It’s been settled for 20 years that the world is warming. The efforts at this point are entirely focused on containing and limiting the damage. The fight to stop it is long over, and there’s absolutely nothing that can stop some level of catastrophic damage.

Translation: “We’ve had our fill of screwing you around for today and invite you to cordially go screw yourself.”

When it comes to HP, just say no.

For general consumers? Probably complete industry collapse and regression. Specialized industries and national security use will continue to develop, but broad market access is going to likely stagnate for a decade at least if not more.

Technically speaking, Tariffs only exist on imports. Export taxes are an entirely separate category of tax. You are correct though, the logical thing for China to do is to run at a state-subsidized loss with CXMT until everyone else has left the market before raising prices. You know, basically pulling a Walmart with state help.

I mean, the US, for all its big guns have never won a war without Britain and/or France riding along to do the hard work. All the US knows how to do is make big explosions real good. That’s not war, that’s just state terrorism.

Totally agree. It’s always important to remember that these tools are means to an end, not an end in themselves, and to make sure we are designing the tool to serve useful and constructive ends. If the tool isn’t serving a beneficial purpose, it’s time to consider another tool, or possibly redesigning it. We invented the tool. We not only have the power, but also the responsibility to use it wisely, and to make it better when it’s not serving its purpose.

Many useful things are entirely made up. Concepts like justice, love, community, hierarchy, nationhood, borders, property, gender, etc. are all social constructs. They exist because we choose to make them exist. In the immortal words of Terry Pratchett, “Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy…” Social constructs are the “big lies” we create because we need them to make sense of the world, and ideally make it a better place. Money is just another social construct we created because it serves a useful function.

This is the correct take. Dems keep acting like the US is still a nation and they’re all ultimately playing for the same team. The US is not a nation. There are no common values with the “other side” to build on. This is the country being held hostage by an organized crime ring.

No one is saying that there aren’t dissenters, but when the vast majority of Americans are either supporting or indifferent to what’s happening, it’s really hard to say “Americans” don’t want it. A minority, regardless of how vocal, is still a minority.

A lot of people voted for their own oppression, not believing that it would ever come around to them. It takes a lot of willful ignorance of history to get to where we are.

Knowing what you’re talking about is considered elitist by most Americans. Under-funding education is effectively a DEI program for idiots.

Hell, I used to lose my glasses on my face when I was 20.

We need to organize a proper rebellion before we get to guillotines and starting with unions is a place to work from.

Progressive candidates can’t. Moderates with no firm values at all can claim they’re progressive until they are blue in the face but the proof is in the fact that they never achieve anything because if they did, they’d be run out of office.

I mean, at its heart, Mac OS is a heavily re-tooled fork of the BSD platform, so it’s not inconceivable that it’s light enough to run on 8G. I doubt it would run well on 8G, but it could do it.

I am not changing the subject, what ended up becoming the ACA, Obama’s single most significant piece of legislation was dramatically watered down, and wildly less ambitious than he set out to achieve, precisely because he could not get anything more significant than he did past the lobbyists on whom their next election cycle depended, even when they had a super-majority to pass it.

He pointed to the laptop’s 8GB of “unified memory,” or what amounts to its RAM, and how customers can’t upgrade it.

Given the price of RAM, you’d need to sell a kidney to upgrade it in a Windows laptop these days, so that’s not much of a difference, although 8MB is a little skimpy, I’ll give him that one.

Obama failed to create lasting change because he had no choice but to bend the knee. The billionaires will not fund candidates that threaten their wealth, and the only way to even begin to fix this is by making sure there’s never another billionaire. Every last one of them is an abomination.

Like I said, you need money to run a campaign. Donations don’t just appear out of the blue, and bootstrapping yourself into a legitimate candidate is a one in a million shot, so yes, progressive candidates exist, but they are exceptionally rare, and usually from a place with strong progressive organizing well below the elected representative level (unions, community orgs, progressive churches, etc.). It takes decades to build a self-sustaining movement, it’s not something that happens on the scale of an election cycle, and the internet of 2025 is an overwhelming obstacle, not a useful tool.

There would have to be a progressive that was running. In most places there simply isn’t. You can’t get funding for progressive candidates because the system is designed to ensure anyone who would side with workers over the rich can’t win.

The ballot box won’t save us, and what might, is not something you can organize on the internet.