Amazon makes the majority of its money from AWS. Literally using the Internet makes them buckets of money.
People can boycott it all they want. I just don’t use them, but none of that really hurts Amazon in the end.
If people want to actually hurt Amazon they need to call on the Government to break up AWS, Ma Bell style.
Yes, this tweet is actually devoid of reality.
Nebraska is indeed facing a shortfall in their budget, but it is wholly of their own making. In 2023, lawmakers used the surplus to pass a personal and corporate income tax decrease. However, the surplus was largely due to one time Federal aid they received.
Now that the Federal aid has ended (and it ended because it was scheduled to end, not because Trump ended it), the tax revenues are not enough and the State is -$432M. They raided the rainy day fund for $150M, but all this does is delay the inevitable. The State was hoping that the decrease tax would spur growth and for the most part the State’s economy has been strong but steady, not exactly growing and nowhere near enough to cover this shortfall.
It’s very clear that the State has mismanaged the budget. You cannot use one time aid to fund long term tax cuts, that’s the intelligence of finding a lower paying job because you found a coupon. Nebraska’s Republican led State Legislature is pretty much the largest causer of harm to the State. Not to mention that they also passed LB 243 in 2023 which took a large amount of funding away from Schools, so outside of just ending public education, there’s not much more money they can extract from their favorite thing to extract money from.
But all that said, the State did it to themselves. No need for Trump to be involved.
I will say that the inner party Democrats are absolutely not going to learn any lesson from this.
They will lose the 2028 and wonder who they need to blame outside of themselves. I’ve honestly tried voicing my concerns with the TN Democrat party, but LOL they don’t give a bleep about anything from the State of TN.
I’ll keep speaking my mind but shoot it doesn’t feel like anything is going to move the needle with them.
They were arrested in El Salvador, likely the charge is “Fuck that person in particular”. El Salvador has long since left any semblance of law and order, that’s why Trump has become so cozy with them.
I will be absolutely shocked if the person is still alive a year from now. And this also highlights why everyone knew that trying to mount legal defense from El Salvadorian jurisdiction was never going to happen. The country has demonstrated zero compunction with incarcerating people the government doesn’t like and indicating that legal rationale isn’t needed to justify their actions.
Roughly 2.9 million people who have student loans are age 62 or older. I’m very curious as to how many in that demographic are within this defaulted status. Mostly because any change in social security benefits for a retiree is life altering and if any significant portion of that group that’s defaulted is also this 62 or older group, the changes this will have a massive impact on the population. Retirees that get caught into money troubles not only brings them down, but usually the family that ultimately has to catch them from completely falling through the cracks.
So completely unqualified people, gotcha.
Well the bars kind of need to have a particular bit of strength to prevent prisoners from taking over the place.
The prison camp isn’t where they want to hold them. It’s the Guantanamo Bay’s Migrant Operations Center where they want to hold them. It suffers the same issues at Alcatraz, so either way they want to slice the bread here, they have to go through a set of hoops to get it to any kind of position to hold long term prisoners.
Things that won’t happen.
The salt from the ocean has corroded the bars, a good kick likely would open the windows. To secure the place would take years of rework or just outright tear down and rebuild.
The place hasn’t had proper upkeep since the late 1960s and honestly very likely before then too. It wouldn’t serve to secure anyone that various places out in the Midwestern desert regions wouldn’t do multiple times better.
Right? The group he’s threatening is likely to have plenty who can pass with flying colors.
there could be almost 10 million borrowers in default in a few months
That’s not a small amount. That’s fucking with economic outlook levels.
As for their program to “guide” folks to repayment, I mean you might as well tell them that they’re indentured servants at this point. Bully tactics are not going to work in an economy where it does not matter how much or little credit you have.
And I highly doubt this administration has any kinds of plans to gentle get folks back to repayment. I fully expect, “pay your loans or we will make you a slave for the rest of your life” to be their go to solution.
There’s a correct manner to handle this, I expect Trump’s administration to fuck it up every step of the way.
The start of the actual effects.
Everyone looking at stock markets and 401(k)s as the effects, but the actual ground level affects they were always going to take at least three to six months to really feel.
And love zero of them.
Synology’s new Plus Series NAS
This isn’t surprising. SOHO and middle tier business hardware installs have all kinds of these requirements from support vendors. Synology was sort of an outlier on those that just allowed mixed bag and it provide software calculations on hard drive health.
That they want knowns in their machines isn’t surprising. I’m actually surprised it isn’t a complete drop in any assurances if you BYOD.
These features in this product aren’t home or consumer grade and indicating that it’s for the “advance home user” is like saying Arch Linux is the advance MacOS. There’s a lot of detail behind that statement that’s not being addressed.
It is sad to see them go this route, but I cannot say it comes as a surprise. But honestly, if you’re a hobbyist and see yourself using the features in this level of NAS, you’re likely skilled enough as is to build your own. And honestly, you’ll be happier building your own.
Ha ha, but for real. They’ll just turn people’s power off, tell them to ration, and/or jack the price per kWh to 500% what it was.
Team Orange let’s no good calamity go to waste. Everything is potential profit if you have no moral compass.
Schedule F classification. Trump tried it once towards the end of his first term, promised that he would do it again when he came back into office but Trump lost that election.
That he’s now doing again is literally no surprise. He absolutely promised that this would happen and spoke about how he was going to do it if he won 2024 after losing 2020.
Long story short, this creates what basically amounts to at-will employment at the Federal level. Again, this should come as a shock to no one, like he started detailing the implementation back in 2022, before he even got the nomination, it’s literally one of the most consistent things about Trump’s policy.
Now if you’re wondering, yes, at-will employment styled employment in Federal Office will mean that if Trump doesn’t like someone for any reason, they can be let go, zero employment protections.
Now my heart is doubtful. The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure. How shall any tower withstand such numbers and such reckless hate?
“Wasn’t me”
— Pete Hegseth
Ah yes, the classic Shaggy defense. What’s that shit conservatives say? We’re still in the first year.
🙂↔️✋ Saving kids
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My favorite is SQuirreL SQL. Something about that 1990s Java look is always claiming to me.