The article says “Junuary”.

This whole domain is just AI slop and it should be banned.

This “author” isn’t a human being.

This article was written by AI and its pretty obvious.

What happened to 0x10^C ya bigoted fuckkkk I liked the concept of that one

Imagine, if she hadn’t started smoking, at, say, twenty, your 90 year old grandma could be 110 by now.

I think every major power has plans to attack their neighbors “just in case”. I would be SHOCKED if the USA didn’t have plans to invade Canada and Mexico, for example.

100%. This is why I’m stocking up now. Fishing is a good, cheap, fun hobby and if everything is gonna be more expensive, I’d rather prep and spend a little more now and have access to it in the coming years.

I’ve been getting all my fishing gear from Ali Express waaaaaay cheaper than Dicks or Bass Pro or what have you so I’ve been stocking up for the coming year at least.

A lot of it is the same exact stuff you’d find Stateside but I don’t have to pay a mark up so Walmart or whoever can pay their shareholders and C-staff. Some of the products, namely fishing line, are better than what I can find here because they’re meant for export to the Japanese market which is apparently more interested in the smaller fish I target anyhow.

Edit: to expand on this, I can get 500m of 6 lbs test (equivalent) coated multicolor (changes colors every 10m so I can see how much line is out) braid for $13. There’s like ONE company with a similar product Stateside and it’s $19 for 150 ft of line. I pair this with filling a little less than half my reel with cheapo monofilament backing and end it with a more expensive but still cheaper than US fluorocarbon leader and I have enough line to fill my spool three to five times over for less than it would cost me to get one spool’s worth of the braided mainline.

The rods and reels are obviously lower quality, but honestly, the difference between my $65 Pflueger reel and my $12 brand-invented-just-for-Ali-Express one is largely that the knob on the Pflueger reel is more comfortable. I looked into getting just a knob from Pflueger but they make that complicated and expensive. I could probably get another reel for the same cost, including shipping.

And the fish don’t care about knock offs or slight defects.

Lures are somewhat expendable anyhow. I can pay $9 for a single Kastmaster spoon or $3.12 for a set of 3, in different colors, with rooster tails that attract the fish better.

I’m mostly targeting bass, trout, pickerel and other sub 15 lbs. lake fish. Maybe if I were targeting bigger fish or surf fishing, it would make more sense to buy quality over quantity. Though I’ve seen some very good looking carp fishing products there which simply aren’t available in America (as carp fishing is just much more popular in China) but I find carp fishing boring.

The tariffs are fucking stupid. Sure, it could make the $9 lure more competitive by upping the cost of the imported ones, but that just leaves me with less money in my pocket. It doesn’t help the consumer.

That’s the joke!

Eyyyy rapist president, just as the founding fathers intended!

This is a photo, not a news article.

Dang Trump already assumed office huh

I’ve been really considering one but I’m not sold yet.

I’ve been wanting a tablet or small laptop to do some minor computer stuff sitting on the couch, like looking up recipes or updating budget sheets, researching new products, but I couldn’t justify the cost of either considering its a fairly minor upgrade to my “workflow” vs the phone or sitting at my desktop.

But now my Note 20 5G is aging. The back plastic popped off (though I bet I can glue it back on), the screen is cracked in a way that doesn’t really matter and one of the back camera glass covers also has cracked. Otherwise, it’s been functioning fine, so I can keep using this for another year or so, but it’s also an opportunity to look at the foldable.

I’m looking at the Samsung Galaxy Fold 6, but I’d honestly rather get the Honor Magic V3, since it’s pretty much the same specs at a lower price, but I’m in the US so importing one seems tricky.

I held a coworkers and one small benefit I didn’t realize when looking at ads was that when folded, it’s thinner than the Note so it would be easier to operate with one hand.

I’m actually really not concerned about foreign governments spying on me but I am bothered by my own government, the guys with the guns who can arrest me, doing it.

Tho I suspect if the government is recommending ways to avoid messages being intercepted, they’ve already cracked how to intercept them.

Sounds to me like it’s some government operation we’re not supposed to concern ourselves with.

I think these are very reasonable points and the hypothetical is poignant, but it’s important to remember that corporations aren’t reasonable people, they don’t behave like reasonable beings and they get a system of justice totally different than you or I.

So one doesn’t need to be reasonable in any aggression against them, just disruptive.

Once it stops making money.

Personally? Gotta use it at work. I don’t at home.

I wonder what the mental calculus about this is, considering that Biden knows a fucking moron is going to have to handle the fallout

Hey I’ve been on a Spirit flight.

I get it.

Goddamn right!!

The only thing I need on a screen is the GPS, everything else is an annoyance.