Billiam

Yeah, that’s not a deal. That’s capitulation.

I volunteer as tribute!

HEY CHUMPS! Y’ALL GOT PLAYED BY A CONMAN! MUSK AND TRUMP DON’T GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT ANY OF YOU! MAYBE THINK ABOUT THAT FOR ANY FUTURE ELECTIONS, HUH?

Some of us predicted this.

The rest of us wanted this.

When the band plays “Hail to the Chief”
Ooh, they point the cannon at you

What is the opposite of thoughts and prayers?

My wife and I are going out on a date for dinner. What’s on your menu?

Clearly Big Fluoride isn’t paying off the right people!

They’ll just dodge the issue by insisting that being LGBTQ is a choice.

You then ask them two follow-ups:

1. Why would anyone choose to be LGBTQ, when they treat anyone like that as poorly as they do, and

2. When did they decide to be cishet, and what factors did they evaluate when they made their choice?

I did say I use Firefox. I was asking those who don’t.

Yes, I already do.

I asked because I don’t know if anyone who does use a Chromium browser has noticed an uptick in ads.

Last I checked Alphabet had something like $60 billion in profit.

At this point, they probably consider YouTube to be a loss leader while they siphon up everyone’s data.

I use Firefox. Is Ublock Origin still effective on YouTube since Google shoved out Manifest V3 onto Chromium-based browsers?

You must have missed this part:

Tesla instead found an unusually lucrative way to make money by flipping many of the off-lease cars to new buyers, according to four people familiar with Tesla’s retail operations.

THEY LITERALLY ARE DOING THAT.

But looking around these days, I see more and more people disagreeing with me.

Yes, clearly everyone else is wrong.

Wait- do you think that Tesla taking back leased cars and selling them as new is less important than adding new features via a software update?

You know that scene in Matilda when her dad shows her all the shady shit he does to sell junk cars, like rewinding the odometers and glueing the bumpers on? This is literally the 21st century version of that.

If you buy a car that doesn’t have all the “modern features” you want, that’s on you, even if those features can simply be enabled via software. But it’s literally fraud to advertise a car as new when it was previously leased out.

You’re not wrong, but that’s not the logical endpoint of the argument.

If they’re not “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States” then the US has no ability to exercise any kind of authority over them, regardless of whether they’re people or property.

Under that argument, the US government legally or logically can not detain, deport, or traffic any noncitizens. It’s obviously an absurd thing to say.

It’s obvious, right?

In exchange for amplifying the right on Twitter and bankrolling Trump with cash, the GOP allowed Musk to eliminate the government agencies that were investigating him for his shitty business practices.

I read that as “we’re denying fewer claims because that was the reason our CEO got shot.”

Exactly like how USA got Bush/Cheney at the helm!

Kinda like a court saying “This ruling is so bad it only applies in this case and can’t be used as precedent in future cases.”

HEYWAITAMINUTE

It takes at least a month to ship things from China to the US. I’ve got a post in my history going over the math.

If the ports are empty now, that means ships stopped sailing a month ago. If they sail today, they’ll be here mid to late June. If none have sailed in-between, it’s going to be a while before any do. And I’m not sure any ships will be sailing soon because no deals have been reached.

Lots of companies bought extra supply in the months leading up to Lie-beration Day, so they can hold for a bit. The only question is how long will they, compared to how long Chinese shipping will resume?

Out of curiosity, I looked it up a while back.

It’s 11,631 km from Shenzen to Los Angeles. That’s about 6280 nautical miles.

The average container ship speed is 16-25 knots. Let’s split the difference and call it 20.

6280 nm / 20 kn = 314 hours

That’s a little over 13 days just to cross the Pacific, assuming a steady course and no issues. Add in time to load the ship in China and unload it in LA, and you can see why the most-cited estimates are three to four weeks for cross-Pacific shipping.

If no ships have arrived from China in the past few days, that means it was a month ago (hey, anyone remember “Liberation Day” on April 2?) that ships stopped sailing. And that means it will be at least another month before any more arrive, assuming they leave today.

Trump voters have really fucked over the US.