• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      1 month ago

      I still have a Texas instrument scientific calculator. I have never found a calculator app that I like better.

      Put of course I was actually allowed to bring it into an exam which would definitely not possible with a phone.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    From the bleachers, we watch the Trump shitshow daily. The topic of the show is: “What can Donald Trump still do today to appear even dumber than the day before?”

    And he is not disappointing. What’s next? Tariffs for interstate trading? One must admit, this would be a really dumb idea, but it is not outside Trumps grasp.

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      2 months ago

      Looks like we just found our new interstate secretary! Tell us more about these tariffs against California.

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    2 months ago

    What’s interesting about this is that Ghislaine Maxwell just got a transfer to a cushy facility in exchange for what is likely to be heavily coached testimony about how Donald Trump totally didn’t rape children.

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      2 months ago

      I read those news in a way that she’s now in a low risk facility with plenty of other people around who might casually remove a witness, rather than stuck in isolation in a max security prison where every ‘suicide’ would be met with public outrage.

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        2 months ago

        As if she would… She will just do what she do best, just not for Epstein, but for mr president himself, I fear…

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Why would he pardon her? Prison is sheer hell and she got a huge upgrade. Fuck around and they can take that back. They got all the leverage they need without the screams of outrage a pardon would bring.

          • Obinice@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            How much prison time have you served in state and federal prisons, if I may ask?

            Forgive me for asking, it’s just to judge how much direct experience you have with what you’re claiming to be knowledgeable on.

            There are sadly a lot of people in the Internet who would say such things without ever having actually experienced them firsthand, and it’s important we educate ourselves on the difference. Thanks!

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          offtopic: Maybe that’s why a transparent and safe prison system, a bit like what Norway has, would do well for USA. Don’t tell me anything about feeding criminals in luxury, because you are spending far more taxpayer money on far more idiotic things. Also rehabilitation is really a big thing.

            • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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              It’s usually considered smart to avoid hard problems.

              Thus to say that every criminal deserves rehabilitation. You won’t achieve anything good from taking it from them anyway.

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                Well we shouldn’t be letting them back out so rehabilitation is pointless and impossible anyway. If you can’t understand that fucking kids is bad without being institutionalized you’re a lost cause

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    2 months ago

    It’s fucking tariff roulette again. And so it will be for the next 3.5 years. Stupid cunts. Remember to kick a republican in the nuts.

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        Luck is also a component in how long Trump lives ; though he’s not that old.

        OK, I’ll say it differently - luck is also a component in how long Putin lives, and that’s likely less. When he dies, there’s gonna be change. In USA too. In Russia - maybe not for the better immediately, but that will be a power transfer, which hasn’t happened since 1999. Even if to someone of his daughters.

        I don’t subscribe to any of stupid theories of “Kremlin towers’ balance”, “businessmen vs patriots” and such, but the point stands, and the previous power transfer, from Yeltsin to Putin, despite them being the same faction, changed a lot and fast.

        Which could mean some of the blackmail material leaking, or the direction of blackmail changing, or other ties being restructured. Which would pull the rug from many of Russia-aligned parties in the west, and it would be interesting to see whether Democrats or Republicans are affected more, in case of US, and whether local alt-right parties or the orderly centrists in EU are affected more. The common belief is that it’s the latter in the US and the former in the EU, but I think we’ll be surprised.

        Now, Russia is small compared to other parties, but big enough to make waves in case of such an event.

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      2 months ago

      *capitalist

      they ALL do this. they just market it differently. profits are at record highs and have been for YEARS. while working class people suffer and die.

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    1 month ago

    Anyone remember the punchable faces subreddit?

    Yeah, this face would be forever pinned at the top.

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    1 month ago

    I’m going to tariff Trump a dollar every time his stupid face pops up in my feeds.

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      1 month ago

      Well that’s entirely the posters fault.
      They’re really fanatic in wanting to post every stupid thing he says or does (which is daily).
      As if there isn’t any real news out there.

    • Martin@feddit.nu
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      1 month ago

      Tariffs are paid by the importer so it will just make your feeds more expensive to import to your device.

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          1 month ago

          I was joking too. 😅

          If anyone hasn’t learned how tariffs work by now, they are choosing to be ignorant.