I’m curious to know why they are there. They can’t have much in the way of line of sight from there.

The only thing this makes me think is “May I, please?”

Isn’t that the guy that played Unicron?

No, it shuffles on, a decaying zombie shell of it’s former theoretical glory.

Still, you put it well. I’m impressed with your literary talent. Tell me, have you ever considered writing a Hungarian phrase book?

That waste heat is very humid, which causes corrosion and mold issues.

Has he ever apologized for anything? Ever? Even sarcastically?

I plead the fifth.

Agreed. But I’m not what I’d call a community starter.

Yea, I suddenly started getting that too.

Reddit has seriously gone to shit lately, but it’s got a few communities that aren’t present here. Or if they are, I haven’t found them.

Don’t ask.

You know you can get sued without actually doing anything wrong, don’t you?

I think they have a legitimate concern, and a few protections to keep them from having to go to court (again) every time they write someone a ticket might be in order.

But that shouldn’t be enough to override the need to hold police accountable for their actions.

Quite a few, starting with, “how is that relevant?”

Just because someone is the moral equivalent of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch does not inherently mean that they are also the intellectual equivalent of the same.

True enough. Used to be, we were the only game in town, and we knew it.

Our smarter presidents tried to make sure we remained the best option, or at least a good option. Trump, as you have noted, makes is the worst option.

Does anyone in Washington understand that a “deal” generally includes giving the other guy something they want, not just demanding things that you want?

They are helping, yes, but windows 11 is a driving force like I’ve never seen.

Are there any Russian workplace comedy?

As a pure act, I can’t see that it causes any harm.

However, it will very likely lead to frustration, anger, and poor treatment of the person in question. Those things are bad.

Do your iPhones usually take oil?

What do you think plastic is made from?

Packaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes.

Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?

That’s generally how tariffs work. A tariff on grain is not a tariff on bread. A tariff on steel is not a tariff on knives. A tariff on cotton is not a tariff on clothing.

It can be, of course. A tariff can be on steel and items made with steel. But that’s not usually the case, and it’s usually called out as such. Of course, Trump is not what you’d call the most precise communicator in the world, but all we can do is work with what he says.

Right, but this tariff, at least as I understand it, is on chips imported as chips, not on products that contain chips. An iPhone will, of course, be subject to some other damn fool tariff, but not this specific one.

Of course, my understanding of this specific tariff may be wrong.