That just means the actual customers are paying for you.

Those are priced into the products IKEA sells.

There’s a difference between not mourning a piece of shit and asking for the murder of his peers. The hypocrisy of oligarch-run media (social and traditional) is that they stop having an issue with murder if there’s an Excel spreadsheet between the instigator and the victim.

put a bunch of Americans out of business

That would also be true for rational gun regulations, universal healthcare, and responsible climate policies.

For no reason? China is using TikTok to derail elections in entire countries and promote civil strive everywhere by radicalising people against each other, while its Chinese counterpart is almost an educational app. TikTok is not a social media app, it’s the psyops equivalent of a nuclear weapon.

For a tech job, yes. Doubly so in a country that has no universal healthcare and has a joke of a social security system. Triply so on a precarious visa.

Less than people dying because of idiotic drivers and overcrowded roads blocking emergency services.

To be fair, they didn’t start the tradition of having ridiculous expensive coronation ceremonies paid with legalized bribes every four years. And even that is just a symptom of the monarchical nature of the US presidency.

You need a legislature which the US has. And you need the institutions centered around having a head of government that’s not the head of state, which the US doesn’t. Gonzalez is an idiot that doesn’t understand the US constitution but that’s implied by his party membership.

The precedent set by circuit courts is only binding to court’s own jurisdiction and can be overridden by the supreme court if it wants. And the cases that can make or break democracy will be heard by the supreme court.

But supreme court sets precedent for the other courts and deals with most potentially damaging cases.

Not necessarily. In semi-presidential republics, the prime minister is nominated by the president in agreement with the parliament. In normal circumstances this is functionally equivalent to having the prime minister be elected in the parliament but there are cases like Russia and France where the relationship between the president and the prime minister is similar to the dynamic between Trump and Musk.

The hospital makes money on treatments, the health insurance makes money on avoiding treatments.

My (non-profit) statutory health insurance/Krankenkasse in Germany pays me to do yearly prophylactic checks every year for this reason.

Shouldn’t health insurance companies be up in arms over this? Vaccines are usually much cheaper than paying for treatment. Unless they are planning to say that lack of vaccination makes it the patient’s fault.

Or at least before he self appointed himself as President Musk.

You mean Musk’s and Bezos’ generation? I wouldn’t call what they are doing keeping the status quo. And just to be clear, I don’t mean this is a good way.

Finally an advantage to half of the congress being older than sliced bread. Hopefully enough of them remember on a personal level what polio does.

You are right about USB, thunderbolt 3+PCI Express on the other hand allows very low level memory access, and in older implementations there’s nothing the operating system can do. But then again even if they force a specific thunderbolt configuration to prevent DMA it will still leave the “normal” PCIe ports as a way to access the memory outside the purview of the OS.

That and Geralt’s story got a natural end in Blood and Wine, and it would be stupid to bulldoze that.

Well that depends on much you want the media and the internet to analyse your favourite Pokémon or your opinion on the merits of the Lorax vis-a-vis the Unabomber Manifesto.