Really cool. I tried to sign up but you have to be part of an officially recognized organization in France and input their registration number as part of the process.

lol what did the French do to you?

Lucky. Citalopram would cause me to create friction burns because I couldn’t cum. It was awful.

Can you orgasm? Anorgasmia is a common effect.

Those spiders you find inside may be of a type completely adapted to living indoors with humans. Putting one outside means death.

Why does Sam keep threatening us with a good time?

Part of me wonders if these children aren’t better off not surviving compared to the lives they would have to lead at the hands of parents who would treat them this way. There will be constant abuse and neglect throughout their lives.

Oh you have to block a few key instances and life is rosy. Stay away from Tankies and ultra Libertarians and you’re fine.

At least unlike reddit people aren’t directly insulting you.

Shame on the AP for not using the proper spelling.

Why an a-hole?

The long term goal is rebuilding US industry.

I think it’s more fundamental than that. Little 8 year old Donald Trump walked up and down Manhattan with his father staring up at giant oil and steel buildings and thought to himself that THAT was success. It’s not really about the industry, it’s about being so wildly successful that you can put up buildings like that.

We’ve moved well past that economy but Trump is still stuck in the early 1950s.

Presuming that the effect is as you say–that it could encourage domestic production, the real issue is how quickly it can take a supply chain to spin up. Remember that it really did take about 2 years for things to start up fully after lockdown, and that was when factories and such were already in existence. To do that here would easily take a decade presuming that there was sufficient investment.

This is what happens when your fetishes about reality meet reality. Reality would like to have a word.

TLDR; these had built in musical synthesizers. Same sorts of chips you’d find in electronic keyboards. You don’t have to record the sound, just the instruction for the chip to play the sound you want.

I do think you’re right. Friendster and MySpace were pretty much the peak, then when real social media took over, it all went to shit. Since then, tech exists not to perform some function but to justify its existence specifically to earn money.

I am surprised that you had to point that out, if I am honest. I’d have expected people who have reasoned opinions on China to understand that basic part of Chinese (or possibly Asian-at-large) culture.

The US suffers deeply from cultural narcissism where a significant number of people believe that their needs are more important than the needs of others.

I may or may not be willing to deface every bathroom everywhere it’s these.

It’s not that there don’t care as much as they don’t believe it will affect them personally. They believe they their wealth will protect them.