dnick @ dnick @sh.itjust.works

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That's like saying black lung runs in families because your family all worked in the mines.

Funny? Do you think religious schools don't exist?

Was this description meant to be ironic, or was that accidental?

Just a double-decker couch, nothing to worry about.

Probably both, except within the bounds of easily 'random' bounds. Supposing it were possible for a mammal to be green, it wouldn't matter of green were 'better', unless it happened at the right time. Orange could have won out simply because it was good enough to do one thing (camoflauge for pretty) and didn't have enough downside to message that benefit (high visibility to hunters or less valuable prey). Heck, a gene that turned a lion invisible could have turned up and it wouldn't be guaranteed to carry forward even if it didn't have any downsides if the random recipient also happened to be clumsy or unlucky and died of some random injury or disease.

Evolution doesn't really have any tools that aren't random, at least until intelligence came around to provide other 'non natural' paths, though of course those are just as natural as the others, just that we think we're special and above nature.

I mean the math checks out, but holy crap, you're 43, but at 19 '9/11 hadn't happened yet....'

Which is exactly why the tariffs are stupid at one more level. The only thing they're good for in theory is to level the playing field for non-tariffed products, to make them competitive to make 'here', but no company in it's right mind is going to invest in the infrastructure it's meant to drive knowing they aren't guaranteed in the slightest.

Would be interesting if everyone still stuck using it consistently advertised a discount for finding them on any site besides Twitter. Might not make the biggest difference by itself but it could start a trickle that turns into the flood.

Basically a surcharge for users that only know Twitter or otherwise wouldn't be bothered by the noise. Maybe call it a tarrif that can be easily avoided :)

Another way to look at it is like having to use Windows because that's what they use at your job. There's a problem but because most people are oblivious or don't care, the momentum is difficult to escape. You may find it easy to say 'quit you job then' to fully show your disapproval but not everyone has that luxury.

I do hope everyone that is stuck using it mentions in every commission or interaction that they are available on different sites as well though.

Anyone still using it or of convenience though should quit immediately.

That's a big leap... Dumb blonde to beating women.

Little odd of course, but not the worst way to try to illustrate more than 1/4 but not 1/2... Which seems to be in the ballpark of the number he mentioned. If 40% of spousal murders are committed by women it fair to say it's not "always men", but it is more than half but less that 3/4.

Did you typo or did he? .03 is significantly bigger than .004

Plus it’s way too big

I would have until this comment :)

For sure it's a two part thing, but regardless of the increased cost of US cars due to other tariffs, the price will still include the opportunistic gaming US car companies will play based on the car tarrif trump is stupidly rotting with.

Conceivably the only benefit the auto tarrif will do is allow US companies try to remain competitive against foreign companies who won't have to deal with the materials tariffs he's stupidly straddling US companies with.

Makes sense, but it still seems like all the recognizable 'quotes' mentioned are quotes the movie used, and not ones that are came from the movie itself, to the point where it would only be in very specific context where anyone saying them would be quoting Aliens.

The problem here isn't the increased price of goods, it's the fact that Trump knows increasing the price of non-US built cars via tarrif gives US car companies an advantage that could be used to sell more cars for less money, but will really just give US car companies the opportunity to raise prices any amount they choose, as long as it's slightly less than the tarrif, thereby making more money and enjoying the advantage of not paying the tariffs. People will still buy cars, and they might buy American cars because they're now a little cheaper than non-US.... But if they do this, the tariffs will pretty much only result in higher priced cars across the board instead of affordable IS cars vs expensive foreign ones.

Basically someone explained to Trump one of the many ways the tariffs will be backfiring, and he's ineffectually asking companies not to do that.

Problem is that a well paid and well educated workforce will make more money 'sometime after the next quarter' and in a diffuser way spread evenly across the board.

Stiffing people and withholding raises will show a profit within a quarter someone's bonus is based on.

Guess which option the people who get the bonuses will pick.

Honestly the 'fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value' might be the phrase we'll look back on as the downfall of the human race.

Seriously, what can possibly make that worth adding?

But you said there was probably cause, and then brought up a bunch of stuff there's no reason to assume the cops 'knew' before arresting him.