptive it is to American companies for him to continuously change his position? There
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by apawloski 1y ago
Is it not relevant that Trump said he would use it to censor his critics? For being “anti-government types” it sure seems like they voted for dramatic and unprecedented authoritarian uses of the government.
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by apawloski 1y ago
In an administration that changes critical economic policies on a week-to-week basis, listing this as surcharge makes sense. Easier to change than baking into the price.
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by apawloski 1y ago
If the new person in your friend group suddenly wants everyone to commit an act of terror, chances are they are an FBI agent.
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by apawloski 2y ago
This feels like a return to initial point. "yes, it is a recession, but it won't be THAT bad" >A financial recession would be borne mostly by the laptop class. This is where I think you're not living in reality. Reces
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by apawloski 2y ago
To be clear, my point is that everything will be more expensive and that a recession is objectively bad for all but maybe the richest Americans.
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by apawloski 2y ago
You're currently in the "Yes everything is going to be more expensive but it won't be THAT bad" stage. How will you justify a recession when it comes? Or is that acceptable too because it also hurts the "laptop clas
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by apawloski 2y ago
Just yesterday people were trying to convince me that price hikes were good and would benefit Trump’s base. Now JP Morgan is predicting a global recession. I cannot fathom how this is good for America. It just feels like a colossal own-goal
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by apawloski 2y ago
Lots of time to make up for causing the largest market drop since COVID as well. Hopefully you're right and everything will be fine.
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by apawloski 2y ago
I mean, a large point of their campaign was that price increases were a major national concern, right? Can we agree that they repeatedly made that point? I recall many lawn signs to that effect. So given that, I would have assumed that this
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by apawloski 2y ago
Not to mention these are blanket tariffs, not protecting specific American industries. So anything that's not feasibly produced here will be more expensive anyway. Yes everybody, we are taxing all of your groceries - but all of those A
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by apawloski 2y ago
What is the time scale we are talking about when we talk about this change?
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by apawloski 2y ago
How much do production workers get paid in China? How will our production goods be affordable at American labor rates? This strategy just makes everything more expensive - nothing cheaper.
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by apawloski 2y ago
How will adding a tax to every single consumer good benefit his base?
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by apawloski 2y ago
All we are doing is making America weaker on the global scale while you cling to this fantasy. But to be clear, in this fantasy, do you acknowledge and accept that costs for Americans are going to up? Things are going to get more expensive
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by apawloski 2y ago
The launch vehicle is SpaceX, but the science and mission operations are NASA/JPL.
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by apawloski 2y ago
What do you expect the total savings to be?
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by apawloski 2y ago
I brought this on myself for making a political comment on a forum, but I'm curious how much spending you think goes to this. Like of every $1 in taxes you pay - how much do you think goes to USAID (or the entire federal workforce)? Wh
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by apawloski 2y ago
This is the part that I'm so surprised about. It turns out that people don't actually care about the law when it's inconvenient. And it turns out that people are willing to accept and support crazy things: conflicted/unq
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by apawloski 2y ago
What I'm reading then is that it's not about actually about workforce spending or federal debt at all. That's sort of what I expected. Curious if you have thoughts on Elon Musk's conflicts of interest? Both as a large fe
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by apawloski 2y ago
Using this military metaphor to describe operations against America's own government is absolutely wild to me. It's legitimately shocking to me how extreme people have become over the past ten years. The size of the federal workfo
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by apawloski 2y ago
I use these three stations professionally and haven't had a pre-train ticket check in maybe 5 or 6 years.
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by apawloski 2y ago
You need to talk to an attorney, as this understanding is incomplete. Parties can and do sue the federal government all the time. Look at the Supreme Court decisions this week alone which include several cases against the United States. But

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