I can't stand Donald Trump (just look at all of my other posts on this story), but I don't think we can blame him for the first economic freefall - the effects of a pandemic are going to crush any economy. And he signed the CARES Act which was sponsored by a majority Democratic House. He certainly screwed up handling the health and safety aspects of the pandemic, but I'm not sure the Dems would have been able to ease the economic sting much more than what was already done.

However, the current economic freefall is completely unnecessary and completely Trump's fault. At this point, he seems absolutely determined to obliterate our economy. It's his second biggest initiative, with the first being the construction of vanity projects which serve as monuments to himself.

He doesn't care at all about the midterms because he and Mike Johnson have absolutely no plans to swear in the newly elected Democrats if they lose the majority in the election (which they most certainly will). If we thought things were interesting now, they're about to get far more interesting in a few months.

Also, my personal feeling is that if you don't vote, you don't get to complain.

If we used the popular vote, then I'd be more amenable to this mindset. Personally, I skipped the top of the ticket because I don't live in one of the 43 states that mattered.

Agreed. My biggest problems with Hanlon's Razor is that all it takes to get away with largescale evil is to convince the majority of people you're a colossal idiot. Trump has simultaneously managed to convince the followers of his cult that he's a genius while convincing the rest of the world that he's an idiot.

Trump is genuinely a retard. It is not just that we don't like his societal choices or his morality. He is really that dumb.

While I certainly don't think he's a genius, I think holding the world's largest economy hostage to personally enrich himself and his family in schemes that take a lot of effort to prove requires at least a moderate level of intelligence. And a far greater degree of evil.

Tomorrow's headline: Hugging Face Commits to Buying $13 Billion of Nvidia Hardware

BTW it's an unmaintained and unsecure open source driver that's crashing, which was also abandoned and isn't maintained

I'm confused - is the driver maintained?

It's a lot easier to pass social policies when you see your neighbor's as people like you that you want to help. We don't have that in the United States.

I don't think as many people have that mindset as you think. I see lots of people that look like me fucking over almost every facet of this country and I don't feel any connection with them. The problem is economic inequality - the people at the top are fucking over the people in the middle and the bottom. If people in the middle and bottom are too preoccupied fighting with each other based on inane nonsense, such as "why should I help that person because they don't look like me" then nothing is going to get better.

That situation reminds me a joke. Three guys just split a job and then sat down at a table. As they're seated, the manager comes over and pays them their wage: $100 in one dollar bills. The first guy immediately snatches 97 bills and gets up to walk off before the other guys can react. The second guy saw that and quickly grabbed two of the remaining three bills. The first guy saw the second guy take two bills and proceeded to lean over to the third guy and say "are you just gonna let that guy take that extra dollar?"

The idea that social policies don't work in the U.S. because we have different races and cultures is bullshit propagated by the rich to prevent the masses from voting for policies that can benefit them, because the only way the U.S. could pay for those policies is if we made the rich go back to paying their fair share of taxes. And they've spent decades having the tax laws rewritten and finding loopholes in the remaining laws to ensure that they never have to do that again.

At the end of the day I'll keep voting for fewer taxes

If you want lower taxes in America, you'll need to make a lot more than 70k. Dems won't reduce taxes because they know we can't afford it with our national debt and Republicans will only lower taxes with any significance if you're rich or a corporation.

Europe isn't socialist. They have some social policies. Much of which are under strain as they are increasing their military budgets, now that they can't trust America to keep up the World Police act.

And Mamdani isn't trying to replace capitalism with socialism - he's trying to generate similar policies as the ones you mentioned in Europe.

Ask Germany how that Russia gas is. Seems odd to directly support Russia while they attack Ukraine, but I get it. Germany has no choice but to fund the machine.

And what does a European country buying gas from another country at fair market rates (aka capitalism) have to do with socialism or social policies?

My taxes might go up. I'll still get NOTHING from the government, since you know, I'm fucking rich at 70k a year in San Diego.

Why would your taxes in San Diego go up because New York City is enacting social policies that benefit their citizens on the other side of the country?

Must be nice to live in a country of 10 million that all look the same, talk the same, have the same cultural values and the same religion. You can't remotely compare that to 330 million diverse country that America is. We have every culture, religion and creed here. With all our diversity, we are constantly striving to understand each other.

Just what in the hell does racial, cultural, and religious diversity have to do with an economic system?

Besides, if you are talking about Norway, they are exporting global warming to make their 10 million citizens lives much more peachy.

Does your vehicle not run on putrified dinosaur juice? If it does, where do you get your sense of moral superiority?

I think the HEU is probably safely stored in a bathrom in Mar-a-Lago.

GrapheneOS, which this person was using, has features similar to what you describe. You can segment file system access so that each app has access to certain aspects on the primary storage mechanism (contacts, photos, messages, etc), or an empty clone (the app thinks it has access to those things so that it can perform its basic actions - it just thinks you don't have any contacts, photos, messages, etc). I believe it also has the ability to specify multiple user environments with different apps installed for each user.

You're not wrong, but if we have to go that far out of our way to safeguard information that is already protected by the Constitution, are we really living in the "land of the free and home of the brave"?

He was using GrapheneOS which has extra security protections in place. It disables the data pins of the USB port while the phone is locked via the firmware and the OS. Someone may be able to boot the device into some other environment and clone the file system, but it's encrypted and the key is kept in the secure enclave of the phone, so they would need to break that encryption.

I've read a lot about the security mechanisms of GrapheneOS and I'm extremely impressed. I imagine it has to have some weaknesses, but man they've gone to insane levels to secure it while still making it pretty usable and any countermeasures are going to require a lot of effort.