DOE is combining #1 and #2 to give us Nuclear Slop.

Hey, it was Barney Frank et al who perfected the practice of folding shit investments together while wrapping them in AAA ratings. Or, at least turning a blind eye to it so lenders would comply with his literal orders to sell more loans to high risk clients.

Hilariously, it was Bush II that famously warned everyone about it (https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/10/20081009-10.html)

I've heard this repeatedly from those with TDS.

Yet, it doesn't actually seem to work?

Has Trump pardoned a bunch of shitty people? Yep.
Then again, he didn't issue 'pre-emptive' pardons for his family, friends, crackhead son, etc yet, so there's that. Or how about 1500 commutations and 39 pardons on a single day? https://news.wttw.com/2024/12/...
I mean Kaboni Savage is a particularly awful person. I mean, "burnt a family alive and laughed about it" not "misvalued his commercial property" bad, amirite?

I see them *BOTH* as wrong. Do you? Presidential power has been growing grossly out of hand since LBJ.

Apparently a *lot* of people on Slashdot are completely fooled by the CCP propaganda.

And some of them are CCP propaganda, using multiple "sockpuppets" to both post and moderate.

Decades earlier — during Vietnam war — USSR was financing all of "peace" movements in the West in particular, while attacking the "Capitalist way of life" in general. It'd be quite foolish for China to not be doing the same now. Even more foolish would be for us to not realize, that they do.

At least a role model to the MAGA types: bigoted lying* anti-LGBTQ+ lout.

* Claims to be a founder of Tesla. Balderdash.

> I hope they mend all of that and become a Great Country, that they were, once again.

Which period are you referring to? They've always had an authoritarian gov't.

I will give China's gov't credit for putting R&D into solar and EV tech. They take a lot of guff for the coal thing, but since they don't have many petroleum fields, they arguably get a pass. They are on track to move away from coal in a few decades.

... "surgery" together, please. Gives me the heebies.

Are you stupid enough to think there are what, unpaid invoices?

NATO allies gathered at the Wales Summit in 2014 and signed the Defense Investment Pledge.

The commitment was explicit: All allies spending less than 2% of their GDP on defense promised to "move toward" that 2% target within a decade (by 2024). They also committed to spending at least 20% of their defense budgets on major new equipment and research.

For the first seven years of that decade, Europe largely dragged its feet. The numbers tell a story of persistent shortfall:
- According to European Commission data, if EU member states had actually met the 2% threshold between 2006 and 2020, it would have injected an extra â1.1 trillion into European defense.
- By 2021â"just three years before the deadlineâ"only 7 out of the 21 EU countries that were NATO members at the time were actually meeting the 2% target. Major economies like Germany, Italy, and Spain were hovering between 1.2% and 1.4%

You're retarded, by the way.

Shall we ask where inflation came from?
We had well over a decade, nearly two with near-zero interest rates (which was partly government jiggering the numbers but it was low) that seemingly exploded a handful a years ago.

SCrOTUS sed Prez = King

Correction: "somebody's".

The accusation alone can ruin somebody'd life.

Minister of Silly Walks

medieval castles spiral clockwise so attackers coming up the stairs can't use their sword arm - which is normally the right arm

So to take down a castle, send in your best lefties.

> anti-personal drone to detect "enablers" & pimps

Such may injure the Epstein Perps; can't do that, they are the Chosen Ones.