DomeGuy
Most laptops or other portable computers are not repairable. Heck, even desktops these days are highly integrated with often just three chips and maybe a graphics card inserted into a motherboard.
If you really want reduced telemetry, switch to Linux NOW and only use systems that F/OSS folk approve of.
If you don't need a PC for gaming, consider something like a raspberry pi.
How so?
The comic looks like a pretty clear joke that identified the issue in a straightforward issue.
Correct.
Pointing out that way too many things are simply harder for Americans who appear black is called "recognizing that there is a problem", which most adults agree is the very first step to solving problems.
I'd like to see widely-citable sourcing for the claims that he apologized and actually covered the Nazi tattoo. Ideally with "before" and "after" pics.
"Right winger pretends to be woke to get D Senate seat, then fucks us all over" is a hell of a scam, and it's arguably happened at least twice since Obama was in office.
And, yeah, "so called centrist dems fearmonger over candidate to their left" is way more frequent a play. Which is why seeing citations that are more than "we read his reddit history" are worthwhile
In all honesty, "limit the state dinner to who the white house can seat" sounds like a perfectly reasonable alternative to tents.
The home of the national manager doesn't need to be a venue big enough to seat every last member of Congress, the cabinet, the supreme Court, every other statewide elected official, AND a foreign dignitary with their entourage.
If we do need a venue that big, it should either be part of the Capitol or a free standing structure.
You seem to be blurring the line between "good for me" with "good for the economy".
Why would a bank loan you money if you're not paying enough in interest to offset the cost of inflation? Historically in such systems banks charge loan fees instead, and with those fees loans tend to be net-higher since capital seeks other investments, such as commodity trading (which tends to drive up the price for necessities, too!)
Bank loans for large purchases are, btw, very good things. If you are going to be not-spending $2000 a month for 20 years to buy yourself a home, it's better for everyone if you can just live in said home while you do.
Please note that I'm NOT refuting your other points. Wage stagnation and income inequality are very bad things, and inflation does tend to exacerbate those things.
(We also haven't talked about deflation,
A small amount of predictable inflation is good for the economy. You get to pay your car loan back with dollars that are smaller than the ones the bank fronted in the first place, and the bank has money to load at all because it makes sense for everyone in town to deposit their extra dollars rather than just hiding them at home.
It'd be nice to have some revaluing of physical currency though, since the spending power of a single dollar today is about what a nickel was a century ago. I wouldnt mind if tiny metal discs with Jefferson's face said "one dollar".
Throwing good money after bad would be spending another $200,000,000 to retrofit the monstrosity and be sure there are no "Russian clocks."
Just demolishing the thing and acting like a Kaiju stepped on the east wing might be petty and wasteful, but it wouldn't be throwing good money after bad.
Yes, it absolutely gets windy in NYC.
Remember that Manhattan is laid out in a very regular grid. This is equally useful if you are a poetic zepher of wind or a becaped superhero, as these long passages make it really easy to (traffic allowing) rush forward at full speed and little chance of hitting a wall.
You're posting growth as if it were an inherent good, instead of a surefire recipe for future catastrophe.
My assertion against the correctness of "growth is good" is the finite size of earth. I'd like to hear your assertion for that theorum's correctness.
I wager we could get New Hampshire, Vermont, or Texas to challenge the uniform time act as a violation of the 9th amendment just for the fun of it.
I wouldn't put it past California, either.