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For those of us "not getting it" the only option on offer is the blue pill. Imagine that.

The trouble with this is that plenty of people are not part of your "we". The other "we" think you guys are evil for insisting on fighting until the last Ukrainian to get a small additional sliver of land for your new colony.

What credentials? Just bring your enthusiasm and learn along with the high schoolers.

This absurd language idea is good. Let me have a try...

Clearly everyone except the nerdy web developers that populate HN is completely incompetent. The aforementioned web developers though - they know everything due to all the time they spend on Twitter. I wonder why they aren't in charge of the country, must be a great conspiracy.

Manufacturing miracles aren't instant: it takes a lot less effort to import something than to invest into manufacturing. The inconsistencies mirror this perfectly: the industries where startup costs are lowest see the boost.

Yes, and the gamble is that the positives from boosting domestic industry will outweigh the negatives from higher prices. The only people confused about this are NPR-constructed strawmen.

OK, so the custom-designed kids product becomes a luxury item and the business has to charge above retail. The kids learn that adults time is too valuable to be spent on manufacturing trinkets that get thrown away. They take better care of the few toys they do own. There is less plastic crap in landfills. Seems like a win all around?

So that's the narrative. But if you actually dig into any of these stories you'll quickly find that there is more to them and they are all presented in a very one-sided fashion.

The guy from the article would have been deported by Biden's ICE too.

They already do. In fact, we are all working in service of their power trips.

Because this "saint" protected child molesters and collected megabucks for her poverty porn empire.

They also didn't drive any cars with a modern PHEV powertrain that Chinese manufacturers are becoming famous for. The Lynk & Co 09 has a PHEV version available. But the best reviews go to Li and Rox, neither of which was reviewed here.

And you just fabricated this whole thing. By the way, if that was an attack by Ukraine on Russia, then you just accepted that Donbass is part of Russia, and has been for some time.

Sure, there's nothing wrong with flying a Mexican flag - if you are trying to create a lighting rod to attract all the anti-immigrant vitriol. It's the same kind of dumb as "defund the police" - actively harmful.

And I strongly suspect that if I flew a Russian flag in the very liberal and tolerant Bay Area my house might just accidentally catch fire. Despite my right to do so.

But by the same token - the obstruction of federal agents who are carrying out their lawful mandate was also in that same place.

True, the implementation was messed up. Those unlawful deportation cases should have been the ones to protest. Not demonizing all of ICE or flying Mexican flags.

You know the truth full well, but insist on perpetuating the myth of genius Ukrainians and dumb Russian orcs.

The USSR had a policy of distributing economic development over its entire area instead of concentrating it in one place. Once a high-tech facility was built, it would be staffed by specialists recruited from all over the Soviet Union. They would be offered generous relocation assistance.

Now, I am not saying that Ukrainians are dumb or anything like that. What I am saying is that in a centrally planned economy the location of a project is chosen according to different criteria.

You should travel more. Your view on what prosperity looks like just might change.

Re-read what you wrote. That's exactly what this was is about: who gets to control a colony. And from that angle, the US went from having 0% of Ukraine as its colony to having 75%, including all mineral rights. At this point continuing the war is too expensive, which is why the US and Russia want to just stop. Europe keeps jamming up the gears though because they got a terrible deal.

Thing is, someone is paying all these bills. Yes really. Trump gutting USAID funding brought a lot of this out in the open: many organizations that claimed to be independent turned out to be mouthpieces of the US government and closed down as soon as the funding dried up.

Yup, the intent is for the protesters to pat one another on the back and feel superior to the grey masses.

But you see, in other countries automated bullshit often talks to you over WhatsApp or Telegram instead.

But not everyone lives alone. If you'd like to avoid waking everyone else up - you hit the power button (or indeed any button) while groggy. And if you drift off to sleep despite your best efforts - well, that's why the button snoozes the alarm rather than disabling it.

Google "Zeekr 9X" and then come back here if you still feel this way.

The article: green group promotes their pet solution in an application where it doesn't make any sense. Uses humanitarian disaster to quell criticism of mis-application. Pilot project launched in hope of getting a big chunk of taxpayer money for more misapplication of technology.

Hey, Telegram had one. He had to get to feature parity.

The CIA installed Pahlavi, but he was bad. So the CIA installed Khomeini. Now he's bad, so back to a Pahlavi.

Well, yeah, because that's the Nyquist limit at that sample rate. The max frequency needs to be below that (22.999kHz would not be undersampled). Of course, all of these frequencies are in the ultrasound range anyway.

Reducing the sample rate could cause aliasing. Oversampling shouldn't.

Where "the same" meant "who knows who's actually running the country". Let's at least be honest about that part.

Absolutely. The American way of life traps people in a zoo. There is nothing to do other than work (if you are lucky), eat, and consume junk media. For ones who are poor the only difference is the degree to which the food is also junk.

> We are also not intervening in Ukraine

Hahhahaha. Hahaha. Ha.

The cost of this non-intervention is now at almost $200B, is it not? I guess this money went to elves?

Here's something that might expand your view of the world. One of the agencies that saw major disruption was USAID. They don't just fund clean water for kids in Africa. They also fund regime change efforts worldwide. And these efforts have become social clubs for people who couldn't hack actual politics to meet and talk about how they are going to overthrow $DICTATOR. For years. Funded by the American taxpayer.

Here's an interview with one of the people who used to attend these dinners. He had to get a job as a plumber once the USAID funding dried up, and is happy about not having to lie anymore: https://meduza.io/amp/feature/2025/02/07/ya-ne-mogu-bolshe-y...

Use Google Translate. Meduza is heavily biased in favor of the EU, it is not a pro-US or Putin media outlet.

Now, this is just one guy who had to get a real job. Imagine how many others like him exist in the world. Now that USAID has been given a nice firm shake and a bunch of dead weight fell off - maybe funding can be focused on something new.

Without this kind of major disruption it would be impossible to effect this kind of change. Now think beyond USAID: could other departments have had just as many parasites? And remember: it's not just about saving money. It's also about sending the resources to a different place, and removing entrenched dead weight from power structures.