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Smoosh commented on The UK Tried to Clamp Down on Migration–and Wound Up with an Unprecedented Wave   wsj.com/world/uk/britain-... · Posted by u/impish9208
coldtea · 3 days ago
>Farage campaigned against non-white immigration, fuelling the Brexit movement which was predicted to increase non-white immigration.

Nobody in office wanted to enforce what Brexit was voted for. They wanted to pay lip service to respecting it, but continue business as usual, or even go worse into the same direction Brexit was voted to get away from.

It's not a Brexit problem (especially since major EU countries have the same issues). It's a "Brexit only in name" problem.

Smoosh · 3 days ago
So Brexit is like violence - if it isn’t working, it’s because you aren’t using enough?
Smoosh commented on Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why   stayathomemacro.substack.... · Posted by u/paulpauper
RickJWagner · 22 days ago
Krugman is great if you want confirmation of your left-side ideas.

But he’s terrible if you want criticisms of left-side ideas, or if you want to hear about right-side policies that are working well.

To me, that’s of very limited utility.

Smoosh · 22 days ago
Perhaps “Reality has a well-known liberal bias” ?
Smoosh commented on Yet another bad three months as Tesla reports its Q2 2025 results   arstechnica.com/cars/2025... · Posted by u/duxup
spacemadness · a month ago
Their latest move is calling it an AI company. Good luck everyone.
Smoosh · a month ago
AI and robots.

But so far, all the robot demonstrations have been faked and the AI was spun off as a separate private Musk company.

Smoosh commented on Liquid Glass Design or Kitsch?   ia.net/topics/liquid-glas... · Posted by u/samsolomon
Smoosh · a month ago
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs
Smoosh commented on Marathon fusion claims to invent alchemy, making 5000 kgs gold per gigawatt   marathonfusion.com/... · Posted by u/apugoneappu
modeless · a month ago
You guys have a lot more faith than I do in people's ability to have rational beliefs about nuclear waste.
Smoosh · a month ago
I agree with you, but people can also be very irrational about the value of gold.
Smoosh commented on Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google   abc.net.au/news/2025-07-1... · Posted by u/ahonhn
heavyset_go · 2 months ago
This is just a step towards killing anonymity and free speech online, as well as a hand out to shady government contractors.

We are going to have to give our IDs and biometrics to untrusted 3rd parties just because some people don't like the idea of other people's kids using the internet.

If these sites are so bad, maybe laws should instead target that problem. For example, make it illegal for social media companies to make their products addictive.

Instead, we get insanely invasive half-measures that impede on security, privacy and speech, with the added bonus of politicians whipping people up into moral panics in order to pass them.

Smoosh · 2 months ago
> If these sites are so bad, maybe laws should instead target that problem.

We apparently live in a world where companies are legally considered to be people, and thus have rights, yet they have no moral obligations whatsoever.

Smoosh commented on Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google   abc.net.au/news/2025-07-1... · Posted by u/ahonhn
spacephysics · 2 months ago
Jokingly, it’s not surprising given many of their short-term ancestors were prison guards or criminals.

Looks like the ruling gov still sees their citizens as such

Smoosh · 2 months ago
“England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1776, when transportation to America was temporarily suspended…”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation?wprov=sft...

Smoosh commented on Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin   techcrunch.com/2025/06/22... · Posted by u/codexy
CamperBob2 · 2 months ago
Next up from Musk: "Cameras are unreliable, and radar is woke. The Force is all you need."
Smoosh · 2 months ago
“acoustic environment sensing”
Smoosh commented on Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success   economist.com/united-stat... · Posted by u/edward
SoftTalker · 2 months ago
And more emissions. Idling is pretty efficent, as is driving at a constant speed. Repeatedly stopping or slowing, then accelerating is not. This is also an unintended consequence of "traffic calming" devices e.g. speed bumps or chicanes. People slow down, then hit the gas again which is awful for emissions.
Smoosh · 2 months ago
I’ve sometimes pondered if a traffic calming device could be made which would allow vehicles to pass unimpeded if they are at or below the speed limit, but subject to an increasingly large bump if they exceed it. The problem, I suppose is that it must be extremely robust which would make it expensive and potentially more complex than a simple passive bump on the road.
Smoosh commented on Brad Lander detained by masked federal agents inside immigration court   thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/br... · Posted by u/sjsdaiuasgdia
mlsu · 2 months ago
It's fantastic that right libertarians have the opportunity to own me, a lib. The silver lining to all of this is all of the epic lib-owning that can be done as a result of the destruction of the rule of law. But, by my reading, traffic court and HOA fees were not cause of all of this. Right libertarians rightfully complained in 2001 when the DHS was formed; they again rightfully complained in the 2010's when Snowden blew the lid open on global surveillance. I would like to see them resist in a meaningful way here and now. Unfortunately it seems they are busy going to cryptocurrency conferences at Mar-a-Lago.

> I would be absolutely elated if the end result of all this crap is a judicial president that eviscerates the many parallel systems that the feds/state/local governments run in all sorts of specialty areas of law.

I think we saw what giving power to the "right guy" in the executive branch lead us. The thing that will stop us going down this road is, at this point, active resistance from local and state governments, private businesses and government contractors, and large multi-national corporations.

You need a lot of ICE, an absolutely staggering number of cops and jails, to deport twenty million people. It should be crystal clear by now that they will attempt to follow through with this promise, by whatever means necessary.

Smoosh · 2 months ago
What people don’t seem to ask is, what will all of those enforcement officers do once they have deported a sufficient number of people such that the task becomes more difficult?

u/Smoosh

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