Fair enough.

I see the whole article?

The US Treasury Department is now accepting Venmo and PayPal payments from those who want to donate money to reduce the nation’s ballooning $36.7 trillion debt.

We’re all just trying to find the guy responsible!

Why do well more than half the news links in this community have pay walls?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/26/world/politics/us-nonwhites-trump-south-african-refugees/

Yes

Every time i see lisp i realize why it never caught on. A syntax only its creator could love.

)))))))))))

Obama:

The CIA and FBI rushed to put together reports about Russian campaign interference. While there were discussions internally about sources and what to include the CIA allowed less credible sources to be included in an appendix but did not rely on it for analysis.

Trump:

Find me DIRT on the LYING DEMOCRATS and Obama!

Here you go - this will find you a distro you can game on: https://distro.moe/

More like a political commissar…

I doubt it’ll last though. Hopefully it lasts at least long enough for a sane administration to get back in office.

Mercedes says the Microsoft partnership turns your car into a “third workspace”

Horaaaaaay, question mark?

Yes, they pump rats full of a fuckton of these chemicals that no normal human being will ingest

“Dosage make the poison” comes to mind. If it’s safe below those levels… Then it’s not harmful. “BUT IT MIGHT BE” is not a coherent argument. I’m not necessarily against banning a substance that has little functional use out of an abundance of caution - but lets not pretend that it’s going to save any lives since it’s very unlikely to do so.

A red dye was recently banned because it was found to be carcinogenic.

That is very oversimplified…

Carcinogenic is not “true/false” it is probabilistic. The EU has a lower standard of evidence required for banning a substance than the US. In the EU if there was any evidence at all of it being carcinogenic in animal studies (whether in realistic quantities over realistic time periods or not) means it will be banned (I’m over-simplifying some here as well). The US standards are different.

You could say that this is a better standard as it is more cautious. I may agree. But you can’t say “it was banned because it was carcinogenic” without a lot of qualifiers.

Everyone around me thinks the crap they allow in our food is bad for us.

Without evidence of course. Just the same lack of critical thinking that RFK has. It “seems bad” and “it’s chemicals”.

Europeans done have the same issues we do with food because they’re much more regulated.

BS.

Partisans. 🙄

No honking? It sat there for ages blocking the intersection!

Yeah… 80 year old people don’t just die everyday… Something’s definitely suspicious.

I’ll never understand what is so fucking difficult about dealing with people like trump,

Dealing with Trump may be easy. Dealing with the United States of America with Trump controlling it is an entirely different matter. He has a lot of power (thanks Justice Roberts!).

People keep coming down hard on Universities and other entities “bending the knee”, but when you have the full weight and might of the federal government (which has effectively unlimited resources) fighting against you you don’t have many options. It’s a true existential crisis.

Trump is right (vomit) that tariffs tend to impact our trade partners more than than US since the US does import more than it exports. High tariffs are nothing to shrug off. Being locked out of the US market is a pretty big deal if you do business internationally.

My vehicle is my second largest investment I’ve made and it is a depreciating asset.

So is your house. Do little to no up-keep on it and see how it affects the value over time. But you don’t just get a new house when your roof starts to leak or when your furnace breaks do you? You replace it and fix it over time. You don’t do that as much with a car. At some point those maintenance costs outweigh the costs of getting a new vehicle.

But it’s also not just “the house” - it’s “property”. And property values change based on many other factors - lots of which are outside your direct control.

For most people it’s the single largest investment they’ve ever made. So yeah, they’re reluctant to just see the price tank.