At least they didn’t accidentally tax the billionaires. /s

It’s the color. This tape is popular for crafting and fashion, so they offer more specialized options for those customers.

One general online retailer I’ve found useful for good deals is Mercari. It’s more like eBay than Amazon I think.

Polite reminder that Prime is not free shipping — it’s prepaid shipping.

I’ve begun to think that the concept of the large general store is part of the problem. In the before times, we would shop around for individual items and discover new small businesses.

Now when I need something, I make my first search off of Amazon. I usually find a specialty shop that is more than happy to help. Sometimes a large retail store is the only place to find something. Sometimes I don’t find what I’m looking for and decide it was an impulse buy anyway. Sometimes I find a better option than what I was looking for.

I’ve found that individual items typically cost slightly more but overall I’m spending less; I’m skipping more frivolous purchases and averaging better quality choices that require fewer replacements.

I think one is a slip and the other is a strip.

Maybe me and five friends want to split a fruit by the foot.

A sixth of a foot?

Now do a sixth of a meter lol.

Base ten is not the flex you think

I’m permanently traumatized.

Best body horror story of all time I think.

Pulp Fiction

Am I doing this right?

Numbers are from Wikipedia.

It’s certainly likely that not all of these companies will need a bailout. AMD and NVIDIA sell products that are generally useful and established, but it’s hard to say how much of any of these company’s value is tied into AI hysteria or contracts that will fall through when AI customers go belly-up.

Yes, the bailout price is also not the same as valuation. I don’t think it’s outrageous to think that the coming recession will wipe out $20 trillion from the market, though.

To be fair, some US states do handle this better than others. Australia is about the population of California. So now just figure out how to coordinate that system with about 50 other Australias of various sizes and political leanings and you’ve got something.

"Lol, that’s why it says no soliciting. It’s not for my protection, but for yours. Like ‘beware of dog’. "

Let’s see, Anthropic is about a trillion, OpenAI is about a trillion, AMD is about a trillion, SpaceX and Meta are two trillion each, Amazon is 3, Microsoft is 4, Google is 4, Nvidia is almost 6… So something on the magnitude of a $20 trillion bailout?

The USA budget is only a quarter of that. The entire federal budget.

This is going to be fucked, isn’t it?

Short answer: The USA has no national ID.

Long answer: instead we have a patchwork of more than 50 different regional IDs (between states, territories, etc.), alongside a half-dozen ill-suited federal IDs, and numerous public and private institutional IDs (like university IDs or Costco cards).

For the most part, all of these cost money. Due to inconsistent systems and sometimes unclear requirements, the people who are most likely to be disenfranchised are also the most vulnerable. Most state IDs require proof of residence like a utility bill, which can be impossible if you are homeless or off-grid. If you are disabled, you may not qualify for a driver’s license (the most common state ID). If you are trans (or a married woman), you may have paperwork with conflicting legal names.

If you are reasonably well-off, on the other hand, you can afford to pay a private company to facilitate your passport application. The US passport is basically the gold standard of national ID, but fewer than half of Americans have one. It requires a certain amount of wealth to even need one, and the expense (money, time, etc) is not trivial.

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