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Comment Re:Why is this headline written to be scary? (Score 1) 201

Colbert was fired with BS reasons;

Yet he remains on the air thru May, odd.

I thought Trump was better at firing people than that - the late night network shows are bloated wastes of money - Kimmel has a staff of 200 people? Seriously? The audience is leaving, and the networks see no reason to keep loosing money running those shows.

Comment Re:Economic terrorism (Score 1, Informative) 201

We need more Joe Bidens and Barack Obamas.
If immigration was a problem, there was a humane way to solve it.

Remember when we called Obama the Deporter In Chief? How many people did Obama deport, do you remember?

As a reminder, the Biden administration actually flew planes to foreign countries, picked up asylum seekers, and flew them directly into America, because they insisted we needed ever more asylum seekers, and they needed to reduce the numbers crossing the biorder on foot.

Comment Re:Economic terrorism (Score 0) 201

When a court rules against an Executive Agency are they "undermining the ability of the current government to execute policy."?

Yes, remember when SCOTUS blocked Biden from forgiving student debt, dems complained.

When John Boehner said about Obama's agency and I quote "“We’re going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.” was he undermining?

You don't remember Democrats wailing about republicans declaring they opposed Obama's plans? Really? They called it un-American as I recall... right up until Trump won in 2016, they they proudly declared themselves the resistance, out to thwart Trump's agenda.

Comment Re:Economic terrorism (Score 0) 201

And yet it's the Democratic leadership in the Congress forcing the issue on releasing all the documented evidence about the Epstein mess,

Cute, you act like Democrats were somehow prevented from releasing the Epstein documents under Biden, and insist that Trump isn't prevented from releasing them like Biden (apparently) was...

Why didn't Biden release the documents in 2021? 2022? 2023? Or 2024?

Comment Re: Who Needs Price Tags (Score 1) 108

Running a disorganised cut price shop seems counter-intuitive as you'll just drive customers away.

And they'll go where? The other "disorganized cut price shop" two blocks over? Until the economy (or at least their personal finances) the average dollar store shopper shops there out of necessity, not choice. If they could go somewhere else they would.

Comment The numbers (Score 1) 166

An anonymous reader shares a report: The average American now holds onto their smartphone for 29 months, according to a recent survey by Reviews.org, and that cycle is getting longer. The average was around 22 months in 2016.

For people to hold on to devices for 22 months in 2016 means they were holding on to 2014 era devices. An iPhone 6 cost $600 in 2014.

For people to be holding on to devices for 29 months in 2025 means they are holding on to 2022 era devices. An iPhone 14 in 2022 cost $800.

Perhaps people hold on to them because replacements cost more, not less, than the device to be replaced?

When talking about computers, you'd think half the world was still running Win 10 computers that were too old for Win 11 (without hacks) the way everyone was talking last month about Win 10 EOL...

Comment Re: freight rail gets in the way in the usa! (Score 1) 222

1) HSR needs to travel at a multiple of the speed of highway traffic to be considered HSR by most people, I suspect. If a HSR train travelled down the median of a highway and the trains travelled at the same speed as traffic (60-80 MPH), what's the benefit (aside from reduced carbon), and you travel to/from train stations (not your driveway) and on the HSR train's schedule (not whenever you want)...

2) The issue isn't the land between cities, it's the land near the cities - If I'm running a train from Chicago to Denver, for example, there's very little "public land" the Gov't could just give HSR lines, and if you have to put the HSR station 20 miles outside downtown Denver of Chicago, that alone becomes a barrier to access (sure add a bus/light rail line, but that only slightly impacts the issue of access from anywhere inside Denver of Chicago, for example).

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