Skip Navigation

Posts
0
Comments
223
Joined
11 mo. ago

  • Amazon makes the majority of its money from AWS. Literally using the Internet makes them buckets of money.

    People can boycott it all they want. I just don't use them, but none of that really hurts Amazon in the end.

    If people want to actually hurt Amazon they need to call on the Government to break up AWS, Ma Bell style.

  • But once they do, notions like the filibuster also fall apart. Republicans have been pretty in favor of using the filibuster whenever Democrats are in power. So they would be torching a really handy tool they like to keep around.

  • This is a trademark dispute. This is why it's filled with the USPTO as opposed to a court case. Bar for this is way, way lower. Sony has an incredibly good chance to prevail. Sony winning here at the USPTO would deny a trademark for Naughty Cat. But if there is a decent rebuttal from the studio, it may have to go to court to be settled.

    That said, Naughty Cat is likely doing exactly what Sony details in their complaint. As the publisher's works are mostly cheap slot machine themed games.

    Naughty Cat only has two apps listed on the App Store, and both are gambling games that promise real cash rewards.

    It's very likely this is one of those cheap Chinese drive by studios and it pinged on Sony's radar a lot earlier than the studio thought it would.

    But motions of opposition are not the same as a full blown suit in Court. So Sony does have an incredibly good chance to have their trademark invalided.

  • I will say that the inner party Democrats are absolutely not going to learn any lesson from this.

    They will lose the 2028 and wonder who they need to blame outside of themselves. I've honestly tried voicing my concerns with the TN Democrat party, but LOL they don't give a bleep about anything from the State of TN.

    I'll keep speaking my mind but shoot it doesn't feel like anything is going to move the needle with them.

  • "Can we stop talking about politics for a moment?"

    "So, uh, does anyone like Furina from Genshin Impact?"

    "HOLY SHIT, okay fine, let's talk politics."

  • The start of the actual effects.

    Everyone looking at stock markets and 401(k)s as the effects, but the actual ground level affects they were always going to take at least three to six months to really feel.

  • And love zero of them.

  • Vindictive. Turkey feels better about themselves when the person is completely silenced.

  • Careful with that. As a workaholic who was on this style for a while, I got introduced to a thing called refeeding syndrome while out on travel for the company.

    Nothing too terrible in my case, but one moment I was on-site explaining some programmable logic controllers that needed to be installed at site and then next moment I'm waking up in a hospital.

    Your body can get really used to one way of doing things that when you shock it in some other direction (like having a big meal with the facility you're at) it'll ask you to have a quick nap while it figures out what to do with what you just gave it.

  • However, I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small business to come back to America and manufacture in America. So to wish ill on someone and to love the fact that they’re suffering, to love the fact that their family is being negatively affected, because I didn’t vote the same way that you did is [expletive] up

    This guy is a double idiot. That he would think the manufacturing would be around before the tariffs went into place. it's just silly thinking.

    But also that he believes "go woke, go broke" isn't the exact same thing he's facing, is a whole other level of ignorance.

    There's no way this person isn't just rage bait. No one could truly be this fucking regraded. I refuse to believe there are people this genuinely ignorant who aren't just out there for rage bait.

  • Ha ha, but for real. They'll just turn people's power off, tell them to ration, and/or jack the price per kWh to 500% what it was.

    Team Orange let's no good calamity go to waste. Everything is potential profit if you have no moral compass.

  • You're mostly right in that the person you're replying is missing that we are providing money for those people's detention. But El Salvador doesn't HAVE TO give the person back, there's nothing outside of us stopping payments that compels them.

    It's a semantic difference indeed but goes to point out the difference between legal means and diplomatic means. Legally, there's nothing the US can do, once the person is in El Salvador they are under that country's legal system. Diplomatically, yes, absolutely we can ask El Salvador to hand the person back or there will be diplomatic and potentially economic consequences for not doing so.

    Now as others have pointed out, the Executive branch has a wide latitude for diplomatic powers. Judge indicated that the President work diplomatically to bring the person home, but outside of that, the "or else" part. There's not much the Judge can do past that.

    Additionally, El Salvador could press charges on the person and then there would be nothing that can be done to bring the person home in any legal means and likely less so diplomatically. This is the issue with sending people there. President Bukele of El Salvador could wish for better diplomatic relationships with the United States and Trump and just invent charges to keep the person there forever. There's literally nothing we can do is El Salvador indicates that they are keeping the person and there's nothing in the court system that can compel anyone to make those reasons clear.

    That's the biggest thing about the difference between diplomatic and legal. In legal means, the Court system can ensure that people are following through on requirements. In a diplomatic means, it's just depends on who can butter who's biscuit the best. The Judge can tell the President to bring him back, but that means next to nothing when it comes to diplomatic matters.

  • If it passes the House, it doesn't matter, Trump can veto it.

    Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha in 1983 declared Legislative Veto unconstitutional. It should have been then when all the emergency powers were rewritten.

    So as it stands. All those emergency powers that were written with the understanding that a simple majority was all that was needed to end an emergency, now need a veto proof majority.

  • Permanently Deleted

    Jump
  • President Trump will impose a 10% tariff on all countries

    It's just whatever at this point. Clearly he's gunning for recession, fuck it. Nobody in Congress stopping him.

    At this point all those emergency powers Congress has given the President since the 1920s needs to be pulled back because clearly we can no long assure that the President won't declare everything an emergency.

  • Permanently Deleted

    Jump
  • Schedule F classification. Trump tried it once towards the end of his first term, promised that he would do it again when he came back into office but Trump lost that election.

    That he's now doing again is literally no surprise. He absolutely promised that this would happen and spoke about how he was going to do it if he won 2024 after losing 2020.

    Long story short, this creates what basically amounts to at-will employment at the Federal level. Again, this should come as a shock to no one, like he started detailing the implementation back in 2022, before he even got the nomination, it's literally one of the most consistent things about Trump's policy.

    Now if you're wondering, yes, at-will employment styled employment in Federal Office will mean that if Trump doesn't like someone for any reason, they can be let go, zero employment protections.

  • Elon Musk is neither President or Vice President, yet yields a massive amount of power for someone who is just "an independent contractor".

    This is what I'm getting at. That a JD Vance President and Mike Johnson VP (let's just say for sake of illustration) could indicate they're bringing Trump on as a "consultant" and then leave their jobs largely up to him.

    Technically speaking Vance would still hold the title President but Trump would be executing most of the functions.

  • Yeah. Then Putin took back the role of President using the argument that Medvedev being President allowed Putin to run again despite term limits.

    Medvedev became Prime Minister, then everyone in Parliament resigned all at the exact same time, leaving the President as the only one running the place.

    Putin rewrote the Constitution and that was the end of that.

  • NBC News asked about a possible scenario in which Vice President JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump. Trump responded that “that’s one” method.

    That isn't a method. At in the sense that Trump obtains the title President. But we've seen during this administration that the President can delegate broad authority to others with zero questions.

    So we could have a President who is still the President in name but has passed 99.9% of their duties to Trump who is an "independent contractor".

    This is quite literally the foundation they're building with Musk.

  • Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown.

    Actually it's the investors that wanted some gimmick to sell a billion brand new iPhones that's the letdown. AI is just a bunch of bytes that can't do anything unless someone's greed gets it to do something.

    I hate these kinds of articles because they keep making excuses for the actual problem. I mean right there, it was right there in the story and CNN buried the lead.

    The real reason companies are doing this is because Wall Street wants them to. Investors have been salivating for an Apple “super cycle” — a tech upgrade so enticing that consumers will rush to get their hands on the new model.

    It's right there and CNN and many other media keep handing out passes on it blaming something else. Investors are greedy ass bastards and will use literally anything from magic beans to snake oil if it means they can make five extra cents. The investors, the Wall Street bastards are the problem. THEY ARE THE FUCKING LETDOWN. Never forget that.

    I bet my fucking left kidney, that if there's a "victory" over AI and it goes away. Those bastards will be back with some new flashy thing nobody asked for. I bet both my fucking kidneys, that's how sure I am of it. Nobody solves shit, unless they solve that first.