Critical_Thinker

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[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

Just need an LCARS theme.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

M.2 seems easier for normies to mess up and SD cards have traditionally been significantly cheaper... plus a microSD card is smaller than M.2 by an order of magnitude.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Too bad he's not around to testify. They did a great job of murdering him behind bars.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We’re no better than Russia.

Gulag for you, comrade.

Maybe the US needs more political prisoners so we can be up to par from the minority parties. The hatred is almost there amongst the loyalists to the billionaire elite. Just check out a fox news comments section, they'd love to shoot some democrats up. They don't even consider them human anymore.

I can't believe how mass media is turning people into monsters who cheer for the death of hard working working class families while the billionaires get bigger and bigger handouts from tax dollars.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Come on, there's the press releases and public relations and then there's reality.

The reality is that businesses want employees to leave so they can avoid paying severance and because the banks will give them preferential rates for utilizing office space, keeping commercial properties artificially inflated despite major changes in the perception and reality about how work can be performed.

It's easy to downsize at very large companies, it just piles on more work for those that remain. During booming times like most tech companies had in the pandemic they hired like gangbusters at the behest of middle management, now it's austerity time so they can focus on massive profits while corporate taxes are at an excessive temporary low.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Tim Cook has made it a point to kiss the ring privately on his own while keeping apple neutral so that money keeps flowing in.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago

You have to put them in cuffs first, then bust out the dicktionary.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're immigrating you have to finish a process before you become a resident. My wife wasn't a resident for a full year until after we got married and she did the process. This means if she spent her money to buy a home during that time she would have been subject to the 100% tax.

This is what I mean. You can buy a house and live in it before you are a permanent resident. You can buy a house on a fucking visa and move in to the house and only later get whatever immigration document gives you lawful resident status.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My wife is on year 4 of the immigration process in the US. She's still dealing with people misunderstanding how work authorization works with recruiters when applying to roles. She applied ages ago to get the condition removed from her permanent residency. This is even working for years at major companies and making 6 figures. We also bought a home after she started the process.

I know and understand that the US immigration process is not the same as what is in Spain or any other country, but bureaucratic bullshit exists everywhere and you don't know the gotchas until you go through it yourself.

Saying someone needs to complete a process that can easily take 5+ years in some cases is just not realistic or fair. You shouldn't be forced to rent, it leaves you ripe to being exploited as an immigrant often by people who are xenophobic and bigoted.

There are ways to change the dynamic of landleeches but screwing immigrants isn't the solution. Everyone needs a place to live, nobody needs a place to rent out or to leave vacant as an investment. There should also be exceptions for things like commercial properties e.g. things zoned for business use. Shouldn't be fucking an immigrant over for opening up a gas station or restaurant to make ends meet because the locals are too xenophobic to hire foreigners (a huge issue all over the world.) ___

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee -2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Spain is adjacent to non-EU areas. Gibraltar is technically British and Morocco definitely isn't in the EU... and when you go a couple of countries further there's loads more.

Point being, no idea why you think Immigrants only come from the EU. Dominicans love moving to Spain... as do loads of people in countries of latin america.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago (11 children)

I hope there is an exemption for people buying houses that they reside in full time. This type of policy is incredibly anti-immigrant otherwise.

[–] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There's only one way the valuation can go, down.

They make luxury cars in an economy that seems to be heading for a recession in a political climate full of people who would rather roll coal than buy an ev, and the pro-ev people have been completely alienated by the guy's politics.

The writing is on the wall, it's just a matter of time before people see it. Dumpy may give the guy a pile of cash, but odds are that would be through SpaceX or another business, not Tesla.

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