A well-placed donation has brought pardons to many with this administration.

Who is going to get China and the rest of the world to agree to your ban? And even if you could somehow get them to agree, would you trust them? They certainly are not going to trust you.

Cars and trucks have continued to get very expensive in the US. The consumers are being asked to bend over. We buy Chinese made phones, for reasons we all understand. It would cost a lot more if they were made here. Same applies to cars. The automakers and the politicians are screwing over the consumer. And some (many?), in our midst are too dumb to see it.

I hate flossing. And yes, while I am skeptical, I will gladly part with $500 if this actually works.

I think most of us should try to pause our non-essential purchases. I can understand that Amazon has to increase prices because of component costs going up. But, we are not forced to play this game. Most of us can hold out with the gear we already have. If enough of us did that, and I think many will, it will cause a sharp decline in demand. And that might actually help the component shortage problem after a while.

The frontier AI labs are losing billions of dollars every quarter. The open source Chinese models are getting really really good. The music will eventually stop.

It was in the news yesterday. Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have formed a NATO like pact. Saudi Arabia has mostly realized that it cannot rely on the US. Most others have come to the same conclusion and are quickly evaluating their own nuclear weapon options. In this case, they are aligning with someone else that has nukes.

It is surprising to me that a minority party has gained so much power in politics that it can blatantly and shamelessly screw over voters and then give a middle finger to anyone who complains.

> This is Bitkeeper all over again. That was the last time Torvalds made a "pragmatic" decision, effectively locking out a large number of kernel devs from kernel development, until he was forced to build Git to replace it.

We now have the benefit of hindsight and can say that Linus was stupid to not have started out by building git first or trying to use a different tool that was not a good for the job. Only if he had listened to us armchair generals on the Internet he might have actually amounted to something.

> Wall Street is going to barf this IPO out faster than a cat's wet hairball!

I am not so sure. We appear to be in a strange bubble. Currently, many garbage producing companies are worth more than companies producing real value.

> I would hope that self-driving cars would allow me to keep my autonomy as my eyesight is getting weaker ... I considers these vehicles, in their current state to be too dangerous to be on public roads.

Roughly 6 millions accidents are reported in the US alone every year. And approximately 43,000 people die on the road every year.

For us to make progress on this front, we have to put these cars on the road and learn from their mistakes. There is no other good way to develop this tech. If these cars were causing tremendous amount of damage to people and property, then yes, they should not be out there. But, data suggests that they are not doing that. Data also suggests that these cars are getting better and safer with each mile traveled.

If you have a better, safer alternative for us to develop this much needed tech, please share.
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> Go, fuck, and yourself. Cunt.

I am truly curious. What part of the parent post offended you?

I was abducted and probed by aliens. I tried telling this to govt. people. They did not take my claims seriously and think that I am some kind of kook.

Do you need further proof that our govt. is in on the grand conspiracy and is full of corrupt bureaucrats?

If you got $138B or so in Bitcoin that you did not really earn, are you really that worried about paying taxes?

> Were you AROUND in the late 1990s? The President got impeached after years of the cable news networks talking about LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE.

I remember those years. A scandal could last years. Now I wake up to a new scandal every other day. Public is so swamped with these political scandals that they do not know what to focus on. Every new scandal dilutes the previous one and starves it of attention. And some people give up trying to keep track. They are exhausted. And many others land in the disbelief zone.

The self dealing is so much that the sitting president putting his image on coins and signature on currency barely makes the news. If Obama had done any of these things, the mad screeching of conservatives would be out of control. He faced their wrath when he wore a tan suit.

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