OfCourseNot

You’re not wrong. As a southern European I know what they mean with all this austerity bullshit, so fuck these cunts.

BUT.

The American economy really is in shambles. I read not long ago that Americans are bound to pay more than $1 trillion just in interests in 2026, and more than $2T (a year) in ten years. With the predictions of gdp growth (which imho are terribly optimistic since the entire us economy is right now hanging from the AI bubble) the interest rates are going to shoot up, or even get to the point where no one would lend money to the USA, unless something (like that amendment) gives some guarantees that you’re gonna pay the debt back.

So my conclusion is that the US is gonna default on that debt sooner than later, and then it’s just free fall from there. And it will try and drag the rest of the world with it.

We all are fucked.

Well, not with that attitude!

There’s no such a thing as ‘middle class’. The working class is paying all of it.

interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year

If my finger-counting math is right ye yanks, on average (including children), are paying ~$250 a month just in interests… I ain’t no economist but that seems like a lot.

There’s an argument to be made that it is, in fact, not ‘reading’. The training of the model could be considered a lossy compression of the data. And streaming movies in a lossy compression format is not fair use, is it?

No it doesn’t. But yours dilutes a bit the complicity of most (all, maybe) other states, many of them directly. Without them they couldn’t have done all this shit for these many years. They raised a very problematic pit bull, and when it mauls a bunch of babies the might go ‘oh! No! That’s very bad!’ But tell the parent that the baby scared the dog, and the other parent shouldn’t have approached so fast, while cuddling it. I also get your point, it very well might be that the dog cannot be rehabilitated. But states aren’t really dogs, they’re more like parasites to society. They may seem harmless or benign to a host when the conditions are right, but they can get super nasty in other context. But I agree that we should try to expel the parasite from the host whose life is in most danger first, even if at the cost of putting another parasite in its place. But sooner or later they all can become malign, even this much.

you should hate the israeli every state and oppose its existence

There, ftfy.

We’ve had them for quite some time. They don’t change price for individual customers, I don’t think they change the price in the middle of the day either. But, I guess, they can change the prices just before opening, like if the wether service forecasts a rainy day they could rise the price of umbrellas and raincoats. Cold? Hot chocolate and soups. Hot? Ice cream and cold drinks. Certain asshole died overnight? Champaign and confetti cannons through the roof. And so on…

In Spain we’ve had those for years now, and prices are as stupidly high in the stores with paper ones…

U.S. abandoning leadership on the energy transition

Uhm? How the fuck does one abandon something they never had??

If you have some fos licensed software it will be foss forever, that licence is a contract and doesn’t go away. Now the author(s) of that code can license it to other people or release the newer versions with a different non-foss licence.

Knitting and crocheting? eMacs does have a package for everything…

Ive done it with dozens of boards (not pc boards tho, but basically the same: processors, memories, capacitors and transistors… just less expandable and much more expensive), but I’ve used an ultrasonic cleaner, I’m not sure just letting it soak is going to do the trick. It could even make it worse, the ipa can dissolve the liquid-ish part of the gunk (oils) and leave the solid residue once dried. If you don’t have such a machine, they’re not that pricy but you’d need a fairly big one so not cheap either, my advise would be to use a toothbrush.

Some precautions: use 99.9% IPA, not any other alcohols and definitely not acetone. Take the whole thing apart. Take out any batteries off the boards. Most glues will be dissolved, which hasn’t been a problem for me ever but if some of your parts aren’t soldered, screwed, or fastened any other way they’ll fall off. Let it dry very well, even help it a bit putting it in some warm place or using a hairdryer. As other have said thermal paste and pads will have to be replaced most likely. About the fans, I’m not sure, I’ve never done it. I’ve cleaned bigger motors, but those fans are cheaper to just replace than to service them unless it’s a quick blowin’ and dustin’.

They know their customers make unwise decisions. They got a bmw in the first place.

considerable checks and balances on executive power

Lol. The 'Muricans use to boast about theirs too. Not anymore, do they?

At the end of the day those are only words written in a piece of paper and can’t do anything if the gang of thieves (politicians) with a gang of thugs (forces) decide to wipe their asses with it.

As I said, I’m not an expert in law, but for what I’ve seen when someone tells me their country (or maybe not theirs but one they have idealized) is different, it ends up not being true. Usually it’s just luck they’re wealthy enough and shit hasn’t hit the fan yet.

Which ones are these ‘non-shithole’ countries? I’m not an expert (either in law, or in shitholery) but as far as I’m aware these pardons exist in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, Morocco, Ireland… so I’d bet that places where ‘leaders cannot randomly pardon people’ are, in fact, the exception.

Who’s an aerodynamic doggy? you!? Yes, you are!

You could’ve made this ‘meme’ with, literally, any service or product, couldn’t you?

So if someone tells grok it’s April 30th 1945… would it self destruct?

Yup, that’s what I meant. Thanks!