If Intel has to give the US government 5%, Starlink should have to give back 25%.

Wow. I didn’t know that dial up was still a thing in the US

Oh man, you just unlocked memories of my Mom’s 8086 back in the late 80s… her first pc was an Apple but the software… there was more for the Intel. I remember so much disk inserting and printer interface issues and the DOS. We had like boxes and binders of those huge discs…

Intel can go anywhere. To the highest bidder and the lowest cost.

or they will just move overseas.

Right? Good Luck America. FAFO.

there is no real rationale. Trump is all impulse, no long range thinking/planning.

That is what the tariffs are for and Apple has promised to invest a shit ton of money into manufacturing those phones here… so they can raise the prices to the ceiling of the tariffs imposed on China, India, Thailand, Indonesia … etc. There are no other smart phones manufactured in the US so they will effectively… have a monopoly.

the problem is that those people actually exist and post. so it is hard to see the difference btw the monopoly/technocratic feudalists and the average sarcastic poster. being naive about that group is probably your first mistake. sorry for the heavy eyeroll and expression of disgust. Maybe find another way to have “fun?”

It is not like I did not have access to that information before. I don’t need to be trapped in some closed browser environment labeled as “search”

Exactly what we need in a bubble. There is no there there… okay, no profit there; just a big bottomless money pit and a bunch of tech edgelords fantasizing.

You know, I thought that at first. Then I was talking to this coworker who lives in the country on a small farm/homestead (that is a lifestyle choice, not an actual career). And she had absolutely not one iota of compassion or empathy for those people sent to an El Salvador Prison without due process. Her view was that it just was less expensive than detaining them here. Even though I said… but, they won’t ever get out of there, there is not court or deportation back to their country" and she shrugs and says “not our problem anymore.” Heartless Snaggletooth Cunt.

Even worse, they will go ahead and deny themselves and their family in order to qualify for benefits in order to starve the (government) beast and then bitch about the legit poor who actually need the temporary help from the government.

Well, I don’t know what to say to them when they actually experience the consequences of their firm belief system other than to shrug my shoulders and say well, sorry you are struggling, isn’t there some other job you can work that can pay for xyz that you voted to fuck the rest of us over for? I mean there are unintended consequences and I am sure they didn’t expect to be the people that were hurt, just those other people like you and me.

Deluded and brainwashed at this point.

I don’t believe any of them actually said they regretted their choice nor apologized. I need actual verbalized regret… No some squishy everything except" nor "almost everything "… They are still assholes, idiots and non serious people. Because Carol was in a detainment barracks with a hundred other women just like her