I have nifty tech, yes, but I also have vaccination deniers, Nazis, and my fourth "once in a lifetime" economic crises. I'm never going to buy a house. I'm never going to retire. I'll probably never even pay off my student loans.

I personally think that, largely speaking, if imports are cheaper than local production, that’s a good thing!

I'm hardly an economist, right? But I agree with you, broadly speaking. But first covid, and now Trump round two is showing is the weakness of global integration. As long as everything goes smoothly, it's jam for everyone. But let something screw up the logistics, or someone duck up the balance of trade, and everything can go to shit really fast. There are lots of things we can't make here, but we rely on them. That is less than ideal.

I don't know that tariffs are the way to address that issue, or even if it needs to be addressed at all. O do know that the way Trump is doing it is all wrong.

I saw a smart flip phone once. Small smart screen on the outside, small smart screen on the inside, and a keypad that you could use to type with, using the forgotten skill.

I would love one of those.

No. Not too much of anything, really.

And now they are gonna get away with this, too.

Delightful.

I'd go with "deshittification," myself. It's not important how or why they are shit, just that they are, and the laws in question prevent us from fixing it.

If we could march in formation, with a few people who actually know how to move troops around, that might be impressive. But just blocking traffic is a bad idea. I didn't like it when BLM did it. I didn't like it when Trump Convoys did it. I won't like it if we do it.

Naturally.

More fun was the question of who was the better cook.

The airport tried that shit on me today. I was able to make it print me a boarding pass, though.

I'm becoming a luddite in my middle age.

I think that's a feature, not a bug.

I don't see a problem with any of this.

I thought the whole point of Linux was that there was one for everyone? A computer itself is an incredible potent tool, but most people just want to use Facebook and YouTube.

How's that working for you? I've got a surface, and I like it, but I know that Windows is not exactly an efficient piece of software.

I seem to recall there was a poll on Reddit last year asking which captain had the best hair. I believe Picard got second place.

I'm old enough to remember them promising, repeatedly, that the nude scanners didn't, couldn't save images.

Joke's on them though. They can't delete my pictures fast enough to avoid the trauma.

If there was a viable non-genocide candidate, o wolf have voted for him.

Most of us are not getting richer, nor working shorter hours, nor living better than our parents. We're past "services" and on into "parasites."

In principal, tariffs can prop up domestic industry that is having trouble competing with cheaper imported products. In practice, this winds up being really complicated, because the world is a lot more interdependent than it was 80 years ago.

Can you repost this? The link is dead.

Just like he was counting on China you need us more than we need them.

I really hate people who are constitutionally unable to negotiate in good faith.