When you’ve got nothing to say, just throw out the “tankie” label. Classic.

It’s what they do best.

People thinking that American politics needs to dominate every single place of conversation is mildly infuriating at least.

The US is not a friend to anyone in this world, not even the citizens of the US. You can see this in action as the US exploits people domestically and abroad in the name of profits. The US is the biggest bully in history and projects its power across the entire globe. That’s why they have military bases set up everywhere they can. They also use their economic might to force change they want to see. On the surface it looks voluntary, but if you reject the US’s offer, they will work endlessly to make your life hell.

Climate change is a global existential crisis, we should be working together to solve it. We can’t afford to reject solutions just to continue propping up American power and profits.

Setting a goal is a token gesture. We’d get there a lot faster with cheaper EVs, but that would piss off the oligopoly which have been sitting on their asses, keeping EVs expensive, and loading them up with dumb subscription services and other unappealing “features”. Japanese manufacturers kicked American manufacturers’ asses since the 70s and forced them to get better. The American oligopoly did not want that to happen again with China and Biden sided with the oligopoly, greatly delaying EV adoption.

The charging stations are great. Too bad there won’t be as many EVs taking advantage of them since the EVs themselves are still too expensive.

The federal vehicle fleet pales in comparison to the general population. Also:

The president did not give a timeline for when this massive vehicle replacement goal will be implemented.

Which is perfect since they can say they’re working towards it and when republicans inevitably get in, they can just stop/reverse it.

The SAVE plan that still only slightly mitigates the student loan problem? They still guarantee excessive profits to lenders and keep student loan repayments up to 20 years. I can see he’s really doing a lot on that problem he created. The fact of the matter is that democrats do not use the power they do have. Biden had the power to appoint an effective attorney general but instead appointed Merrick Garland who did nothing to prosecute Trump even with years of time on his hands and plenty of evidence. The supreme court gave the presidency supreme power for “official acts” and what did Biden do with this power? You tell me.

For someone who’s a fascist and such a threat to democracy, Trump was handled with kid gloves by the democrats and Biden welcomed him back into office with a warm smile and a handshake. Democrats will endlessly shriek about Trump to garner donor dollars and will make token gestures like impeaching him and declaring that he’s the most impeached president as if that actually did anything. When it comes to actually solving the problem, democrats aren’t interested.

Also, it’s a funny coincidence that just the right number of democrats will turn heel the second democrats do manage to get a majority. Just look at senators Lieberman, Manchin, and Sinema. Don’t forget about the sudden senate parliamentarian who comes in with the steel chair in case democrats might have to actually do something. It’s a rigged carnival game and you keep arguing that we just need to get the ball in the hole when in reality the game is set up to make that impossible while looking deceptively possible.

I’m excited to see more competition! I also like how RISC-V is based on open source work which reduces startup costs and opens up greater collaboration. We’ve all benefited greatly from open source software, so it would be nice to see more of that on the hardware side as well. I’ll be shocked if the chip actually competes on performance, though it may be more of a cost-for-performance deal like ARM. Speaking of which, I wonder how it’ll compare with ARM server processors as well.

They exist to serve the people.

They don’t do that either.

If they don’t, then give them the boot.

We can’t because the money-packed system self-selects for greedy assholes.

That’s like presenting only the options of slavery or indentured servitude and asking “you prefer slavery to indentured servitude?” Neither are acceptable. Before you say “well those are the options we’ve got” think about who are making these the only options.

Putting the red in reddit.

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The ACA was made mostly useless by not having a government option. The end result was a system where you either had to pay for a shitty overpriced healthcare plan or pay a penalty on your taxes. The tax penalty has since been removed, but the shitty overpriced plans remain. There are a couple of good things like not denying certain cover for “pre-existing conditions” and allowing younger people to stay on their parents’ insurance until 26, but those are closer to token gestures than real solutions, as I’ve said. There is a reason why health insurance profits keep breaking records.

Student loan debt cancellation was mostly the enforcement of an existing program where you already have to jump through hoops just to qualify. By the time you qualify, you’ve already paid back more than the principle on your student loan debt by a lot. Another token gesture for a problem that biden helped create by backing a bill making student loan debt non-dischargeable through bankruptcy. Sure must be nice to be given credit to barely make a debt in a massive problem he himself had created.

The “biggest climate change bill ever” is argued in terms of dollars spent. Money spent =/= effective action taken. For example, biden was approving oil drilling permits on public lands at a faster rate than even trump’s first term. He also slapped 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and 50% on solar panels.

In each of these cases there has been a massive giveaway to American corporations with a few token gestures to lull regular people into thinking democrats are doing something for them. You may be clapping your hands together and giggling in ecstasy at democrats shaking a rattle, but people who know better and can see these insignificant actions for what they are aren’t impressed. Democrats work for the billionaires and them blame everyone else for things getting worse, just like you’re doing right now. You’re doing the “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” argument, electoralism edition.

I’m not surprised. Border enforcement, like all law enforcement entities, do more to hassle harmless actions than stopping harmful ones. They’re the wrong group to handle the fentanyl epidemic anyway. That should be the job of proper drug rehabilitation programs.

Dear democratic party, it would’ve been nice if you ever actually used any power to do things for the people beyond token gestures.

-the people

What democrats really do is “never interrupt your enemy ever because decorum”, though this adage would be assuming they actually consider republicans as enemies. They’ll point and scream about trump and then promote other republicans like dick cheney who largely have the same policies as trump but who act according to decorum better.

Biden’s answer to the defund the police movement was to insist on funding the police even harder as if that has ever solved anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9XkWRLpJmY

I’m just happy to get rid of that shit.

Still got a long way to go. I hope it gets kicked off the S&P 500. That shit should stay out of our retirement accounts.

SSDs were even cheaper until memory manufacturers decided it was getting too cheap: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/ssd-prices-predicted-to-skyrocket-throughout-2024

They predicted prices would go higher and, through the magic of intentionally constricting supply, it happened. Prices still have not dropped back down to where they were in 2023.

Just wait until they come out with DDR4 SAM.