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One letter is not enough! We also need a U to express our never-ending gratitude!

Hold up. From the article:

She was released to obtain documentation about the allegedly expunged convictions and presented them to Ice officials at San Francisco airport on 21 April, after which she was again detained and sent to the facility at Tacoma, said Holladay.

She brought documentation about the expunged convictions to ICE, so presumably she had some kind of evidence they had been expunged. I am pretty sure she wouldn’t have been arrested under the Biden administration, or any other American administration before that. She posed no flight risk, and a judge would have had to review the evidence before an arrest would have been made.

You know, Due Process and all. It still existed six months ago, and the Constitution was still considered binding by a lot of people in government. Very many people. Some say, the best people.

The agent who led the raid said his personal GPS led him to the wrong place.

Easy-peasy: add the GPS maker to the lawsuit and SCOTUS will know what to do to protect the job creator.

Technically it’s only regular pentagons that don’t tile the plane.

I know everything about planes because I am shorter than my brothers. When we were young, they called me Tattoo and if I pointed at something with my finger, they screamed in unison, “Da plane! Da plane!”

“They do not put this same effort behind, say, school shooters or people who shoot up concerts.”

I think the real question here is: how many lives were saved by insurance companies temporarily being scared into not ludicrously rejecting valid claims?

If it’s more than one, then Mangione played the trolley problem in real life and decided an outcome.

I sort of start having the sense that America will have a hard time finding buyers for its $5.7 trillion debt.

It’s funny how the magic trick actually works: you force companies to affix information to a product, the consumer reads and reacts to the information, and the company has to create products that satisfy the informed demand.

Looking at you, Apple and Samsung, removing features from your products simply to force your customers into an ever more closed ecosystem.

Sadly, nothing new. The vulnerability of io_uring has been well know for a while now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_uring#Security

a white supremacist network that operated on the Telegram messaging and social media platform for half a decade

It’s been around for 5 years, and this nutbag in Waukesha found it. I am pretty sure it wouldn’t have been hard for law enforcement to know what was going on, if they had been looking.

Generally speaking, the problem when you don’t repay your debt is not that other countries invade you, but that you don’t get any new loans.

If America can get a new currency, default on her debt, and at the same time manage a balanced budget, all is good. Otherwise, who’s going to come up with the loans required?

I fully agree with you on the current liquidity issues, and certainly on the loss of manufacturing competitiveness that comes with having reserve currency status.

My main economic concern with Trump’s policies is simply that “advanced” economies will never really be able to compete in the manufacturing field again. Trump should know - he is surrounded by the richest men in the world, and the only one that does any manufacturing at all, and only as a side gig is Musk. All the other ones only do digital and finance/investment.

I agree that Europe probably doesn’t want to get into that space at the moment. I am afraid Europe is pushed into doing a lot of things right now it didn’t and doesn’t want to do. The decision point would probably come if Trump’s tariffs are really just paused and start being enacted. Then Europe will have to massively increase its trade with other nations, which will also have to do the same thing, and then using USD becomes incredibly impractical, especially with the wild swings it is going to have if tariffs are re-enacted.

And, again, totally agreed. This will require a lot of changes, and they will be painful. It just feels like there aren’t a whole lot of alternatives.

I am confused by the article’s insistence that the Euro is not a viable alternative because it’s “one currency, 20 countries”. If anything, the sheer number of countries make sure that a single election is not going to affect financial and economic policies all that much - which is the main reason for the USD’s fall from grace right now.

As someone else pointed out years ago (about Eric Trump, not known for his supermodel looks), there is an amount of wealth and influence where you don’t have to look good, because everybody will treat you anyway as if you were the hottest person on the planet. Basically, you want to look ugly because it’s a bizarre proof of wealth.

“Look at me, I am so rich, I can have all the supermodels, porn stars, and Hollywood actresses I want, and I don’t even have to get plastic surgery or a personal trainer like a poor millionaire (ewww) on a budget.”

I think that’s the key. We attribute to them special qualities because we like to think in terms of cause and effect. But they all seem to have just been there at the right time with the right people and the right thing.

They show us there is nothing special about them every time they try to do something new and miserably fail. Think the money Meta spent on VR, or the way Musk alienated users and advertisers on Twitter.

We are basically beholden to lottery winners.