Ja der Typ.

Will anyone be better than Tom?

Became everyone’s friend, became a millionaire, retired, (so far?) avoided falling off the right wing conspiracy cliff. Kind of just a quiet dude.

Yuppies are weird because it was originally just a way to keep them in the news (“new movement! new group! news at 11!”) and be ridiculous. They got the DoD to sign a contract about exactly how high they were permitted to levitate the Pentagon.

And then it had it’s own Eternal September moment. But everything seems to.

Disney hoped the clause would be enforceable. At least part of the reason Disney settled out of court was because they didn’t want to challenge that assumption.

You can put whatever clauses you want in a contract. The law still trumps those contracts if it ever comes to enforceability.

By that logic signing up for Selective Service in the US means the US doesn’t have a volunteer military.

Love the horribly confused operator trying to fix problems with her equipment before putting the call through to the president.

Had the same experience and opinion for years, they do fine on Backblaze’s drive stats but don’t know that I’ll ever super trust them just 'cus.

That said, the current home server has a mix of drives from different manufacturers including seagate to hopefully mitigate the chances that more than one fails at a time.

A scope limits your field of view. It makes it easier to hit far away things moving relatively slowly/predictably.

It would be the opposite of helpful against a fast/close small target. There’s a reason duck hunters use shotguns.

Those Peak Design backpacks are pretty nice.

To cover what? DJI isn’t paying anything extra.

If they raise the price to $1700, then the tariff would be $1020 to the US government, again by you, and you would pay $2720 total to get your thing, split between DJI and the port authority.

After they put it on the boat DJI doesn’t care. They have their $1000. If they feel like it they can add the tariff charge and handle that for you, that’s how it usually happens now, but they don’t have to. You’ll just get a letter from the port authority about the charges needed to release your item.

I mean it’s very simple. A tariff is what you pay the government to get stuff released from the port of entry.

You buy a $1000 DJI quadcopter that was manufactured in China, if Trump does his “60% on everything from China” tariff the US government says you have to pay them $600 or it goes back on the boat.

The complicated part of tarrifs is stuff like “are X-men action figures human or non-human toys” because those get different rates. Not what tariffs “are”.

A lot of the Old Testament this. Any translation that uses more readable language is nice. The King James version etc get too much credit for sounding religiousy.

Genesis through Deuteronomy or so are what a lot of Protestant churches at least focus on. The New Testament is Jesus’ life and then a bunch of letters to various early churches about how the Religion should work.

A lot of “the rest” are the kind of fables they’re talking about. Ruth, Esther, Job, Samuel, etc. The ones named after people/mythological figures, depending on your point of view/beliefs.

The author took inspiration from a WW2 book using actual accounts before, during, and after the war.

It (WWZ) really is fantastic. And the audiobook version with an all star cast is as well.

The article is correct to point out that in today’s economy, if you don’t have your parents support, you have many fewer opportunities.

That sounds more like a symptom of inequality than a driver of it. That people with sufficient family support aren’t yet as under water as people without doesn’t mean they’re driving inequality. If anything “people with support survive better” is too basic to write an article about.

Similar to how BP popularized a personal carbon footprint to distract from systemic problems with the oil industry, focusing on the people that still manage to eke out a middle class living as “part of the problem” is like myopically studying why a particular tree hasn’t burned yet during a forest fire.

A tariff is what you pay to the government of the port of call to get the item you shipped.

When you pay $1000 for a DJI drone and it get’s to Seattle the US government says “pay us $600 or it goes back on the boat.”

The Chinese company sees literally zero impact other than possibly less orders and probably a wave of refused merch. Which they might keep some or all of the purchase price of anyway.

There will be a surge in “nobody wants to work anymore”.

That’s an embargo.

A blockade is military stopping traffic. “Effectively a blockade” is an embargo.

As much as I love Tom Scott and it’s a fantastic visual/temporal representation, I doubt a lot of people have the patience.

I like “1 Million seconds is 11 days, 1 Billion seconds is 31 years” as a more succinct example.

One person earning $3600/hr, 24/7, without spending any of it, would take 31 years to become a billionaire.

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