ta1243

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by ta1243 1y ago
Pulling out of nato will reduce revenue to US defence manufacturers, so I'd expect defense spending to increase even further thanks to the industrial-military complex
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by ta1243 1y ago
Yup, before "tech" arrived food delivery was quite normal in the UK, and from watching 80s and 90s sitcoms quite normal in the US too. Indeed the "pizza porn trope" is as old as the hills [0] I don't know anyone tha
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by ta1243 1y ago
Both my local Indian and Chinese use justeat. I don't select them because they're on justeat, I use justeat because it has them. If they changed to another platform then I'd simply move to that platform. Of course these compa
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by ta1243 1y ago
Yet he is unwilling to cut a single cent, indeed there's a 13% increase for defense spending https://www.airandspaceforces.com/trump-proposes-1-trillion-...
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by ta1243 1y ago
This is why small companies can compete. What they lose out on economies of scale, they gain on avoiding this.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Yet America elected a president who doesn't want to cut a cent of defence spending, just redirect it to his mates.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Is America planning on reducing its insanely high military budget?
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by ta1243 1y ago
You pay taxes for the military right? And for roads? And for the police? And the courts? And for the schools themselves. Is that socialism?
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by ta1243 1y ago
> and eliminated lunch debt at 12 schools. That’s 12 schools where kids don’t get their trays taken away For a few weeks. Then presumably there will be debt again. If you get a major wound then applying a tourniquet can be a great move t
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by ta1243 1y ago
> Why is my own piracy not protected in the same manner? You aren't a multi-billion dollar company
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by ta1243 1y ago
In a specific legal jurisdiction. The Berne convention mentions "fair practice", and puts the responsibility on the individual countries.
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by ta1243 1y ago
So that makes Pluto the 10th planet an Neptune the 9th planet.
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by ta1243 1y ago
No need for something that exotic. The Earth alone receives more energy from the sun every hour than mankind uses each year.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Sure, and I maintain with healthy weight just on the normal walks around the village (although I did go slightly into the "overweight" category after one Christmas The point is that it's very easy to go too far in the opposit
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by ta1243 1y ago
However staying in shape by becoming a gym bro spending hours a week lifting weights and chugging protein powder also has major effects on your mentality, and those aren't good effects.
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by ta1243 1y ago
To someone on the median global salary of $300 a month, $1000 is a lot of money. To someone on $500k a year, $1k is a night out in vegas. To a billionaire, $1k is toilet paper.
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by ta1243 1y ago
So a company should be free to break as many laws as it wants and never have any risk to its owners?
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by ta1243 1y ago
> Let these asshats go bankrupt. No need to go bankrupt, just force-issue more shares, diluting the existing shareholders. These are then sold on the open market and the revenue goes to paying the fine. Only if the share price drops to z
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by ta1243 1y ago
Either obey the law in those countries, or don't do business there.
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by ta1243 1y ago
When you get a fine in Europe it tends to be related to your income. Not your income after your expenses, your actual income. Finland for example will fine you 100k for speeding if your income is high enough. In the UK fines range from 50%
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by ta1243 1y ago
It's happened before, both recently (since 2001), but Executive Order 9066 happened over 80 years ago, in the 19th century the US literally passed a Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. America puts too much faith in its courts and constituti
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by ta1243 1y ago
Probably around the time your Gradpa started paying attention (post ww2). The 1920s and the great depression were hardly non-weird times.
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by ta1243 1y ago
> The government is imprisoning people indefinitely (forever?) for unproven allegations and misdemeanors. They should be able to file habeas petitions for unlawful imprisonment. The courts are doing fuck all about it because the governme
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by ta1243 1y ago
The problem with democratic elections to executive, house and senate is they all follow the "will of the people". In America there is a bit of a lag, but ultimately you still get to the two-wolf one-sheep tyranny of the masses. Th
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by ta1243 1y ago
Parties change all the time -- Trump and Lincoln lead the same party, Obama and Jackson led the same party. Peoples views of what that party means don't always follow.
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by ta1243 1y ago
> Emoluments, tax returns, the porn star, lying under oath, J6, "fake news", losers and suckers, bone spurs, snubbing Carter, crowd size bullshit, grab em by the pussy, obvious nepotism, lock her up, separating families at the
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by ta1243 1y ago
Depends how the next generation of MAGAs works. The republican party is full of them who are backing Trump all the way. The only opposition seem to be bond traders. The great thing about wannabe dictators is they don't allow the new ge
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by ta1243 1y ago
For those downvoting you for saying Trump is practically illiterate Here he is asking the UK prime minister to read out a letter he'd been sent https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxxpxe5qko
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Not just planned calls, random unplanned "jump on a huddle for a few minutes" ones at 11:42. If you're working in another company and on a team meeting there, you're going to get caught pretty quick.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Europe wants American companies to follow European laws when operating in Europe, same as it wants European companies to follow European laws when operating in Europe. America does not want Europe to have its own defence industry, as this m

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