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p 698 of project 2025 document:

The federal income tax system heavily taxes capital and corporate income and discourages work, savings, and investment. The public finance literature is clear that a consumption tax would minimize government’s distortion of private economic decisions and thus be the least economically harmful way to raise federal tax revenues.

more riches to capital and corporations, consumers will pay for it. it's all in there

One of her arguments against the allegation of her spewing Russian talking points was that she doesn't follow Russian Propaganda.

Truthfulness aside, that argument is not the elegant dodge that she probably thinks it is. Because that speaks against her informedness. As someone applying for this job she should be interested or better yet well versed in what current Russian propaganda is, how it is disseminated, who the target audience is, how well it is working, and how it relates to the wider goals of the Russian regime.

Strangely enough Robert Kenney also made use of a similar defensive veil a couple of times. Well I'm not a medical expert, so I really couldn't tell you. 🙄 Bro, why are you applying for this position then?

I think in that scenario it's more likely that they would "buy the dip" then that they would up and leave. Some of the billionaires also want to found their own techno-fashist fiefdoms. This could be a good catalyst for that.

Saw a policy expert say it's a mixture of 3 things really:

1. Trump likes to blame outsiders for problems and this is well received by his loyal base and gives off strongman vibes
2. long term plan to switch from income tax (scales the more you earn) to consumption taxes (the poorer you are the more you pay for for consumption, relatively speaking) which benefits the rich at the expense of the poor. this wealth transfer is easier to sell when the populace is focused on outsiders
3. Trump doesn't understand basic economics

source: https://youtu.be/2I1L1fXaYDs

There's so many parts and pieces that all failed to get to where we are today. Each time you reflect a moment and realize that we shouldn't be be here in the first place:

• The FBI // justice department shouldn't be a tool of personal revenge.
• But wait Trump/Musk shouldn't have become presidents to begin with.
• Voters should be educated and well informed enough to simply not vote for an autocrat.
• Merrick Garland should never have become attorney general and even so Biden should have pressured him hard to do his job.
• Trump should have been impeached multiple times already.
• But the democrats too should have had a better alternative candidate.
• The democrats should have had a real primary contest.
• Biden should have never announced to run for another term out of the blue.
• And his handlers shouldn't have tried to hide his frailty for so long.
• If only Donald Trump should have been sentenced for his many crimes.
• And he shouldn't have had the backing of the Republican party for this long.
• Arguably voters should have realized he's inept the first time around.
• The media shouldn't have sensationalized him as much when he first ran as a publicity stunt

The list is not exhaustive and goes on and on...

And in the background there's all the systemic failures and problems that enabled this: terrible public education, ignoring a large chunk of the electorate for too long, citizens united, social media and outrage culture, rampant disinformation and propaganda disguised as news, the electoral college and de facto 2 party system, too few checks and balances being hard codified, obvious loop holes like presidential pardons, ...

Petty sure historians will analyze this for generations. If we will still live in a world where historians are allowed to about their work freely.

¿Remember how much Trump administration bungled the COVID response? Imagine again, but this time with his guy in charge. I see dead people.

Fun fact: the monikers used for these children in the book are used in coloquial speech to describe children that misbehave or exhibit behavioral discrepencies:

• shock headed Peter: an unkempt, filthy child
• fidgety Philip: ADHS or hyperactive child
• Johnny-Head-in-the-Air: daydreaming, absent mindedness
• wicked Frederick: cruelty to animals (sociopathy, lack of empathy often reveal themselves this way early on)
• Soup Caspar: eating disorder, perhaps
• etc

The original book was written by a medical doctor dealing with children, go figure!

This feels quite politically motivated. Trump appointment aside, the CIA specifically uses the words "low confidence", so even if they deem it the most likely, it's still only the most likely from several low confidence options.

But look at how lawmakers exploit it:

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton said he was “pleased” the CIA concluded in the Biden administration’s final days that the lab-leak theory was the most plausible explanation of Covid-19’s origins, and commended Mr Ratcliffe for releasing the conclusion.

“Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world,” Mr Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, said in a statement. BLOOMBERG

Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/cia-now-favours-lab-leak-theory-to-explain-covid-19-origins

So reportedly this guy got caught in a right-wing echo chamber of conspiracy Youtubers. That's why his coup came so out of nowhere:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/inside-south-koreas-right-wing-youtube-world-openly-embraced-by-yoon

Indeed so but the power draw is very miniscule.

I like the integration of the switch, should be standard. I use many switch plug-ins just to avoid stand-by consumption (it really adds up over the year) and to avoid high pitch humming on some devices.

YSK: there's also remote controls for these switches, very handy

Yeah,

    
1 + (1*5000%) = 51


  

Honestly I prefer just writing "51 times more frequent".

Waddaya mean we can't just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It's not fair! 😡

It's not like you couldn't say the same thing about Donald Trump. Yet here we are.

yes

He made a post using command line lingo too, but anyone with even basic knowledge of those commands can tell you that both the syntax and the way he alludes to them are wrong.

It's the equivalent of slinging a guitar in a picture to look cool but pressing the side with the strings against your belly.

Yeah, what a joke. Especially when Musk is right there in the headline 😞.

Ah yes, if you've ever had the problem of a game's graphics not working properly but you can't adjust the graphics because it requires you to launch the actual game and navigate the settings menu you will appreciate that. Most games store and read their settings in an external file and a launcher can provide a meaningful way to edit those. That being said there's many launchers who actually don't offer this feature and are just used to shove ads your way or track your behavior.

Imo they should at the very least standardize some color coding and labeling. All charging-only cables are yellow, data cables are blue. Something like that.

Yeah and the fact that they allow plugins in the first place is great. It's a great way to gauge what's in demand and how it could be implemented. Reminds me of games that allow modding/addons and often key features are later added officially.