Hadar Sayar (pronounced "hah dar say er")
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joined 2 years ago
The only things I am relatively certain of are that the Trump admin does not understand how the money printer works, and regardless of that they seem ideologically bent on dismantling any institution that doesn't directly benefit them. I think they would sooner try to bail out only themselves (and close/loyal allies), and leave everyone else SoL. Even if the largest banks can weather a bank run, that's still a lot of people that had their savings in smaller banks that suddenly can't pay for food or shelter. Admittedly, I don't understand enough about the Fed to understand what mechanisms, if any, they may have to prevent this.
I'm struggling to imagine a scenario where shutting down the FDIC doesn't lead to some form of rapid collapse, so obligatory nothing ever happens 
This is from December, but I only learned of it today. Trump's team has suggested eliminating the FDIC. This would most likely cause an immediate bank run, no? I know I'll be stuffing cash under the mattress the second I hear about the groyper gang making moves on the FDIC, especially with all the other Jenga pieces Trump is carelessly ripping out of the tower.
Geopolitical Economy Report - How Trump's tariffs will accelerate US decline. Probably nothing that will surprise most people here, but it's good to hear the analysis reaffirming it all, as well as providing more and deeper details I was unaware of. I won't attempt to summarize the entire video, but one of the main points is that Trump & co. do not understand the economic levers they're pulling on, and will ultimately only accelerate the US economy's downturn. They also share a view I've had and seen echoed here, that they expect certain industries to eventually push back on some of Trump's policies once it becomes clear how harmful they are.
Edit: This bit was especially relevant, I know a lot of us have been trying to gauge deeper meaning behind this admin's actions. Radhika Desai: "[in response to another panelist] I would say that you're, inadvertently I'm sure, being too complementary to Trump when you say that Trump is trying to manage US decline. I think, really, Trump is surfing US decline. He will make the most of it for himself and his corporate cronies and beyond that, I don't think Trump has the capacity to think of the United States as an economy, as a people, as a country, or anything like that"
oh my god our surfing emote is already ORANGE 
Geome Panda Knight. For men who like ladders. It has big bumpers, tow hitches, handles on the bonnet, wheel arch extensions, sidebars, cool wheels, roof rails, and that ladder.
This gendered marketing is really funny, but I cannot deny that I fucking love ladders and would buy this in a heartbeat. (Honestly, I'd take any of these models.)
Bring him back, show him Trump and his cabal of failsons lighting his lifetime of work on fire in a matter of days, send him back to hell, repeat. 
We're going to go from worrying about the price of food to just being worried about its availability.
This light bulb uses ESPHome.
You can also get IR transmitters that use ESPHome for cheap on aliexpress, but you'll probably need some kind of enclosure. There's zigbee transmitters as well, but I've yet to find one that plays nice with Home Assistant, unfortunately.
I'm rapidly becoming convinced of the "they're true believers in American exceptionalism propoganda, and all the competent managers of empire are long dead and gone" theory.
And I gusss that's not incompatible with the theory that "this is a mafioso-style shakedown of our states and vassals" or even Nixon madman 2.0, it just means that they're playing with forces they don't understand. Or, more accurately, forces they wildly misunderstand, even to their own detriment.
While TSMC plans to produce the front-end process of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips in Arizona, the company will ship the chips to Taiwan for packaging as its north Phoenix fab lacks capability for chip-wafer-on-substrate packaging, Reuters reported.
https://www.aztechcouncil.org/tsmc-may-make-ai-chips-for-nvidia-in-arizona/
It's not as prominently reported on, but there's sporadic, buried mentions in other articles mentioning a shortage of labor and increased costs in staffing even just this Arizona fab, which is the furthest ahead AFAIK.
The Blue Prince, I'm obsessed. I'm over 10 hours in and still not entirely sure what I'm even working towards, but I have like 3-4 meta puzzles I'm keeping track of in notes outside of the game.