If Intel has to give the US government 5%, Starlink should have to give back 25%.

I don’t think this is unusual for your generation. GenZ seems risk adverse. It is surprising that you all drive before age 18. Many won’t actually call somebody or someplace using your voice.

I think he is too young to be Luigi’d. He has capacity for reflection, contrition and transformation. But he did need to be checked, no doubt. Chances are this will not wake him up. His future will be in some minimum security prison for embezzlement or fraud or some other white collar crime.

I just heard that Missis fing ippi is sending their National Guard to DC. Like they don’t have their own problems.

Allegedly.

I think it is not allowed to have handguns in DC… legally.

At 3 am, he took his shirt off and said "I will take you MFers, don’t you know who I am? BIG BALLS… and then, the WWF simping jerk got his nose punched in.

At least the Luigi Award.

That is how I felt at my local mall a few years ago during Christmas season… it was soooo blighted. The floors were not polished, there was not the atmosphere one who grew up in mall culture from the 80s during Christmas that would be accustomed to… I mean, half the doors didn’t work automatically like they used to and half the shops were empty.

Our Aldis here are either stand-alone or adjacent to a stripmall.

We have a megamall in our region that a lot of people go to but our local suburban malls are all pretty much dead and in transition. The one closest to me is slated to be developed into a mixed used residential property with apartments/condos, shops, gym, other businesees, restaurants. This is mostly due to a large chip fab manufacturing project planned to be constructed in the next 2 years. There will be demand for housing and other services so the Town/County is interested in removing any barriers for that kind of development.

2 years ago, I went into that mall during Christmas season and it was very very sad looking.

Wow. I didn’t know that dial up was still a thing in the US

Oh man, you just unlocked memories of my Mom’s 8086 back in the late 80s… her first pc was an Apple but the software… there was more for the Intel. I remember so much disk inserting and printer interface issues and the DOS. We had like boxes and binders of those huge discs…

Intel can go anywhere. To the highest bidder and the lowest cost.

or they will just move overseas.

Right? Good Luck America. FAFO.

there is no real rationale. Trump is all impulse, no long range thinking/planning.

That is what the tariffs are for and Apple has promised to invest a shit ton of money into manufacturing those phones here… so they can raise the prices to the ceiling of the tariffs imposed on China, India, Thailand, Indonesia … etc. There are no other smart phones manufactured in the US so they will effectively… have a monopoly.

the problem is that those people actually exist and post. so it is hard to see the difference btw the monopoly/technocratic feudalists and the average sarcastic poster. being naive about that group is probably your first mistake. sorry for the heavy eyeroll and expression of disgust. Maybe find another way to have “fun?”

It is not like I did not have access to that information before. I don’t need to be trapped in some closed browser environment labeled as “search”