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by lesuorac 2y ago
To be clear, Security Clearances is just an EO thing. The actual laws just speak about things being critical to national security and don't use the words like "Top Secret" and etc. The whole actually labeling things "Top
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Here you got then - https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BU/BU00/20250213/117894/BILL... Spoiler: Nobody is _directly_ getting a refund. That money will be less than the planned increase in the deficit.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
It is trivial to prove the earth is round though which makes it trivial to prove the earth is not flat (which does makes it impossible to prove the earth is flat). Travel to any large body of water. Mark a boat with lines showing how high a
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> he had about 6 years of experience as almost full time CTO and CEO of SpaceX, until he had to divide his attention with Tesla So, by your own admission, he knows a lot about 2/10 of his companies. 20% is a F not a passing grade.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
That's actually pretty good evidence he understands nothing. Either he's the faster learner in the history of mankind or he actually knows very little about his _10_ companies, 14 children, and countless other video game accounts.
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They point it out because there was an explicit claim to the contrary. "No one can sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL. "
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> City officials were ordered by Google to argue in court that Google’s use of scarce public water was a “trade secret”. After more than a year of proceedings, city officials were forced to tell their own citizens how much public water G
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by lesuorac 2y ago
You mean to tell me that Corn isn't grown in the US in the dead of winter? I wonder if coffee will be the real thing that gets people upset.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> So the company is making more profit from you now? What am I missing? Yes. The elasticity of Tariffs is historically >1.
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> there's no way the top 10% receive 3/4 of the services Why not? A highway between Illinois and Ohio doesn't help me. It does help say the CEO of Walmart. When you're invested into large parts of the USA, anything th
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Google didn't rename parts of Ukraine for Russia. The change itself may be justifiable but the reasoning is not consistent. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/07/28/google-renames-pla...
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Good point. First we should check if you're an American because otherwise you shouldn't be able to help us check. Please post your Social Security number, Name, Mother's Madien Name, and last 4 of each of your Credit Cards.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> The “services” here is gender affirming care. What does it mean to “advocate”? Why are my tax dollars being used for this? You should ask Elon Musk since he brought up the program and has the ability to actually ask people on it what i
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> I'm thinking especially of the companies trying to sequester carbon in the wells they empty - they end up making money both ways. Sure, but the reason solar panels are popular is because they're (mostly) the cheapest way to g
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by lesuorac 2y ago
It's an improvement no? It's like paying a fee when buying a car battery or car tires unless you return an old one. The fee needs to be overly pegged to inflation or something though otherwise you end up with the glass / alum
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Ignoring the fact you left off the rest of the description (as pointed out by another commenter) which also means that like $2 could go towards that purpose and $1,999,998 to something else (also $2M hasn't been spent; just $350,000 pe
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Well, not that I like the mentality but it's a hardline one. By not voting for Harris and making her lose it means next cycle people have to care about your opinion to get elected. It's the opposite of when Progressives don't
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> I would love to hear justifications for things like this and how they help US global influence. Largely the justification is the programs don't do what Musk says they do. You've got to understand the source of your informatio
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I really don't think your numbering scheme lines up with who you're responding to. > 1. They claim they're getting enough death threats to warrant a proactive search. Maybe that's just a lie, and this is a power grab.
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Decades of ignoring existing anti-trust laws leading to large conglomerates with monopolistic pricing power? Unfriendly labor rulings like the time you spend in mandatory employer required security screenings doesn't count as paid time
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> I think Ellison really believes in an extremely authoritarian/oversight government to keep people in line. Is he wrong? I mean weren't all these billionaires hanging out at Epstein's island because of the lack of oversig
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> If you're a marathon runner, and you lose to a toddler, that's probably not. You understand that in this analogy, the toddler won the NYC marathon 2 years ago and then beat somebody that lost their local 5k?
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by lesuorac 2y ago
I think it's mostly a lack of ideas. If I sold you a device for $1 and it minted $5 using $2 of electricity then you'd buy absolutely as many as you could as fast as you can. However, if the devices stopped working when you had 10
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by lesuorac 2y ago
How is a candidate that didn't win a primary _narrowly_ losing to a candidate that won a primary a big deal? Like if Democrats decided to run Ron DeSantis how huge do you think Trump's lead would've been?
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> This whole situation is absolutely stunning to watch. It is but not for the reason you think it is. The twitter files are about a period of time where _Donald Trump was president_! People go on-and-on about how twitter shadow bans peop
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Rebooting the D party is unnecessary. Losing only by 1.5% in an election where globally nearly every _incumbent_ lost is pretty good. In the UK, the incumbents lost 20% of their seats [1]. The democrats lost 2 seats in the senate [2] and _g
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Naw, the bigger issue is that we have system of physically networked devices but it takes 2 years ("from approximately August 2022 to January 2024") to figure out which device on that network was issuing requests. There's som
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by lesuorac 2y ago
Isn't 14k with a 100% tariff still way cheaper than a Tesla?
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by lesuorac 2y ago
> But honest question, since his approval rating is positive (!!!) Citation needed. It's always been negative afaik - https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/dona... Although it's made
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by lesuorac 2y ago
This [1] should give you another 150 days of predictions. [1]: https://www.project2025.org/playbook/

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