phdepressed

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[–] phdepressed -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Pens are dust-free, pencils are not. Dust-free pencils are special and expensive because it's a lot of chemistry and testing to ensure that. How do you cleanly sharpen a pencil for example? Special pens are special but cheap because the components to make them are still relatively simple, the ink is still standard. More expensive than standard pens by a fair bit but a lot cheaper and more practical than the pencils.

[–] phdepressed 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Have you seen his doctor, worse crazy eyes than Kash.

[–] phdepressed -1 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

Pens are dust-free as is, the problem with a regular ballpoint or felt tip pen is that both inking mechanisms rely on gravity. When you're in 0g the ballpoint won't work at all and the felt will stop working after a point when there's no gravity to pull more ink to the tip.

You could probably spin a felt until it rewets but you'd be liable to make a mess as well.

[–] phdepressed 1 points 15 hours ago

Yes, but cutting a "big block" for instance social security doesn't give any real sense of what it does economically.

The average person seems to lack the ability to follow a cut to the social security block reducing payments and/or increasing retirement age much less the other downstream effects when millions of old people are suddenly spending less because they no longer have as much cash month to month. Once it occurs to someone they know, then they see it, once it happens to them then they care.

[–] phdepressed 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Shit dad to be worth 300mill and won't just buy his son a house. Like the whole point of wealth is to keep life easy for you and yours.

[–] phdepressed 6 points 1 day ago

I mean the whole point of a notification is to well, notify. Vibration alone isn't always adequate. Unless it's going off repeatedly I don't see the issue. Some sounds are normal in public.

Personally my phone is always on vibrate except for calls from certain people.

[–] phdepressed 26 points 1 day ago

These regulations are written in the blood of our ancestors. The burdening (yearly for everything come sept 2026) and thus repeal of most regulations will spill our blood and our children's blood.

This is illegal and unconstitutional and Republicans are just rolling over and expecting us to roll over too.

[–] phdepressed 11 points 1 day ago

Tbf the bond market getting rocked was in large part due to Canada, Europe, and Japan doing coordinated but relatively minor sales of the bonds they hold as part of the tariff response. Carney probably understands global finances more than any other world leader for getting that done the way he did.

[–] phdepressed 10 points 1 day ago

They're assholes in the US as well.

[–] phdepressed 8 points 1 day ago

If it was politicians or celebrities we'd probably already know. These would be millionaires rather than billionaires and a lot of people can manage that.

[–] phdepressed 6 points 1 day ago

Probably one about securing cargo/passengers so they can't fuck with the controls.

[–] phdepressed 14 points 1 day ago

Where's that "have the day you voted for" meme? It's the only worthwhile response to these folks nowadays.

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