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I think the widespread political "unwavering support" for a nation committing Genocide, which is justified by the ethnicity of the people of that nation, kinda shows that some part of Fascism (the whole "people's race is what matters the most and some races are better than others") hasn't at all been stamped out.
Then there's AfD which is just taking the "if it's good to support them because of their race, then it's good to support us" step closer to Fascism.
Germany is far closer to a certain philosophy anchored on classifying one's fellow human being as worthy or unworthy depending on race than one would like to believe (certainly, I liked to believe before the political reaction there to whole Gaza thing made it too obvious to deny) - the symbols were made illegal whilst the spirit lives.
The funny bit is that if their stock price falls 90% in 6 months, their P/E will almost certainly still be above the auto industry average because their earnings will be falling too.
When I was finishing of my degree at Uni I actually spent a couple of months as an auxiliary teacher giving professional training in Unix, which included teaching people shell script.
Nowadays (granted, almost 3 decades later), I remember almost nothing of shell scripting, even though I've stayed on the Technical Career Track doing mostly Programming since.
So that joke is very much me irl.
Good luck getting the Trumpettes to understand that...
It's a tax increase which can be (and is being) mis-portrayed as something that the seller pays, when in fact it's the buyer that pays it.
In practice what Trump did was institute the equivalent of an additional 25% sales tax for all Americans when they buy goods manufactured in Canada or Mexico, but because this tax is usually payed by companies (which do most of the importing) and most people aren't at all familiar with how Import/Export works, he seems to be getting away with portraying it as a tax on Canada and Mexico.
(The concern of those countries is not that they pay more - which they don't - it's that a selective "sales tax" that only applies to products they export to the US makes their products less competitive on price when sold in the US, hence they will sell less which is bad for their companies)
I've seen some theories around that the purpose of this significant increase in tax is to pay for the tax cuts for the wealthy that the Republicans are passing.
I've seen a similar thing happen overtime for Aliexpress shipping to Europe - it used to take 2 months to were I am (Portugal), now it takes a bit over a week.
I think they set-up some kind of consolidated shipping operation so that the sellers on their site can ship things via Aliexpress' own system, which is way faster (and invariably involves air-shipping via The Netherlands) and often is listed as Free Shipping.
I've bought once or twice from sellers there that don't use it and those packages still take 2 months to get here.
I mention this because it makes sense that Aliexpress has set up a similar system for the US given that it's a market which is almost as big as the EU.
This is probably why the EU itself recently changed the rules and VAT (the EU's version of Sales Tax) is payable on all purchases from outside the EU, no matter how small the value, but import tax remains only payable on purchases above €150.
They also set up a system so that non-EU retail sellers can collect VAT directly on payment - just like EU ones do - so for example a buyer from the EU buying stuff via AliExpress will have the VAT added to the price during checkout.
Well, personally I've started being very careful in making absolutely sure "The Jewish People" and "Zionism" are very clearly not treated as the same or even similar.
As for specifically the idea that Zionists who were victims of the Holocaust would behave otherwise, it has been my observation (and also History shows) that individuals who have been victimized or oppressed in their past aren't any better as persons than individuals who have not. In fact one of the ways in which Sociopaths are created is victimizing people when they are children.
Different people react very differently to being inflicted such suffering, and whilst for some that experience informs their Empathy towards others who might be made to suffer something similar (hence they do not want that to ever happen to others), others - such as people high on the Psychopath side of the spectrum and hence with little or no Empathy - might just add it to their toolset of things that can be done to other people to force them to do what they want.
One can't assume that being victimized or oppressed directly will make somebody a better person, much less when that happens indirectly (for example it happening to family members).
The point being that if one needs to at the end go back up to the face to make sure everything is perfect, one needs not worry about the possibility of that meaning one is rubbing one's face on ball-sweat.
These people are not The Jewish People (as a group), they're just ethno-Fascists (specifically Zionists) - a disgusting self-serving extremelly racist political ideology - who pass themselves as representatives of all Jews when there are plenty of Jews who say "not in my name" (and whom, curiously, these types will accuse of being anti-semitic).
You've been sold a Racist and Prejudiced view of people who happen to be Jews as being X, Y and Z because of their ethnicity and now you're trying to match that racist lie into a reality that contradicts that hyper-reductive view of human beings and it won't fit, it will never fit, because people are individuals, not members of some "ethnic" hive-mind - all such groups have naturally wonderfull people, naturally awfull people and a (generally large) majority of "go with the flow" people in the middle.
Please rethink that view of people as ethnics first and foremosts - just because somebody happens to have been born with some characteristics that mean they're part of a certain ethnic group doesn't make them inherently anything, good or bad: people are what they do, not the prejudices around some ethnicity they happen to be born into, and it just so happens that this new bunch of extremelly racist mass-murderers were born into an ethnicy were other, completelly different people, were targetted by the last bunch of extremelly racist mass-murderers due to their ethnicity - these sociopaths have no actual psychological, experiential or behavioural (outside some religious traditions) relation to the people who were made victims by the Nazis, they just happen to share a religion and in literally a handful of cases be direct descendents of victims two generations ago.
In their own words, "human animals", pretty similar to the "untermenschen" (sub-humans) that the previous incarnation of a NAZI ideology used to call those they saw as the lower races.
There is no limit to the horrors that ethno-Fascist ideologies (such as Nazism and Zionism) will inflict exactly because their core is Extreme Racism (while Traditional Fascism generally only goes as far as Ultra-Nationalism) which brainwashes its followers to treat targets as non-human.
The same psychological reason that had members of the SS casually murdering men, women and children of the "untermenschen" races is behind members of the IDF casually murdering men, women and children of the "human animal" races.
Did that guy ever work anywhere else?
The secret is to use the towel to dry one's nether regions after washing them, not before.
By the way, it applies to women as much as to men.
The 180€ Mini PC I have as torrenting server, NAS and TV Box (and it's overkill for just that) says otherwise.
$300 will buy you a lot of Desktop PC nowadays if all you want is to browse the web and read emails (in fact that approx. $200 mini-PC of mine is more than enough if you're running Linux on it as I do and if you add a simple monitor, keyboard and mouse you're about $40 shy of $300).
A $300 PC is only shit if you're trying to run things like AAA games on it or use Windows 11.
There used to be a point back in the day when you did need a good PC for things like document edition or watching videos, but now we're well past the point where you needed anything more than the most basic PC for everyday stuff.
Funny because I've worked on and off in Tech Startups since the 90s and what I've seen is the very opposite of your statement: post year 2000 Crash Tech has become more the Even Wilder Wild West Of Finance (i.e. no-rules hyperspeculative) and that has been reflected on how most of the Founders and Investors are people with backgrounds in areas heavy towards Sales practices (i.e. Finance, Marketing, actual Sales people and, more in general Grifters) and very few have backgrounds in actually making things.
The Techie with an Engineering background coming up with a new Technology or twist on Technology and making a successful company out of it that was common in Tech boom of the 90s has been replaced by money-men and those whose main skillset is to find and keep investors (so, those good in spinning a good tale, not making something that actually works).
If engineers have become more equity seeking, that's because of the truly insane amount of situations over the last decade or two of people working their asses of to make a company big expecting to win big via options they got and when the company does get big the founders and investors do some kind of financial swindling to make those options worthless and the more those founders and investors are grifters and similar, the more it happens.
People demand equity because the rules around it are a lot more tight than the rules around options which are a total joke and hence those who get options as motivation often end up with nothing when the company does make it big.
Grouse Mountain (in Vancouver)?!
Granted, I was there a decade or so ago, but you can just take a bus to the trailhead/cable car lower station and then take the cable car up there or just walk the trail up (not hard) and then take the cable car down.
Granted, it's mainly interesting for people who like Nature.
Also, take the boat to cross the river.
I've been a "digital packrat" for ages and in my experience storing things like video files in external hard-disks has been the superior option since around the time of Bluray and Xvid encoding (so, from around the mid 00s).
Further, whilst most of my collection from back in the days of recordable DVDs is stuck in them until I have the patience to transfer them (which would be many days worth of work), upgrading the harddisk storage over time as you need more storage is a breeze.
Also thanks to me using HDDs for media storage I've had easy access to my media collection from the comfort of my living room for almost 2 decades, since I put those disks on a homemade NAS (which for a while was an old Asus EEE PC with Linux) and had a TV Media Player on my living room connected to my TV and to the network so I could just use a remote to access the files via SMB and play them on the TV. (This was well before Android TV, and back then the Media Players were dedicated hardware solutions such as the ASUS O!Play)
I've been doing exactly this and for even longer than this guy.
Then again almost 3 decades in the Tech industry (which amongst other things means seeing several comes and goes of "providers") have long taught me to be suspicious of being dependent on 3r party providers, and even more so of having my stuff hostage to their wills (either hosted in their machines or wrapped in encrypted envelopes which I cannot remove).
There is no actual good consumer reason for a seller of digital goods to keep it in their systems or in your own storage but encrypted, without letting the buyer have free access to what they bought.
Back when those things started a lot of people went for the convenience of encrypted Apple music on their iPods, encrypted books on their Kindles and buying videos that they could only stream never get and, inevitably, they got screwed and here we are.
I, for one, didn't got screwed with that stuff.
Funny how you instantly presumed my opinion was from "They" (whomever "they" are).
Way to project how you see politics - in a Tribalist and Unthinking "Follow the Leader" way - onto others.
It's exactly through reasoning logically up from actual Principles that one concludes that the Democrat Party leadership are nothing more than unprincipled slick grifters representing whomever pays them better (which invariably are some very, very rich people), even when many of the common members of Democrat Party aren't at all like that but have either been swindled into going along with it (easy to do when people are tribalists and hence whatever their "leaders" tells them needs not be questioned with a keen skeptical eye) or just disempowered via anti-democratic mechanisms such as "super delegates".
America is as America is now thanks to all the useful idiots, and that's both the ones on the Republican and on the Democrat side.