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But in the case of the hefty tariffs that Trump put on China during his first term, economic studies found that most of those costs were passed on to American consumers.

Economists believe this could happen again. One study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, for example, calculated that Trump’s current tariff plans would increase costs for a typical American household by $2,600 a year.

Paying more for everything to own the libs! 🤡

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Didn’t Democrats raise a record amount of money this election cycle? And they were supposed to use it to get out the vote?

Harris only had months of campaigning, while Trump had over a year. That alone put her at a massive disadvantage, since much of the vote is often decided (in people’s minds) well before the elections.

But the reality is, as long as 50%+ are OK being in a cult run by an incoherent madman, they’ll ignore the self-harm and keep voting the same way.

I guess we can only hope that the leopards absolutely massacre those who gave him this power. Democracy will fall all over the world because of this, and his groupies won’t have a pot to piss in once his “concepts” are put into action.

And honeybees even often outcompete native pollinators, which is bad for biodiversity.

Of course, Texas has to incentivize this type of destruction:

"In Texas, the law qualifies people who own between five and 20 acres of land for tax breaks if they rear bees for five years. "

This is actually not a good thing.

For one, Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks, and they are nowhere near the type of pollinator we actually need (i.e. native, wild pollinators that thrive outside artificial colonies created to benefit humans).

There’s no balance if we only increase populations of honeybees. “Raising nonnatives does not “save the bees”—and may harm them.”

The article (the Yahoo one linked in the OP) does cover the detriments of these domestic bee colonies, but right at the end of the article…

The David Suzuki Foundation has a write-up on this topic, if anyone’s interested.

I’ve been very happy with FreshRSS (docker install) running on my Synology NAS.

You can run this right from Windows: https://jan.ai/

You’ll need a lot of RAM, and processing is decently fast, even on a basic laptop.

edit: holy hell. Grammar.

It doesn’t matter what he says.

It really doesn’t. Just watch a rally, in full, and try to summarise one topic he addressed. Just one.

You can’t, because he babbles incoherently. He knows nothing about any of the topics that he stumbles into.

The only time his words can be understood, provided he doesn’t go off script, is when he’s reading what someone else wrote for him!

It makes me wonder how people can travel like one timezone over and not have crippling issues because of it.

It’s likely not the change with the DST that messes people, but the obsession with worrying about it that does.

The number one thing that most of these don’t do well for me is the connection with banks.

A bit of an anecdote, but i was a long-time user of Mint, which integrated with all my banks and credit cards, which was nice.

When I decided to selfhost, I was disappointed that bank syncing wasn’t a thing, or it had these roundabout ways of working, or they simply didn’t support the banks and credit cards i use.

So… I ended up wity Money Manager EX.

Once i did the initial importing of my records, everything since has been manually entered.

Now, this might seem tedious depending on how many transactions and accounts you manage, but it’s really not.

Depending on how often you update your records, you can do an easy export/import of your transactions from your bank (usually a csv export). Doing this once a month isn’t terrible.

I just manually enter all my transactions. Yes, more work, but also less frustration and it makes me feel more in touch with my spending.

Even not having to worry about the hassle of syncing not working, or having to fix things like that is a huge weight off my shoulders.

Anyway, just wanted to share my experience because bank syncing shouldn’t be a make-or-break thing.

I saw it last night. As a huge fan of the first one, I guess my hopes were high.

It looks, cinematically speaking, really good.

But as a musical? WTF? I had to force myself to watch it to completion. If it wasn’t a continuation of the first one, I wouldn’t have even bothered.

In fairness, I generally can’t stand musicals. And even if they featured my favourite movie characters, I’d still struggle to sit through them.

I think they could have a fantastic movie if they just continued with the same style as the first.

Rich coming from the party of voter suppression…

Just wait until everyone is forced to wear screens on their faces 24/7, because that’s the way tech companies want us to live. I’m not being sarcastic, either.

There’s a reason why so many people consciously choose to “disconnect” when they want a mental break. If we are no longer able to, how healthy do you think our society will be?

Sounds like it’s time for a class action lawsuit. 🥰

That might be the difference! None of the houses on our street have them, so groceries get unloaded from the driveway, straight into the front door.

You’ve never seen your neighbors carrying groceries inside.

I’m going to assume that you either don’t have windows, or you don’t go outside.

I see multiple neighbours, multiple times a month, bringing groceries into their house.

Quite a few times this happens while I’m also outside, in passing.

But now I’m super curious how you don’t see your neighbours doing the same! 😂

I think one of the reasons why I stopped gaming as an adult, is because I realized that pretty much all the popular games are rigged to keep you going. The progression is artificial, and demotivates me to invest time in it.

Old games were basically: play them, and with the right skill you can complete the levels and finish. Simple, fun, and you didn’t have to return back to the game in 11h:23m:45sec in order to “unlock” anything, either. You turn it on when you want, then turn it off. You can return to it months or even years later and it makes no difference.

New games? Always moving the goal posts. You have to pay to level up quickly, but the next level just sets you up for another artificial grind. Spin a wheel or open a loot crate? Those are just programmed to give you exactly the items you need to keep going a little further. Seasons, timed events, social media integration… all the fun is sucked out.

Video games use quite a few of the same tactics that you’ll see in lotteries, casinos, and other “games of chance”.

Once you realize that, you can’t unsee it.

It’s sad that the most unhealthy games are the ones ranked as most played on the google play store 😮‍💨

Blue is the warmest color.