I am certainly not one of those PRC defenders around these parts, but if you don’t think Western countries have similar technology you are absolutely kidding yourself.
Now, messaging is important. So the question I’d ask is, was this one just an opportunistic discovery or a veiled threat?
I like this idea. If Carbon is the hell mass then benzene is the mark of the beast.
So the charges are state not federal, but with him being convicted, could he once again potentially be impeached for this?
Do you want sandworms? Cause this is definitely how you get sandworms.
Jokes on you - you get more crabbers, more maple syrup and Canada West.
Somewhere on January 15th, there will be a proud collector of colonial age smut who finally gets to bask in all of their glory.
And the ankles and the collarbones will once again have their comeuppance.
Of course they didn’t! Check the boxes beside which lessons you think they should have learned:
☐ The dems moved too far to the right ☐ The dems moved too far to the left ☐ The dems focused too much on vibes and not enough on ground game ☐ The dems focused too much on ground game and not enough on vibes ☐ The dems catered too much on the educated suburban class vote and not enough on the common folk ☐ The dems catered too much on the common folk vote and not enough on the educated suburban class ☐ The dems focused too much on Trump ☐ The dems focused too little on Trump ☐ The dems should never have put a woman at the top of ticket ☐ The dems should have messaged more that there was a woman at top of ticket ☐ The dems messaging was too vague ☐ The dems messaging was too specific ☐ The dems focused too much on x topic and not enough on y topic ☐ The dems focused too much on y topic and not enough on x topic ☐ The answer was complicated and varied by state ☐ The answer was simple and based on national/global trends
There goes Donald Quixote riding El Russia and tilting at windmills again.
The devil went down to Georgia and he was lookin for a judge to appeal.
Wasn’t it the Dems that held it over this time? Wasn’t the last political news that DT wanted to blow up the debt limit and congress basically said F-off that’s our power?
I mean, I’m all for giving a middle finger to the GOP, but let’s not put blinders on here, Congress has ceded so much of their power to the presidency (or deferred to judges) that the debt thing is one of the few tools they still have.
Nah, I’m too environmentally focused to be a car salesman, would rather people take public transit or bike when possible.
But I have lived the Internet era and I’ve seen the promised utopia facade unmasked. Much of the Internet is a marketplace. Most people want to interact with a thing before they buy it (or return it after), but they want the utility of a brick and mortar at online-only prices. Until we have some Second-life metaverse where digital things from a manufacturer feel absolutely real, the world is going to need salespeople to mind the gap. And those salespeople deserve to eat too.
In the age of the internet, where a manufacturer could sell direct to consumer, it seems it would make little sense to have resellers and that was the idea in the 90s when the Internet was in it’s infancy. But the hard truth is that selling is hard. You can bring a great product to market and yet it can still flop.
This is precisely why Alibaba is such a successful platform. It gives manufacturers, who specialize in making things, a marketplace and a sales process at a fraction of the cost of building out a whole sales team.
But, as anyone who has tried to sell their used items on Facebook likely has seen, consumers are fickle and the sales process can take an inordinate amount of time. For many, the time invested simply isn’t worth the effort.
And so, in the age where anyone can make a purchase instantly with the click of a button, we’re back to having middlemen. But if we’re going to have them, then we need to incentivize them. And just like for anyone else, the rules should be stable and fair enough to foster a healthy and innovative market.
Alright guys, where are the Q-anon like conspiracy theories on how DT is locked in some corpo-state dungeon under a drug store in Toomer’s corner while Elon, Bezos, et al. have replaced him with an AI-like puppet?
Cuz y’all need to get in on this quick while the gettin’s good.
Meh supply chain, I did that before. Masking and isolation worked well enough. I do feel for the medical workers though. Too many of them didn’t have safe options last time around.
I mean, yeah I guess, but the majority of us will isolate and mask up. Sooooo 🤷♂️
It’s the fiscally liberal but socially conservative strategy. Produce a coalition of christofascists, conservative leaning unions, religious minded immigrants, the subset of naturalized immigrants who want to pull the ladder up behind them, socially conservative elites, and low SES voters.
And he’s right, that combination is a powerhouse of voters that would give them the south, the mountain west and most of the midwest. It leaves out a class that could easily be pigeonholed as “elites” in the big cities on the coasts - and would align our political structure more like Turkey or India’s.
In other words, DT peeled off a layer of disenfranchized democratic voters that were ripe for the taking, Bannon wants to build a strategy that keeps them.
What are you talking about? Biden beat by 6million votes. He got the blue wall plus Arizona and Georgia of all places.
This isn’t a terrible idea. Bush Sr ran twice before he was elected. I could say the same about Biden. Reagan lost before he won.
But most importantly, if she loses in 2028 it might actually be a good thing. 2030 is the next census, and the party with presidential power usually gets trounced in the midterm. So, I’m wondering, could we stand 2 more years of pain at the top for 10 years of progress at the state and legislative level?
That all is to say, if we still have fair elections :-(
Well, I guess I’m in the minority around here but I kinda like it. The animated dinosaur is a nice touch and the logo looks really good on the employee badges.
Interesting perspective. Counterpoint - my line of business is seeing more customers move away from on-prem licenses and instead prefer SaaS cloud hosted solutions.
The reasons being: 1) Quicker turnaround time for customer service requests 2) product knowledge expertise 3) lower internal IT resource demands 4) SaaS usually being cheaper than license in the short term 5) the intrinsic value of owned licenses being lower than what was sold due to product lifecycles, user adoption, security constraints, etc. 6) lower perceived switching costs with SaaS.
I’m genuinely curious, why do you feel SaaS is an inferior product? What makes it the devil’s work?
And FWIW, I realize I’m typing this on a FOSS application. I absolutely see the value in FOSS, it’s why I switched from Reddit 2 years ago, but I’m not kidding myself, the devs here gotta eat too and, just like KBin, they could jump ship any day if they chose to.