ansiz

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[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago (23 children)

Even if Trump removes every tariff a recession is almost certainly coming. Short to longer term planning, hiring, building, etc will certainly slow down and that kind of things is widespread. People lose jobs, people don't get hired, people choose not to start a business or invest money in the USA, etc.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

To be fair the TSA is just a federal jobs program and the workers are at least better off than if they worked for a private company doing the same thing. But that probably last too long under Trump. Then the TSA will be shuttered, replaced with private companies and AI the workers turned into contractors with no health benefits.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most Americans, it's the same stuff fast food places use for fried chicken. KFC, Chick-fil-A, Popeyes are very popular here in the US!

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

Sorry to bust your bubble but that won't happen. Walmart is infamous for drowning people that sue them in litigation until they are bankrupt.

She's free to sue them for sue but that at best will get her a small payout that her legal bills will immediately consume. That's only if Walmart offered her a payout, I'd say in this political climate and in Florida they would just grind her down.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

At least in the US I'd say it's because the government pumps billions and billions in subsidies to the different farm sectors (70+ billion a year for beef alone). The products you mentioned don't get that funding and don't sell the volume either.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

It was great to go to college at a time when Napster and IRC rooms were in prime time, combined with a T1 fiber connection and University IT was too primitive to do anything to monitor or stop the behavior.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're noticing all the things that have happened since the Bureau have up trying to prevent the usage. Remember there was no way to electronically do anything like this for decades after the SSN was created. And the Bureau has no authority to enforce any kind of prevention, but was forced to support it's usage as a result of the Federal government lack of action to come up with any other system for the last 90 years.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

It's important to remember social security numbers were created ONLY to track Social Security benefits. And the Social Security Bureau continually advised everyone to please not use them for a way to teach other things, but no one listened so here we are. The Bureau readily admits it's not designed to do anything else . https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19697506/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Abstract%2Cas+a+nearly+universal+identifier.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

My experience with estates would be you'd need to file for an EIN for the estate and the loan would be a liability against the estate. So to close the estate out you'd need to clear out any liabilities and remaining capital or property given to beneficiaries. You might have heard of cases where people have to sell family homes to clear debt against the estate .

But with Musk is hard to even try to follow a train of thought. And his level of misunderstanding of how anything in the government works is pretty mind-blowingly wrong.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did read the article but saw several mentions of texting, I was under the impression Signal was just another texting app.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is there a source for this, I'm genuinely interested in reading more about this but can't find a source.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (5 children)

TIL that the US military texts around sensitive plans, reporter aside, SMS is not a secure protocol to do this.

 
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