Ahhh yes. Of course the US paid millions of dollars to detain hundreds of people, and Kristi Noem went down there to make a point that if you crime while brown, you will end up in this prison because it treats its inmates… Exactly the same as an American prison. Yeah, that makes sense.
I wouldn’t get that impression based on his remarks when he announced he’s not running for re-election. Paul, on the other hand…
Saving you a click: Rand Paul, Thom Tillis, and Susan Collins voted against. Everyone else on party lines. Vance tiebreaker.
I’m also not seeing anyone spell out how I’m wrong either
At no point is one group accountable for another group’s actions in cases like this.
How’s that?
“it’s not your fault Lisa. I shouldn’t have let you let me get so carried away”
In all seriousness: it was an ectopic pregnancy, 5 weeks along. Technically legal to perform under Florida law, so in theory it shouldn’t have been a problem to have it done even under current law.
To be clear, none of this is meant to be an enforcement of that law, any other laws about abortion on the books, or the anti-abortion movement in general. I can absolutely understand providers being skittish about anything even remotely borderline with these laws in place, just trying to get the basic facts into the comments because good arguments are worthless if it’s about incorrect facts
It’s so perfectly terrible 🥹
I was looking for “buzzword soup website doesn’t say what the product fucking does”
Maybe that wouldn’t fit in a square
Let me know your what we can do that’s sustainable in the long term and doesn’t make a martyr out of anyone in the short term
The “120 volt cable”, assuming you mean NM-B aka Romex, is rated for up to 600 volts if you look at it closely. It is absolutely acceptable to use that wiring for a 240V circuit, as long as you wrap colored (not green) electrical tape around the white neutral wire to indicate it’s another hot.
Yes, there are 3-conductor (plus ground) wires one can also use for switches and 240V circuits with neutral. That neutral can be used to have 120V and 240V together (your oven may use 240V coils, but the light bulb probably runs on 120). Doesn’t mean you need to have it, if your 240V circuit doesn’t need a neutral. My air compressor is just a motor that can run at 240, no neutral needed, and its outlet is wired up with the same kind of Romex used for a 120 right next to it (with black tape to indicate a second hot)
Maybe that’s what he’ll do at the upcoming event? 🤷♂️
Maybe we can encourage a tariff on it to distract them. If that doesn’t make sense, we once waged war on drugs 🤷♂️
Especially in the last month or so I’ve been noticing how uninspiring technology has been. I used to love seeing whatever the gadget of the season was at Target while my mom shopped. Now it’s all… Phone cords, and um, printer ink cartridges. The same wireless speakers we bought years ago. Nothing about it is cool anymore!
It doesn’t matter if he considered the conditions because he can’t force them to stop exploiting their workforce
Sure he can. Or at least use it as a tool to help curb it. Anyone with the authority to exercise tariffs (in this case, that turned out to be the issue, but aside from that) can say that x industry in y country is exploiting their workers and products related to that industry is subject to whatever tariff they choose to implement. They may even use their powers (if only advocacy here) to help those affected. Thing is, Trump doesn’t give two shits about any of that, so if any progress is made in the areas in which you’re concerned it’s out of dumb luck and nothing else.
If Trump’s message is to be trusted, he wants to make deals and have more people buy from us, meaning global consumption might shift (assuming deals are made and all) but certainly not go down
for me it is a moral imperative that we stop mass consumption of goods produced by people in abhorrent conditions
Yes, I’d love to see a decrease in the cheap utter crap we are producing/consuming on this planet, and of course I’m all for humans being treated properly. But blanket tariffs with no apparent consideration of how people are generally treated in those countries (only how we are tariffed) won’t encourage anyone to solve that.
I would argue that mangoes aren’t a necessity to your diet, you can replace them with fruits that do grow in the US
It was a flipping example. There are plenty of fruits you can replace that with. And in the winter we have hardly any fresh produce and have to rely on, for example, Chile (which has its summer conveniently during our winter. Yay geography). IIRC a ton of the world’s garlic comes from China. Could we survive on our own locally-produced food alone? Perhaps. Would we have the same variety we enjoy today? Probably not. Year round? Almost certainly not. Can it all be done as quickly as these tariffs are implemented? Fuck to the no!
Our economy has progressed from manufacturing to the tertiary sector just as it moved on from mining and agriculture (primary sector) over a century ago.
Not only that, but the way these were implemented is such a big component that can’t be glossed over. We need food - that’s included too? Just how quickly do you think we can get mangoes growing in Wisconsin for us to eat here in America? And if you want to bring up the ridiculousness of that idea… Exactly.
His Bluesky is also a delight
That can also have its own dependencies. I tried to update some relatively simple apps that ran on Java 8 with some Spring libraries (not Boot) and had to deal with the Jakarta stuff to handle it… Only to discover that the Weblogic Application Server we use doesn’t support Jakarta just yet (or probably more accurately, STILL doesn’t!)