SoleInvictus

Because they're too stupid to follow along and understand everyday politics, so this level of insanity seems like 3D chess to them.

I bet they loved Iron Sky.

From your source, the last sentence is

The U.S. goods trade deficit with China was $295.4 billion in 2024, a 5.8 percent increase ($16.3 billion) over 2023.

Doesn't that confirm their assertion of a $200B+ trade deficit or am I confused? I'm not particularly economics savvy.

Edit: derp, I reversed the meaning of their comment, they thought the US has the deficit. They got it backwards!

That's just a fantasy.

This is a great idea!

Fixed link for anyone interested:

Democrats' 'comeback retreat' suggests party to 'embrace patriotism' to win back working-class voters

Why would you do that to this poor man? No one deserves to be saddled with Elon.

I'm sorry, but that's just word salad - it doesn't actually make sense. Even if it did, it would still be easily accounted for with control tissue.

I'm a microbiologist but my grad school work, research, and coursework was very chemistry heavy. There are no "probably does somethings" of significance here: the chemistry of plastic generation is extremely well researched.

Plastic is made of polymerized hydrocarbons, linked up identical tiny units of carbon strands called monomers. Polymerization, the linkage of the monomers into a polymer, requires the use of a catalyst. This is often done with increased heat and pressure to increase the speed of polymerization. Maximum temperatures are around 350°C for certain plastics but are more commonly 140-160°C as higher temperatures can cause the material to break down. Once the desired size of linkage is created, the polymer is capped to keep it from growing further.

Polymerized hydrocarbons degrade, not further polymerize somehow, at high temperatures like 600° C. Saying there's some mysterious, high-heat-driven polymerization is like saying burning wood, which is largely a polymer of glucose called cellulose, somehow creates more cellulose as it burns. The burning is due to the release of the energy contained in the bonds in the wood as they break down and react with oxygen.

Even if the process DID somehow create some plastic, a given mass of brain tissue would be expected to create predictable amounts of this mystery polymer, giving a background measurement that can be subtracted. Again, though, we know how this all works so it's not really a concern.

I'm assuming they're looking to buy after this condo sale. If that's the case, they may not have much choice as their next place will be similarly insanely inflated, so they need that money to get the monthly payment to something affordable.

That's the position my partner and I are in. We have equity in our house, but it's mostly because it has "appreciated" to a level that we could never afford, despite making a combined over quarter million dollars a year (due to living in a high cost of living area). Even if we sold our house at full inflated market price and used it all as a down payment, we'd be hard pressed to afford a place with the same price.

It's not that I'm complaining about the equity, it just doesn't get me much when everything else is insanely inflated. We barely squeaked into the place we're in because COVID tanked interest rates and prices in our area.

I'm learning more by the day that .world's issue with tankies is driven less by any of their actually problematic behavior than by this growing pseudo-mythos where users seem to treat them as a sort of online bogeyman. More often that not, I've seen "the tankies sure are going to hate this!" where no actual tankies ever appear. It's just lazy engagement, plus "tankies" becoming Lemmy-speak for "leftist who I disagree with (or challenges my preconceptions in a way that makes me uncomfortable)".

Checking out the comment thread, as of the time of this writing, I see one "but US bad too!" moron, a few .ml users with fairly reasoned responses (regardless of if I agree or not), and a few geniuses, including the OP there, looking to start shit and acting surprised when they're called out on it.

Fuck, my neighbor says the same every time Trump says something awful. "Trump just talks a lot of shit, he's just joking."

Fuck you neighbor, you approved leadership from the guy who encouraged putting kids in cages.