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  • Heh your response to Hamas is over the top, but by all means feel free to continue and also please take our money

  • I guess this is WMDs for the 2020s then?

  • Government would burn a lot of fossil fuels in the effort to save you from the sin of doing it yourself

  • Are these parents unable to keep their kids away from smartphones?

  • Drivin' in your Cars and Trucks and Things that Go

  • Cute bat

  • How is the status quo benefiting anyone? The lines aren't moving, soldiers and civilians are dying daily.

    And yes, you are still a war hawk if you support the status quo of war to continue.

    IMO Ukraine should be admitted to NATO after negotiating a peace treaty.

  • I'd argue they already did and yeah fuck Putin but we should be questioning whether it is morally right to support a stalemate that is killing a whole generation of Ukrainian men. We should absolutely be questioning how it is the American's responsibility to support that indefinitely with taxes when we are so insanely in debt. How are any of these carve-outs appropriate in an "Immigration" bill?

  • Another $14 billion to Israel

    Another $60 billion to Ukraine

    This bill was shit and we should be glad it's dead

    War hawks cope and seethe

  • YOU BETTER EMPTY THE GREASE TRAY

  • Aldi is a pretty good company, but it had a hard time keeping things in stock

  • Sure, instead it's true based on a simple observation that the president isn't using executive power to set an upper limit (price control) on the cost of groceries. A subsidy might reduce the starting price of something but a grocery store can still charge whatever they want for it. Which I'm pretty sure is the whole point of this thread?

  • I'm not talking about subsidies, I'm talking about the "president dictating prices", i.e., price controls. Richard Nixon tried this in 1971, it was a failure and it set the stage for the stagflation of that decade.

    Ranchers stopped shipping their cattle to market, farmers drowned their chickens, and consumers emptied the shelves of supermarkets.

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/ess_nixongold.html

  • Talking about price controls which are not the same thing at all. Read about the Nixon shock, for example.

  • I'm not sure why you'd advocate for it if you've actually read the history, it's a terrible idea that has failed spectacularly in the past

  • I'd challenge anyone to A/B a 16bit 44kHz sampled digitization with the original and tell the difference consistently. This is one of the reasons I love pbthal vinyl rips, his rig is awesome, I could never afford it, and it captures the sound I'm looking for. The 24 bit 192kHz vinyl rips on torrent sites are chasing ratio IMO.

  • Still a tough bind for someone who isn't already a homeowner. I've put a lot into index funds which have performed really well, but if I sell them now to buy a house and the real estate market shits the bed (which it really should), then I'm in an even worse place. I remember talking to people in 2007 who complained they would "never be able to afford a house", but three years later their local listings fell by 30-40%.

  • 10 of these will buy you a house in 20230