Yeah, nobody “broke” signal to make this happen. What they did was the equivalent of grabbing a random person from a White House tour group and bringing them into a SCIF, then discussing classified information.

“Hold on, who’s this ‘Tulsi Gabbard’ person who just added me?”

It’s not even that. Unused land has been taken by the government under eminent domain, and white supremacists have claimed that these actions have “stolen” land from white farmers. In reality, white landowners have been subject to eminent domain seizures at no higher a rate than black landowners.

Because there isn’t any.

/c/savedyouaclick.

The NSC responding there was no threat is absurd. The threat is the presence of a non-approved person in the thread. The fact it turned out he was a reporter who didn’t want to interfere with anything is just luck.

Which has been happening. (Approvals from the embassy but then being detained by ICE)

Real hardball would be going after major stockholders in CC and GEO Group.

True, I can’t imagine buying a used Tesla knowing that I’d still have to make monthly payments to keep some features.

I’m honestly surprised there isn’t a jailbreak community that completely replaces the Tesla OS with something else.

The article should just be “This Guy” followed by photos of Elon doing his thing for the last year or so.

It’s all about financialization. Money people don’t care about product fundamentals anymore, they care about line go up.

Craft beer looked like a perfect investment because it was already a premium product with social caché (that incidentally was also addictive). But as the above comment notes, there isn’t an endless appetite for overpriced beer, especially when the market is flooded with shitty imitations from mass market beer companies.

The way to disincentivize it would be to let interest rates skyrocket (financialization only works if the cost of borrowing is effectively zero) but that would hurt regular people first and worst.

We could also vote in a socialist government who was willing to do things like seize corporate-owned housing and piss on the corpse of companies like Blackrock as their portfolios lose a significant percentage of their value but that seems remarkably unlikely.

Time to push pearled barley in soups and stews, I guess!

It’s…not shocking exactly, but a little surprising and a lot disappointing that so much of finance is now targeted at “let’s make a thing that we read about in sci fi novels we read as kids.”

Focusing on STEM and not the humanities means we have a bunch of engineers who think “book thing cool” and have zero understanding of how allegory works.

Regarding extensions, my understanding is that Apple makes it hard to prevent a bunch of trash extensions showing up that don’t do anything worthwhile.

With the current crop of lunatics in office, it will almost immediately be turned into a problem for the rest of the world. Even in the best of times, the US has made its problems everyone else’s, these days it would only be worse.

I see your point but keep in mind this is a microcosm of the entire US agricultural industry. We’ve drastically overbalanced to a knowledge economy, and if US agriculture collapses, that’s bad for the world.

A big part of grocery prices is labor for harvesting. Mushrooms (to keep with the subject of the article) are ~$5.99 a quart at Costco. Assume that we’re talking about doubling the wages of the workers, that means nearly doubling the price of the product, if not more than doubling because retailers are insisting on a set profit margin. If someone even a little bit competent was in the White House, and if congress had even a slight interest in making life better for the average American, this situation might lead to a push for diversifying the ag sector and breaking up the giant corporations who are responsible for 90% of America’s farms. Instead who knows what happens.

Start offering mushroom picking experiences: for every 50 buckets you fill, you get a free bucket of mushrooms.

Reactionary means reverting to previous norms rather than “conserving” the status quo. Name a historical period where punishment of crime was less harsh than now. The death penalty used to be given for much less severe crimes, and enacted with a full complement of torture. People were given effective life sentences for minor infractions.

Or, not every reason is “good”.

It’s like things being legal. Being legal doesn’t make it right.

Any promises by republicans or related to republican policies are lies.

If I specifically don’t want touch screens, what then?