Just because you've heard this repeated again on talk radio and conservative media just does not make it true, sorry. I know Republicans have moved past the idea of fact and truth but the rest of us still have to live in reality.

So why did DOGE, an office given unprecedented access, sometimes even illegal access to every government agencies records and information failed to find anything. They basically only "fed USAID into a woodchipper" and killed a few hundred thousand people and then fucked off having found close to nothing mounting to the billions or trillions of waste and fraud I've been told by people like you my entire life.

You have all 3 branches, you had them in 2016, you had them in 2003, 2005, 2015. So where is it? Let me guess. "Uniparty". "Deep State". "Other unknowable unprofitable enemy". It's so so boring at this point.

Then they'd only be worth $950,000,000 -- oh noooo ... !
Somehow, I think they'll be fine.

If they were so flippantly able to break their own laws then why pass the bill at all? Just tax the money anyways right if the law doesn't have to be followed?

Until a President replaces them with lackeys who'll do his bidding and SCOTUS (again) says it's okay. So far, pretty much the only independent entity (agency, commission, etc...) the Court hasn't waffled on, especially under this administration, is The Federal Reserve.

Supreme Court Prepares to Dismantle Independent Agencies in Favor of Partisan Chaos (Oct 2025)

Nissan? Isn't that Japanes?

While I agree with you the poster's hyperbolic analogy was off the mark. And perhaps now I'm being a bit off topic, but I do need approval from my county government to add an electrical outlet to my house. I think the permit was around $150. Luckily I am allowed to do the work myself, so I don't need to hire anyone licensed.
Turns out having a society means there are rules in order to coexist. Ideally rules that benefit people in that society and if it is democratic in any way, that people mostly agree to follow on principle rather than on threat.

When ADHD negatively impacts your life, it is time to seek treatment options. Medication can be very effective in most individuals, and both children and adults have a lot of self-doubt tied up into the troubles with executive function that ADHD/ADD bring.

While it is true that modern public school systems, especially how they operate in the United States, was in many ways designed to create obedient factory workers for the industrial revolution. That sufferers of ADHD don't thrive in that environment is a symptom of a greater challenge that individual is facing, simply removing our arcane repressive education system doesn't suddenly fix everything for someone with ADHD. I completely agree with the sentiment that public schools are not looking out for what is in the best interest of the children. A problem that exists for children that don't have ADHD as well. But even in a home school environment, the outcomes for someone with untreated ADHD is not encouraging. Not just academic outcome, but psychological, emotional, and relationship outcomes as well.

Pick from any of the following:
-- Don't be good
-- Don't be sensible
-- Don't be responsible
-- Don't be averse to being a dickhead

It would be great if somebody sponsored a "choose a new motto for Google" contest. Maybe Louis Rossman - he'd likely have the balls to do it if YouTube wasn't so important for him. Hell, he might do it anyway - he seems like a really scrappy give-zero-shits kind of guy.

By the end of this migration Tesco will know a LOT about what's needed to wean oneself from VMware. They will also have developed a lot of contacts with other software and service providers.

Wouldn't it just be a shame if they leveraged the newfound expertise and contacts to help other businesses escape the fucking-over that Broadcom is delivering? And wouldn't it also be a shame if they spearheaded the creation of a new offering to compete with VMware, and made a little money while putting the screws to the company causing them so much grief?

The ultimate best outcome would be the end of VMware. Probably won't happen, but it's nice to dream.

I remember reading somewhere that Apple kind of foresaw this coming and purchased extra memory so they wouldn't have to raise prices as long as possible.

It looks like they've reached the end of their extra supply.

Loss leader is a strategy of using the power of capital to win market share. Instead of innovation, production, or hard work to produce a better product or better value for the consumer. Winning on your own merits hasn't been part of our economic system as far as I know. (while China claims to be communist, they readily participate in the same global market as everyone else)

You would think that with a former-lawyer as the prime minister now it would get sorted

You'd think that with a former human rights lawyer as the prime minister, he wouldn't be so keen on shitting on human rights.

No for Starmer, everything was just a stepping stone on his career ladder.

It's weird but he's a vacuum. He doesn't appear to stand for anything in particular. This is why none of the decisions make much sense as a whole, why there's no coherence, why he has no articulated vision, why the policies are a complete mishmash.

But it's weirder. He doesn't even seem to stand for enriching himself beyond career climbing. He's somewhat non corrupt as these things go (I mean the glasses thing was dumb shit but small fry on the scale of these thing).

So sure he knows about the courts and human rights and etc but he doesn't stand for any of them.

Actually scratch that.

Judging him by what he's achieved, about the only thing he has been consistent on is a kind of petty authoritarianism with him in charge. This isn't even to say he hasn't done anything good (he manifestly has), but as part of a weird directionless morass (nationalise the trains, but repeat water company press releases about why that's impossible for water, for example).