Hildegarde

so… its a news article in 2025?

Trump is against medicine.

Did a little reading on don bacon, the representative mentioned.

He represents nebraska’s 2nd district, a district where the majority voted for biden and harris. He is known for being a moderate republican who is noted for working bipartisanly. He retained his seat by a narrow 50.9%:49.1% margain.

Basically he’s one of the most likely republicans to support something like this. And if viewed purely cynically, with the slim margin of victory, he has an incentive to introduce bills to nowhere like this use for the upcoming 2026 reelection campaign.

Until this bill gets cosponsors or goes for a floor vote, it doesn’t indicate a breaking of ranks. He’s the kind of republican who often goes against the party line.

3% It dropped 3%.

Probably for the same reason they’re against medicine

Honda has 16 factories in the us. Your next honda probably won’t be affected.

The Signal Foundation is a non-profit. The non-profit owns an LLC under the same name which publishes and develops the apps.

The software itself is open source, and licensed under AGPLv3, the same permissive license as lemmy and mastodon.

Calling them a private company with no motivation to disclose any failures in their security is pretty clearly untrue in whole.

Is that shirt real? I need one.

so… how much did does the us government give its auto industry?

They gave us auto companies 81 billion between 2008 and 2014, and continue to subsidize the industry to this day.

pot meet kettle

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biden basically did that already. ever noticed there are no byds on the road in the us?

i seem to recall it wasn’t an outright ban, but unreasonable tariffs on chinese evs specifically. a soft ban, but enough to be as effective.

The receiver is the part of the gun with a serial number that has to be reported to the government when sold or transferred. Every other part and ammunition are normal goods with few restrictions.

Only one part needs to be self crafted to make and fire a ghost gun. They are not impossible to detect through investigation or forensics, they’re just unregistered.

Whenever a headline is written to imply something without saying it, don’t trust it.

The words in the headline are not false, but they chose to cover this story nationally because they can write a headline that strongly implies that there was an attempt on the president’s life because they know that will entice a click.

If there was evidence of the exciting implication that would be the headline.

A depressed person attempting suicide by cop isn’t something relevant to a national audience, but people will click because of the headline.

The rich have more assets and income sources and have staff who do a bunch of financial chicanery to try to hide their tax evasion. Auditing the rich requires significantly more work than the poor.

These decisions are not about doing what makes sense. The IRS is a revenue generator. Spending money on the IRS brings in significantly more money in unpaid taxes than it costs.

The goal is not to do what’s best for the government’s budget. Its really about ensuring that their criminal friends can continue to get away with it.

They make bad small phones that people don’t buy because they’re bad, then conclude its because people don’t buy small phones.

They make phones like the palm palm, the second phone you have to pair to your other phone, for those days when the big phone is too big. Also the battery didn’t even last a day. When it doesn’t sell they say its because it was small, not the everything else.