Even if it’s made in the US, many of the raw materials aren’t, so the tariffs don’t even help US businesses.

We can play what-if all day long, but that doesn’t make it true.

The government launching a propaganda campaign to keep undesirables out of the country sounds pretty fascist to me.

The fact that the government is doing it makes it more than garden variety racism.

I can’t tell for sure if this is a supporting comment, or if it’s sarcastically pointing out that Trump was elected.

On the off chance that it is sarcasm, what I meant was that the people have no democratic process to remove elected officials from power.

I’m taking things a step further and building a HAL9000 system for my house. This time with 15% less mental illness.

There’s that pesky reading comprehension again.

No one but the TLC was supporting corporate ownership of residential property.

What the actual fuck are you talking about?

My doorbell camera has an SD card in it.

And it’s pretty trivial to hack a consumer wifi device. The government absolutely has that ability.

Exactly. My most recent automation is to turn on the bathroom vent fan when the humidity is 10% above the thermostat humidity, which does happen during the day (room doesn’t have good airflow)

Tons of my house is automated, and everything I have can still be used without an Internet connection.

Like I said, none of my smart devices have an Internet connection unless I explicitly allow them to have one, and Homeassistant is hosted on my own hardware.

It’s ridiculous that a camera won’t record video without an Internet connection.

Pfft, most of my home is smart, but because I’m actually an IT professional none of my smart devices are allowed to call home unless I explicitly allow them to (for firmware updates). The only thing they’re allowed to talk to is my homeassistant server.

Americans don’t have a democratic process to do anything about it.

Correct. I’m telling you that individuals owning a single home aren’t part of the problem.

The billionaire fortunes pale in comparison to the trillions of dollars of unearned appreciation owned by regular home owners.

Yes they did.

The thing is the guy on the left didn’t have a good cut either.

Yeah, rates doesn’t mean a whole lot for artists.

Yeah, I just clipper cut mine once a week, although I mostly do that because my hair is thinning.

What do regular home owners have to do with it? Most regular home owners only own one home.

One big problem is the parents could very well be the ones who gave them the STD.