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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.

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?

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??

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.

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

Yup, that’s what I meant. Thanks!

There exist an archaic law like that, but it doesn’t include all booties, only ‘Royal Fish’, and imho it would be a stretch to consider bananas as whales or sturgeons.

This case would be under maritime law. Iirc the cargo still belongs to the shipping company if it fell, but would be a ‘finders keepers’ if they threw it overboard. But I’m not a lawyer (sea lawyer?), I think this is for recoveries at sea, when it’s already on shore local laws might apply instead, idk…

I recognise their username. It’s half sane takes, half absolute wankery with them.

Biden took a hands off approach

They always do, which was the point of my comment. When the ‘good ones’ are in power everything is impossible to do, ‘civility’ and ‘decorum’ being the usual excuses. But when it’s the turn for the ‘bad ones’ to rule, magically, everything is very straight forward and promptly done, without any impediment from the ‘good’ opposition or even with their blessing in the name of ‘bipartisanship’.

I, still, can’t see how that use of the word ‘liberal’ was an insult.

How is that an insult?

In fact the only thing I would say is incorrect is the word ‘failures’, since I think they (the liberals, be it the Democrats or the equivalent in other countries) haven’t failed at all, quite the opposite, they’ve played their part masterfully to bring us here.

And before the liberals around feel attacked, this is not a ‘both sides are the same’ comment. That’s not how controlled opposition works. It’s more ‘both sides work together, even when they do very different things, to achieve the same goals’.

Just an example. While Trump’s DoJ is prosecuting people only because they are political opponents, Biden’s didn’t prosecute actual criminals (specially an orange one) because ‘they were political opponents, and it’s a bad look’. They disguise their inaction as civility, when it’s clear as water they’re doing it to further the plans of the people paying them, which is the same privileged class that’s paying the other side.

Even this side of the pond, without a ‘first pass the post’ system, with lots of parties, coalitions, and what not, it’s still exactly the same play.

Where does it uses liberal as an insult?

It does. I’m posting this comment on the Mbin pwa on my iPhone, works pretty well.

The only think I’m taking away from all this shit is that we need more trans roommates with the conservative kids.

Small correction, the article doesn’t say he was going to therapy. It says that his mother was a therapist, I had to reread that sentence twice:

Neither his mother, a social worker and therapist, nor his friends

The mother, social worker, and therapist aren’t three different persons.

Honestly, this ‘economist’ had it coming. Did they think that economists’ work is doing actual economic predictions? Lmao. Your work is to say what rich and powerful people want you to say.

Edit: grammar

Lol 3.5 years! The damage done in just these three months would take decades to fix. I think it’s very likely that America will never recover from four years of Trump.

Yeah that’s why Christian’s don’t do animal sacrifices, but the Ten Commandments are still valid, are they not? So is the rest of god’s magic book, a book that ‘Christians’ tend to not follow when they don’t feel like it. Not a Christian btw, just pointing out the hypocrisy of saying you have the word of god written and the don’t even RTFM.