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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said a financial shortfall that had led the immigration agency to suspend deportations and other operations was resolved. He did not offer details.

How much were they short? If fixing a financial shortfall can produce newsworthy levels of improvement, maybe the US should help out with those particular financial shortfalls?

We're throwing billions of dollars into Ukraine and Israel that only very loosely and indirectly affect the typical taxpayer, the amount of money Mexico is likely to be talking about would almost definitely have a wildly higher amount of tangible benefit.

The flights in Mexico should be going the opposite direction... Instead of flying immigrants they find to their south border, they should be enforcing their own border and flying the asylum seekers from the southern boder to US ports of entry.

It's weird to me how much political support US legislators have for European countries compared to how little there is for our next door neighbor...

Literally every single penny that was embezzled came out of conservative pockets... Fiscal responsibility includes not giving money to fraudsters.

Don't ask me why trump gets a pass, I'm not actually a Conservative (I could be called a liberal, but only in the international version of the term, Democrats aren't liberals in my opinion) and I have no fucking idea why the maga folks don't see the blatant bufoonery that trump brings to finances. They aren't actually stupid for the most part, they just got jonestown syndrome over the fucker or something.

Lol... The Biden administration has done well, I was being very specific to Biden himself... He's not in any way engaged whatsoever.

As far as doing worse, trumps "micromanage via Twitter" philosophy was definitely worse... Not even talking policy or anything, just the leadership style. I'll take a guy phoning shit in over a micromanager any day of the week. Phoning it in isn't great, but micromanagers are hell...

There's no context to the question?

At face value, no, there's no technical reason you can't run a Plex server and a lemmy instance on one computer :)

I'm totally not a huge Biden fan, but I wouldn't say his chances don't look good... He's still a better option from a centrist/objective perspective than trump is... Biden can rationally be expected to do what he's done his entire term, not a whole lot. Trump on the other hand, will do a whole lot, and it'll be a mixed bag predominately identifiable as chaos, also because that's what his track record shows.

The reasoning behind the decision voters made in 2020 has not really changed much in either case... It's the same decision process. The only real question is what demographics show up at the polls. If it's the same demographics it's likely to be the same outcome.

I'll object to their tequila, but everything else I'm totally on board :)

I'd expect more acquittals tbh. It was, at the outset, a legal and constitutionally protected protest. I'm still not entirely on board with calling it an insurrection, a coup, etc. but it definitely devolved into a non-peaceful event, and I'm pretty ambivalent when it comes to the prosecutions due to that. They fucked around, they should find out. You don't wander off with the speaker of the house's podium and not have the full focus of government come down on your ass.

I would 100% expect acquittals for anyone who stayed outside though, as a hypothetical condition that might warrant acquittal... That for me would be a solid indicator that their intent was limited to peaceful protest. Could very well be that there were only two people who did so.

I'd also like to read an article on the acquittals, but I find their presence to be encouraging, and I'm assuming you don't feel that way.

On the left side of the fence though, the presence of acquittals, even so few, lends a great deal of credibility to the cases... Does it not? Wasn't a kangaroo court if it wasn't 100%, right? I think so anyway :)

Pretty sure they meant you don't want your personal ISP to be the government...But I might've read it that way simply because I was thinking the exact same thing.

As long as there's civilian ISPs in the same coverage area, it's still totally viable though. I could see it being a net benefit.

There's 22 million people receiving a $30 subsidy, that's a $660 million payout from government to those broadband businesses...

"Helping the poors" is directly helping them buy yachts by adding $660 million dollars to what the market can support. you're narrative is fucky.

Repubs want to shut it off because it's welfare, and they think poor people get that way by choice and shouldn't get any handouts. It's just simple Intolerance is all

Whatya mean? You can twitch combat games all day that show every component of the human body flying through the air, appendages, intestines, no problem. Just gotta make sure there's no nipples rendered on the flying parts...

Because it sounds like I'm a stupid fucking Republican saying the bootstrap bullshit. Everything has to be pigeonholed into either Republican or Democrat these days, and I live in the middle as a (GASP!!!) centrist...

If what I say is Republican sounding, I must be a racist rednecky dude that drives a big ass diesel pickup and lemmy downvotes because lemmy is left biased AF, and if what I say sounds lefty, then I probably hate America and will vote for any sack of shit with a D next to it, and lemmy upvotes...

Reality is I kinda just hate everybody these days, because absolutely nobody gives a flying fuck about anybody except their tribe members...

Lemme guess, you're not in the US? Live in one of those other places where it's still socially acceptable to speak neutrally?

Don't sweat them votes man, I don't ;) you read it exactly the way I meant it.

I appear to have misrepresented myself as someone who has actual money... That's not really the case bud, I've been fighting your silly chart for decades, tooth and nail.

Go be a nurse or a teacher if you want a pension, or shop around for a government job... They're still out there. They aren't as common as they used to be by a damned sight, especially in trades, but you can still find them. I'd stay the fuck away from the postal service, those pensions are wired tight, but working up that chain involves being someone's bitch until they retire basically (lots of "assistant" crap).

Expect to be paid less if your pension is union though. Sucks for decades, but you won't have to sit there praying SS holds up. Pensions aren't luck, they're a compromise, just like anything else.

It's a girl, My lord, In a flatbed Ford...

Microsoft purchased pretty much everything they've ever "produced"... There was a time when the best business model possible for a good startup idea was to invest just enough time and money into it to get on the MS radar and get bought out.

What are you doing to ensure your ability to retire at 65? Anything?

Once upon a time, the government ce up with a new deal, to force people to give up a big chunk of their paycheck, so that they'd have retirement income when they got old. They called it an individual retirement account. They mailed out statements. You could look at your statement every year and see what you put in, and what you'd get for it.

Now, they call it welfare... They call it a drain on your taxes (but you young people still pay that extra chunk to this very day... They've hoodwinked your asses into thinking SS deductions are just plain old taxes...). The sentiment is that those people should have planned for their retirement...

Thing is... They did plan for retirement... By letting the government take those deductions...

And again... If those people should have planned for themselves... What are YOU doing to ensure you can retire? Are you gonna rely on the ponzi scheme? You know damned well it's a ponzi scheme. You know it isn't going to be viable when you retire. So what are you doing?

Those old dudes can keep those jobs if they want as far as I'm concerned. I'm old enough to have received "individual account statements" from the SS office by mail, but not so old that I didn't make any other plans (old enough to have had the option to pursue a pension, which sadly is gone for pretty much anyone these days).

I personally feel like anyone born before 1965 has every right to have relied on SS alone, born 1965-1990, you should have seen the writing on the wall, but if you didn't, it's kinda excusable. Born after 1990, you absolutely should not be expecting much out of SS (and frankly, y'all should be pissed off at the SS deduction you pay every check...you're basically being told straight to your faces that it's an outright tax... That is NOT what your parents and grandparents were told...)

If those 70+ year olds had known that SS would devolve into being called a "welfare program", most wouldn't have relied on it (gen x and prior have a strong moral aversion to anything welfare...). They didn't cause this problem, they believed in the government, and government caused it.

Satellites are mostly tied to their orbit in terms of flight path and times. An aircraft can be anywhere at any time, and this one is designed to be anywhere quickly.

It also says it's intended to be unmanned. Which means that what it brings to the table is similar to what a drone brings to the table, just at a much larger scale, it's a global asset drone vs a theater asset drone. Put a couple of em on an airbase in the middle east somewhere and it's only a few hours round trip to go check on what the latest is on ICBM progress in NK, for example. Even less to have a peek at the goings on in Gaza, or Yemen...

We're still flying U2 spy planes, we run drones all over the place, there's absolutely still purposes for this type of platform.

It's also noteworthy that the article mentions mach 10, which is getting ballpark close to being entirely untouchable by air defenses. Top speed for SAMs is ballpark mach 15, but there aren't a whole hell of a lot of missiles that could chase down a target doing mach 10, and if it's stealth tech, even the very best systems would be very hard pressed to acquire it with enough lead time to come up with a fire solution for it. A stealth mach 10 capable platform could fly anywhere on earth with very little regard for potential defenses.

The truly relevant question is actually one you didn't ask. How much is it, and is it worth it? I'd say probably not, but not in the context that we wouldn't be getting our money's worth, I think we would, but I don't think we really need to spend that much to have even more military advantage than we already have.

Socialism is left/liberal as a concept (and so is capitalism, in actual fact)... It's not left/liberal when implemented at scale...

The arbiter of resources, whatever or whoever that may be, invariably becomes right/authoritarian. The simple nature of the arbitration causes it, and a truly left/liberal society would, by necessity, require a lack of said arbitration.

Such a society cannot exist at scale. History has proven that repeatedly. A left/liberal society could arguably only exist as anarchy, and frankly, capitalism is far closer to that than communism is. The "every man for himself" nature of capitalism is inherently more capable of providing individual liberty and equal opportunity than the "to each according to his needs", very simply because of the inherent requirement of having an entity judge that need... Said judging entity is inherently authoritarian in nature...

Id have thrown a David Tennant in there...

I might be one of those people Michael Caine was talking about ;)

Nice to mole you. Meet you. Nice to meet you mole.

Don't say mole.

I said Mole.

Isreal isn't defending Israel...

And assuming you aren't military, WE are the militia... The gaggle of "randos"... We aren't charged with defending the US from invaders, the military is (and I was, and did). We, the militia, are charged with keeping the free state intact and secure.

Our purpose, as "a well regulated militia", is to show our asses up under arms if something like Jan 6th actually succeeds. All the "randos"... That's the whole point :)

Dems should be buying a shitload of guns right now, specifically because trump... He's already shown the capacity to threaten the free state, he's the first in a damned long time, and we, the "randos", should be as ready as we can... That, as far as I'm concerned, is a damned good reason for randos to have guns (especially Dem randos)