DIY-HP-LED
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In 20 or 30 years when robots do the work and AI does the thinking, Marx might make a comeback, when we can afford it and when nobody has a job, that day will have arrived!
Stuff that doesn't really fit in either "Examples of" thread....
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
DIY-HP-LED
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They brought you USB charging for your devices and did away with all those different chargers and connectors doing the same job. Now they want devices with replaceable batteries, when better batteries arrive, you will be able to upgrade your phone with one. Cellphone technology like all others has plateaued and I don't expect many major changes from the basic brick we carry these days.
www.newsshooter.com
EU to require all batteries in devices to be user-replaceable - Newsshooter
A new EU regulation that was announced in July 2023 will require all batteries in devices to be user-replaceable. The date of this implementation depends
www.newsshooter.com
DIY-HP-LED
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With the exponential growth of global technology, it sure looks like it is trending that way, there are dozens of humanoid robots for sale, and they are big this year at the electronics and tech shows and a lot of them are not so dumb. Then there is AI and even if it is not conscious, does not mean it is not smart and a corporate CEO should be a target of tech too!
We’ll need to call it something other than the workers’ paradise!
topcat
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"What we just saw at Pleasure."
We’ll need to call it something other than the workers’ paradise!
DIY-HP-LED
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Our descents will either live a life of leisure and luxury or be considered useless mouths to feed by a tiny elite who own all the robots and AI. Now if life is great, nobody will complain, and tech has a tendency to erase some aspects of wealth, Bill Gates spends a lot of time watching TV just like a poor person does. People used to dress to display their wealth and status and then everybody went to T shirts and jeans when clothing didn't count anymore because it was so common and cheap.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
a brief glimpse of complete narcissism.
topcat
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You have to rake the forest floors.
Lately, it's moisten the forest floors. Can't you just hear, I know more about wildfires than anybody?
DIY-HP-LED
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Why are they letting him travel outside the continental US, do other people indicted for as many serious crimes as him have this right too? What if he wants to go to Europe or outside the USA does, he also have, that "right"? No wonder he and his fans think he is untouchable and above the law, he should be in jail, anybody else would that is charged with the crimes he is, especially the national security indictments over the secret docs. Hopefully it will all come to a crashing stop at the SCOTUS and appeals court soon. When Chutkan has her hands on him for trial this spring he is gonna be bitch slapped by reality really hard. However, there are many civil trials between now and then along with the ongoing proceeding in Florida. The big question is, will the SCOTUS disqualify him and set new standards and precedents, we should know soon.
topcat
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"Two tier justice system."
DIY-HP-LED
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Another thing that needs to be considered is if Trump is disqualified, it might affect other republicans in the future who aided and comforted the insurrectionists or were even part of it. More evidence will come out at the trials and Jack is not finished indicting republicans or Trump's cronies yet, he hasn't even started, except for Donald. When the kingpin goes down the rats will be running for cover and squealing their heads off to stay out of jail or avoid being ruined by lawyer's bills.
DIY-HP-LED
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What would happen in the next congress if Trump was disqualified, and the democrats had a majority and refused to seat MAGA republicans who were part of the insurrection, making them go to court over it and then presenting the case against them in court? Trump has been found to be an insurrectionist and J6 was an insurrection and many of them publicly aided and comforted the insurrectionists at least and some were directly involved.
What if they had another public J6 committee review those congress people who would be refused and present evidence and a report with recommendations? Allow them to sit temporarily pending the report?
If the democrats want to be aggressive with these miscreants, then if they win, they will have plenty of ammo with a Trump disqualification over insurrection and rats perhaps squealing at trials before then. Why just disqualify Trump the general and bust the foot soldiers, disqualify the officers of the insurrection too, those who swore oaths to defend the constitution, that what oaths are for after all.
What if they had another public J6 committee review those congress people who would be refused and present evidence and a report with recommendations? Allow them to sit temporarily pending the report?
If the democrats want to be aggressive with these miscreants, then if they win, they will have plenty of ammo with a Trump disqualification over insurrection and rats perhaps squealing at trials before then. Why just disqualify Trump the general and bust the foot soldiers, disqualify the officers of the insurrection too, those who swore oaths to defend the constitution, that what oaths are for after all.
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
DIY-HP-LED
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It was just a thought about what might happen if Trump was disqualified, and the democrats won a majority in both houses and wanted to play hardball with these assholes.
printer
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Sorry, I broke out laughing, "I could have negotiated the end of the Civil War in a day.""
Trump says Civil War could have been negotiated
Former President Trump said he believed the Civil War could have been avoided through negotiation, though that would’ve changed the legacy of former President Lincoln.
Trump, at an Iowa rally Saturday, said he finds the conflict “fascinating” but “so horrible.” He also noted the high death toll.
“So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. I think you could’ve negotiated that. All the people died, so many people died,” he said.
It is estimated that 620,000 soldiers died from 1861-65.
He added Lincoln could have negotiated to avoid the war, but he would not have been as well-known as he is today.
“Abraham Lincoln, of course if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was,” Trump said. “He would have been president, but he would have been president, and he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln. Would’ve been different, but that would’ve been OK.”
“I know it very well. I know the whole process that they went through, and they just couldn’t get along, and that would’ve been something that could have been negotiated and they wouldn’t have had that problem,” he continued.
The former president and 2024 GOP front-runner’s comments come after fellow Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley faced backlash last month over her response to a question from a voter about the cause of the Civil War.
Haley said in response to the question that the war was fought over the role of government and “how government was going to run, the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do,” not mentioning slavery. She later said she “assumed it was a given” the war was about slavery.
Trump has received some criticism in the days since he made his comments about the war. GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis told ABC he did not understand what Trump was trying to say.
“I don’t even know what he’s talking about — Lincoln did what he had to do. He ended up ushering in the abolition of slavery, and he saved the Union,” DeSantis said.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) questioned how the war could have been avoided in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Which part of the Civil War ‘could have been negotiated’? The slavery part? The secession part? Whether Lincoln should have preserved the Union? Question for members of the GOP—the party of Lincoln—who have endorsed Donald Trump: How can you possibly defend this?” she said.
Extensive negotiations over the status of slavery occurred for years leading up to the eventual secession of the southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War. Multiple pieces of legislation had been passed by Congress in the years before the war to try to reach a compromise to satisfy the North and the South.
But Lincoln’s election in 1860 for the Republican Party, which formed around a platform of stopping the spread of slavery into new states and territories, led states to begin seceding. Seven southern states seceded from the Union after Lincoln’s election but before he took office.
The war formally began about a month after Lincoln was sworn in.
thehill.com
Trump says Civil War could have been negotiated
Former President Trump said he believed the Civil War could have been avoided through negotiation, though that would’ve changed the legacy of former President Lincoln.
Trump, at an Iowa rally Saturday, said he finds the conflict “fascinating” but “so horrible.” He also noted the high death toll.
“So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. I think you could’ve negotiated that. All the people died, so many people died,” he said.
It is estimated that 620,000 soldiers died from 1861-65.
He added Lincoln could have negotiated to avoid the war, but he would not have been as well-known as he is today.
“Abraham Lincoln, of course if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was,” Trump said. “He would have been president, but he would have been president, and he wouldn’t have been the Abraham Lincoln. Would’ve been different, but that would’ve been OK.”
“I know it very well. I know the whole process that they went through, and they just couldn’t get along, and that would’ve been something that could have been negotiated and they wouldn’t have had that problem,” he continued.
The former president and 2024 GOP front-runner’s comments come after fellow Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley faced backlash last month over her response to a question from a voter about the cause of the Civil War.
Haley said in response to the question that the war was fought over the role of government and “how government was going to run, the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do,” not mentioning slavery. She later said she “assumed it was a given” the war was about slavery.
Trump has received some criticism in the days since he made his comments about the war. GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis told ABC he did not understand what Trump was trying to say.
“I don’t even know what he’s talking about — Lincoln did what he had to do. He ended up ushering in the abolition of slavery, and he saved the Union,” DeSantis said.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) questioned how the war could have been avoided in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Which part of the Civil War ‘could have been negotiated’? The slavery part? The secession part? Whether Lincoln should have preserved the Union? Question for members of the GOP—the party of Lincoln—who have endorsed Donald Trump: How can you possibly defend this?” she said.
Extensive negotiations over the status of slavery occurred for years leading up to the eventual secession of the southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War. Multiple pieces of legislation had been passed by Congress in the years before the war to try to reach a compromise to satisfy the North and the South.
But Lincoln’s election in 1860 for the Republican Party, which formed around a platform of stopping the spread of slavery into new states and territories, led states to begin seceding. Seven southern states seceded from the Union after Lincoln’s election but before he took office.
The war formally began about a month after Lincoln was sworn in.
Trump says Civil War could have been negotiated
Former President Trump said he believed the Civil War could have been avoided through negotiation, though that would’ve changed the legacy of former President Lincoln. Trump, at an Iowa rally…
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BudmanTX
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"if"..dude he is under the constitution, imo SCOTUS just needs to point to the last line in that statuted..."only congress can put him back on". We'll see what they say on Feb 8th.....
and his immunity defense suck balls, he's trying to pull the same argument in Georgia right now
DIY-HP-LED
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A lot of those ifs should be settled within a month, if he goes to trial in DC he is toast and that is not an if, disqualified or not, and another if during the election and the final one after it by the democrats if they should win. These assholes who supported insurrection in the house and senate should not get away with it, Scott free, it should haunt them the rest of their lives and be grounds for disqualification. It will also deter others from trying the same shit.
DIY-HP-LED
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If not for oil and that is rapidly diminishing in importance with the rise of EVs, it is mostly Chinese trade to Europe and the middle east they are screwing with. If the price of oil goes up because of trouble it just makes the transition to EVs quicker and the region eventually becomes less geopolitically important, except for shipping through the Suez Canal and that harms Egypt's economy the most. By 2030 EV sales are projected be 100% of the European auto market and solar and wind are being rapidly built out in Europe.
DIY-HP-LED
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The beliefs about the economy are another symptom of many people not dealing in facts. That is the general economy, but there are serious concerns about the structure of the economy and who benefits and who pays the taxes. Why are we apparently not doing as well as in the 70s with all the advance in technology that should have raised our standard of living more, but the 1% made off like bandits. Everybody got fucked in the past 40 years from workers to small business owners to farmers, wall street did great, main street not so much. Don't blame Joe though, he appears to be the only guy determined to reverse the trend and his policies say more than his words, as does his results. It takes time to reverse the cumulative effect of 40 years of lobbying and outright corruption, especially when you don't have the political power to do it and republicans trying to throw sand in the gears constantly and trying to harm the country for political gain.
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