noodles

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or too liberal. Definitely expect to see this used against white University professors who are vocal about the regime’s crimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need (and can’t afford) a suitcase full of gold unless you’re obscenely wealthy and can probably just charter a plane anyway. There are hundreds of accounts of e.g. Jews fleeing Nazi persecution (and Nazis fleeing the allies post-war) carrying wealth for bribes or starting over or what-have-you in the form of gold jewelry worn on the person or gold coins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the “don’t hold it don’t own it” advice does make sense for a small amount of portable gold if you’re considering a scenario like a fascist government taking over and needing to flee the country with any wealth you can, predicated on the assumption that other countries are still relatively stable.

  There are also a lot of silly people who hoard pounds of gold for apocalyptic currency which you’ve pegged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In fairness, if the US dollar collapses, say, but the euro is fine and you find a way to get to Europe, you’re much better off with a few chunks of gold that will be worth relatively what you bought them for than with wheelbarrows full of hundred dollar bills which are now worth less than paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Had a volt, I don’t even think they were selling them 3 years ago. I had a 2011 or 2012, one of the original models before the update, from from 2019-2022 or thereabouts. Had to replace the radiator, 12 volt battery, reset the traction battery, and replace the coolant system hoses. Again, huge PITA but got more than double the MPG of the 2001 sedan it replaced and held its value decently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All cars period are bad investments. That’s being said, I had a volt for about 3 years and I saved more in gas than I lost to depreciation and expensive maintenance. I bought it before there was an EV that could do my daily commute that wasn’t horrendously expensive; they were a good transition vehicle 10 years ago before batteries and charging speeds improved, though they’re definitely a huge PITA to maintain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Native Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most demographic information in the US (all?) is self-reported, and unless you were in the American southwest, Hispanic communities and influence on broader US culture is pretty recent, so I suspect not that many U.S.-derived Native Americans are mislabeled as Hispanic.

  Traditionally it actually went the other way: Native Americans, while second class citizens in a lot of respects, were more respected than black people or dark-skinned immigrants. So, for instance, there were tons and tons of light-skinned black folk passing as Native and marrying into white families in New England especially. It was a big topic in genetics when things like Ancestry DNA reports became more common and lots of people who’s great great great grandfather was Cherokee or whatever found out he was actually an escaped slave who passed as Native.

  That being said, most Latin American Hispanics are of at least partially indigenous descent, so in a broader sense most Hispanics are indeed indigenous, they’re just descended from Nahuatl/Mayan/Quechua/Mapuche or some other indigenous ethnic group, rather than one of the groups that is today considered ‘Native American’ in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: Teamsters President Sean O'Brien is a **Class Traitor & Republican Stooge** - (Details in post body)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Him speaking at the RNC was not in and of itself bad–i heard him justify it later and he made some good points, that there are a lot of exploited workers in the base who could stand to hear the benefits of unions from a union leader instead of just hearing Fox propaganda. But to look at the tax cuts, the benefit cuts, and the tariff outcomes and double down on Trump makes it abundantly clear where his loyalties lie–his own pockets, and maybe his own prejudices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework Laptop 16. Upgraded!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s amazing but I think you’re in the minority

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework is teasing a ‘big’ update for August 26th — could it be Framework 16?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve had one hardware glitch that support sent me a detailed video how to fix by resetting the mainboard within a few hours of writing them, fixed it within 10 minutes. Other than that any issues I’ve had are linux-funkiness, like odd sound profiles on the speakers that I could fix myself, and have been gradually taken care of through updates along the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These were so common and so much fun⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Taller, worse station wagons since the extra height dramatically increases fuel consumption and rates of severe injury in crashes, while also making rolls more likely.