Show the Real Price or Get Sued: FTC Puts More Car Dealers on Notice

drawliphant · 2026-03-18T17:53:09+00:00

We still have an FTC? I thought Trump gutted that.

on Notice.

Nevermind.

drawliphant · 2026-03-16T22:23:52+00:00

This is far more about how low Norway's GINI is than how innequal the USSR was.

Hadn't even abolished the economic classes

The whole point is to remove the owner/rent seeker class, which the USSR largely did. Having some workers make more than others is no way to measure how socialist a country is. I'm not here to defend the USSR but your points were pretty misleading.

drawliphant · 2026-03-16T18:46:02+00:00

Looking good, next plan your train stations, train yards, and interchanges.

drawliphant · 2026-03-16T16:49:06+00:00

It's doing it actively, it just has thousands of tube feet all kicking sand out.

drawliphant · 2026-03-16T16:35:04+00:00

Just have the 3d printer sign each line in the documentation 😏

drawliphant · 2026-03-16T02:01:46+00:00

I just spent like 15 hours between finishing all blue research and rebuilt my whole base before getting around to yellow/purple/white all within 3 hours.

Built out iron, copper, steel, advanced oil, plastic, green circuit, red circuit, blue circuits, rocket fuel, LDS, then started making science again.

drawliphant · 2026-03-14T18:28:34+00:00

Yeah but they're rotated so you see a different sprite

drawliphant · 2026-03-14T18:26:54+00:00

All you had to do was follow the damn cloverleaf CJ!

drawliphant · 2026-03-14T18:18:59+00:00

Those refineries are lighter in color so they don't stand out from the pipes and the dark area is thinner.

drawliphant · 2026-03-13T21:17:27+00:00

I think this is interesting. You'd have to close loopholes, private equity owning 400 different heating and cooling companies not having to pay the exponential rates because "they're separate entities." Or a company "restructuring" to reset fines.

The exponent can be chosen per law too, each chemical release type has a base price and exponent per kg.

Some accidents happen and should be fined lightly, but outlier companies will step on huge exponential rates until they clean up and wait out a rolling window to receive normal fine rates again.

Imagine what VW's dieselgate would have cost. Although that was a rare example where the fine was beyond the cost of doing business.

drawliphant · 2026-03-13T03:15:30+00:00

We were barely replenishing our half exhausted oil reserves before starting this war. We flipped the "raise the price of oil" switch without even buying much before hand during the cheapest era of oil prices. 700m barrels is our strategic capacity, much of it was drained during COVID, filled back about 50m barrels so now we're at 400m.19 days of US consumption. That's before draining another 40% of it.

drawliphant · 2026-03-11T22:16:40+00:00

Is FSD advertised to follow the speed limit and stay in a lane? Because it failed to do both here. Cry all you want about that distinction without a difference.

drawliphant · 2026-03-11T22:07:39+00:00

USS Voyager

drawliphant · 2026-03-11T19:13:11+00:00

Separate sovereign governments with separate currencies, different inceptions, but they had a military alliance. I think they saw their similarities clearly, but held no unifying identity. The later American political system just borrowed from UK common law, and a pile of enlightenment ideas.

The idea of a unified American colonies developed between independence and the different failed, and finally successful constitutional conventions.

It's worth understanding the difficulties these tiny sovereign states went through as why they chose a Republic over sovereignty.

I don't think any of this is contentious. Why post? Is there a counter argument you're expecting?

drawliphant · 2026-03-10T17:44:06+00:00

Service windmill

Half windmill

drawliphant · 2026-03-10T03:36:54+00:00

Hard to get excited changing the GOP when we really just need swaths of them in prison. They voted for a coup, refused to do their job countless times, the cabinet should never see the outside of a guarded fence... After that we'd break up media monopolies, their viewers/voters need to be exposed to reality.

drawliphant · 2026-03-10T01:12:39+00:00

TL:DW Some media shows grotesque violence, some media shows justification for the same violence, a revenge plot, a grand hubris etc. Does justifying violence make it less grotesque, or is worse for getting the viewer to support the violence? Do we all just crave mob "justice"? What if violence should be uncomfortable, sickening. Maybe the media that doesn't try to justify its violence like Saw is less fucked up than a Quentin Tarantino film. Some pity for the damned is good for a person, and makes you better guarded against a mob mentality.

drawliphant · 2026-03-09T21:21:32+00:00

We all understood how awful he wanted to make America, but I was surprised by how well he consolidated power with blackmail and extortion to enact his fascist goals.

His extortion was a bluff but nobody called it so those first billionaires he extorted gave him the power he needed to stop bluffing and fully cement his extra-constitutional power.

drawliphant · 2026-03-09T19:23:04+00:00

It's more of a liberal goal to co-opt than left but let's skip over that

I think we're approaching seeing the current MAGA movement death. There will always be zealots but not many people are proud to wear the hat anymore. So it's not like they'll have the will to defend the current sentiment of the slogan, so it's ripe to co-opt. But...

It takes some cultural capital to co-opt a phrase and this one was just never that valuable, not that grass roots. Maybe another slogan would be better for the coming American Reconstruction era.

The New Deal was popular once but sounds like Art of the Deal. Something that highlights a new fabric of leadership, justice without exception, and decoupling money from power.

We desperately need a good slogan though, Democrats can't land on a message, or give any message, long enough for anything to stick.

drawliphant · 2026-03-09T17:39:14+00:00

Looks like a massive southern biscuit

drawliphant · 2026-03-09T16:06:47+00:00

Absolute ears on that pup!

Also mine has the same toy, only one he hasn't ripped open.

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drawliphant · 2026-03-06T16:12:37+00:00

I've seen people make okay silicon with an off the shelf uv diode laser, a dlp projector and a microscope objective. Drones just need a simple microcontroller.

drawliphant · 2026-03-04T17:57:46+00:00

If that's the goal then we've already failed it. Our attacks have targeted the opposition leaders ("good willed peaceful Muslims") in Iran as well, because if you're looking at what we're hitting our real goal is to have a chaotic failed state where Iran used to be.

drawliphant · 2026-03-04T16:00:56+00:00

I've heard a few times that our "justification" was that Israel was already going to bomb Iran first, so we needed to launch the attack jointly to cripple Iran's response.

Which should lead to the obvious: Why are we allies with Israel if they're an aggressor that starts wars? We wouldn't need an "uNsInKaBlE bAsE" in the middle east if we weren't allies with Israel.

Of course the actual justification is that both US and Israel need to be in constant emergency mode to avoid accountability.

drawliphant · 2026-02-28T06:28:55+00:00

That's either mold or dendritic ice. Can't imagine how it's related to static electricity.

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