orclev @ orclev @lemmy.world

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True, although I do wonder why he hasn't been banned from the instance yet. Looking at his post history it's just about exclusively troll comments.

Whether college prices have risen in the last five to ten years is irrelevant because they rose precipitously over the last fifty years. There was a time when you could pay for college with the money earned in a minimum wage job without needing to take out a student loan. The fact that it now takes multiple years worth of wages (for any job someone without a college degree is likely able to get) is an issue.

The framers had lots of protections for a lot of things but apparently not a single one of them accounted for a coordinated take over of the majority of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches by a group of people willing to wipe their asses with the constitution.

The "and at least one AI model seems to agree" on the end has got to be peak irony.

You forgot step 4 - Kill any attempt to measure the impact of their actions so they can claim everything is going great and there's no easily accessible evidence to the contrary.

Hint this is part of step 4.

Yeah in this case I kind of meant the corollary to a bus factor. Essentially if everyone at that market disappeared, how many companies would be severely impacted?

Ultimately the problem is that that works in their favour. Remember the Republican position is "The Government doesn't work and if you put me in charge of it I'll prove it!", so the only thing they need to do is destroy anything they can get their hands on. The only part of the government they care about (other than their specific seat) is the military. They will gleefully watch everything else burn and then point at the ashes as proof they were right all along.

Need some chemist to come up with a cheap chemical that can be added to oil to render it useless without an incredibly expensive cleaning process. They've got millions of miles of pipelines that they can't police constantly. All it would take is picking a spot and injecting that chemical into the line.

If they can't be attacked legally, that means the only option is to attack them illegally and to go after the thing that matters to them more than anything else in the world, their money.

Hah, that made me chuckle. I recently attended an outdoor market in my area that for some reason had an unusually high number of furries wandering around it. I was really curious what the bus factor of that market would actually be.

Man they are still caught up on that fake story somebody sent to one of these morons claiming kids were using litter boxes in school. It never happened but they're going to try to legislate it away anyway.

The lesson here is don't troll these idiots, they'll fucking believe it and then start passing idiotic laws for non-problems.

Yup. It's an ecosystem and most of it is located in other countries. By putting tariffs in place on foreign imports he's starving what little domestic manufacturing exists of needed components and raw materials. Those same tariffs also inspire retaliatory tariffs on US exports destroying demand for US manufactured goods. He's turning the US from a small part of a giant market into a tiny isolated island that's missing many key materials. What little manufacturing the US had managed to hang on to is now in danger of being strangled to death.

Improving the US manufacturing base was always going to be a tricky problem that required a subtle approach. It's like disabling a bomb. In comes Trump and just starts ripping out wires randomly while screaming "I got it!" at the top of his lungs.

Moron should have stuck to his usual grifts instead of trying to play at being an economist.

Unfortunately exactly that is one of the more likely outcomes. Trump is already toying with the idea of selling off federal lands and privatizing essentially all government services except for the military. The one saving grace is that he can't touch state run services directly, but his Republican governor sycophants are more than happy to follow his example. It's essentially the recipe for every dystopian cyberpunk ever with a handful of megacorps taking the place of the government and providing basic services like police and EMS but only to the rich.

Yeah it's 90% wishful thinking glued together with a tiny smattering of reality. There is some merit in a few bits and pieces of the article, but I'm also certain that is not at all even remotely the thought process driving Trump's decisions. I'm also equally certain things will not be playing out like the author is desperately hoping they will.

What is going to happen is Trump is going to absolutely tank the US economy, possibly badly enough to qualify as the second great depression. What happens after that is pure speculation but nothing that's good for the US unless by some miracle this finally kills off the Republican party and the neo-liberal branch of the Democrats (which sadly these days is less a branch and more a trunk).

In my experience dealing with my deeply Republican parents it's something like:

• Chinese/China -> Communism
• Socialism/Socialist -> Communism
• Government Program -> Communism
• Anything that helps people who aren't rich -> Communism and/or Woke
• Anything the Democrats do -> Communism and/or Woke
• Any company that does something that isn't the most evil/amoral thing it could possibly have done (rarely happens) -> Communism and/or Woke

He's an absolute moron but he's also the poster child of failing upward. As long as you're rich in the US it's nearly impossible to actually fail. He's squandered most of the wealth his sleazy father left him, but he still has enough left over to be completely insulated from the consequences of his actions. His children won't be as fortunate unless they're a lot smarter than he is and actually manage to make some money instead of constantly losing it.

It's also about destroying US soft power in general. Putin wants an isolated US so he's having Trump torch every bridge with every ally the US has. Any country that the US has a friendly relationship with is in the firing line.

Right now he's pretty laser focused in on about a 5 year period in 1940 and a certain country in Europe. Unfortunately I don't think he's actually read how that particular story ends though.

Something something need H1B something something not enough qualified Americans.

In some cases very, but in others not so much. Some of them have Patreon accounts or other ways to accept payment, but in many cases you'll be doing good just to find a working email address for them. Ideally though I'd prefer to just pay for the books outright rather than trying to do some kind of grey area thing where I'd pirate the book and then donate the cost to them (if for no other reason than it causes tax headaches for everyone involved).

No you can't. They changed the firmware so eBook downloads now go into a partition that's not accessible when mounting the kindle over USB.