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Bustedknuckles

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  • Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare

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  • This is kind of a dumb calculation. Maybe we're weird, but 28k in childcare can be handled by letting it be more than 7% of our total expenditures.

    I mean, we'd still love more help! Childcare is acutely expensive because it a) only affects a subset of the population for b) a small amount of their lives and c) requires high staffing ratios (~5 kids per career (who make far too little money for what they are entrusted with)) Want more kids as a society? Universal childcare to spread that expense around. Safe and walkable third places would be great too

  • xkcd #3211: Amperage

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  • Eh, ~zero impedance house circuits won't do anything bad to normal electronics - it'll just make sure no fires happen in your walls. I do almost all home wiring in 12 gauge and larger for this reason

    Actually, the comic only has 500A breakers and don't say anything about wires. Recipe for fire!

  • Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

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  • An illegal immigrant coming to our country and doing voter fraud? Lock him up

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    California Democrats can’t pick a favorite as 9 candidates vie to replace Gavin Newsom

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  • Pretty standard for California. Remember when Gray Davis was recalled? 240 candidates Also how we got Schwarzenegger as Gov, who ended up fine enough I guess

  • Trump vows to raise worldwide tariffs to 15% ‘effective immediately’

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  • Congress has ceded more and more authority to the executive and Trump is taking advantage of that. This law (1974) grants the president the ability to levy tariffs up to 15% for 150 days. That Congress sucks is against the spirit of the constitution but not the letter of it

  • Trump vows to raise worldwide tariffs to 15% ‘effective immediately’

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  • I think it's kind of Legal? Smoot -Hawley from 1934-ish was never taken off the books. I cant remember if that's the one he's using for this, but it's like that. There's a never-used vestigial law that lets him do up to 15% for 150 days.

    As much of a known-destroyer of America he is, this is Congress failing to do it's bare minimum job of holding the purse strings. They could stop him tomorrow and we would be better off if everyone realized thst

    Edit: this one isn't smoot-hawley (1930), sorry. Trade act of 1974. 15%, 150 days and a lot of exemptions under section 122. Congress should still do it job

  • U.S. historian Robert Kagan: "We are watching a country fall under dictatorship almost without resistance"

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  • That's somewhat true, there has been mixed local/state resistance - I was focusing on nationally. I wonder if there's some pressure being applied behind the scenes to local Dems, fear of retribution, or if it's mere fecklessness.

    My conspiracy hat suspicions are that Dem leadership is willingly sacrificing our rights/lives and letting things get worse in the hopes of boosting their midterm election chances. Althe answer to that is progressive sweep in the primaries

  • U.S. historian Robert Kagan: "We are watching a country fall under dictatorship almost without resistance"

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  • There's a somewhat valid excuse that the Dems are minority powers in house, Senate, and supreme court (which is now partisan) and the American system doesn't grant any political power at all to a minority party against a lock-step majority.

    That said, remember during COVID peaks, when Trump had his BS press conference updates? Andrew Cuomo, himself no saint, also had daily (?) live streams to give important information and quarantine/medical advice. Dem politicians could absolutely be using their voices right now to make a lot of noise - even without mechanical political power.

  • Anger as Trump FDA retreats from plan to ban artificial colors in food

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  • Some clouds don't have silver linings after all. What an asshole. It's always such a challenge to identify the worst cabinet member, but Jr is a top contender

  • China’s dancing robots: how worried should we be?

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  • I don't imagine microwaves chasing me down an alley tho

  • China’s dancing robots: how worried should we be?

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  • I guess worry depends too on how good an empire is at coming into being. You can argue that the Russian special operation is pretty damn ineffective (relative to expectation) And less dangerous than if Putin was marching toward the Atlantic

  • Rethinking High-School Science Fairs

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  • Fun read, and timely as I'll be judging my first science fairs soon! I imagine that they have their own proscribed evaluation rubric though

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    Trump's SAVE Act Could Destroy Republican Voters in 2026.

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  • I get the argument, but a lot of it relies on the law being applied universally. The SAVE act's most stringent requirements are for registration, which won't affect existing voters, unless .... the administration finds some way to purge voter rolls of legitimate voters who then have to re-register. This is partially why they're suing states for voter rolls - even trying to extort MN's with ICE.

    In a blue wave year, Dems could make serious inroads into or even flip red states. The SAVE act would let red state politicians tip the scales with near impunity. Don't rely on the chance that it'll hurt their own too (or more) - assholes will use the Act to hurt you or your neighbor and it needs to be stopped

  • No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town.

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  • It's got me wondering what tear gas smells like

  • Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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  • Tell them to DM me

  • Lonely people of the internet, What are your thoughts on valentimes day?

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  • I'm married and I don't care. Good thing spouse doesn't either

  • 4 out of 6 "Powerful" Epstein Accomplices Named by Congressmen Appear To Be Ordinary New Yorkers

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  • I wonder if DOJ tried to Honeypot the Congress folks that went to see the files with false documents. We know their searches were monitored. I hate that I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I don't know what I'd put past these assholes

  • Graham: ‘Who gives a s‑‑‑ who owns Greenland? I don’t’

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  • And because it's sort of close, an easy target, and he's obsessed with a legacy. Also because he sucks

  • The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

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  • I think there's this assumption that the more centrist a dem is, the more electable they are and that may have been true decades ago. Now though? With how polarized the electorate is, people either vote for their party's candidate or the couch. Trump got roughly the same number of votes in 2024 (77M) as 2020( 74M) maybe he changed some minds; but Harris got 7M fewer votes than biden (81->74). People stayed home. "Not trump" wasn't enough to get excited about for enough folks, and that's about all Newsom has to offer

    I genuinely believe Bernie is more electable than Newsom. We should give voters some credit