Antinatalism may be a sensible theory, but it’s kind of like a government department asking itself if it should disband just because it’s not really necessary anymore.

Comes from all the nonsense I talk.

Look, I know I’m wrong. But I like it that way. Jog on.

Tampons weigh nothing

When you’re dealing with the tyranny of rocketry, every gram matters.

That said, I agree with your point. The mass and volume was well within acceptable mission parameters.

Knowing I’m using a VPN is not the same as knowing where I’m using it from.

The browser thing is bloody irritating, though.

I was just looking into this, too. Got on the topic of old “Sierra” point and click games, and the as brought up being similar in many ways.

Sir. I will not hear a word against LaForge.

Are there any Russian workplace comedy?

I think I’m dramatically overestimating normal people’s understanding of computers.

I know a VPN isn’t a cloaking device. I just want my ISP to not know what I’m looking up, and my website top not know where I am located.

Would you care to expand upon this point? I know that a VPN is not going to protect me from everything, but “almost nothing” seems harsh.

I would like to know more.

In this example, the child is living, and has needs.

Wish I could vote for him.

Well, that’s not gonna win him any votes.

As a pure act, I can’t see that it causes any harm.

However, it will very likely lead to frustration, anger, and poor treatment of the person in question. Those things are bad.

Do your iPhones usually take oil?

What do you think plastic is made from?

Packaging, no. But manufacturing it into something else, yes.

Do you think a tariff on copper would apply to an iPhone? Or a tariff on oil?

Congratulations on getting what you voted for.

That’s generally how tariffs work. A tariff on grain is not a tariff on bread. A tariff on steel is not a tariff on knives. A tariff on cotton is not a tariff on clothing.

It can be, of course. A tariff can be on steel and items made with steel. But that’s not usually the case, and it’s usually called out as such. Of course, Trump is not what you’d call the most precise communicator in the world, but all we can do is work with what he says.

Right, but this tariff, at least as I understand it, is on chips imported as chips, not on products that contain chips. An iPhone will, of course, be subject to some other damn fool tariff, but not this specific one.

Of course, my understanding of this specific tariff may be wrong.

What he means is, if I buy an iPhone built in China, this tariff won’t affect the price I pay.

But if I buy a phone built in America, with an imported processer, this tariff will make that phone more expensive.