Well sure, if you’re in a time crunch that makes sense. Additionally, you did attempt to shop elsewhere, but in your case it was such a specialized opening you only had one choice from all the retailers available to you. I imagine, had there been multiple to choose from, you would have examined the choices more closely, right?
Was that the only refrigerator store close to you, so even if there were other choices that fit manufactured you wouldn’t have been able to lay your hands on one?
Good. Now do the same blocking trump from using the military against Greenland, and fast!
I feel like the problem here is that you get people who are curious or like the other features the fridge has and just get what they can when theirs goes out. And while, sure, those people learn not to do that again,
Part of what makes us intelligent is learning from others. I guess I would expect buyers to do even the most basic research on a large dollar figure purchase which would likely expose them to the headlines about Samsung putting ads on fridges after the sale.
Do people actually just walk into an appliance store and just drop more than $1k on what they see on the floor without researching reliability, warranty, or other features from articles and news sources?
Jose “Joey” Martinez
…and…
Martinez said the agents told him he was flagged because someone with the same name is wanted for a crime.
“MARTINEZ ranks # 11 in terms of the most common surnames in America for 2000.” source
Jose is the #51 most common male first name in the USA in the last 100 years source
Using the force of law to burst into a room on a ship and dragging a person out of bed simply on a name match of one of the most common names is the height of both stupidity and malice.
This is the same Samsung that sold fridges with giant LCD screens on them, ostensibly to help the buyer, but then later turned that expensive screen into a billboard showing ads to the fridge buyer in their kitchen (source). Samsung has shown who they are. Anyone that buys an AI fridge from them will have no one to blame but themselves.
Trump recently said he wants the My Pillow guy as governor of Minnesota.
With trump’s accusations of cocaine in Venezula, I’m surprised MyPillow Mike isn’t advocating for a position of power there. Mike has first hand knowledge of cocaine:
When it all goes to fucking shit… then what? Line up on sides like a dodgeball team and States start rebelling like it’s 150 years ago? Isolated city-states locked out from Federal support and interference? Trump declares himself President for Life?
It likely depends on what the actual circumstances of the violence is and the various responses from other government agencies.
In other fascist government takeovers the key differentiator is the role/reaction of the military. Does the military support the fascist leader or does it oppose them? In 1922 Mussolini had full control and loyalty from the military while the government did not. Alternatively, while not in 2013 President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi, which had was facing protests by the populous for his actions was deposed by the military in what their opponents label a coup. In the 1930s in the USA, there was a fascist group called German American Bund. These were the American Nazi party you may have heard of of which famous pilot Charles Linbergh was a member of. There were supposed plans to execute a fascist takeover of the USA deposing FDR. The military stepped up protection of FDR, so we can infer that FDR had the support the military. German American Bund was investigated, many arrested, and it was dissolved.
So in your theoretical, which way does the US military go?
You’re right, its not in the Constitution as I had thought. Its a combination of Executive Orders from the Ford administration as well as an interpretation of the 1973 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons, of which the USA is a signatory.
“Rules for thee but not for me”
or more focused, the Wilhoit’s law:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
It’s a virus. Literally nothing a doctor can do.
I’m not saying everyone that has a cold should go to the doctor, but there are antiviral drugs, and two specifically that are made to combat influenza infections.
And most of his inner circle… are similar nutbags. Very little of what they do has any rational thought, it’s just pure egotistical posturing.
Its important to call these things out certainly not in defense of trump, but also not to defend Maduro. Maduro is a scumbag, but he’s still the leader of a nation and our Constitution specifically prevents the USA from casually kidnapping the leaders of other nations. All of the other justification trump and his cronies are trying to use is equally wrong in this. I want to let people know that there is no “broken clock right twice a day” situation here. trump is still wrong.
I was listening to Bloomberg radio today, which is very much business focused. They aren’t buying the trump administration’s story. In fact their reporting added a couple important points I hadn’t heard elsewhere:
Lastly, the reporters specifically brought up that this invasion to Venezuela is timed exactly when additional Epstein documents were supposed to be released and that the Venezuela story is consuming new cycles when it would have been Epstein news.
I was kind of shocked at the clarity of this level of reporting from a main stream source that is business focused.
This isn’t news. This is an opinion piece.
I have no problem with the author nor do I disagree with their position, but this isn’t a news piece.
“The odds of Madura [sic] getting tipped off by our own system approach 100%”
Did Palmer forget that less than a year ago our own Defense Department, using a non-approved commercial chat app, added in a reporter to receive realtime mission updates about airstrikes in Yemen?
This is from 2 years ago:
instead of diesel ships would be a green thing to do.
Counterintuitively, giant cargo ships switched exclusively to diesel instead of the bunker oil they typically use or also be a green thing to do.
A quick search showed that JP Morgan Chase make 42% of its 2025 profit from Consumer Banking. What I couldn’t find is how much of that Consumer Banking is “common people”.
And it reminds me of his fling with the “Metaverse” of previous years — another tech buzzword buried in the graveyard of overhype alongside things like NFTs and LaserDisc.
I was with you until you hated on LaserDisc. In the years before DVD existed it was the best quality home video available. Yes, it was expensive, but it did something people wanted with no other substitute apart from having your own cinema grade 35mm projector, sound system, and access to 35mm (or 70mm for that matter) print of a movie.
Leave the pay-as-you-go phone powered off too, and only power it up if you actually have to use it. If you have to use it once, you need to get a replacement for a future event.
I’m thinking perhaps something like Meshtastic transmitters and receivers should be used for coordination instead.