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Comment Re:Warm Fuzzies (Score 2) 82

He lost the popular vote. Twice. No one really liked Hillary, but more people showed up to vote for her than to vote for that clown anyway. If Real Americans believed for a second that he had a chance, they'd have shown up in numbers like they did in 2020. See, Real Americans can smell a conman like him a mile away. Speaking of 2020, he lost despite being an incumbent while also being blessed with a national crisis. Oh, and his opponent was a gaff machine with zero charisma! That's reelection on easy mode. All that moron had to do was rally the country around a common cause. He couldn't even manage that. Objectively, Joe had a great four years and so now has an impressive record to run on. Donnie, not so much. I seriously doubt the trailer park vote can save him this time.
God, I hope this is sarcasm, but I doubt it, so let me lay some facts out for you. Biden managed those 81 million votes while still winning far fewer counties than Obama did in 2012. That's the real achievement. Though given the outcomes I guess ol' sleepy Joe carried Obama in those two elections as well. Speaking of AI-trickery whatever became of those 51 intelligence official who signed that letter Hunter Biden's laptop was fake? I don't recall an apology or a reprimand or any sort of fallout for that particular bit of election interference.

Comment Re:It's only *your* SUVs that are bad. Ours are fi (Score 1) 301

Parisian locals do not drive SUVs. If they did they'd have almost no way of getting them into parking places near their houses. The SUV scourge on the city is from people in the suburbs commuting in and parking in the commercial districts. Residents aren't the problem here.
Cool so how long before we get the headline, Parisian commercial district hit with losses due to lack of customers, how could this have happened?

Comment Re:I find it curious.... (Score 1) 147

Isn't that strange? Whereas once upon a time, the far right was very much at odds with Russia, now they are a fifth column.
Isn't strange the left used to hate the FBI and their bag of dirty tricks, agent provocateurs etc. But now they love the FBI and want to act as citizen informants. Almost like both parties suffer from an authoritarianism streak, and only care about abuses of power when the boot is on their neck, not when their foot is in the boot.
They are still angry about the pee-pee tapes scandal, and well, if you are a Putin loving fifth column person, of course you hate all American intel. In their eyes, Mr Schulte is probably a hero, not a criminal.
Seek medical attention immediately your TDS appears terminal. Or are you ok with 51 fomer intel officers signing a letter found to be false and never explaining why they signed it or apologizing for getting it wrong?

Comment Re:Remove the beam from your own eye (Score -1, Troll) 93

They have bought into the Trumpian cult of victimhood. They imagine their personal lack of success is the fault of some nefarious group out to steal white men's precious bodily fluids. There isn't a news story out there, even if it was "cat rescued from tree" that doesn't somehow feed into that belief in their own righteous victimhood.
Oh boy, Kosdot in full effect I see(as of this reply parent post was +3 insightful). Let's check the bingo card, orange man bad, yep. Unironic use of victimhood by a woke individual unaware of the Marxist dialectic oppressed/oppressor that philosophy entails. And finally a bit of conspiracy theorycraft in a post-Covid world. Top Kek!

Comment Re:The stink of desperation is strong (Score 1) 87

Naa, the EU is not as stupidly lead as the US. You are free to ruin your own economy as much as you like though. Some say that concerted efforts to that effect have already been underway for a decade or longer.
I predict this comment will age as well as milk left in a hot car in July. LUL

Comment Re:Buick? (Score 1) 210

There must be a real dearth of sports cars in the US if you thought of Holden as something sporty. For the uninitiated, Holden sold large saloon (sedan) cars that were horribly unwieldly, the flagship models had downturned American V8s, a 6 litre LS that produced a whopping 270 KW. The Vette with the same era LS produced around 330 KW.
Just prior to their death in 2008, Pontiac brought over the Holden Monaro and rebadged it the GTO, It had a 6 liter V8 that wasn't completely anemic(and probably could have been modded slightly to unleash more power). That is probably where the grand parent poster got the Holden's are sporty idea. Not to mention the lion logo is way cooler than Buick's logo.

Comment Re:If you can get banks to lend you $billions... (Score 1) 196

As for the Rich Dad, Poor Dad guy... he did file bankruptcy in one of his many companies but it was due to an award of $27 million filed by a guy who claimed he was owed a cut in the speaking engagement revenue. That particular company only had about $17m and Robert had no obligation to pay from his other companies or personal assets so the company folded. It had nothing to do with financial mismanagement.
Since he was awarded 27 million I'd say his claim was pretty strong. Having liabilities(real, not this guys altered definition) exceed your assets(again) certainly sounds like financial mismanagement(not to mention I didn't think you could discharge legal claims via bankruptcy, IANAL though). As for all the geniuses running around talking about rental properties, it's a good idea until you buy into an overheated urban center, and then everybody discovers they can work from home, but that will never happen.

Comment Re:Taking her comments out of context (Score 1) 363

Maybe it's you who didn't learn. Osama wouldn't have either ability or reason to arrange 9/11 if US previously didn't fund him before for Afghanistan op(which gave him both power and connections to do what he did) and yet later insisted on supporting his enemies in Israel. Quite obviously the incompatibility of those allies was known from the start to relevant decision makers.
Look, Osama really didn't care about Israel as much as he cared about the US cock blocking his attempt to use Saddam's invasion in Kuwait to bring his newly minted Mujahideen and allow him(Osama) to replace the House of Saud. The fact we didn't see that coming and didn't lean harder on the Pashtuns to give him up when they got tired of his shit, is a failing of US intelligence. But hey no one ever said the US military was great at rebuilding a place they have helped to blow up.

Comment Re:What cheek these silly Europeans have! (Score 0) 89

What own companies? All the EU wants is for all tech companies to play by the rules that they design, and that means, among other things, that irresponsible spying on their citizens and stripping them off any privacy they may still have is not ok, along with causing havoc by spreading unfounded rumors and blatant misinformation. Yes, we do actually consider this a bad thing.
Bitch please, google or use your preferred search engine the phrase "14 eyes", then get back to me. This is about SAP and other euro tech businesses hoping that the EU with tip the scales in their favor. As for blatant misinformation, how hard is the EU cracking down on Tiktok?

Comment Re:Yawn (Score 1) 53

If you want meaningless praise, go watch marketing material.
Perhaps the parent poster is one of those Gen Z'ers I've been hearing so much about. Probably has a shelf full of participation trophies and wonders why no one thinks they are as special as mommy told them they were. Yes, old /. would laud interesting pet projects, and they would also mock pointless reskins of bad projects or wonder why it wasn't done in Perl or Lisp or some other esoteric language of choice. Only thing that has changed is there's no Katz articles about Geek culture and way too many crypto-currency articles. Oh and the general libertarian bent has been replaced with crypto-Trotskyite authoritarians(but I blame COVID for that).

Comment Re:fück cars but this is beautiful (Score 1) 78

More morons glorifying car culture is the last thing "Vice City" needs, but I'll be dammed if some of the shots in that trailer aren't perfectly spot on with reality and culture in "Vice City".
You can play Hogwart's if you want trains, and broomsticks as the main mode of transportation, or perhaps you can outside and yell at the kids on your lawn.

Comment Re:Burying their heads in the sand (Score 1) 93

Alcohol (maybe butanol) could be viable however. It's got a worse energy density than kerosene, but it's not awful (butanol is closer). Not too volatile, doesn't freeze easily, and it's very short chain. Thing is though it is worse, which means with a given amount of energy stored in the fuel, planes will be less efficient. But if it's easier to produce (less energy intensive), that will make it cheaper.
Alcohols are hygroscopic which means they will pick up water from the air making their energy per volume even worse.

Comment Re:Not (Score 1) 196

Objectively I would give Biden better odds because he seems to live a relatively healthy - if highly stressful - lifestyle. Trump, with his reputation of lifelong hedonism, could be one Big Mac away from a myocardial infarction.
Tell me you've never seen any footage of Joe Biden post 2016 without telling me you haven't seen any footage of Joe Biden post 2016. Joe Biden shows all the signs of severe cognitive decline, but hey if you like that the President doesn't who and where he is then Joe is certainly your man.

Comment Re:Not (Score 1) 196

Skin color and genitalia. Pure and simple.
Grand parent poster asked what was objectionable about her, not why she got the VP nod, despite dropping out of the Presidential primaries before a vote was even cast. Short answer, she's unauthentic. Longer answer, she was pretty bad as a DA, with the aforementioned Cannabis hypocrisy. She hasn't really accomplished anything, her tenure as a Senator was pretty uninspiring, and she first got her start in politics by virtue of being Willy Brown's mistress(don't take my word for it check the LA Times circa 1994). There are some youtube supercuts where she gives the same speech regardless of event, and it is as bad a Sarah Palin's word salad.

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