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  • 'They Want To Be The Gatekeepers': Car Dealers Are Stopping Customers From Buying EVs

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  • As with most things, "free market" is what they demand when they don't get have access to the market or can't command the whole market.

    Once they have access or enough of a percentage to set the prices, suddenly the best thing is high barriers to entry and whatever else will help them maintain inelastic demand.

  • What do you not understand about humanity?

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  • Why do people tap their breaks in the left lane when passing someone slower on the right?

    Please stop. Tap your breaks if you're signaling something going on in front, or if you need to slow down faster than just taking your foot off the gas will slow you.

  • Trump Amplifies Call for "Citizens Arrest" of Judge and Prosecutor in New York Civil Case

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  • Trump isn't a actually stupid. He's just an asshole and normal people don't get it.

    But if the judge left himself off, and if Trump can make him adjust the order to add himself, or otherwise indicate that he's upset that he's being targeted himself, Trump can and will then argue that the judge is making personal decisions and ask try to make drama about recusing. Which won't go anywhere, but will ramp his followers up further.

    He knows exactly what he's doing.

  • Restaurant Bill

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  • Very unlikely. There's a statement at the bottom that explains what the fee is. There's a QR code at the top for more information, which OP cut off.

    I doubt they went through the effort of updating their POS system, providing links to info on the receipt, and chose not to post a sign or put a note on the menu. Everywhere I have been with a service fee like this posts it, which would negate any legal issue.

    Caveat emptor.

  • White House reacts to Speaker’s ‘extreme’ stopgap funding bill

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  • Dems suck at messaging because the entire media apparatus does republicans' work for them.

  • US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity.

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  • It's literally what's happening.

    Texas used the same concept to empower private people to sue abortion providers and receivers under civil law since they couldn't do it criminally.

    The country as a whole has done it for a long time with cellphone data, the five eyes alliance, etc.

    They have access to information they're barred from getting directly themselves, and they get it from private companies. Spying by proxy.

  • Zelensky refuses to hold elections in wartime Ukraine

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  • Again, what good would this do if you are in a war torn country that cannot secure its elections?

  • Zelensky refuses to hold elections in wartime Ukraine

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  • So they amend their constitution. During a war. To force people into the streets to vote.

    How does the government make sure the election is fair? Some people won't be able to vote due to danger. Some will be attacked. Some areas are occupied, and the occupation lines may change during the election.

    If they tried to run an election now, Russia would publish their own results showing that the occupied areas voted for Putin. Trying to run elections is hard enough in normal times, doing so with Russia literally holding a large swath of your country is impossible.

  • US supreme court to hear case on domestic abuser’s right to own guns

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  • Yeah, and they'll probably side when the accused abuser, even though they didn't give a single fuck when it was people accused of nebulous terrorism ties not being able to fly.

  • How did hunger become a hot-button partisan issue?

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  • Reagan made up a bunch of shit. He had Alzheimer's, and people would tell him things. Either he willfully misrepresented or was beginning to lose the ability to sift fact from fiction.

    He also claimed that vets were spit on when they came back, but they didn't come back from Vietnam through normal commercial airports, and there was a vibrant internal military protest movement, which everyone knew about. No one was spitting on random soldiers, and in the event that it happened once, it wasn't an organized zeitgeist like they tried to make it out to be.

    Regressives are liars.

  • ‘MAGA Mike Johnson’ and Our Broken Christian Politics

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  • Which goes a long way toward explaining why someone in that situation would be pissed off enough to write exactly what they wrote.

  • Warplanes strike Gaza refugee camp as Israel rejects US push for a pause in fighting

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  • This. Pretty much every company that does business with the US or a US state has clauses in their contract about "boycotting" Israel, poorly defined on purpose.

  • Alabama Mayor Kills Self After Right-Wing Blog Outs His Cross-Dressing

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  • The only thing they actually care about is how they're perceived by the rest of the cult.

  • Judge Tells Ivanka She Can Probably Afford a Babysitter

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  • No, I read one of the many ridicule reviews that are quotes pieces. In this quote, she said that most of the good pics she has of her kids came from the nanny during the day.

  • Judge Tells Ivanka She Can Probably Afford a Babysitter

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  • She claimed she'd face undue hardship because it's during the school week.

    What?

    She's got a husband. I bet she still has a nanny - she mentioned having one in her book. She's got two brothers that aren't going to be testifying at the same time.

    The kids will be in school for 8 hours, and literally any one of those people could watch her kids for the remaining time. Normal people have to deal with this all the time.

  • Republicans Have Absolutely Had It With Tommy Tuberville: “Xi Jinping Is Loving This”

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  • If and when he stops, whoever is in the next safest seat will just pick up the baton.

    They operate under a thin veil of plausible deniability, but they're all aware of the game they're playing.

  • ‘This is outrageous’: Pentagon officials furious over Tuberville holds after top Marine hospitalized

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  • I used quotes around that because I do not believe it.

    But a bunch of idiots do, and politicians have to have some backing from those idiots, so even though everyone knows these people are shills and grifters, they have to pay lip service to the idea that they'll do the reasonable thing, and hope that eventually cultists start dropping out and realizing they've been duped.

    You can lead a horse to water and all that.

  • Apple's called Android a "massive tracking device" in an internal presentation

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  • 100%. Most business is just advanced sophistry at this point. Marketing and advertising serves a useful purpose for new products, when the market isn't aware that it exists.

    But by quantity and cost, most advertising is just social manipulation and is effectively an extra drain on the economy.

  • ‘This is outrageous’: Pentagon officials furious over Tuberville holds after top Marine hospitalized

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  • There's a thought experiment about babies in a river. Do you save each baby as it floats down the river, or do you go upriver to stop them from throwing babies in?

    If you choose to stay, are you enabling the baby throwers?

    If you go, are you consigning all the babies that are thrown to death while you search?

    It's not black and white. There's no good solution when bad actors are doing bad things. A coordinated response would be great, but at the same time, this is a constant problem. It's not like Democrats haven't been trying to get "reasonable republicans" to handle their own shit for decades. It's not like republicans won't have another mole pop up after this one gets whacked back into his hole.