anachronist @ anachronist @midwest.social

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Shapiro would have been a bad and divisive choice. Walsh was the best of the bunch and I'm absolutely stunned that she picked him.

Yep the goal is to make Gaza uninhabitable so that Palestinians will either leave or die.

I'm still delighted and amazed that they named their mascot "conny".

That article mostly seems to be arguing that the CHIPS act giveaway is too small. Maybe it is, but the fundamental problem is that our largest corporations are being run by traitorous, globalist wreckers who will undermine our national economy by taking the money and using it to accelerate offshoring. If Chinese CEOs tried to pull this stuff they'd end up in reeducation camps.

I always like the premise of Olympics improving public infrastructure: "Yeah we had the money to do this all along but we couldn't be arsed, but now that we're going to host a big TV thing we'll get it done."

Don't threaten us with a good time!

These guys will be thrilled: https://nolympicsla.com/

The CHIPS act was nerfed by lobbyists. It was supposed to ban companies from simply redirecting money overseas.

For instance, suppose Intel gets 8.5 billion in CHIPS act money that it's supposed to spend domestically. And suppose that in a given year they spend 10 billion dollars in the US and 30 billion dollars overseas. So they get the CHIPS act money and they spend 10 billion dollars in the US and 38.5 billion dollars overseas. That looks like they spent the CHIPS act money overseas, right? Nope, according to Intel's accountants, the CHIPS act money was spent domestically, but then Intel realized they had an extra 8.5 billion dollars and just went ahead and spent that other money overseas.

Like, the exact dollars they got, those they spend domestically, but then that "freed up" other dollars to spend overseas.

That these companies would do this was predicted and there were controls in the bill to prevent that, but the companies (Intel, IBM, etc) got all those controls stripped out of the bill.

Intel is run by the same MBA/Financier scum that destroyed Boeing. Their "leadership" is what caused the US to lose the industry we created in the first place. The idea that giving those scum billions of dollars would fix anything is a laugh. The CHIPS act should have began by nationalizing Intel, firing the entire executive suite along with all the MBAs and consultants at the company.

USA gotta export its worse ideas abroad, after all. For-profit churches, flat earth, antivaxx

More like someone in Europe realizing that they could import something from America and it'd catch on like an invasive plant species with no local ecological resistance.

not scare anyone away

Picking one of the biggest hyper-zionists this side of John Fetterman would be a very poor way to do this.

I only know him for sending police to crack heads at pro-Palestine rallies.

Generative AI is just classification engines run in reverse. Classification engines are useful but they've been around and making incremental improvements for at least a decade. Also, just like self-driving cars they've been writing checks they can't honor. For instance, legal coding and radiology were supposed to be automated by classification engines a long time ago.

It's cool that you're in the well-insulated house business. But we're still cooking the planet and jet aircraft are bad.

As the country lost its connections to the British it became more easily influenced by the Americans.

Not very often I see someone characterizing the British as the good guys.

It’s almost as if politicians (particularly at this level) often need to walk a rhetorical tightrope so as to avoid alienating large swathes of voters [small set of powerful donors]. Crazy.

FIFY

She's not chasing voters at all, she's chasing donors. She's also apparently whispering sweet nothings to Wall Street about firing Lina Kahn.

Not for long:

He owns AWS

Daily reminder that ACAB.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

My experience is that Firefox often has problems on Google-owned properties. Either performance/responsiveness or functionality just not working. Why this would be is left as an exercise for the reader.