Tilgare

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[–] Tilgare 2 points 4 days ago

They ignored the assignment and are instead seeking out all of the progress we've made the last 70 years and are trying to return things to 1950. Other than inflation and cost of goods, naturally.

[–] Tilgare 2 points 5 days ago

Every user's experience is different depending on the device and browser and extensions... But I expected a nightmare having seen your comment first. I like what they were going for, and the graph changed as you scroll through... Scrolling for a single sentence at a time is a little much, but it's not a total disaster.

[–] Tilgare 24 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Republicans, always working on the things that really matter.

[–] Tilgare 16 points 5 days ago

citing the burdon of managing numerous pending cases.

It's so easy to not have numerous pending cases against you in the first place. I want nothing more than for this dipshit to be stuck in court defending every one of his illegal actions taken the last 55 years. Couldn't happen to a better person.

[–] Tilgare 28 points 5 days ago

Yes, true, but irrelevant in this case.

[–] Tilgare 3 points 5 days ago

I got the sense that was what you meant from the rest of your post, although I take it others did not get it based on down votes.

[–] Tilgare 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You better come around quick then, before tarrifs make all of our chips 100% more expensive.

[–] Tilgare 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, during the GPU shortage of '20/'21, I ended up buying a prebuilt so I could at least get the GPU at RETAIL price. It was at a time when flipping GPUs on ebay was all the rage and you'd be paying 25%-100% more than it was worth to a scalper.

The system integrators get a better price on parts than we do, and now many of them are selling them for less or precisely the retail price of all the components. You really have to shop around though, some "premium boutiques" like Maingear can be 50-100% more expensive than the competition... They're selling the same product so I don't really see the value they bring at that price, but I'm sure as hell not paying $2,000 for their tech support.

[–] Tilgare 2 points 5 days ago

Fair question. On paper. On paper is what actually matters, long term... So long as the checks in balances in place aren't all totally neutralized.

[–] Tilgare 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Biden did not "attack" TSMC, he developed a plan to bring chip Manufacturing to the US. Orange man's attack, an actual economic attack, has no actual plan. These attacks will send industries into free fall and he'll pull the trigger flippantly, right now (the moment when he thinks he has just an idea of his own), long before the market will be able to correct and without taking any steps to mitigate a disaster. Maybe reactive half measures later, but disaster will happen all the same.

[–] Tilgare 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

I live in a at-will ~~right to work~~ state, so I understand that. But not every state is an at-will ~~right to work~~ state, and surely the way federal employees are treated is legislated differently and not on a state level. Do federal employees have zero protections?

[–] Tilgare 5 points 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't attribute to malice (on the part of China) what can be attributed to stupidity (Boeing taking short term gains at the cost of their entire brand). Capitalism ruins everything eventually.

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