I built a business with my code, and it helps save/improve hundreds of thousands of lives around the world. I don’t want to doxx myself so won’t give any further info.

Just because it’s intangible, your code can still potentially have a huge amount of value.

Yes, all that, but the effect of Elon completely alienating the people who wanted to buy Teslas can’t be understated. I don’t hate the cars at all, but my god I loathe Elon and would never give him money.

I’ve seen people describe face and neck tattoos as the “everlasting job stopper”

it’s not an exact measure, but the rule of thumb for a recession is 2 quarters of negative growth

oh, very good reference, well done

What I find interesting about this is that we had a similar situation in the UK with Liz Truss. We had a PM who announced a surprise budget of tax cuts, which ok, were a little bit stronger than ones the Tories had done previously. This caused a shock to the bond markets, cost quite a lot of money and she was immediately removed from office by her own party and her budget cancelled.

Trump has caused chaos and cost the US billions with his tariff talk, alienated most western allies, damaged the US MIC enormously and caused deaths in Ukraine by cutting support. The damage done is incalculable, it is not in the same universe as the damage caused by Liz Truss. The only thing that makes sense is that Republican party want America ruined and they aren’t going to stop unless they are forced to. I think what Trump has already done should qualify as treason on the basis of undermining the USA and supporting its enemies.

SPY dropped a bit yesterday, and it’s up a bit today, it’s hardly plummeting. What’s dropping is the dollar, it’s already worth 5 cents less against GBP in the last week.

Can you live in a tent, yurt, van or other non-permanent structure?

But they have virtually nothing to offer internationally hence the trade deficit, that trump is so upset about, in the first place

I don’t think it’s fair to say that America makes nothing. A big part of that trade deficit (certainly with Canada) is down to the relative size of the consumer markets - America has a population of over 330 million people to Canada’s 40 million so of course America will be a net importer of Canadian goods.

and if you actually want a PC for gaming on, a discrete gpu (eg: 7900xt) is going to be at least 3x faster at throwing polygons around than the 8060S. This thing is definitely better for AI workloads than gaming.

Some folks call them Deploreans.

We haven’t seen how they plan on monetizing it yet

Enshittification once they have enough users, that’s usually how these things go. I swear we don’t learn.

The judge still has tools other than incarceration. Since the crime was fraud, how about a hefty fine? How about community service? In what world would any other defendant have received a sentence of literally nothing at all?

they’re up to something in Greece?

I can’t help, but wonder, if Trump had just said, “yeah I paid a porn star to sleep with me. What of it? Who cares?” Then none of this would’ve happened as far as I can determine.

The issue wasn’t that he lied about it, as I understand it, the issue was that he claimed the money he paid to Stormy Daniels as a tax deductible campaign expense.

Michael Cohen, well-off white guy and lawyer who arranged this actual crime for Trump already went to prison for it years ago, so that’s clearly not true.

Why did it take 8 years to convict Trump of the same crime? Michael Cohen finished his sentence and was released in 2021.

They’re also some of the smartest people on the planet. America is suffering the same problem we all are - right wing shitbags and hostile nations weaponising our stupid people through social media.

They are expats to the people in the country they left, and immigrants in the country they went to. I don’t know why people think the word expat is some kind of racism-lite.

Also, the British literally voted to have a worse economy. We don’t have a monopoly on headassery.

Our Brexit vote narrowly won for the same reason that Trump won again - the weaponisation of our stupid people via social media by right-wing shitbags.

It probably won’t see court. Like the ABC lawsuit, the point is to intimidate with the threat of government retaliation later if they don’t roll over.