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Please don’t ever put this word in the same paragraph as the Humane pin. Have you seen what that thing did?

Good luck out there! I am taking up the opposing position, and I am curious who will win.

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What’s stopping you from placing a wager on your favorite platforms then? You seem to feel quite confident it’s going to happen, yet for some reason aren’t willing to get that “easy” money…

The price however is inline with my statement - that market considers a GOP win a near certainty.

You are reading the results backwards - Kalshi predicts a Democratic win at ~70% (as of now) probability. I agree the payback isn’t huge… but if you’re SURE then it’s easy money!

Christians and hypocrisy go hand in hand. How many cross tattoos are out there? How many Christians scorn the poor, or their neighbors? It’s kind of a running joke that if you want to learn about the bible, ask an atheist. The more you read the bible, the more logical inconsistencies you find in it.

The real “value” in Christianity and the bible in general is that the masses can outsource their morals and ethics to some external thing without having to think too deeply. (Because who wants to think for themselves? That’s a lot of work!)

I know this was supposed to be a little jab, but look back at writings by the founding fathers from that time. They were clearly well-reasoned, and at least TRIED to make a long-lasting republic. The USA wasn’t just slapped together randomly – they had a real plan and an architecture. If anything, it’s impressive how long it took to degrade the place.

A great example is George Washington’s opinion on getting involved in wars on foreign soil. Well, we might not call it “war” anymore, but we sure as shit have troops overseas at all times. I’m pretty sure the founding fathers never intended us to be the world police in this way.

Haha!!! Sadly, I think our domestic stupidity is more than adequate to explain the situation. I’d love to blame the boogyman here, but let’s face it – we’re #1 in stupidity and self-owns.

I have no specific information, but usually when a company is gobbled up like this, the employees get the short end of the stick. Given how nasty Humane was to their own customers, I can’t imagine the employees are getting treated well. Really depressing to see such a scummy CEO and company get a payday like this. I can’t imagine what HP saw in them.

Here you go friend: this is a prediction market on whether the Republicans or Democrats will win the house next year: https://kalshi.com/markets/controlh/house-winner

If your prediction is right and there are no more elections this will be easy money for you.

I hope there is a prediction market on this at some point because I do not think it’s likely that they will be able to block elections. I’d love to put my money where my mouth is.

The thing is, tariffs aren’t new. Manufacturing (or the lack thereof) in the US isn’t new… the only NEW thing appears to be voters that can be led around by the nose and lacking any kind of critical thought altogether. What % of people that voted for tariffs thought that China’d be paying for them? Probably the same folks who thought Mexico was going to build the wall and pay for it. Last time I checked, I don’t think we’ve received any money from Mexico for this.

If tariffs cause a rise in US production

This is one of the problems with the Trumpian approach to tariffs. I don’t know if you hadn’t noticed, but there’s remarkably little manufacturing in the USA for quite some time now, but let’s play this out.

The cost to set up a laptop manufacturing firm in the US is anywhere from $50,000,000 to $200,000,000. Then, you’ve gotta acquire all the raw materials and components to assemble the laptops, let’s call that another $500,000,000. Then, of course, you’ve gotta staff the place, and this is in a country where we do not have a lot of people that are experienced in manufacturing. Let’s call that another $100,000,000. By the time you add in R&D, logistics costs, legal and compliance (because the US is a bit more stringent than China in this area), you’re talking about $1 - $3 BILLION in costs.

Now, out of the few people / companies that have enough money to actually set up a laptop manufacturer in the USA, think about how confident they’d have to be to pull this off. The largest problem is, if you spend your billion dollars and build this factory and then the next week Trump removes the tariff, you’re instantly competing with foreign firms again, and you’re going to be going under pretty fast.

I’d say this tariff would have to be in place at LEAST 10 years before anyone gets confident enough to spend the massive amount of money and effort quoted above. When you think about how many millions of laptops are going to get sold between now and then, it’s pretty clear the American consumer is going to take a huge bath in the meantime.

Like so many things Trump is doing, this tariff is supposed to piss off China but just ends up fucking the consumer. Trump and his billionaire friends don’t care if a laptop is an extra $200. That’s change they can find under the couch. For your average American trying to make ends meet, that $200 sure as fuck would be useful.

So go ahead, vote Republican to “own the libs”. Just don’t be surprised when the sudden pain you feel in your wallet is very real.

A long sequence of zeros compresses really well :)

Here’s what you can do with your impressive 64 GB of RAM:

Store approximately 8.1 quintillion (that’s 8,100,000,000,000,000) zeros! Yes, that’s right, an endless ocean of nothingness that will surely bring balance to the universe.

An “industry” does not have the ability to ruin people’s free expression.

It does, by creating perverse incentives and the commercialized speech crowds out anything else. I mean, look at the topic… go check out GoneWild and tell me what you think…

Completely agree! The entire adult content platform has become nothing more than a monetization machine for platforms like OnlyFans. GoneWild was once about people expressing themselves and sharing their art without the pressure of making a quick buck. Now it’s all about selling subscriptions and getting clicks. The whole industry has been ruined by commercial interests prioritizing profit over passion and community. Same thing with Patreon, where creators are expected to churn out content just to keep their fans engaged rather than doing what they actually love. And don’t even get me started on the algorithm-driven news feeds that suck the soul out of social media. Commercialization has absolutely destroyed the integrity and creativity of online platforms. We’re losing the very things that made them worth using in the first place.

alternate name for this article: “How to feel good about yourself while doing something that doesn’t help anything at all”

Good for you man. I hope many of your fellow countrymen feel the same.

This plan leaves out the fact that the majority of Canadians don’t want to join. They may have their challenges right now, but there are some things they aren’t willing to give up, like nationalized health care and national identity. I suspect many Canadians will fight to the death over this, the same way Americans would fight if forced to join Canada. They are our neighbors and that’s about as close as people want to get.