ansiz

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[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is that supposed to be safer than the body scanner? I just wish we didn't have to take our shoes off.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

What are you hoping will happen? Everyone has to get a physical pat down?

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My money is on them not returning him. They will either claim they can't find him, he's been moved to some other facility and they can't find him or there isn't any proof he's actually there at all.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Truly how can Elon even roleplay as a PoE 2 player if he doesn't even know about DnD. Has he been playing it like this the entire time? His DMs must regularly be flooded even when he's know trying to stream.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

That name of the building is the backstory I was referring to. That was a headnod to what was actually happening with Japanese investors moving in and buying up a lot of American real estate. I think that's when a Japanese group bought the Plaza hotel in NYC for example and when Sony bought a movie studio (renamed it Sony pictures, but I think it was CBS movie division).

Gung Ho, staring Michael Keaton, is another movie example.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This is all just Japan from the 80s all over again. There are a bunch of movies from the period with Japan as the bogeyman. The peak probably being the backstory of Die Hard.

The key difference this time is the USA was paying for Japan's defense, had a massive military base, etc. China doesn't have that problem, so they can counter American demands with their own demands.

Interestingly, look at interviews with Trump from the 80s, he'll talk about Japan almost with the same language that he uses for China now. The most famous was probably an appearance of Trump on Oprah.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (24 children)

Even if Trump removes every tariff a recession is almost certainly coming. Short to longer term planning, hiring, building, etc will certainly slow down and that kind of things is widespread. People lose jobs, people don't get hired, people choose not to start a business or invest money in the USA, etc.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most Americans, it's the same stuff fast food places use for fried chicken. KFC, Chick-fil-A, Popeyes are very popular here in the US!

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry to bust your bubble but that won't happen. Walmart is infamous for drowning people that sue them in litigation until they are bankrupt.

She's free to sue them for sue but that at best will get her a small payout that her legal bills will immediately consume. That's only if Walmart offered her a payout, I'd say in this political climate and in Florida they would just grind her down.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lol, I didn't say any of that. But it's a fact Goldberg has been a mouthpiece for the State department going back to at least the Iraq war in my opinion. He's not a Trump guy but just doesn't want to piss off any current administration so he won't lose his access.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

It was great to go to college at a time when Napster and IRC rooms were in prime time, combined with a T1 fiber connection and University IT was too primitive to do anything to monitor or stop the behavior.

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