Hildegarde

$90 to replay a 8 year old wiiu game. Why would anyone?

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

I was about to write a criticism of this infographic then I rechecked and its been updated and fixed my concerns since I last saw it. Good job!

Edit: Okay found some issues.

Thunderbird is american. Its run by mozilla, which is a california based non-profit. So still american not EU. But also its an email client, whereas gmail is an online email service provider. There are EU based email services that should be listed instead.

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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.

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.

no. that’s thermodynamically impossible.

though it is true that fission and fusion are opposites, you cannot gain energy by fissing and fusing the same material. There’s an inverted bell curve where medium sized elements are the lowest energy state. You can get energy by making atoms more medium, fusing the smallest atoms or fissing the biggest ones. Doing the opposite costs energy.

I’d much rather they make California the 13th province.

What specifically do you think that OSM maintainers should be doing to stop this instead of maintaining OSM?

Also coup has a p.

It also requires you to campaign tactically. Kamala showed exactly what happens when you don’t.

Stop blaming the voters for kamala’s bad decisions.

she threw her campaign when her campaign chose to abandon the very vocal block of anti-genocide voters who had enough votes to swing the election.

if your campaign can only succeed if several millions of people to change their minds suddenly, you ran a losing campaign from the beginning.

Every study uses sampling. They don’t have the resources to check everything. I have to imagine it took a lot of work to verify conclusively whether something was or was not generated. It’s a much larger sample size than a lot of studies.

I pretty sure they selected posts from a 6 year period, not that they spent six years on the analysis.

“niche market,” is a way of saying they made a bad product few want.

pickup trucks are hardly a niche product especially in the us