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by r00fus 3y ago
There was that image of Elon before he started using Ozempic
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by r00fus 3y ago
Theft or other losses, cost of roving charging vans and personnel, etc.
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by r00fus 3y ago
The FAA (and specifically Transport Secretary Buttigieg) hold all the cards here. That they're not doing more to address the issues speaks volumes about the FAA's mission and abrogation of it.
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by r00fus 3y ago
Light trucks sell well because of the chicken tax loophole.
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by r00fus 3y ago
Unfortunately M1 Air doesn’t have HDMI.
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by r00fus 3y ago
Also many people use "Java" in the enterprise without paying Oracle a red cent.
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by r00fus 3y ago
We kill entire ecosystems - truly massively efficient.
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by r00fus 3y ago
This article claims otherwise [1] "BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have notably been making substantial investments in single-family homes across America. Their housing acquisitions are primarily conducted through real estate inv
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by r00fus 3y ago
I stand by my point - removing the massive upward pricing pressure from corporate entities will cause the market to balance itself much more readily even with the dynastic wealth grifters. Over the past 5 years, I have gotten no shortage of
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by r00fus 3y ago
If we're talking about rent-seeking corporations also being subject to the tax, then it would also prevent them from seeing the same returns and perhaps There's also a bill out there that would simply preclude hedge funds ownershi
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by r00fus 3y ago
> The point is taxing "absentee landlords" means taxing the people who rent from them This is the same logic that says any tax simply increases the price. That's not how the price/availability curve works, there are
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by r00fus 3y ago
> But I feel the pandemic has upended any momentum for public transit for a generation. Less frequent commmutes make long drives more tolerable and parking more affordable and available, and transit now seems like a disease vector as wel
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by r00fus 3y ago
Because that's what Musk has promised many years going. It's snake oil sold to the gullible because it's highly unlikely that the processors and sensor array in the production cars sold (with this feature) will ever be able
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by r00fus 3y ago
This is conjecture, not facts. Please provide some actual reason why one should see Al Jazeera as a non-serious source. btw, the same was said about the Al Jazeera's reporting on the Iraq occupation, and it was equally false.
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by r00fus 3y ago
Al-Jazeera has some incredibly great reporting for the past couple of decades across many conflicts. The fact that Israel doesn't like their reporting doesn't necessarily make their reporting less factual.
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by r00fus 3y ago
It's really interesting how the IDF claims to be doing targeted strikes and operations while at the same time there is the general "we can't tell who is civilian vs. militants". It all codes to attitude of "there is
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by r00fus 3y ago
Modern IT integrations connect the HR system to the IT to auto-provision (ie, hire) and auto-deprovision (ie, terminate) user access in near-real-time. In this case, once the termination is completed (& approved) in the HR system, the
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by r00fus 3y ago
A distinction without a difference - they're both in the same rent-seeking model.
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by r00fus 3y ago
In other news, nearly 40% of homes are owned by corporations.
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by r00fus 3y ago
Reminds me of a scene from Hyperion Cantos with the ousters (imagine all of this but the structure is sentient is also part of a Dyson sphere).
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by r00fus 3y ago
I simply refuse to buy high value items from Amazon these days. Especially Apple products. In fact I tend to buy most goods via local same-day delivery or pickup.
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by r00fus 3y ago
More anecdata, but I’m also in the “would buy Model Y but for Musk” camp. It’s not just the Q fueled toxic masculinity that he exudes but an understanding of how organizations work and that values come from the top down. In paper it’s a fan
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by r00fus 3y ago
It happens because there is a $3B annual funding of Israel (which doesn't require a vote!!) which is for weapons-only - consequently most of the funding comes back into the US through defense contractors and lobbying groups like AIPAC.
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by r00fus 3y ago
Only Jewish people have full citizenship rights in Israel. There are "jews only" streets there. That kind of stuff doesn't fly in a non-ethnostate.
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by r00fus 3y ago
> But suggesting that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state is antisemitic as it implies ethnic cleansing. As opposed to what's happening right now - which is ethnic cleansing in both Gaza and the West Bank. Netanyahu want
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by r00fus 3y ago
> But chants like "from the river to the sea" (meaning destroying Jewish country) You mean what's in the Lukud 1977 charter which was reiterated by Netanyahu recently after 10/7? https://www.thenation.com&#
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by r00fus 3y ago
The move to EVs has made my neighborhood in silicon valley a lot quieter over the past 10 years. We live near a private school so some mornings the line of cars gets long - since about 2020 a large number of these are Teslas or other EVs.
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by r00fus 3y ago
Agreed - his comment makes complete sense if you s/creates a/pierces the veil of/ US companies must be scared as hell about what would happen if we had strong sectoral bargaining and permitted sympathy strikes like Nordic cou
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by r00fus 3y ago
Gas powered Lawn/leaf equipment - Banned in California starting 2024. Good riddance.
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by r00fus 3y ago
> The $50M threshold for hedge funds is easily circumvented by breaking up funds Wouldn't this put those funds at a significant disadvantage?

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