Musk was worth something like 200 billion when he bought Twitter. Now he’s worth possibly 500.

He’s looking at 100b per year growth with those numbers. Although he may have $1t payout in the near future.

To put that in perspective he has more money than all but 55 countries, soon to possibly be only 30 countries.

He may bitch about his company losing a contract… But the guy soon will have enough money to sink entire economies because our idiocy.

I use a split tunnel for the VPN. You can route specific applications/services to go through the VPN, and leave the Plex access how it is currently if you want. I have my jellyfin server set up that one of my browsers and qbitorrent all go through the VPN tunnel that’s always connected, then RustDesk, my file server, jellyfin and what not runs locally. So I don’t have to lose access to Jellyfin when acquiring any content.

Note: you can actually kick off a download through the VPN, and tell it to download sequentially, then just refresh the movies list in your player(jellyfin for me) and start watching the movie while it downloads. Thought that was a nice surprise.

After reading aboit the IDF guards that said they would shoot at anyone who walked up to the food drives early, or were there after it closed on an hour theyd shoot them as well I really makes me wonder how many of the people that supported Israel would like to see the same thing done to our federal workers.

Companies like L3Harris have to use VPNs just to access their emails because the securities required on government contracts. Whoever suggested this bill is just an idiot.

Video games do it as well. Painters, photographers. It’s mostly just companies that take credit for all their workers work and just write “Vizio” on the front of the product.

I also assume if someone was in the industry and was looking for someone to do make-up in their next film, they can say man the make-up was great in movieA, check who did their makeup and see if they are available

Yeah but a lot of this I feel is do to states failing to do their jobs as well. 87% of prisoners are in state prisons, none of which the president can pardon. I assume all it would take is one state prosecutor from say Florida to look at information released thus far in the Epstein files, say this happened in Florida, and file charges against her. I assume the federal government would have to turn over all of the information they have in the Epstein case to the state prosecutor or they would be obstructing an investigation. Other evidence in the case could potentially spawn more criminal charges for others involved and they could sentence her to whatever they found necessary. Then Trump couldn’t pardon her.

“Dual sovereignty” rules make it so you can be prosecuted by the state for the same thing you have been prosecuted by the federal government.

Unless the state arrests them and charge them with attempted murder it’s not going to change either.

Honestly don’t know for certain, but Israel pays a lot of money into lobbying in the U.S.

On a side note I would say Israel is the U.S. guaranteed entry point to that region of the world, so when it comes to intimidating other countries having a foothold somewhere there is of value to the U.S. (vehicle efficiency has increased, and car ownership dropped from 138 million registered in 2021 to 97 million registered in 2023.). So 30% loss in cars., and population increased from ~285m to ~337m during that time. (Irrelevant, but for scale that’s 127% of Canadas population total)

So the U.S. has stockpiled military equipment in Israel for decadees that is well defended do to shared technologies. This allows for unilateral support if say Bush 1 or Bush 2 wants to manipulate the area for something pertaining to oil prices getting to low/high. Contrary to many, I believe the U.S. ensures oil barrels stay higher in price because the lifting cost in the U.S. is higher. A good example is our oil production has increased by more than double from 2001 till today.

If the cost of oil in Iran/Saudia Arabia go lower that profitability drops, and some of the largest contributors to the Republican party (oil companies in the west, would see huge drops in income).

Other countries of interest there. Argentina, Columbia, and Venezuela. Should also mention Brazil, but they have grown closer ties with China who they export most of their excess Oil production too. Harder to impact at the moment, so they likely want to keep them out of direct conflicts.

Remember Trump sat down in May 2024 asking oil executives directly for $1 billion dollars in campaign contributions to help him get elected with the promise to squash any programs he could pertaining to EV growth.

If one stops trying to subjugate the other, the other should hopefully slowly start to be calm down about the subjugation.

Years and years of people stealing land, burning houses, shooting unarmed protesters and prosecuting people unfairly only leads to more hatred, more conflict, and more war.

If there was any chance of a free and fair election in Palestine that could elect something else it would be good, but only would end up different if it came without Israel’s interference and them actually staying out of Palestine. Governments like Israel and the U.S. or U.K. trying to put anyone on the ground there is more likely to cause conflicts. Where as if the UN countries all agreed to cut all trade with Israel if they didn’t stop trying to instigate shit… Israel would likely listen, or dissolve over time if they didn’t. The only people who should be on the ground there is investigate journalists and AID from around the world to help those people rebuild and leave whatever can be left behind them behind them

Think it depends where you live. Florida and many parts of Louisiana can get away with Sugarcane which should wipe the floor with corn on energy density per acre. If you get further north some areas can do sugar beets which also wipe the floor with energy per acre if people are trying to create the ethenol for vehicles and what not. Still have to rotate crops with something different though, I’m no expert but beans and edible small grains like those used for barley, hops, and what not may be able to not be a huge nitrogen sink. Maybe some carrots as well? Idk

So you can end up with 2x the ethenol per acre off sugar beets and keep bean costs lower in this country with no import costs. While also maybe providing local breweries or even large companies like Yuengling who still try to buy u.s. grown crops. Since Anheiser Busch was bought by inbev (Belgium?) I’m not sure where they get their products from.

I think she just wants the Republicans in Georgia who are skeptical about voting for a Republican regime that aren’t fixing anything feep better about voting for her.

This administration lied saying he would bring food prices down to get the lower and middle class Republicans support. Soon as he won the election before taking office started changing his tone to, well we can’t really bring down prices as that would be hard/bad.

Then now he’s starting to say we can increase imports of beef from South America to try to decrease beef prices… Which is a slap in the face to every Midwest/ranching state that voted for him on cutting imports, increasing exports, America first bs. While wanting to be racist against everyone Hispanic.

She’s in the stage of, I need re-election so start telling the voters I want to help the again.

Last I knew Coca-Cola was still importing shit tons of coco leaves every year to process in New Jersey (legally under permits)… not sure if that comes from Columbia or Peru though

It was never a war of on drugs, it was a war of subjugation. The war is going exactly how they wanted it too.

People are afraid enough of drugs they can manipulate elections with them. The number of people who were convinced Fentanyl was being brought over the Mexican border by people trying to illegally immigrate and that those 2 issues were tied together was high.

They made people scared, and manipulated them into allowing the government to get away with persecuting people while disregarding the inequality of it.

In this context Tragic was a title earned for their efforts. It’s like King Charles knighted the Titan, but since it was neither a Sir or Dame, it joined Titanic with the pronoun Tragic

Yeah, it was definitely a get readers attention scare tactic. 10% tax on hotels is nothing.

It’s like saying “We had to raise our taxes to match that of Florida districts due to federal cuts by Trump”

Sensationalism, but some may be more true than others

No shit, what else would I have meant?

10%, that’s a large difference than 900%. This is one of the times I came to the comments to see if the article is worth reading, now I guess I have to to figure out the fuck they meant

I’d argue Apple Pie is from Wales, because it usually isn’t worth fucking around making one that wasn’t a granny smith Apple or better.

I would think the downside to this would be water resistance. (Obviously the original post as well).

I always liked making bread when I was younger, but I hadn’t made any in about 10 years and tried a bread maker recently that someone gave us.

Why do I feel like it’s so much harder to make in a bread maker. Just throwing it on a pan seems so much easier for me.