The MAGAts are a bunch of weak willed, emotional snowflakes.
So connect 4, but he can’t count that high…
Imagine playing Connect 4, or any game for that matter, against him; halfway through the game he’d yell “STOP THE STEAL!!!”
Stop counting your points! Keep counting mine!
Connect 4 is still played in two dimensions tho…
That’s what THEY want you to think! Wake up sheeple!!!
I’m really starting to question the world and that dude from reddit was probably ahead of his time.
2 normal dimensions and one very very small one?
I hope gas goes up $10 a gallon. You oil dependent suckers.
Get a bike
Except then you’ll end up paying more for everything else too.
Good
A lot less good for my disabled ass but go off I guess.
I wish it were that simple. Unfortunately we still get screwed even if we don’t drive, how else would food and supplies get delivered to shops? It’s all dependent on fossil fuels… Everything is going to be more expensive. I guess this is what Trump supporters think “owning the libs” is.
That assumes the market just sits still when oil prices rise. It doesn’t.
Yes, higher fuel prices can raise shipping costs in the short term. But they also create strong incentives to shift to cheaper alternatives. When oil becomes expensive, companies move freight to rail, electrify delivery fleets, source goods more locally, and invest in more efficient logistics. Higher oil prices don’t just make everything permanently expensive. They change the market.
Price pressure pushes businesses toward transportation methods that use less or no fossil fuel, which becomes more competitive over time.
Markets adapt. That’s how price signals work.
Topped off the tanks yesterday. Since I mostly bike each tank lasts a month or more depending on how many times I have to shuttle kids.
I’d love for gas to go to $10 a gallon. I5 would be a ghost town. No traffic, save the environment (kind of). Oh yeah!
I just walk mostly
It kinda is / getting closer in Europe, people still drive a lot though… And my city has decent public transport.
It has that decent transportation be wise of that pricey gas
I want $15. Let’s price everyone out of commuting.
I wonder if this is the final nail that will decouple the world economy from the dollar.
But then, I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time. Trump is clearly playing 5D connect-4.
Wish the bastard was playing hangman.
“Its a 7 letter word, E_stein. Just need one more letter, any guesses?”
“China!”
Lol stupid.
I’d like to solve: BIDEN
No, seven letters. It’s “Brandon”
“Djy-nah!”
“It’s a three letter word synonynous with father. What’s your first guess?”
My first guess: Z
If anything Trump was trying to prevent the change away from the petrodollar standard. That “currency” allows the US to run up debts because nobody wants the dollar to collapse and wreck everything traded in USD.
I don’t know about the quality of this site, so be skeptical: https://factually.co/fact-checks/foreign-policy/was-iran-threatening-to-abandon-petrodollar-275c36
Iran has been out of the petrodollar system since the maximalist sanctions the US imposed in 1995. Sanctioned countries don’t have a use for dollars.
Trump has singlehandedly destroyed the Untied States place in the world
Eh, he’s pushed around and bribed to make certain decisions. He’s the right man for the job of accelerating the decline of the empire and the beginning of the multi-nodal world, whether he and his followers know it or not, simply because he truly has no spine, no morals, no ideology, he just cares about his money.
Silver linings, I guess?
You were not born when the decoupling began. You will not live to see it end.
I suppose the plan was to decouple the world from the dollar all the time.
I mean, depends on who you ask. But there’s definitely been a deliberately effort from within the Silicon Valley wing of the economy to force people into using Cryptocurrency as a legally-compulsory dollar alternative.
You were not born when the decoupling began.
As recently as the 1970s, the world was getting unambiguously more coupled. As recently as the 1990s, it was ambiguously so.
And decoupling only started to really happen last year. Before that it was going in a glacial pace.
And decoupling only started to really happen last year.
We began decoupling when we took a militant policy against immigration. You can take that back to Clinton in the 90s or all the way back to Eisenhower in the 50s. But we’ve been adopting strains of isolationism straight back to the final days of WW2.
You could describe the Cold War as an enormous globalized decoupling event, which we tentatively recoiled from a few times before collapsing back into it.
it depends where you look. there’s been intentional economic globalism in areas. regionalism? we applauded nixon for making inroads with china.
an interconnected global economy is the soundest defensive military policy i can think of. what government is going to be fool enough to blow up iran’s economy when iran’s economy is their economy too? (yes krasnov is fool enough it was a stupid question but you get it right?)
we applauded nixon for making inroads with china.
YMMV. The John Birchers hated that shit.
yeah they are a bunch of shitasses
So glad I got those solar panels, and an ev when Sleepy Joe was in charge. And I’m in a town small enough for most of my errands to be by bicycle. People are already having an affordability crisis, so this will hit them in the pocket, and they’ll blame trumpy, who quite obviously is the sleepy one. Every tiny lever against the current administration, every one, counts, and we should keep pulling those levers.
Really regretting putting off that panel installation.
You can DIY relativlty inexpensivly, at least until it gets to the electrical interconnect.
Im eyeballing a home battery pack from ecoflow:
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/ecoflow-delta-pro-ultra-smart-home-panel-2-review/
The newish one, newer than that article, can take 6k of input panels with it built in solar. If you go with that smart panel, it seamlessly integrates with your house. 15k for the battery + panel + install, 2-3k for the panels if you DIY the install, which will just be climbing on the roofs, drilling racks, and running an electrical cable to the battery pack.
It likely wont power your whole house, but 6k is a good start. You can also double up on the controller and install 12k of panels if you want, so on and so forth.
My brother dragged his heels, too. Our Mom passed, and that’s how there was enough money to take that step. She wanted us to do it, heck it’s something I’ve wanted since early childhood. So it goes.
laughing from my desk job at a Fortune 500 O&G company
I kind of forgot about this angle. That rich libs in the middle classes are affected less than the lower classes that were duped. It’s all really shitty honestly.
That’s an ambitious perspective for a stick figure artist. I respect the effort.
3D Chutes and Ladders: Oops All Chutes edition.
Wait. So the president do control gas prices? It’s so much different this time!
Silly question for the lemmy brain trust: what happens when most people are priced out of commuting?
Seems like that would inadvertently bring about a general strike.
Unlikely. Lemmy is, like, 50% doomers who think everything in their lives is hanging by a thread at any moment and that everyone else is the same.
The reality is that even the doomers have far more slack in their lives and options for alternatives than they realize. People will tighten their belts, bike or take transit, carpool, start private transit businesses, move closer to work, get jobs closer to home, move in with family/roommates, etc.
Oh please. Don’t you see they always keep you squeezed just enough so the hopeless balance of inaction is protected?
We need “Thanks sleepy Don” stickers on every gas pump stat!
Its on. I have one hundred A4 sticker sheets. To the gas pumps.
You can order the premade ones on aliexpress by the hundreds really cheap even with the illegal tariffs.
I already have the sticker sheets and access to a color laser.
3D version of 52 pickup is more like it.
So throwing the cards down a set of stairs, or maybe into some dense bushes.
It’s really just regular 52 pickup except that people are tricked into it by insane promises of it being “the best card game in history, maybe ever.”
The cost of filling 52 pick-ups would be astronomical!
I need this meme format. I am willing to invest $.
My b, here ya go.
Aw.
Here the price always starts lower on monday and then rises to the highest price on the weekend and then repeats. Not surprised by anything tbh
1D Ludo be like: .
AI slop
The background photo is from 2020 december 5th according to some image matches from 2023 and 2021.
