He quite literally said today, "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator." He's floating that balloon, seeing how much push back he'll get for it.

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That's how working in an office is. Our IT department is in an old part of the warehouse. High ceilings, basically a big box that echoes everything. The meeting rooms are just walls with no ceiling on them (They said this was for air filtration after covid - It's more likely due to fire regulations with sprinklers if the room had a ceiling on it). Because of this, the entire department hears everything from every meeting. And one of the older guys is fucking deaf, so anytime he's in a meeting, the phone volume gets turned up to a level that just absolutely breaks through any concentration I could have had.

I'm looking forward to the check for $3.18 that I'll be receiving in several years for this.

Give the babbling idiot some credit, he's not just economically illiterate.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER - SCC

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

You think the president demanding Intel's CEO to resign isn't technology related?

This would lead to situations where someone getting a raise could potentially lose money. It should be first x amount of income is tax free. Next x amount of income is taxed at this higher rate. After that, income between x and y is taxed at this rate. And any income beyond that is taxed at this rate. This is how it currently works, although tons of people don't understand that and are convinced that them getting a small raise will lower their take home income.

This could still very easily be implemented. Income $100,000/year, tax rate is 0. Income between $100,000-$149,000 tax rate is 5%, etc...

"But what about deductions for children/mortgage interest/etc?" Also a simple fix, raise the income brackets substantially, so the first $100k or so isn't taxed at all. This would help tons of people struggling currently. Of course there'd still need to be a way to deal with things like capital gains, and I'd also argue that wealth sitting in an account above a ridiculously high limit should also be heavily taxed. But this would likely be far more efficient and fair than the shit show we've currently got ourselves into.

I agree with your other points.

While we're on a pipe dream, throw in a UBI for EVERYONE that isn't subject to tax. Use taxes on AI and automation that's replaced workers to fund that. This would then be able to replace things like welfare and SNAP benefits, greatly reducing the amount of fraud (Not that this is all that huge of a deal now) and overhead that we're currently using to administer the existing programs.

They're certainly better at hardware. For years I had flagship Samsungs, a few of the Pixel models, even the Nexus (Which wasn't necessarily a flagship, but was the reference model for what an Android phone should be). Without fail, every single one of them crapped out shortly after the warranty expired. Things like bootloops that would brick the device, or they just would decide to not turn on one day. And I had one of the Samsungs that were known for catching fire, that was fun. I couldn't take it on trips with me because they were banned on aircraft, ships and even trains.

Apple certainly has their issues, and I much preferred Android to iOS, but not one of mine or my wife or kids' iphones have ever just stopped working, even the ones that are several years old and been passed down to the kids.

So now egg prices will come down? And thankfully I'm on a few medications, I heard I'm going to start getting paid for buying those too.

Anyone who voted for, or supports this clown is an idiot.

Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.

That's a bold strategy for a company who's trying to sell a mediocre Android phone as comparable to iPhone 16 and Pixel 9.

Somewhat unrelated, but I finally made the switch (back) to a Linux desktop several months ago. It seems like Cloudflare ALWAYS flags me for the "Are you human" test now. Same with Google's captcha.

I'm sure there's probably data backing this up, but would a Linux user agent really flag these systems as being more likely to be a bot? It's annoying as shit.

No, but they had a few deals on websites with codebases that had been updated in the last decade so they support encoding properly.

You should. The "sold by Amazon" shit comes from the same exact bin as the other sellers. So if any one of the sellers sends Amazon a batch of counterfeits, then ANY seller on Amazon, including Amazon themselves, can sell that counterfeit crap.

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The only time you're safe is if it's sold and shipped by the manufacturer, and at that point you're probably better off just ordering it directly from the manufacturer or from a retailer that doesn't co-mingle their stock.

If it's cheap shit that won't really be counterfeited, it's likely just shit being resold at a huge markup from alibaba, so just order it directly from them and wait a little longer to get it.

I always knew to not buy things like memory cards from Amazon, but the last bike chain I bought from them turned out to be a counterfeit that broke after a few hundred miles in the middle of a trip, nearly leaving me stranded. I was able to repair it roadside and ride back to my camp, but I couldn't trust the chain to do any more riding on that trip. That marked the end of me really buying anything from Amazon.

They're not replacing it with $0/hour AI, that shit is expensive. I doubt they're saving nearly as much in salary as they're claiming, and I'd be willing to bet they're getting far less value for that money than they were with actual humans. This is almost certainly an executive making some pretty wild claims so they can get a bonus and move on to another company before the investors figure it out.

There wasn't anything directed at voters.

They pulled Kristi Neom away from killing puppies long enough to produce ads trying to sell the public on shipping immigrants to concentration camps, but they didn't do anything like that for this budget bill to encourage people to call their representatives.

They don't give a flying fuck about what the voters want.