Trump is taking about sending $2000 checks to everybody from tariff revenue. Where does he get that authority?
The whole pile of cards is rotten. Quibbling about which President is worse is just more clickbait, whether you like the word or not.
> The President can only direct funds at his discretion if the Congress has allocated those funds for him.
Well, in theory. Biden tried several times to soak taxpayers for student loans without Congressional approval, and that was up to a trillion dollars all told. Trump kept trying to divert funds for his wall.
If you think "falling" for Trump's trolling over this measly export tax is silly, take it up with the many pundits both pro and con who think it is worth their clickbait.
I don't remember now, other than not being some hysterical TDS-ridden pundit. It may have been what was planned then, it may have been the kind of hints Trump likes flicking out, I don't remember. If you say it isn't now, I'll give that more credence, but everything Trump does changes daily.
I do not think it goes into his pocket. But last I read of it, it goes into a fund controlled by the President -- a slush fund, in olden terms.
Just as he does not personally own the US Steel golden shares which were the price for allowing the sale to the Japanese. But the President personally controls those shares, and he personally has veto over everything US Steel does.
One of the alleged differences between socialism and fascism is that a socialist government owns the means of production while a fascist government "merely" controls them. It's a distinction without a meaningful difference.
The big picture point is, he claimed banning the export of those chips to China was a matter of national security. Now it turns out that paying an unconstitutional 25% export tax into a fund controlled by the President makes the national security aspect vanish. There are names for this kind of corruption.
It is to the advantage of AI porn sites to edge but not allow release for the user, for continued engagement and more marketing opportunity.
Trump told us it was a matter of national security to ban selling these precious chips to China. Now he tells us 25% for the big guy can make that problem go away.
Sounds pretty cheap to me. So much for the Art of the Deal.
I've just realized that with the M-type gimps in typical configuration you could use a modified ball gag to augment the anal collection and only need 25 of them. Proper gimpsuits for the outdoor temperature would ensure a longer collection period to avoid hypothermia before the phone is charged.
I've seen tenth of a watt with 50 degree C temperature differential reported. So on a brisk winter day of -17 C you'd need 50 friends or johns or M type gimps to prostrate themselves in a circle with their exposed rumps in the air towards the center, and from your pivot man position in the center jam a silicone heat sink greased JTEC up each their asses to get the 5W to charge a smartphone.
Nonsense, Russia can't and won't attack any NATO country. Russia does not have the means to stand up to NATO in either conventional or nuclear war. It would end them. Their expansion is limited to Ukraine and they're struggling there. Your hypothetical trillions to defend and scare mongering about an "emboldened Russia" are just fiction.
We sent $24 billion just to prop up Ukrainian government salaries to the end of December 2024 alone, parasites.
We are getting low on several critical munitions because we're wasting them on Ukraine, and Ukraine continues to lose even now. It's good money after bad, a waste. Zelenskyy and his oligarchs have his gravy train from fighting Russia down to the last Ukrainian and last acre of Ukraine.
It is not cost effective to waste our money and munitions on a losing war.
Johnson claims 40 - 60 % efficiency with large temperature spread of 600 degrees C.. and that's beautiful and wonderful.
Thus far experiments at lower temperature differences have been done, I see on net 180 degrees with 17 percent which actually is ok too. The theoretical max there would be 38 percent.
But, anything near the 40 to 60 percent theoretical value hasn't been demonstrated in repeatable experiment, he's working up to that. So, is Johnson just overhyped about the invention or can he (or anyone) deliver? for that matter, even 20 percent at lower temp differences might be good for a lot of things anyway.
You're hilarious, I'm a third generation U.S. citizen.
I don't give a shit about either Russia or Ukraine problems, fuck 'em both. I care about my tax dollars propping up sponges, and that means Ukraine.
Your little pea brain can't comprehend someone not swallowing the B.S. narrative fed to them by the Biden administration to support this stupid war.
Nope!
OpenBSD has the luxury by fiat that users will accept utterly breaking API for previous versions, to say you must recompile all apps for the new 32 bit time_t; not a big deal the way the distro is put together, if you use their thousands packages you're fine, they did the work for you. OpenBSD users are fine with the "flag day break the past" approached, explained, promised and delivered.
Not the case in Linux land, utterly different situation. They promise and keep backward compatibility of 32 bit libraries. No flag day promised, threatened or allowed. Your 32 bit Linux will die in 2038, deal with it.
What a juvenile you are, calling anyone not brainwashed to support the proven neonazi government of Ukraine a "Russian." Grow up, little boy.
The real poll shows your lies:
Are anything replacing Java and COBOL for big finacial wares the big iron runs with decades old libraries? The mid sized stuff is going to C# which has a Windows curse countries outside the USA hate and Python which is 34 years old.
So 25 to 50 years out it'll be those for core business except Microsoft in coding space will collapse with ai and other unfocused clippy-ism.
Systems programming might go to Rust
No, we understood the author but he had no valid point.
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