Confiscate foreign investment? Already happened. USA robbed Russias bank accounts of 300 billion dollars. The whole world stood up and took notice. Why do you think there is such a push for BRICS? Which will have its own currency that the Americans can't touch.

This is yet another predictable side effect of people misunderstanding the stimulus and response reflex of capitalism: Apply dollars, make things happen more.

I have played a handful of FTP games and put a not insignificant amount of time into them... but never any money. If I don't get to own the thing, defined by being able to use it (not even "as I see fit", just at all — but on my schedule) then I won't pay more for the thing than it's worth to me right now, like going to see a movie. If I don't get the server, or if there's DRM which requires activation, that severely reduces what I'll pay.

LLMs invent invalid moves. It is somewhat miraculous that they can sometimes generate valid ones, but the real miracle is that people think there is intelligence there. It's a miracle for the people selling "AI" anyway.

It's very common for mechanics to be required to provide their own tools.

It's California law that you cannot require an employee to provide their own tools, unless you are paying them at least twice the minimum wage. This is true in general, not just for auto shops. I worked in an RV shop. I had to provide my tools. I got in a wage dispute over it. I received a settlement.

Only the low-end guys in the shop don't typically have to provide tools.

"No. That is a rare skillset."

It's less rare now than ever before, and becoming less rare thanks to howtos and cheap equipment.

If only Democrats were capable of lying. If they had lied and said they knew what a woman is, all of this could have been avoided and Officer Harris could be back to jailing black men for weed.

Democrats don't know what a woman is. in the beginning, God made zman in the image of himself. That's overtly hostile. But come on, we already know what Democrats, Europeans and the entire world think of American Christians.

Covid. Gov : " A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely origin of COVID-19. Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability."

This will weaken the fascist racist US state and can only be applauded.

Haha. Americans are bigots and can't stand living in other countries. It's the smell. BTW European research funding is a joke.

The USA was always a fascist world bully that nobody wanted. Now these racists are getting what they deserve? Excellent!NIH lied about COVID-19 as COVID.gov tells us in fact checked truth.

Understand this is not what it seems. This is the swamp being drained by Trump and the swamp doesn't like it one bit. This swamp is utterly hostile to the American people, as the COVID fraud revealed. See COVId.gov "By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasnâ(TM)t."

As we have seen, the 2a nuts mostly don't do shit. The only time he's allegedly been attacked is one of the most obvious false flag operations of all time. I wish I were shocked to see so many on this site fall for it, but I already knew there were loads of idiots here.

This EXACTLY. They are getting NOTHING. In fact they are losing everything, and owning themselves HARDER than "the libs." And they're asking for it to happen more.

Apparently the bill just passed, so it looks like they are getting it.

You never worked in a shop, I take it.