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by rnk 4y ago
I think that's silly. He already sold tons in the last 6 months just to pay taxes. Did he sell extra?
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by rnk 4y ago
The stock market went way down, twitter suddenly cost much less. Tesla worth less too, so harder to use it as collatoral.
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by rnk 4y ago
I think that's a great summary of him! He can come across as this amazing bullshitter, but he does succeed with hard work, great fundraising, luck, excellent people.
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by rnk 4y ago
The hate twitter crowd but want to communicate their thoughts, libertarian adjacent market segment - is already occupied by Truth Social and several other related Trumpy social networks (we allow anything except discussion around Jan 6 real
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by rnk 4y ago
so we build giant parking lots at our metro train stations? We need different transportation. The us is terrible at building needed train infra. But just like in Europe, you need different solutions at diff levels.
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by rnk 4y ago
The US is far from blameless about our actions in the world, but that doesn't excuse the attack on their own citizens in Russia or China. To see the ultimate difference between the US and China and Russia, make a public comment critici
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by rnk 4y ago
You can't run for the local legislature unless you are approved. They stop some people from leaving at the airport if they protested. They arrest you for minor acts of resistance like the color of your shirt. They removed statues that
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by rnk 4y ago
This thread is a perfect example of why we don't have clarity on what kind of distribution management we should have. We had: 1. Tar files of compressed binaries 2. No use your release's package manager 3. No, snaps 4. No you fool
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by rnk 4y ago
What the supreme's did in practice was look for abstruse excuses to justify changing. First, all the republicans claimed they would follow precedent unless there was a really good reason. The earlier draft which quoted philosophers fro
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by rnk 4y ago
We all know in the us. Lack of universal affordable health care for all, a social safety network that treats people with illness, loss of income, life challenges, etc. Plenty of people see the lack of these things are great things about Ame
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by rnk 4y ago
Ha, perfect. That person is so angry and entitled to say f-off if you don't do what I say.
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by rnk 4y ago
That's a very hostile attitude. Other people will have opposite ways to find important email, "important people" to you might not know about your special way to be connected. Your way is not the only way.
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by rnk 4y ago
I strongly disagree with your analysis. The rhetoric and much practice in the US has been that we have rights to do things unless taken away by new laws. You could smoke pot until the us govt made it illegal, for instance. Abortion was a co
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by rnk 4y ago
We have a new menace, China. They really do want to control the world (through soft economic power they say - but: they are trying to pick off small countries in the Pacific to build "relationships" with and later bases. They have
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by rnk 4y ago
1-200 year for collapse is not really very specific. I'd give any country on earth 1-200 years for them to collapse.
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by rnk 4y ago
Aha! You are one of them ;-) And I'm apparently not.
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by rnk 4y ago
You could just put "open to opportunities" on your linked in. I always wondered if that would hurt at my last job, now I just leave it on all the time.
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by rnk 4y ago
No they don't. This is just pointless sophistry. It does not explain the idea. It's writing that looks like the point is to show the writer's erudition, not explain the idea.
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by rnk 4y ago
Rumsfeld was perfectly happy to organize black prisons (aka secret prisons not in the us, in other countries where us civil rights didn't apply), where the us took people who were kidnapped after 9/11 from various places around th
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by rnk 4y ago
Aha. Next you can give the classic "this statement is a lie".
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by rnk 4y ago
It's really hard to find causes and later cures for things that come slowly over lives that take many years to hit you.
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by rnk 4y ago
Please explain what this is a bad use case. I'd love to learn why that is.
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by rnk 4y ago
Yeah, those folks working in prison camps in China should be happy that us prisoners (living in the vestiges of post civil war us prison legal decisions) are worse off. In reality all those people would prefer to be free, regardless of sala
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by rnk 4y ago
Except for language, Canada is similar. The US manages a positive brain drain just on more money and opportunities. Canada is great, in a couple of years I might be looking for a job there.
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by rnk 4y ago
That obviously did not make a difference now because it wouldn't be in use and the issue seems to be refining more than oil supply.
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by rnk 4y ago
Trump was the one who tried his hardest to screw China. Trump got his Congress to pass unneeded tax cuts. I agree Dems went along w COVID stimulus. Trump wanted on more stimulus, Congress deferred, then Biden got one. Biden didn't caus
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by rnk 4y ago
At the time, every commentator not in Congress or the Republican party said it was a bad choice to stimulate the economy with a sugar-high unneeded stimulus. But once that's in the system, correcting it hurts the next guy in charge, th
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by rnk 4y ago
I don't the this cause of inflation is settled. Right now it's higher energy prices, in large part caused by the Ukraine war. Then covid recovery caused a big demand increase, and the shipping industry building ever larger ships t
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by rnk 4y ago
The fed worrying that regular workers are getting too large a pay increase was a secondary concern for them. I think it was much more important to consider the overall economy than to worry about salary changes for the little people. Five,
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by rnk 4y ago
I'm in the software world in the US. My friends from the UK, Canada, Germany say they strongly preferred their healthcare in their home country. There are scattered things better here (sometimes wait times are less) but mostly it'

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