You call competent a government that pulled the “special military operation” and led hundreds of thousands of its people into death for not much of anything? You must be trolling.

OK, so people can use the definition instead. In fact it might be more useful.

Are you telling me the hullabaloo wasn’t about antisemitism per se?

Bluesky funding

Don’t forget they’re just another for-profit corporation. They might be selling great chips for cheaper but that’s still just a temporary side effect of their primary purpose - making the line go up.

- A multi-decade AMD customer

At the end of the day the central bank is always dependent on the government. Sometimes at an arms length, other times at a finger length. The government controls the length and gives the authority to issue currency and provides the enforcement needed to ensure it’s one of the few issuers. So it might be more about government competency and its checks and balances.

If they put money supply firmly under the government’s direction, that would eliminate the “technically” argument against MMT that the Fed is independent. Which of course it practically isn’t and these fuckers are going to prove it. If we ever get a worker-friendly government again, they’ll be able to reuse this to pursue a job guarantee program.

Jesus fucking Christ. This should be the top comment people read.

Don’t get used to it. Pipsqueak is coming with the ax.

The only thing that would have made this perfect would be a rose and a candle next to the raccoon. #DeadRaccoonTO

Incredible.

Unfused. Probes/cables began rapidly heating up. I violently shook the the battery to break off the probes from it.

Probe tips instantly welded on a nanophosphate A123 battery.

It’s a trap.

- A message from Canada

Packing the SCOTUS might have helped with that.

I vomit in my mouth every time I see these dumbasses.

Try to come up with a reasonable process for transitioning between the thresholds or stop pretending you’re interested in anything but proving your point.

Agreed. I’ve grown up with the development of the WWW and where we are today is completely different than where we used to be in the 90s and 2000s. The consolidation, universal access and the profit maximization via rage farming has put societies globally in an unprecedentedly precarious position. This isn’t your uncle’s Internet anymore. It’s a hyper-personalized engagement-maximizing corporate experience for all but a small fraction of people who were lucky enough to escape it. Anyone feeling I’m overreacting should spend an hour with their old account on Facebook.

To the “can’t enforce this because it can be circumvented” argument - this is missing the point of most laws. The intention is to apply to the majority, not to be foolproof. Getting most to stop a harmful behavior already gets us most of the benefits. We can never stop everyone.

Number of users is an obvious example. There are others.