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I didn't say it shouldn't be done. Just that it's logistically and politically complicated.

It's not that simple. The tax money doesn't flow through the state; it is paid directly from companies and individuals to the Federal government. The state would have to figure out a mechanism to disrupt that process, and it would end up being a Constitutional crisis (not that we shouldn't have had several in the last few years already...).

We're talking about big enough numbers to whip out the scientific notation. Even counted in billions.

On one hand, cool! I've been wanting a local smart speaker for Home Assistant for a long time now, and in fact had been planning to DIY some myself (eventually...). With this, I could just buy a thing and be done with it!

On the other hand, holy shit, $50 for barely-above-microcontroller-level hardware. ☹️ I have a stack of old Google AIY Voice kits (bought when they were being discontinued for $5 each) and Raspberry Pi Zero Ws (bought before the prices went crazy for $5 each) sitting around to use for my DIY plan, so that'd be a BOM (including stuff like SD card and 3D printer filament) of more like $20-$25 for a much more capable device. Thus my expectations are anchored, to Pine64's detriment.

Perhaps unfairly, I feel like this Pine speaker ought to be more like $20, $30 tops. Especially since it doesn't even come with a proper wall plug, just a USB cable that you've got to supply your own wall-wart for!

You are off by many orders of magnitude.

This is kinda a loose fit for this community because it only really concerns cars in the sense that they're an important class of consumer good that can force behavior because they're hard/expensive to replace... but as a GrapheneOS user and owner of a[n old, unconnected] VW, I'll allow it because fuuuuuuck VW.

Sure, but somebody else already mentioned Mel Brooks films in general. I wanted to highlight that one uniquely because of the factor I mentioned.

Blazing Saddles, especially since, as they say, you couldn't make it today. 'Course, now that's less because you can't say the n-word and more because all the anti-racism would trigger the MAGA CHUDs.

You misread the other guy, too.

Boxfish have a surprisingly low coefficient of drag, so much so that Mercedes made a concept car inspired by them.

The article does not specify who can be held legally responsible for this violation or if the prison itself was already held responsible.

That's because the answer is now "nobody."

Only if by "cop" you mean "subhuman gestapo thug about to murder people for exercising their free speech rights."