Likewise, we could solve world hunger if the moon is made of cheese.

Unless this has to do with high voltage electricity, I highly doubt many will be shocked.

(Spoiler: it doesn’t: it’s Clearview)

I think this is fake news.

They’re all millionaires now.

And that includes to Canada.

Come north. We’ll stand up for you, assuming pp doesn’t get elected.

Three guesses?

If you buy products subject to tariffs, on the one hand that puts money into the hands of the federal government to mismanage. On the other hand, it helps out Americans and foreigners who are being negatively affected by the government’s antics.

Personally, I’d recommend just ignoring them where possible and avoiding them where necessary.

For people outside the US: find alternatives, especially to products produced in Republican states.

I figured it out: tariffs are leeches. Trump is a lecher.

If you’re calling it antivirus, you need security software but probably don’t know how to properly implement it.

From my own observations, kids seem to mostly have a pretty informed and realistic perspective on things right now.

It depends on some degree on the type of farmer, but most farmers are required to be generalists. Their “trade” involves being capable veterinarians, businesspeople, market analysts, engineers, researchers and more, who at the end of the day produce a reliable stream of consumable product and don’t get wiped out by unexpected circumstances.

The reason I made a call to intelligence was in response to the “dumb farmer” caricature — the idea that, because they don’t specialize, they aren’t very intelligent.

But you make some good points — critical thinking can be lacking in any field, even when problem solving and general reasoning are requirements for the job.

However, the original question wasn’t “why would farmers be more intelligent” but rather “why would farmers behave consistently in a more conservative manner AND be more prone to falling for populism?” It’s obviously not their intelligence, so what is it?

Then again, as we’ve seen recently, businesspeople in general appear to have fallen for populism, so maybe that’s where the connection lies?

Wait… enough material for 375 million vehicle batteries?

In 2022, the US produced 17.3 million electric vehicles for domestic use, not counting imports.

Assuming no increase in production, that will last less than 22 years, if all lithium is extracted without losses and converted to vehicle batteries only.

Add in losses and other uses for lithium, and that deposit will last a decade, tops.

On the plus side, they don’t need to worry about environmental destruction, considering what currently sits on top of it.

Can we use an animal where that’s actually true? Crabs are very much intersexual, which isn’t quite the same thing as bisexual.

They just have to prove that he intentionally went back to his vehicle and then intentionally left it again to confront the people with the firearm.

If he’d run back to his vehicle and then tried to leave the area while waving his gun, that wouldn’t be premeditated.

But that’s not what he did. He intentionally escalated the situation while not being threatened.

“…which has no meaning at all.”

OK. So I go to a donut shop, and ask for a Boston Creme. The clerk pulls out a donut and gives it to me, I pay him and say thank you and am on my way.

Next, I go to a donut shop, and ask for a Boston Creme. The clerk pulls out an assault-style rifle, waves it around, I pay him and say thank you and am on my way.

Yeah, words have meaning. What part of returning to his vehicle, pulling out a firearm and threatening the protesters with it did you fail to attach meaning to?

He threatened assault with a rifle. The fact that we don’t know if the firearm was legally classified as an assault rifle, in any sane location on earth, would be immaterial.

Or are you worried that he may be confused with someone who could have got a few more shots off into the crowd before being disarmed or killed, due to their faster firing firearm with rifled barrel?

How on earth did he ever have their confidence? He has been seen in business circles as a loudmouthed shyster since the 1980s.

Tariffs are economic medicine just like ivermectin is viral medicine.

So his statement is correct, but his application of it is criminally negligent.

The problem isn’t people looking to retire, it’s people currently trying to live off their investment income who suddenly only have enough capital to live for 17 years less than they had planned.

Or, for people who had invested for their kid’s education, who now find that there isn’t enough money left to pay tuition in September.

I own a Magic Mouse. It sits in a drawer.

For most stuff, I use a trackpad. Except on my Thinkpad, which I use with a Mighty Mouse, because non-Apple trackpads are so annoying.

In my opinion, the Mighty Mouse was one of the best mice Apple ever made. Four click zones and a trackball, and an optical tracking system. If I’m using a mouse, a cable is not an issue. And despite me having backup Mighty Mice in case mine fails, I’ve been using my current one with no issues since 2008.

Being a narcissist, I don’t think he differentiates between making it great and making it great for him.