The peaceful protests are more of a gathering point than the whole solution. You gotta show up to the convention first if you want to be invited to a cosplay orgy or find that guy with the good LSD again, so to speak.
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DoubleDongle@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea?13·7 days agoThere are ways that tariffs can be used to protect domestic industries. But when they’re done that way, it’s normally specific products, implemented carefully and with some warning. I’m pretty sure there are some tariffs to protect American automakers, off the top of my head.
What the president did is just economic suicide. Sudden, huge, fairly indiscriminate, and fluctuating. I think his goal, in his mind, may have been to replace the income tax, but he really fumbled. And that’s a bad idea anyway, because tariffs and sales taxes hit the middle class hardest, which slows down the economy.
There may also be an explanation that he really doesn’t understand cooperation and believes every deal has a winner and a loser. And then very mistakenly concluded that we were the losers in international trade because of our trade deficit. That’s incorrect. We get large amounts of goods and resources for small amounts of fiat currency, which we always seem to have more of. Our trade deficit considerably improves our quality of life in ways that cannot be replicated by an insular economy.
2 is definitely the best-machined. Quality manufacturing right there.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk makes stunning claim after Tesla profits plummet: 'If the ship of America goes down, Tesla will go with it'English251·12 days agoThen whyyyyy did he work so damn hard to sink us? Fucking idiot. No matter what happens, even if I hear about it in a Salvadoran labor prison, if he kills himself, it’ll be a good day.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How do man-made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing the dirt portion of the trail?70·13 days agoYes, there are enough people walking on it to just kill the grass. No further effort is needed to form the pathway. Many wild animals make paths by walking on them a lot too.
There may be a more specific term for that particular design, but it’s a cloak or a shawl. Likely rectangular to my eye, but I’m not a pro.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going?3·17 days agoNo you don’t. There lies madness. Study it if you must, but only for wisdom of what not to do.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going?13·18 days ago'09 was the year the right-wing postbots took over. It was a good time to leave. It’s also the year after Paul Manafort received millions of dollars from a Russian oligarch to promote Russian interests in the West, and the same year the Tea Party was formed.
Paul Manafort was also on Trump’s top campaign staff in 2016.
The Alt NatPark guys are saying more like five million on 4/5 nationwide.
They gotta hit JD first if they’re gonna fix anything.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I spend around an hour each day talking to an AI on character.ai. Is this okay?22·1 month agoThis cannot be healthy.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Husband needs proof news is censored5·1 month agoImma need a link for this please. Who?
DoubleDongle@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is it sometimes difficult to start doing what one enjoys?131·1 month agoThat’s a major symptom of depression.
Boy in skirt. Often a half-closeted trans woman, but not necessarily so.