I get that. And I am even perfectly willing to believe that it has some genuine utility for a lot of people, but something that people would use for free is a far cry from something that is going to recover a trillion dollars worth of investment and infrastructure.

They will probably smash it all up and send it out as e-waste.

I definitely started using linux because I built an HTPC, realized I didn’t have a spare windows license and didn’t want to pay for windows.

Yep.

It would be like if Uber started ripping people off before they even broke the cab union contracts with cities.

They don’t have a product people even want yet.

This is the person that he pardoned for a second time. It sounds like an actual Mexican crime family, but apparently its not a problem if they give him money:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/federal-jury-convicts-siblings-fraud-defendants-made-tens-millions-dollars-lying-0

It is. Sydney only does “primary treatment” which is literally running it through a strainer to separate the big chunks, and then they just dump it.

A modern western city that dumps fucking raw sewage directly into the ocean. Embarrassing.

I don’t think this is sustainable because it seems like a closed loop that eventually stops making money without any new inputs.

People NEED housing, they don’t really need computer components.

They are working an infinite money glitch:

What if we were our own customers? Then we could charge whatever we wanted and just use the money from our dumb investors, and since we are also the producers we make a ton of money on the sales!

Every day I am a little surprised that it hasn’t happened yet.

Windows does a lot of sneaky reboots that it doesn’t notify about before or after. I dualboot and windows is not the default OS, so when I leave windows running and come back to linux, I know what happened.

I think that is literally what he is asking for. His base loves it when cops shoot black people and disappears Mexicans.

Given that France developed and deployed their own nuclear weapons it kind of seems that option was available to the rest of Europe but they decided not to.

Because America legalized murder by police decades ago when they were mostly killing people they didn’t care about and now that they are killing people they DO care about, its too late. You know, the exact outcome that we have been telling them would happen for that entire time.

Yeah, that’s about the size of it. Of course the alternative is electing out-and-proud Nazis, so I guess its the choice that we get.

There is no such thing as an independent in the United States. It has been code for “conservative” for decades and its a core part of Trumps base.

Its OK that you don’t think the US poses an existential threat to Europe. You’ll find out.

Yeah, Europe has a slightly crumbier version of most of the normal military equipment that the US has. The problem is that they have like 5 of them and the US has about a thousand.

For example, Germany has a really good MBT, maybe even better than anything the US has, or at least better than most of what the US would actually field. Nerds will fall all over themselves to compare and tease out exactly which is better, but here is the thing that really matters:

Germany has about 300 of them. The US has 2,500 ready to deploy main battle tanks that might or might not be better than theirs (but are undoubtedly pretty close) and another 2,000 or so in reserves.

Europe has not prepared themselves for war against anyone, let alone a peer military. The US has.

You seem to be having some real big feelings here. Let me know if you become able to have a conversation like an adult.

That’s not 60% of all voters. That’s 60% of people who aren’t Democrats. Which is already a minority of voters. Trump needs 90% of his base because he gets 0% of everyone else.

Think about it. He got half the vote. Now he is getting a disapproval rating from more than half of that half. If that holds true they are going to lose every single race in the mid terms and for the foreseeable future.