He lives in a 750 sqft apartment with his partner and 15 cats

I've been thinking about this lately.

Trump being so open about imperialism will make it easier to convince people that the US war machine is about profits, but it also makes it easier to convince them that imperialism is necessary to maintain their economic privilege. It's easier for people to be against something bad when they don't think they're getting any benefit from it.

I don't think those minerals will benefit anyone but the ruling class, but your average American could be easily convinced they will.

Proposing new legislation happens all the time from both parties, thousands of bills per Congress. Most a doomed to die from the start. This link has a bunch of bills proposed the week of 1/9/23:

https://legiscan.com/US/legislation/2023?page=385

I don't think we can say Republicans are getting shit done until they pass some of these. The media is just covering this stuff now because the Trump admin doing scary stuff is good at selling papers.

I'm not saying they won't succeed, it's just too early to say.

It's probably never going to exist anyway. They made these 2 prototypes, but even Elon is saying they won't start manufacturing until 2026. He also prefaced it by saying he has a tendency to overpromise on dates, so they've probably not even started working on it.

Cumtown was on a list of leftists podcasts I saw before I'd ever heard of it. I got some clips of it in my YouTube feed and it was all racial jokes and jokes where the punchline is someone is gay.

"Everyone person should have the right to make a bad deal for themselves" is the logic of the Lochner court decisions. They said the government shouldn't stop anyone who chooses to work in a hazardous workplace, or sign a contract that says you won't join a union or choose to put their 12 year old children to work in mines.

Our laws have to protect people, otherwise we're just doing libertarianism.

They have a stronger version than the US because lawyers can argue for it to the jury. In the US they aren't allowed to do it, and most states have model jury instructions that tell them they are not allowed to ignore the law because they think it unjust.

Once again, the conservative, berry-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!

$500 for one day seems like a good deal. They can't force you to keep showing up, right?

I read somewhere else that this analysis is incorrect. They were saying it wasn't caused by something in the threat intelligence feed, but an updated .sys file(a driver component) that CrowdStrike inexplicably pushed to all clients at once.

That explanation is even funnier, because they pushed a software update to everyone at once instead of the widely used practice of staged rollouts of updates. Normally big companies push updates to a very small number of users first, then gradually increasing the number so they can get bug reports before wrecking every system.

When you spend your whole life in pursuit of money and power, you never stop to figure out what you actually enjoy in life. You eventually try to fill that empty hole by telling yourself that you enjoy the work you do.

My grandfather was like that, just relentlessly chasing money his whole life. He eventually tried to pass his business to my father and retire, but he couldn't handle it because he had no clue what he enjoyed beyond money and drinking Budweiser. Eventually he pushed his way back into the business despite being nearly deaf and starting to suffer from dementia. He was so proud of being rich, but he ended up losing most of his money by trying to Feinstein it.

Charles Barkley did 9/11 as a distraction because Michael Jordan was making his big NBA comeback on 9/11/01.