GreyEyedGhost

I would say most HR managers are -igned the appropriate amount.

Hey, look, a reasonable situation for tariffs! A country is exporting goods at below cost to destabilize the market in your country is an excellent reason to impose tariffs. It reduces the attractiveness of the cheap goods, reduces strain on your industry, and helps negate the impact of those cheap goods by providing government with money for programs to retrain employees or incentivize industry to modernize their plants if needed.

Not like whatever is happening… <gestures> …over there.

“I will not attack any countries after Austria Georgia and Poland Ukraine.” I think I’ve heard this song before.

Maybe the guy who thought a dictatorship would happily hand over power to the people was wrong two times?

…and now we’re back to the top comment.

So the property that hasn’t been sold in 200 years. That’s the one you want to put a lien on? Would you like a shit sandwich to go with it so you at least get something?

…so they can get paid when the property is sold? Just when do you think that’s going to happen?

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but the people who have enough money to travel to the States, but not so much money that they wouldn’t travel elsewhere are doing a lot less traveling to the States. That segment of the population has been very vocal with their travel dollars that they don’t approve of the political stance or America right now. No, they probably aren’t a majority, but they aren’t insignificant, either, and they are making their opinions heard in a very clear manner. Likewise store purchases. I don’t buy Tostitos/Lays anymore. I barely buy Pringles. My go-to for chips is Old Dutch (which has an American parent company but is produced in Canada with at least partly Canadian ingredients) or other Canadian brands. Enough people are doing it that it’s impacting display decisions at grocers (some of which is to basically lie to us and make us think things are more Canadian than they really are). Both of those are signs that it’s more than just some angry minority being vocal, there is a quiet segment of the population that simply puts in varying amounts of effort to not send money to America.

Until the last 10 years, fusion barely got any funding in America, and similar levels elsewhere. Here’s a budget projection from decades back that should give some perspective on the inevitable outcome, and why optimism has been so high lately.

As a regular consumer of caffeine, let me assure you it is not. As someone else said, he had the equivalent of a cup of coffee. I personally don’t start suffering any significant withdrawal symptoms until I have more than 100 mg per day, and fairly significant withdrawal symptoms if I regularly have over 400 mg per day. But even as a single dose of caffeine, 150 mg is pretty typical. That said, caffeine can give a temporary boost to cognitive function, even for dementia patients.

“Microsoft Edge. You will never be satisfied, guaranteed.”

“Google Chrome. Only the thinnest veneer of quality.”

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I like how in the vast majority of pictures, Kash looks like he’s about to say, “Oh, shit!”

Goddammit!

✌️ I’m not a gate. ✌️

While that would be nice to see, if they do it as poorly as this case appears to be going, the wrong group would benefit.

Not every conspiracy has to end with gate.

#TheSlothIsOutThere

This picture is worth at least 4 words.

And one isn’t even relevant in this case.

I think nerdy stuff is attractive to people on the autism spectrum, and while people on the spectrum tend to like consistency, they also have trouble recognizing social norms, let alone following them. So some act that is in large part (from other people’s perspective, at least) a deviation from social norms isn’t that much of a problem to them. And why wouldn’t trans people prefer to be in spaces where people don’t care how they’re living their life? Now, add on that exposure tends to normalize social experiences, and people on the spectrum are already weird in their own way, and the neurotypical people in those nerdy spaces are already used to dealing with weird people. Adding a different flavor of weird isn’t that much of a stretch.

Or, to put it another way,

Good God, who’s manning the internet?

That’s not really how orbits work. Unless there is a stabilizing burn or very unusual conditions the debris will have an eccentric orbit, going both lower and higher than the impact point. And passing below the orbits of the starlink satellites will expose them to even more atmosphere than they will be at the starlink orbit, so their orbits will decay faster than their apogee would suggest. Sure, some will experience the right conditions to put them in an orbit such that the perigee is at the altitude of the starlink orbits or even higher, but the vast majority will not.

This does not preclude carelessness or malice causing impacts, the launch in question being the former and China’s satellite destruction previously being the latter. Do you think Starlink isn’t releasing their orbital paths to other launch organizations? And that net is generally very predictable. Any deviation from the existing orbit is done at the expense of the lifespan of the satellite and while there are a lot of those satellites, there’s far more empty space between them. The kind of planning that rocket launches normally get is more than enough to hit those windows, along with the other windows rocket launches normally have to hit.