Problem with corporal punishment is that the adults who would put it in the job description and accept it will tend to be into it. Same for domination.

I prefer a job where the methodology at least trends towards the supposedly intended results, no that I’m opposed to fetish/kink fulfilment. Just don’t tell me the purpose is to help you write an unrelated book, or that my performance is evaluated by your progress in such at all.

More hassle than just writing the book for you, and less claim to royalties/compensation. No thank you.

First time that thing bucks, her neck is snapping, and the nicest horse you’ll ever meet would never put up with this shit for long.

Bother? Maybe. Understand how that thing could be even a tenth as old as it looks, used even once, and still in (relatively)one piece? Never.

Dicks are some of my favorite public art though. Right up there with tits and ass.

I think the rich are more prone to buying new items. Eventually the prices of used items will rise as a result of demand, but not right away. No one needs a new game console, and few could not meet their needs with a used PC or laptop.

Most in the US already have all of the above, but sure, this disproportionally “hurts” the poor.

The PC parts pipeline is ever-so-slightly more diverse, although the article does say Laptop prices could go up by 46% …

Look forward to more machines being assembled in other countries before hitting US soil, same as is already done for appliances by way of Mexico. Lack of imagination and industry knowlege on the part of whoever wrote the article, or just the desire to fear-monger.

Frankly, prices rising is not something I care about. Taxing the rich has to start somewhere, even if its what the Dems should have been doing.

Silver Lining. Fuck Consoles. Nothing that powerful should have most of its capabi\ities locked behind DRM, Licensing, and Walled Gardens.

The only significant policy change between the two was the legalization of weed. Can’t tell me its the weed that made Harris less popular. In the end, she got my vote, where Hillary didn’t, and still lost. Decades of conservative-lite policy momentum is a helluva stank, it turns out.

Indeed

Same things Hillary’s book said. No amount of reduced foreign propoganda will make up for shit policies. If the propoganda against you is spouting as many truth and lies as you are, its your own damn fault.

What Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank is genocide. Private Prisons and Deportation Facilities are evil. Private Healthcare is a waste of taxpayer money. Student Loans are an unconscionable trap. All of these are things Biden’s party, even Biden himself, foisted on us decades ago and continue to lie about to this day on multiple levels.

Pizza-gate was a quaint joke of a lie by comparison to the shit sandwich the DNC demands we swallowin excange for keeping the oligarchy/fascism we’ve had all along behind closed doors. So sad for you that our governments rhetoric will now openly boast about the things you’ve been comfortable with all along.

Sure, sure. The problem is not enough pandering, handouts and concessions to the ultra-rich and … checks notes … foreign enemies?

Okay, I can’t even remotely keep a straight face for that non-sense. Whatever’s replaced the fentanyl in your dealer’s weed supply, I think I might rather be dead than smoke it with you.

Unless maybe you mean China? … but if so, why repeat the “enemy” narrative?

Okay, but now we all need shirts saying “I’mma non-profit whoreganization” and/or “support your local non-profits”.

I thought about spewing some bull-shit about expecting money, versus expecting free meals, versus expecting sex or nudes or whatever, but lets be real, none of us ge an excuse for any of it.

Shut up, Hillary. You already wrote your stupid-ass book blaming everyone but yourself.

No, no he wasn’t. If he were a better president, we wouldn’t be in this predicament. The best thing he did was drop out of this race, and still, his policies left so much to be desired, that Harris lost the popular vote AND the race.

I voted Harris, by the way.

More EVs sold by China in Europe or the US means more EV’s made. No other country is producing enough EV’s, let alone cheap ones, to make up the difference. More EV sales would mean more money those companies have to research and produce other Green products.

Also, the tarrifs I’m complaining about aren’t Carbon-related, nor imposed by China(where on earth did you even get that absurd idea?), but they would stack in an awful manner.

China is absolutely right here. They won’t meet their commitments with their trade restricted like so, and the rest of the world won’t meet their commitments with China constrained.

The “developed” world, in particular, has shot itself in the foot here. Who gives a fuck about “losing ground economically/industrially” if the expense of “staying ahead” is the survivability of the planet itself?

Don’t answer that question. Anyone who thinks they are rich or whatever enough to “escape earth” and the consequences of failure here is of an idiocy beneath noting.

Should have been

Good. Fuck cheap oil. Help renewables win!

No one should be basing their “how to do it right” on a single forum comment. Talk about scope-creep for the offering of advice.