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@boatswain @egrets same as firing staff only to use more expensive contractors to do the same job, or selling a building you own only to rent the same building from someone else. It doesn’t come from the same budget line, because it’s lower risk, in the sense that you could in theory just stop paying the money if your strategy/situation changes, and you won’t have ongoing expenses just from “owning” the thing. In reality you’re usually still locked in, just paying more.
@longjohnjohnson @MicroWave isn’t everyone else still on 10% too?!
@Dagwood222 @Fredthefishlord I mean it’s stupid that it was even close, but Dubya’s brother stole the election for him. Pretty much accepted fact now that if the recounts had actually been allowed then Gore would have won. US elections are awful. https://youtu.be/jucDFrO89Ko
@FilthyHookerSpit @Freshparsnip the thing I find weird is that not a single county flipped red to blue, but 88 flipped blue to red. Just demographic changes would usually mean one almost-blue changes hands. All one way hasn’t happened since Hoover, so you’d think, from that, that Trump had a MASSIVE margin.
@ToadOfHypnosis or out of a window
@Maiq @silence7 I still don’t get it. You’d think that even a Russian asset, as a malignant narcissistic demagogue, on becoming president of the largest economy in the world with the most powerful army, would just go ‘actually f*** you, I’m a bigger deal than you now, and your army and economy have both been ripped to shreds since I last got booted out anyway.’ Like, why’s he reducing the power/influence of the US and therefore his *own* power?!
@TwinTitans ah ok I see. Thought you were saying 5 years was a *long* time!
@TwinTitans @MicroWave I mean I get your point. But how long do you expect a car to last in the US? We have one car and it’s a 2012 reg that we bought secondhand in 2018…
@OutlierBlue @Chainweasel the rich have forgotten they should vote for social safety nets because otherwise the poor have nothing to lose.
@raef @thefluffiest Pretty sure ChatGPT went down a list according to trade ratios:
@AA5B that’s why he’s pulled Stefanik back in - he needs *every* seat
@Eheran @RaoulDook no. Didn’t get 50% of the vote. Only 1.7% margin vs Harris. 11th smallest margin ever (including 5 negative, eg 2016).
When he claims a landslide it’s because he wants to claim he has a mandate.
TBH the numbers are really weird. Getting that small a margin but winning every swing state is not likely. And every county that flipped, flipped one way to him, which hasn’t happened since Hoover. Again, on that margin that’s quite the feat.
@Nightwingdragon @vegeta I think he’s just trying to stay solvent because knows Tesla is going to *tank* and he needs to pay off the Twitter investors (using xAI investors’ cash) before he gets margin called
@Xanthobilly @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein partly this. Possibly also dementia + power-crazed wannabe dictator I suspect
@doomsdayrs lol. so much apocalypse fiction is FlintstonesPunk
@doomsdayrs @culpritus where are they getting the petrol
@Eruanna amazing! And you thought you’d be the only one - I think this is the importance of these - people are realising they’re not alone, just because Fox keeps telling them they are
@Eruanna honk honk!
@freebee @tunetardis regarding centre of mass - the bike, itself, is heavier than the scooter too. And “sit-up-and-beg” positioned shopper-style town bikes move your mass even further back - little chance of catapulting forward on one of those. The centre of mass is *far* lower on a bike.