I’m pretty sure TSMC has the means to hurt the US more than Trump realizes.

Truly a massive Koch.

Trump is all for letting the states do their own thing unless he isn’t.

I wish California seceded over this. They would leave the rest of the union in such a disarray…

I don’t think job prospects is the reason. Assuming they’re not quite repentent, it’s easier to get a job with a clean criminal record than with a rap sheet and some publicity about feeling remorse. Especially in a Trump world that will hate you for turning against the man who pardoned you.

Nah. I think they’re really repentent, or stupid enough to prefer any publicity - even dangerous publicity, because they’re going to draw the ire of many magats doing this - over anonymous lack of consequences for what they did.

It really is a weird parallel universe I’ve accidentally drifted into last week. I’ve never lived in any version of the United States where convicted criminals had stronger moral values than the POTUS who pardoned them.

But after a week, I think I have enough of this universe. But I’m increasingly concerned that I don’t seem to be sliding back into a normal one…

Denmark / Greenland should expel the US personel in Pituffik SFB. They clearly harbor a 5th column from a hostile country on their soil.

When someone this messed up has that much influence over the POTUS, the entire world has a problem because when the US goes off the rails, the world becomes less safe.

To be clear: Elon Musk doesn’t have any problem with Hitler. The rest of the world has a Musk problem however.

Do you feel good defending this muck?

There are plenty in NATO suppliers in Europe. I should know, I worked for one.

And all NATO members should buy stuff from European NATO suppliers just to piss him off.

This is very good. Someone should deface Musk’s rockets too.

Oh come on, Reagan wasn’t a genius but Dubya was in a class of his own - and still is: 16 years later, he still manages to embarrass himself and the country.

What a clot.

On the other hand, this is what Americans want, this is what they get. Although in fairness, Dubya started the tradition of cretinous presidents.

This is not hypothetical. Bits of human beings have been ritually imprisoned for ages and they basically deform to take the shape of the prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation

We are too small to tolerate toxicity, also.

Hexbear. I started blocking individual Hexbear communities and ended up blocking the entire instance.

Damn… I don’t know what this movie is, but I haven’t wanted to watch a movie I know nothing about this bad after watching a trailer for at least 20 years.

Now that Trump’s USA scores almost as low as China on the democracy scale, I guess TikTok isn’t an existential threat to the nation anymore.

I don’t know man. But I assume associations concerned with child abuse are all over that shit and checking it out. I’m not a specialist of CSAM but I assume an article that says old victims show up in previously-unseen images doesn’t lie, because why would it? It’s not like Wired is a pedo outlet…

Also, it was just a question. I’m not trying to convince you of anything 🙂