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It’s all a distraction, and follows the recipe of ur-fascism: there has to be an enemy that is easily identifiable, easily targetable, and yet somehow poses insurmountable danger…

I mean… she’s probably still a better option than the conservacunt opponent. But I agree that there have to be better candidates and she should be immediately replaced.

well, he’s corrupt in an incredibly transparent manner…

And if you actually read my comment I was addressing the fact that EVEN WITHOUT TARIFFS consumer prices wouldn’t have dropped.

But please keep on going on about the tariffs when we’re talking about what would’ve been without them.

TBF I was going all out 😂but yeah the fact that my build essentially tripled in price is insane.

NYPD could do the funniest by actually protecting people and regaining some confidence from the public.

I doubt it will be fixed without a major shift in the average American attitude. Yall over the pond still put too much emphasis on “everyone to their own devices”, rugged individualism ideology. It clearly doesn’t work.

But for the average American to understand that uplifting the lowest of the society literally helps EVERYONE (except the ultra wealthy capitalists) to a better life. Americans need to understand that chasing the possibility of becoming one of the elites, one of the billionaires - which, let’s be honest, is a daydream at best for 99.999% of the population - is not what life should be about. You don’t have to have 80%+ of the country suffering just to enable 0.001% to live like kings and the 19.99% to live an okay life. We have the technology, the science, the ability to ensure that baseline quality of life for literally everyone on this planet.

It just needs to come down to everyone having the base understanding that it’s not the [insert today’s favourite minority group to alienate]s causing their issues, but the capitalists seething the culture war so they can get richer.

And Dems are the problem too. They’re just as deep in the shit as the Republicans. Both parties need to be disbanded, most members banned from holding a public office, and then a reform wave of progressives needs to happen - ban lobbying, ban financial donations above a certain amount (I’d say $1000 per person per year is a valid limit), strict campaigning guidelines, and strict penalties for not delivering campaign promises. Keep your politicians in check, have a proper recall procedure, term limits, transparency in financials as a baseline, and so on.

You’re partially right. The issue is that most Americans seem to be content with conservative leaders while things are good - both culturally and economically.

And when things turn to shit, like they always do with conservative leaders, they will vote in a progressive one and “put up” with progressive policies - which are usually long term helpful - until they fix that shit.

And the moment things are looking better, they go right back to conservatives.

You can look back the past 60 years and the pattern is clear: conservative presidents and congress emerge when the economy is good, they’re handed a golden package that would literally keep improving if they literally did nothing, but nevertheless they came in, fucked shit up, caused a recession, that triggered a progressive leader who came in and fixed it, then immediately once the economy was back on track, another conservative was voted in…

The only outlier would be Bush W, who got voted in right at the dot-com bubble burst, and stayed on until the 2007-08 crisis that got Obama elected

Given the stance of the world I fully expect the award to be for “satiating the murderous urges of the ultra wealthy elite by his continued support of the world’s most prominent child sex trafficking”.

Don’t forget adjudicated rapist from the list. And insurrectionist traitor.

She’s a certified dumbass.

NOBODY who would’ve voted for her cares about Trump calling her a slur. Nor would they change their vote because of that.

And NOBODY who cares about the orange shitstain’s oral diarrhoea would change their vote just because she made this proclamation.

However, those who would’ve voted for her, are mostly appalled by her transphobic stance and now are expected to vote for someone else in numbers big enough for her to lose.

Something something controlled opposition…

Nah, Trump is rightfully blamed, but so is the greed he literally enables.

Who the fuck talked about tariffs?

The claim was that WITHOUT tariffs consumer prices would’ve fallen. I’ve just explained why even without tariffs, prices would’ve gone up or at least stayed the same…

Somehow I highly doubt that.

No matter the market situation, prices just go up. Remember when during COVID, all the super/hypermarkets have “sadly” reported that they need to up the prices due to the supply chain issues, then promptly forgot to take off that extra 30-60% increase when those supply chain issues evaporated, and reported record high profits?

It’s the same exact shit. Any savings there would be, these asshole megacorps will swallow just to appease shareholders.

Fridge temperature sensors are super useful to notice if you accidentally left the door open.

Similarly, sensors in a coffee machine are useful to detect limescale buildup, water level, etc.

The issue isn’t the data but the fact that these “smart” devices aren’t local-first.

I built my PC in 2024. Okay specs - 7950X3D, 2x 48GB DDR5-6400, 4090, 1+4TB Samsung 990, all watercooled. About £4k total.

Today I could sell that PC for about 10-12k. RAM was originally £300, now it’s £1800 IF you can buy it. The storage also cost me around £400, today, easily £1500.

No, I don’t think that blower fan will be a good replacement for an Mk3s+.

See, one is a 3D printer, and the other is a fan.

Re: no glue

Indeed don’t use glue sticks - or if you must, PREHEAT the bed before applying the glue, the heat helps form an even layer you won’t really get with regular glue sticks.

I know it’s expensive but I’ve had extremely good results with 3DLAC’s bed spray. It applies evenly, doesn’t stink like hairspray, isn’t as gunky and sticky to get rid of, and even the worst offenders against bed adhesion have printed like magic after a single coat.

Of course none of this alleviates washing the damn thing with basic dish soap. I do spray mine afterwards with some isopropyl alcohol, but that’s mostly to speed up the drying, not to clean it.

They’ve been pushing it for ages, especially the “ID yourself for adult content” laws.

It’s partly to indeed combat the AI/machine noise of the internet, but also to improve their own dataset of people. What kind of porn you watch. What kind of “adult” products you buy (soon to include knives, kitchen and garden tools, etc., because “blade”), they want to know EVERYTHING.

Not just so your ads can be targeted, but because these companies want to replace governments, and that data will be extremely useful to push people into specific roles.

Oh, you’re a rebellious anarchist? Well enjoy the shitty life or we tell people about your kinks - and I 100% guarantee there will be fabricated ones too. Everyone has secrets, and these companies want to learn them all to have absolute control over you.

Not just 17 - two weeks away from being 18.

In ANY other criminal case, she would’ve been treated as if she was an adult, over 18.