frazw @ frazw @lemmy.world

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Yes I did. Your point is simply "but... more money!!!" Ignoring that bigger numbers are not the whole story.

It has only been 6 months. The effects of this administration will not appear in tables of budgets and salaries yet. Although in simple terms it will probably still look ok, it is far less attractive.

Cost of living matters too. From simple things like how much broadband costs (uk: £30 pcm, usa: $78 pcm) to an ambulance ride (uk: free, usa:$2000). The higher salary is an illusion.

I also note that every company in your list is a tech company. Researchers in other fields are probably not going to be as lucky.

Buying in instrumentation is also now more expensive due to tariffs so your research budget was effectively cut as well as being actually cut. Scientists with approved grants for equipment have had them revoked. Universities are advising not spending funds to provide contingency funds.

Is it not simply a matter of contract anyway? The states agree to pay the federal government in exchange for the security and cooperation that the federation brings. If the federal government is no longer holding up it's end of that agreement no matter the reason, why should the States be obligated to remain in that agreement?

Disagree, every ruling the scotus makes that overturns a lesser court judge makes their opposition to established law clearer. If cases went straight to scotus, it would appear that legal opinion was unanimous and not that scotus have a politically motivated agenda.

This post deserves more love

Strike a pose.

Pretty sure that Musk has realised he alienated his prior fan base by courting this government so publicly and passionately.

Now he is trying to reclaim his former status by attacking the Trump admin thinking the left will love him for it. Trouble with that is, petulent is not a good look, nor is appearing not to have an allegiance to anything but money. His mask has slipped and that won't be forgotten, he did a nazi salute twice on the international stage ffs. No one is going to see Musk as a champion for the left or the environment again.

Not only has he screwed Tesla by making them unfashionable, he's now screwed SpaceX by pissing off a major source of income.

But we are still to believe that the guy is a financial genius and not just lucky, right?

Amazon 1 year after launch: Unfortunately, the space needed for robots in the van means that the van has to return to base 5 times more often to reload with the actual packages and the extra weight of robots more than doubles the weight of the van being lugged around in the form of heavy robots. So that's why we are having to charge more for delivery and why it is taking longer for you to get your packages. But at least we can pay fewer salaries.

To make matters more complicated i believe (but may be wrong) in Japan Tokyo and Osaka have opposite conventions. So it can even come down to the city level.

"It's not the product it's the marketing" - Dems (probably)

I don't get the joke. They are building research reactors not reactors designed to handle high demand. Start small, scale up then start building full scale reactors. Isn't that kinda normal with new tech? They are starting the scaling up phase...

Will it stimulate the downturn in shipping demand by making it harder to get work as the USA pushes itself and the rest of the world into recession.

They can't admit it because it's an echo chamber. Trump tells them what they want to hear. They feel smarter for being validated by the president so they ignore the nagging voice that things aren't going to plan because the only possible explanation is NOT that they were wrong and don't understand these complex issues, but that even though they can't see the full picture, they were right. Then all the other people in the same position agree that 4D chess is being played and they all voted a smart vote and the endorphins flood their brain again

I have to take him at his word. If he thinks it is going well, that means the chaos is what he wants.

He is either gaming the stock market for profit, or trying to harm the world economy.

The very slim possibility is that he is being told by others with an agenda that things are working as planned.

Profit like a motherfucker day.

You think he doesn't have someone buying the stocks he tanked just before his announcement.

"The US separation of powers, a cornerstone of the Constitution, divides governmental authority into three distinct branches – legislative, executive, and judicial – with each branch having specific powers and responsibilities, preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful"

If the president is responsible for appointing judges, then the judiciary is not and never was a separate power. While it required a rather unlikely series of deaths and retirements, in close proximity, the judiciary is under trump's control because he has control of the supreme Court having appointed several.

I thought trump didn't like taxes?

And does it grant you immunity from accidentally being deported? Or intentionally for that matter ?

I feel like using percentages would be more meaningful. The Dow Jones peaked at 381 just before crashing in 1929. So using absolute numbers can't be compared because the entire DJ wasn't worth the drops we are seeing today.

I in 1929 it lost~10-12% on its worst days

So far Trump is losing ~5% approx each day

It's not exactly a stellar endorsement. I'm only saying that you are comparing things at today's dollar value, when the value of currency changes over time.

This Wikipedia page shows that the worst days by percentage are not where we are yet.

However... Rank, President (AFFILIATION), date, DJ, Point loss, %loss

1 Reagan (R), 1987-10-19, 1738.74, −508.00, −22.61%

2 Trump (R), 2020-03-16, 20188.52, −2997.10, −12.93%

3 Hoover (R), 1929-10-28, 260.64, −38.33, −12.82%

4 Hoover (R), 1929-10-29, 230.07, −30.57, −11.73%

5 Trump (R), 2020-03-12, 21200.62, −2352.60, −9.99%

6 Hoover (R), 1929-11-06, 232.13, −25.55, −9.92%

7 McKinley (R), 1899-12-18, 58.27, −5.57, −8.72%

8 Hoover (R), 1932-08-12, 63.11, −5.79, −8.40%

9 T. Roosevelt (R), 1907-03-14, 76.23, −6.89, −8.29%

10 Reagan (R), 1987-10-26, 1793.93, −156.83 , −8.04 %

All republicans. I note that the biggest daily gains were also republicans but most of them are related to the big drops e.g a day, week or month later, so they basically tank the index then the index recovers some time later.