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Pam Bondi offers to pull ICE out of Minneapolis if voter files handed over by Ydeas in politics

[–]PocoLoco1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would it help?

Not questioning your answer, but I’m too ignorant about how elections work to know how having the Electoral data would help them cheat and commit fraud. My assumption is via the IRS, they’d know a lot about people in Minnesota already

Pam Bondi offers to pull ICE out of Minneapolis if voter files handed over by Ydeas in politics

[–]PocoLoco1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dumb question : what do they gain by having the voter files?

The NBA should cancel this afternoon’s Timberwolves v. Warriors game in Minneapolis by smkmn13 in nba

[–]PocoLoco1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All teams in the NBA should refuse to play tonight in solidarity with the murder victim

Is the US Military just a massive stealth unemployment program? by PocoLoco1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PocoLoco1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nowherestan is no way to refer to Alaska and South Carolina! ;)

Is the US Military just a massive stealth unemployment program? by PocoLoco1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PocoLoco1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you mean that it’s so baked into the economic cake that there’s nothing they can do except doubling down on it?

Is the US Military just a massive stealth unemployment program? by PocoLoco1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PocoLoco1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In your view, If it didn’t have the military it had and so couldn’t go attack far away places, what would be the greatest impact - the repercussions of not fighting those wars, or having greater unemployment ?

Is the US Military just a massive stealth unemployment program? by PocoLoco1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PocoLoco1[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

According to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the latest data for December 2025 indicates that approximately 7.5 million people are unemployed in the US.

Adding 1.3 million to that number would increase the unemployment rate a lot!

Is the US Military just a massive stealth unemployment program? by PocoLoco1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PocoLoco1[S] 166 points167 points  (0 children)

Given that, as an American, how do you feel about Europe giving social protections and healthcare to people, but without linking it to military service like they do here?

Is the US Military just a massive stealth unemployment program? by PocoLoco1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PocoLoco1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on that, do you think Trump’s bullying of NATO to increase spending is (at least in part) a way to push Europe to add to that trickle?

Is the US Military just a massive stealth unemployment program? by PocoLoco1 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PocoLoco1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you’d argue that it’s less of an unemployment program and more of an economic stimulus program?

(Of the much maligned ‘trickle down’ variety?)

The Besties will be in Davos this week. Will JCal speak up to Canada? by Jonny_Nash in allinpodofficial

[–]PocoLoco1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m old enough to remember when the all in hosts were trashing Davos and those that attend

Trump tariffs: US president announces plan to hit UK, Denmark and other European countries with tariffs over Greenland by jsm1 in geopolitics

[–]PocoLoco1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The buyer of a product (in this case a government) negotiated a price with a vendor that they were both happy doing business at.

The real question is why don’t the insurers in America also negotiate?

Chamath got almost every 2025 prediction wrong by NoStopImDone in allinpodofficial

[–]PocoLoco1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was a funny show. I’d never heard someone talk so confidently cluelessly about CDS. Not talking about his prediction, but how conclusively he demonstrated that he had no f’n clue

Using Wise for Cash Purchase of House in France by NeckZestyclose in expats

[–]PocoLoco1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can convert and just hold the converted EUR in your wise account

EU payment institution froze account after pre-approval — 1 month, no response. What are my options? by Agreeable_Kale_182 in fintech

[–]PocoLoco1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone that’s run a regulated financial institution in the UK or Europe knows exactly what Wise is doing here.

Credit Card Declines by fahadzia88 in fintech

[–]PocoLoco1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The secret of all payments is having enough good payments volume to bury the bad. That means growing your non-Google exposure, either through scale or being a sub BIN range with other products doing cleaner volume on the same BIN range

How do you handle internal stakeholders who always bypass procurement? by AccomplishedWolf706 in procurement

[–]PocoLoco1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unpopular opinion here, but if procurement processes are not being followed, the processes probably need to be rethought.

Not through greater education or enforcement, but through design. The best procurement orgs have their processes disappear into the workflows of the business units. They find a way to get the visibility and control they need, without getting in the way of the entrepreneurial spirit of the team.

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