I think most of the powers that be are big drinkers and coke heads

The free air pump is the wildest thing about this?

Free? Where is this?

I picked up a Blu Ray player not all that long ago, and even there selection is kind of surprisingly limited.

Well, I don’t know that we have to be so personal.

Ewwwww

Once the market finds what people like, the industry will lobby to get it legally defined and then do the minimum towards that legal definition.

So, it sort of depends on who labeled it and makes those labels a little nebulous to the benefit of big ag.

A small brand will come up with something people like, them big ag will just sort of steal the label, make it meaningless and use it as marketing.

Methinks the billionaire doth protest too much

Yeah, this is legit scary. I’m used to media kowtowing to corporate interests for money, or whatever fox does, but somehow this is a lot more chilling.

I may have a problem

We’re going to make our own DOGE and dismantle the government even harder!

There are worse ways to go.

Each to their own, I suppose.

That’s the key we need to turn.

AOC has been sort of amazing at identifying this. I remember after the election reading something about her asking people who voted for her and Trump: why?

Honestly, I live in republicanstan. A lot of the gripes and complaints and hopes and ideas are the same.

OH YEAH!

Is no social media a red flag?

I think you could still buy machine guns. No phased plasma rifles though.

We owe no fealty to any company.

I fear we’ll have tanks rolling down the street before we have healthcare.

I don’t get the goal here. It’s not just that existing fabs are in Taiwan, I thought it was the knowledge was as well.

I was under the impression that we’d built a couple of fabs here and they’re not productive due to a knowledge deficit. Maybe I’m uninformed.

It seems, to my uninformed self, that if we impose tariffs we’d be strengthening Taiwan/China relations. Wouldn’t China still serve as a middle man?

I don’t see us manufacturing when the dollar is so high relative to foreign currency; add in the lack of knowledge and facilities and I’m not sure what you get.

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