And the answer is none. None more black.

Was Trump doing global worldwide tariffs of 20-300% on almost all imports of every type his first term? Were those the ones kept?

What happened in 2020 and who was President that year?

Also Trump beaten by Obama yet again. Hell yeah.

I've been thinking about this since Comcast bought NBC. Seemed bullshit that the cable company and the internet provider can also own such a large production that it can isolate for itself (if it wanted to). Really the only consumer upside of that one was the Kabletown jokes on 30 Rock

"You really think the region ruled by Hamas would end up being better for both the Jews and the other residents? After all their acts from Oct 7th on?"

You don't seem to be paying attention to the actions of Israel from October 7 on. Or before it for that matter. Why is that?

By stay away do you mean stop funding it? If so, how do I subscribe to your newsletter?

I wonder if it was supposed to be used in lost PLA casting and then wasn't, or if they were just very very stupid

You and I aren't particularly vibing lately, but I appreciate that link- that was cool as shit, and educational.

How do you end up with Mecha-Hitlers? Is that just natural understanding of that data, SS-Schütze?

Cool, then no more LLC, no more C-Corp, S-Corp, all that goes out the window. You have private contracts only and no special legal protections or benefits.

This is not a "socialist" thing this is a human thing and why income inequality in societies is so correlated with other societal problems. But some folks want to make it like saying that violates some inherent law of nature. It's absolutely ridiculous. It's not good!

"Chatbots" is a spectrum.

There's a near certainty you have already interacted with many without knowing it.
You imagine chatbots having a certain non-real feeling style. That's simply ones that have been trained to have that style.

Other chat bots pass the turing test better than a damn human impersonator

Political advertising?

I certainly haven't passively noticed any rules, lol.
Those ads pit pure fucking lies- without shame. It's fucking disgusting.

I don't think anyone shits on plumbers (no pun intended).

But you don't go to school for 4 years to be a plumber.
It's skilled labor, it doesn't take a professional degree. There is a difference.

And frankly, they're not even all that knowledgeable about the physics of the pipes. They know what they need to know to get the job done.
They might, for example, think it's ok to use a copper pipe for the condensation drain of your high-efficiency gas-fired tankless water heater, dumping pretty blue water all over the concrete below which is slowly being etched away by the nitric acid you're dumping on it. Ask me how I know ;)

Not a dig on plumbers. But they are vocationally educated. They're not physicists, chemists, or even hydrodynamics experts.

Sure but these aren't private proprietorships or just a sale of assets. The Clayton Act exists, has precedent and is pretty broad, there is a line and this merger is well over it. The government is fully in it's rights to at the least deny sale to either of these parties (and IMO should)

For all their "losses" they were also able to pay down their debt in 2024 with $4.4B in cash flow (which got Zaslav a big fat bonus). Like all Hollywood accounting the numbers can be suspect.

Of for sure this merger in this admin is gonna be handled totally above board. It's not like David Ellison is at the White House pleading to the admin to please, pretty pretty please let him have this and that Larry Ellison isn't basically the 2nd VP.

They hallucinate about as much as your average human partisan. They're just a lot fucking smarter, and so can back up those hallucinations without frustration and hand waving.

Frankly, it's bad. Our population is way too fucking stupid for this.