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Comment Re:What companies still pay for periodicals? (Score 1) 85

DOGE reported on many thousands of subscriptions to things that were being paid for by the taxpayers.

Given their track record, I think it'd be more accurate to say DOGE reported thousands of times on the same one subscription being paid for by the taxpayers, because it appeared on multiple databases, no one at DOGE normalized those because they have no idea how to do that, and as a result the cost informed in their report was falsely inflated by three orders of magnitude.

Comment Re: We're ready for more national firewalls (Score 1) 143

Once Trump's tariffs kick in and the inflation pressure amplifies, Americans will be in the streets calling for his resignation.

Some will. His devouts will think something along these lines:

"Sure, prices are high, but that's because they are attacking the US, and killing babies, and mutilating children, and then grooming those mutilated children into going to their secret pizzeria underground dungeons where they're raped and then sacrificed to Beelzebub, all the while their invading hordes of international military cat-and-dog eating gangs roam the cities causing riots, because they hate 'Murica and must be stopped! And He's stopping them! So higher prices are a small price to pay for Saving Freedom and Democracy and the 'Murican Dream and Way of Life!!!1!11!!"

And so will adamantly oppose any call they may make for Trump to step down.

Comment 15-years-old "children"? (Score 0) 26

15-years-old are children? What kind of nonsense is this?

I understand wanting to prevent actual children, that is, those up to 11-years-old, from watching unvetted content. And providing a transition period on a curve once someone leaves childhood at 12 years of age and becomes a pre-teen, then a teen at 14.

But calling those in the 12-to-15 bracket "children" is an utter and complete absurd!

Comment Re:Just buy the patent (Score 1) 72

Why would it be cheaper for the government to buy than the expected profit?

It might be worth it when a government factors in: a) the costs of treating obesity-related illnesses in public healthcare networks for countries with universal healthcare, which are most of them, and b) the reduced productivity caused by obesity, which leads to a non-insignificant reduction on GDP and in taxes collected, versus c) the cost of the buying the patent outright, plus d) the cost of manufacturing it in great enough quantity to, again in universal healthcare countries, distribute it for free to the population.

If a+b << c+d, it'd make "National Interests" levels of economic sense. And even more so if that was done by an international organization backed by several such governments.

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