The US has a terminal disease: hubris. This is what it’s like to live in an empire in decline.

This is exactly what I thought of Russia after their failed invasion of Ukraine. Generally regarded as a super power prior, they put on display how atrophied their millitary had become by not being able to steam roll Ukraine.

I mean… the sole point of the coin was to facilitate hiding bribes in a sea of other transactions…

I think in the statement I was responding to, you could infer the chance being a percentage change, in which case my suggestion/correction would be valid. 1 could be valid if you covert percentage to decimal notation, but that just seems weird and unnatural.

Think you mean 100, as a chance of not attending being 0 would mean he would be attending.

If they weren’t previous, they are likely to be now…

I mean its served his purpose so musk has minimal use for it now…

They are more like water based paint sticks that they can draw with that can wash away (fairly) easily

The Trump administration has not disclosed vetting procedures, despite growing scrutiny over DOGE hires and security clearances.

Well yeah, because there are none besides the rubber stamp of elon’s balls

Wait! I can get $10k if I file taxes before Jan 1st?! Guess I missed the boat this year…

This implies that local availability of competitive products exists, which for the vast majority of things in the US is not the case. So many of our goods are made overseas and imported.

Tariffs are going to raise consumer expenses till one of two things happens: Local production ramps up and provides local goods (at likely a similar or higher price because our wages are higher than overseas) or a political change occurs that results in the removal of the tariffs. Either way US consumers are going to feel the increased cost of goods for the foreseeable future…

Oh you mean the “suckers” and “losers”?

No, but that won’t stop drumpf from throwing a tantrum and retaliating against them

I mean there will be more water down stream for a few days and then absolutely none until they close the dam and let it build back up over a few years…

In modern politics

Still orders of magnitude in difference…

Seem like just opening up to a friend and them questioning things. Doesn’t sound like a proper therapist.

Likely a dead drop (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_drop).

“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any”.

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Imahara died on July 13, 2020, at the age of 49, after suffering a ruptured, previously undiagnosed, intracranial aneurysm.[37][3]

In times of uncertainty, it’s easy to fall back to things you are familiar with