justin66

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721.
by justin66 2y ago
Perhaps that was badly put, but I'm quite certain that the interests in the US who advocate for tariffs are among the wealthy. It would not be accurate to imply that all of the wealthy advocate for tariffs, yes. Tariffs in agriculture,
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by justin66 2y ago
> fediverse Is that suggestion ever made unironically?
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by justin66 2y ago
> More that NASA may be past its sell-by date and unfixable in terms of efficiency. I don't see it that way, but again, to a large extent they're hamstrung by the stupid shit they are required to do by congress. The same agency
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by justin66 2y ago
Yes. There have been a lot of curious reinterpretations of the law recently but the money raised via tariffs still goes to the treasury.
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by justin66 2y ago
> There is a reason why rich prefer tariffs over a progressive income tax. Or sales taxes, or VAT, for that matter.
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by justin66 2y ago
You're getting downvoted, which maybe isn't great since there's an important point here that you missed, and it might be worth mentioning. The SLS is an incredibly expensive boondoggle, a result of pork barrel politics, and s
727.
by justin66 2y ago
You used an awful lot of words to say "dunno."
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by justin66 2y ago
He could have made life easier for those following in his footsteps if he'd not gone out in a blaze of bitter nerd glory.
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by justin66 2y ago
> A majority of people voted for it A plurality at best, not a majority. > If you want the return of wasteful, unaccountable and corrupt government spending on ideological goals I just want the return of stereotypes and platitudes. Wh
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by justin66 2y ago
They were first-principlesing it
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by justin66 2y ago
You don't believe the military helicopters involved in this hypothetical evacuation would fly in and out of DCA, do you? They're flying out of Andrews (and other military bases, I assume).
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by justin66 2y ago
They're training in the same terrain where they'd be required to operate if their mission was to evacuate Washington VIPs in the event of an emergency.
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by justin66 2y ago
It sucks that the guy currently in charge of cost cutting has a blatant conflict of interest in getting rid of the SLS. It really does need to go, but he's not the one to do it.
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by justin66 2y ago
Jesus that thing talks?!? That's reason enough to get rid of it.
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by justin66 2y ago
The data of the US Treasury is in really good hands. So that's how he got hired: One of the companies Coristine founded, Tesla.Sexy LLC
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by justin66 2y ago
> I thought Rust in Linux was evaluated, discussed and agreed upon years ago. I've seen Linus talk about it in one of his public chats with Dirk Hohndel as an interesting experiment that might succeed or fail, or that's the imp
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by justin66 2y ago
As wikipedia says: "Most of the activities of the X-37B project are secret." Presumably that includes some of the things that would bring about bad press.
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by justin66 2y ago
> Prices aren't high on anything except for housing. And health care, and education, and child care.
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by justin66 2y ago
The consequence of those people not being paid is that they'd sue the government as a class, win, and then be paid.
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by justin66 2y ago
There are some pretty significant differences between Twitter employees and federal government employees, starting with the fact that a lot of latter group are part of a powerful union.
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by justin66 2y ago
> Simplest way is to read media from independent country. India is good, perhaps Arabic countries. It's interesting that you listed India first. The English-language news source that pops up most often via Google News is the Hindust
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by justin66 2y ago
"The rest of the world" is famous for sharing one single opinion on things.
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by justin66 2y ago
> It would be stupendous if voters were aware of where all this to date untraceable money is going. It would be stupendous if, for example, everyone knew when I receive an interest payment on a savings bond, and for how much? Or some sch
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Apple lashes out at iPhone porn app maker and EU rules allowing its download(apnews.com)
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by justin66 2y ago
"Checks and balances" is a phrase that applies to the ability of the three coequal branches of government to hold one another in check.
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by justin66 2y ago
> What I give to Musk is that the staggering nepotism you see with Trump is not there as much. Hiring a bunch of guys who work at companies he or Thiel owns definitely counts as nepotism.
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by justin66 2y ago
They are going to make it easier to get your money by making it available via X!
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by justin66 2y ago
> This is nuts, 18F was one of the few groups in the federal government that is/was good at making software! Hopefully it's obvious at this point: Musk and friends not there to do anything but enrich themselves, and destroy.
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by justin66 2y ago
They're not pseudonymously posting on Reddit or something, they're working in the federal government. The concept of "doxxing" does not apply.
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by justin66 2y ago
I couldn't say for sure but... I think so? It's the same for me, I used to have it and now I don't.

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