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If a overseas manufacturer builds a plant in the US to avoid tariffs, does that really magically make it an 'American product'? It's still a foreign company...
So, what is the difference in the 2 scumbags other than the color of
their hat? Hang them both in the square please, and record it for us
serfs to watch and cheer.
Don't get me wrong, I don't trust Elon as far as I could throw him, but there is a world of difference between the two. One, you said yourself: Elon operates in the open, Soros from the shadows. Elon puts himself out there to be criticized. Second, whether you like him or his products or not, Elon builds shit that people actually want. Soros contributes nothing of value to the world.
Subject: Countries that are the bitch of another country
2025-03-31 15:52 from Nurb432
If a overseas manufacturer builds a plant in the US to avoid
tariffs, does that really magically make it an 'American
product'? It's still a foreign company...
As a country that used to be the place were rich outsiders built their factories...
It makes a big difference.
See, main reason why people in my province didn't starve in massive numbers is somebody built an industrial complex in order to assemble cars. Sure, the capital was foreigner and a big chunk of the profits from the industrial complex were shipped outside, but the opening of the industrial complex meant two things:
1 - Suddenly a lot of unemployed people had a job.
2 - We had access to cheap cars we manufactured ourselves.
Sure, they were shipping most of the cars out of the country to sell to rich 1st worlders and the mother company was keeping the profits, but the benefits were so massive everybody in the country now hates us because they built the factories on our soil instwead of on other counties.
Subject: Re: Countries that are the bitch of another country
Something most people forget about.
Sat Apr 05 2025 16:18:00 UTC from darknetuser Subject: Countries that are the bitch of another country
1 - Suddenly a lot of unemployed people had a job.
The older I get the less libertarian i become.
Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really are better than others.
Personally i think "cultures" are prone to anti freedom at their core. Once people band together into some level of organization, things go bad, by human nature.
Mon May 05 2025 02:27:52 UTC from IGnatius T FoobarThe older I get the less libertarian i become.
Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really are better than others.
2025-05-04 23:58 from SouthernComputerGeek
The older I get the less libertarian i become.
I didn't know you there was a libertarian at all in you XD
2025-05-05 02:27 from IGnatius T FoobarThe older I get the less libertarian i become.
Funny thing about that, isn't it? Almost as if some cultures really
are better than others.
The point of libertarianism isn't that all cultures are equally desirable. Far from it. The point is to try to make it so you can be left alone while you partake in your barbaric cultural practices while your neighbor is lef alone partaking in his barbaric cultural practices, which is better than what we get when we try to convince people to become "one of us" when they clearly don't fit.
2025-05-05 15:06 from ZoeGraystone
Personally i think "cultures" are prone to anti freedom at their
core. Once people band together into some level of
organization, things go bad, by human nature.
There is a good grain of truth to this, but on the other hand I don't think you can't have a functional society without common grounds. You know, shared values, shared convictions. The stuff we call a culture.
There is a good grain of truth to this, but on the other hand I don't
think you can't have a functional society without common grounds. You
know, shared values, shared convictions. The stuff we call a culture.
This is why America was at its best when everyone agreed to follow euro-christian culture, norms, and morals, even those who were not Christian or of European descent. THE MELTING POT FUCKING WORKED.
Subject: Thought for the day: how to spot an angry writer
Thought for the day ... possibly a headcanon:
If you're reading an article and the title is in the form of "No, xxx is/does/did not yyy", you can safely assume that the writer is angry and writing from a place of uninformed stupiditude.
Kind of a half baked theory. I'm going to keep watching for it.
Subject: Re: Thought for the day: how to spot an angry writer
Kind of a half baked theory. I'm going to keep watching for it.
Just going from memory, I support this theory. It's kind of a corollary to the one that if a headline is a question, the answer is no.
Subject: Re: Thought for the day: how to spot an angry writer
Ah yes, the old Betteridge's Law. That one really holds up.
2025-05-19 17:10 from Nurb432 <nurb432@uncensored.citadel.org>
So if 'bit' in Tron can have 3 states, that means its not a bit.
What is it then?
From what I've seen, the accepted term for a trinary digit is a trit, but we all know it should be a tit.
Ill go with octal myself.
Fri May 23 2025 13:45:41 UTC from IGnatius T FoobarIt's fashionable to be non-binary these days.
I myself happen to be hexadecimal.
Ya, that is a going theory, but i dont think the production team had a clue what trinary was. They were just being sloppy for the sake of the story.
Thu May 22 2025 23:33:53 UTC from zelgomer2025-05-19 17:10 from Nurb432 <nurb432@uncensored.citadel.org>
So if 'bit' in Tron can have 3 states, that means its not a bit.
What is it then?
From what I've seen, the accepted term for a trinary digit is a trit, but we all know it should be a tit.
I remember people talking about that when I was school age. "oooh, computers are BINARY now but they are working on TRINARY!"
Sure, there are places where there are three states. For example, high/low/floating in digital electronics, true/false/undefined in logic, and if you tune in to 60 KHz anywhere in the continental US you'll hear pulses of 200 ms (logic 0), 500 ms (logic 1), and 800 ms (marker bit) that make up time code frames.
But nobody is counting in base 3. That's just dumb.