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galimalinton The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

And yet in many cases, his orders have been struck down by the courts. Where's the dictatorship?

Biden pardoned his entire family. Is he a dictator?

galimalinton The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

You are pretty special indeed if you can't see that Russia and Ukraine are currently in a stalemate that could drag on for years.

galimalinton The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

Trump administration most likely has calculated and knows that shrinking $200 billion in trade deficit with Canada outweighs the downside of lost trade and tourism from Canada.

You speak of favor to US and trust and relationship, but that's really inconsequential in the face of $200 billion in trade deficit.

galimalinton Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs

the $100 billion investment in 2025 is new. the first investment in 2020 is also from trump first term.

doge has only been at work for 45 days, give it time. it's starting to look into military and medicare already.

galimalinton San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time

Park rangers make $30k-40k in small cities/towns. Not to mention big cities can help pay for some of the transition costs for these homeless, with their 15 billion budget. Also, it would be way cheaper to house these homeless once they choose to transition from park to an apartment.

galimalinton San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time

you might have misunderstood; if the homeless is now in a cheaper COL park, then more park custodians can be hired to take care of the homeless. And why should we assume that SF metro agencies are more apt to take care of these downtrodden than small town Nevada City? They haven't exactly done a stellar job so far for decades.

galimalinton San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time

In that case, why not move all the homeless from a park in a metropolis to a park in a cheaper/remote area? Then you can actually employ cheaper custodians in those areas to look after these homeless.

galimalinton San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time

In australia, they put the people with mental illness or addiction in their own apartment and give them pills, and check in with them regularly. Definitely costs less than 50k/year. Most of them do end up getting better after several years.

It seems US has a system that extracts maximumly from their tax payers and just keeps things in (bad) status quo as long as they can. A babying system if you well.

galimalinton How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Electric-vehicl...

Sales of EVs in Japan fell 33% y/y to 59,736 cars in 2024, the first decline in 4 years.

EV's share of all vehicle sales fell below 2% in Japan