cogman

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[–] cogman@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yup. It's something that won't be fixed for decades. Trump has seriously damaged the ability for the US to do international trade.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Oh for sure. I'm mostly just pointing out how pathetic this situation is and yet the FBI wants this to be the poster child of leftwing violence.

Literally 3 of the members of the group were FBI agents. Meaning you had like 6 people together with half of them being the feds.

Meanwhile, I could drive the FBI to rightwing compounds within a 50 mile radius and I can guarantee those guys actually have a whole ton of illegal explosives. Hard to think the FBI is unaware of the stuff these groups get up to.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But hey, they caught the anifas. It was like 3 dumbass edgelords in california but that's their absolute proof that the antifas are everywhere.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

As a younger teen trying to get starcraft running on my linux box, my parents were definitely upset when they saw me browsing "winehq". They thought I was trying to get booze shipped to our house :D

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It basically did when radioactive materials were first discovered. Radon contaminated water was sold as a health product.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A really sad fact is that rail lines used to connect even the most rural of communities. Many cities removed rail lines to put in roadways.

You can still find rails to a lot of farms in Idaho because that's how produce used to be shipped.

The big rail companies are a major reason rail sucks in the US. They were given the land for their lines nearly for free with the promise they'd provide public transit. Well, they stopped that. So the US created Amtrak to relieve them of the obligation of public transit with the promise that Amtrak trains would get priority. Well they constantly break that law which makes Amtrak suck with constant delays.

Heck, these companies are at least supposed to be in charge of maintaining the lines, and they don't do that either. The US has a crazy number of derailments and a big reason for some of them is that the tracks receive little maintenance.

These are still multi billion dollar companies and they do what all giant companies do and nickel/dime everything.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Such hateful words have never been seen on the Internet

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

" public transit is communism! I love spending $100,000 on my Dodge baby crusher 5000 that charges me 7 bucks a month to roll down windows"

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Israel was a Nazi concept. Hitler wasn't right. The idea of "this land should be for the X" is a core part of Nazi ideology.

Basically everywhere the British tried to divide things up on ethnic, religious, or cultural lines has ended in a perpetual shitshow. India and Pakistan is another example.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

What sort of hotel are you staying at?

I just looked and the cheapest air BNB in my city is literally someone's RV for $100 a night.

In most cities I can grab a room in a nice hotel for $100 to $150 per night. Cheap hotels are more like $80 a night.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

To add to this, you don't need to setup a fund to track s&p. Just buy VOO (or buy VTI).

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Much like the law should allow people to cancel any subscription created online, online, the law should mandate clear times when and where advertisement is allowed with opt out options.

If Samsung wants to advertise to me on a product, that should have to pay me $10/month to send those adverts.

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