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Billiam

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  • Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status

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  • Given his track record with real rockets and real rocket scientists, I would consider it a win for him to make it off the launchpad and back in one piece. 😂

  • Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status

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  • No, he cares for Twitter.

    SpaceX lets him pretend he's some great tech genius, but Twitter is what gives him the validation he craves. All the pro-Elon bots and stans there who fellate him feed his narcissistic desire to be loved.

    That's why he "sold" Twitter to xAI. So if Tesla does tank hard enough and he gets margin called, he can't be forced to sell Twitter to cover it.

  • Trump admin goes after N.Y. AG who won civil fraud trial against president

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  • Actually no. Pardons cannot cover future actions.

    Also, as long as the crime happens outside of DC, the pardon wouldn't be able to prevent charges from being filed at the state level.

    The Seditious Six: "Hold our beer. In Beerbro's case, hold the keg. And in Token's case, hold his pube-covered Diet Coke."

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  • It was 19 years, and it was a letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison.

    The TL; DR of it is, Jefferson used the best actuarial data he had (which we now know is flawed, but his point still remains) and determined that every 19 years, the voting electorate would be made up of voters fewer than 50% of which would have been old enough to vote for the laws in effect. In other words, more than half of voters (aka adults) would be subject to laws they would not have been old enough to vote for at the time they were passed.

    His reasoning therefore was to basically "redo" government every 19 years, so that at no point could anyone be subject to a law they didn't have a say in voting for.

  • James Carville suggests 'split' with the left over 'pronoun politics'

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  • "Someone asked me to use words they wanted to refer to themselves so I just had to vote fascist! ...I feel bullied, really."

  • Trump sues Maine over transgender athletes in schools amid funding threats

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  • I can't wait for this lawsuit to lower the price of eggs!

  • China now faces 245% Trump tariff

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  • According to wiki, yes.

  • Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status

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  • Tesla could literally never sell another car again, and it wouldn't matter as long as people continue to buy the stock.

    It's been wildly over priced for a very long time, so clearly the people who are keeping it afloat aren't interested in whether the company is actually profitable or not.

  • China now faces 245% Trump tariff

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  • It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

  • China now faces 245% Trump tariff

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  • Or an American man married to a Chinese woman whose father is a shipping magnate.

    Looking at you, Yertle.

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  • This, exactly.

    The whole point of CVE is to make sure everyone is on the same page regarding exploits. That necessitates a single point of truth for the whole operation.

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  • Well this is just flat out wrong.

    The fact that people started appending "Reddit" to their search terms to find answers to what they wanted to know would probably be a gigantic indicator that Google's results without it were less than helpful.

    A useful search engine returns the most relevant result the user wants as fast as possible. An advertising company wants its users to look at as many ads as they can for as long as they'll tolerate them. Thus it's apparent the goals of Google (the search engine) are diametrically opposed to the goals of Alphabet (the advertising company).

    So yes, it's in the best interest of Google's bottom line to figure out how many ads they can show you (read: before you stop using Google altogether) until they show what might be relevant to you.

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  • They said "useful," they didn't say "relevant."

    In this case, "useful" means "the most results we can get paid to show you without you going to a different website."

  • JD Vance drops Ohio State's national championship trophy at White House celebration

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  • Excuse me , it's THE broken trophy for THE Ohio State University.

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  • A couple of options:

    1. Imagine the media circus that would occur if Garcia came home. He'd be plastered across every website and front page of every newspaper, which of course takes attention away from the Toddler in Chief. Furthermore, the GOP doesn't want Garcia to talk about how absolutely inhumane the conditions he would have been subject to, for obvious reasons.
    2. Bringing him back is an admission of wrongdoing, and that's one thing the GOP and Trump can't do under any circumstances.
    3. They can't bring him back, because he's dead.

  • Linda McMahon mixed up AI and A.1. — so of course now the steak sauce is all over it

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  • This (is) the person that is at the forefront of eliminating public education in the US.

    Just wanted to clarify her role a bit. Hope it helps!

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    The Dangerous Silence of Retired U.S. Presidents - Ralph Nader goes fucking OFF on the pathetic, cringing complicity of our former "leaders"

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  • Having only two major parties and “winner takes it all” elections is a shit system and it was doomed to fail (...) That’s not how a democracy is supposed to work.

    I agree. And yet, it's what we have (well...)

    Especially if neither of the major parties allign with your ideals. Of course the consequences of this non-compliance are dire but it was inevitable.

    That right there is the crux of the issue. It is mathematically certain that the US electoral system, as it is now, will result in two parties. And it is equally certain because of that fact that voting for anyone other than one of those two party candidates will result in helping the other candidate. Knowing this, a responsible voter should decide to support whichever party most closely aligns with their values, because otherwise they're helping the major party they lease align with win instead.

    If you agree with the Dems on one issue, and agree with the GOP on zero issues, you should still vote for the Dems in the general election.

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    The Dangerous Silence of Retired U.S. Presidents - Ralph Nader goes fucking OFF on the pathetic, cringing complicity of our former "leaders"

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  • Holy shit my dude, calm the fuck down. I neither expressed any agreement nor disagreement with the facts, and you're just making baseless assumptions about how I feel about them.

    No, I am not "more angry" at the Green voters than I am at insert whatever reason you think was the most important contributor to Gore's loss you want here. But it is ridiculous to assume they (you?) share no part of the blame for Gore's loss, when it's demonstrable that in fact they bear some amount. Also I find it amusing you're telling me who I should be mad at and you never once mentioned the Republicans who voted for Bush.

    Did SCOTUS make a bad ruling? Abso-fucking-lutely they did. But you know what? If NH had gone to Gore SCOTUS wouldn't have even mattered.

    Does our system suck? Abso-fucking-lutely it does. You can rant and rave all day about how unfair and undemocratic it is, and how much it needs to change and I'll spend all day agreeing with you. But the difference between us is, I recognize that voting is a tactical decision, not an emotional one. I don't particularly like the Democrats, probably for many of the same reasons you would list. I vote for them in the general election, however, because I understand that not doing so helps Republicans win. Again, this is literal demonstrable fact. And I agree with the Dems on a hell of a lot more than I do with the GOP.

    edit: also the popular vote literally doesn't matter. Source: non-Presidents Gore and Clinton.

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    The Dangerous Silence of Retired U.S. Presidents - Ralph Nader goes fucking OFF on the pathetic, cringing complicity of our former "leaders"

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  • I looked at the totals for the 2000 election and found that, had every Nader voter instead voted for Gore, there would have been only two states that would have flipped:

    • Florida, by a tally of 2,912,790 Bush to 3,009,741.
    • New Hampshire, which would have been 273,559 Bush to 288,546 Gore.

    Now, it's entirely possible we still get the ratfucking from SCOTUS and they still throw the state to Bush. But New Hampshire had 4 electoral votes, and had they gone for Gore then it would have been 267 Bush - 270 President Gore.

    Bush won because 22,198 people in NH didn't understand that voting for a third-party only hurts the major party that most closely aligns with your ideals.