I’m referring to adverse diplomatic action. Invasion comes with its own set of financial consequences in the form of tariffs from NATO countries.

You’re right. The source I used was from 2022, and we imported nearly a third of that in 2024.

Regardless, we need them more than Trump will admit.

We can’t afford it. Your nation provides 90% of the electricity we consume and 60% of the crude oil we refine. We need your partnership more than he’ll ever admit, especially now that our grid is regionally strained by AI and EV adoption.

People would eventually begin to realize the futility of possessions and start to live truly free lives.

I switched off of the family HSA plan after two years of paying out of pocket at the end of the term. It depends on the customer.

Regardless, the interest rates are abysmal.

You don’t get it. It’s a health savings account.

They charitably contribute a whopping 0.05% APY to an account that drains to zero every year.

The ones serving up the ads aren’t even the ones listening. They’re buying collated data from many different sources, then their algorithm matches your interests with one of the products they’re contracted to sell. Next thing you know you’re looking at a Rolex ad because you zoomed in on someone’s watch on their Instagram post.

They failed to mention the new CEO.

It’s Connor Gaydos, the “birds aren’t real” guy.

That was partially because older PCs had rectangular pixels vs a Mac’s square pixels. Square pixels translated better to other mediums.

Edit: I just realized that was more like 25 years ago. God I’m old.

Credit cards should be used exclusively for discounts and to build your credit. Only use them if you have the resources to pay the balance in full every month so you’ll never pay interest.

This question… 8 Hz my brain.

Precisely.

Oh shit! You’re right! I never read about that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/those-old-e-t-atari-games-dug-desert-sold-108-n418971

I think I’ll go with Socrates. The unexamined Christmas is not worth celebrating.

You got classic video games buried in dirt and forgot about Atari? There are more copies of ET in the ground than anything else. Lol

The US objectively has the largest GDP in the world. That has nothing to do with economic health or equality. If the majority of US citizens thought their household economy was the greatest, Trump would never have won.

China has been steadily gaining on the US GDP since 2010, after the US peaked prematurely relative to the leading nations of the past. Economists expect China to overtake the US, just as the US overtook the UK in the 1880s.

The US has already peaked. Its economy will continue to fall into the middle of the pack while China gets its time on top.

Back when we were kids he went by Skinny Jimmy.

Google owns Nest. Personally, I don’t use Google products due to their incredibly invasive ToS.

https://tosdr.org/en/service/217

That’s up there with the overlay of the “creator” pointing at the spoiler text, needlessly obscuring the actual content.

Absolutely. There are many reasons, but attacks on journalists/whistleblowers and the malicious potential of collated data in a capitalist oligarchy are the first two that come to mind.