I bet the assholes responsible for shutdown would solve the problem in an instant if they were to start losing money. But they are of course shielded from harm done to the rest of the population.
It should be a constitutional amendment that congress and the president get no pay during a shutdown (with no back pay) and pay a $1000 / day fine for each day that it remains closed. And shutdown for a month should trigger elections.
I feel like that would only harm a "poorer" president and give an advantage to rich presidents.
Had the same discussion about state reps in my state. Pay them less as a punishment means you just get folks doing the job who are a specific demographic. Others simply can't...
Pelosi ran her own cryptocurrency meme coin where transactions can't be tied to a specific person? Oh right, no, she publicly disclosed stock trades that literally everyone else in Congress is doing as well. How does running a meme coin, that anyone in the world can "invest" in while you're President, compare to an insider stock trade?
Nobody is saying Nancy Pelosi is as good at corruption as Donald Trump is, but she is just as corrupt. This is why The Democrats' attacks on Trump don't work. If you steal $100 you don't get to be outraged at the guy who steals $1 million.
> but she is just as corrupt. This is why The Democrats' attacks on Trump don't work. If you steal $100 you don't get to be outraged at the guy who steals $1 million.
Is this satire? If not, that's completely delusional and really a poor attempt at covering for Dear Leader. Adhering to the law and reporting stock trades is not the same as: running a cryptocurrency that can't be traced (Trump coin), running a mobile service provider while you control regulators (Trump mobile), pardoning a convicted fraudster for aiding/supporting your crypto schemes (Zhao pardon), saying you'll put a foreign leader in contact with your son for family business dealings (Indonesia and Eric Trump), and being gifted a $400M jet by Qatar.
But sure, let's pretend these people are just as corrupt as each other. Especially when Trump explicitly campaigned on "draining the swamp" or whatever and his minions are now trying to change the subject and go: "but Pelosi!!!"
The only reason you're even able to push this BS is because they're following the law and publicly disclosing these trades. Who is influencing Trump via his meme coin and various business dealings? We may never know.
You can make a "I'm bad, but he's worse" argument and be effective. But it's gotta be calm and rational. "I may take $100 from you here and there, but that guy, he'll take everything you got. Trust me, you don't want him" works. But if you act morally outraged, then you just come off as full of shit.
Right, ignore all the nuance and keep saying "but both sides!!"
The only people full of shit are the ones attempting to compare publicly reported stock trades to the litany of corrupt actions done under this administration.
She's not just as corrupt, but she is definitely corrupt. Those trades have to be disclosed, but she gets 45 days to do so, and it seems blindingly obvious that she's using insider info to front run the market. It's disgusting, and I say that as someone who loathes Trump and is unlikely to ever vote for another Republican again after the last decade. That doesn't mean Pelosi isn't corrupt, it means our system allows for corruption.
I never said she isn't corrupt but insider trading has been a talking point long before this unprecedented corruption we're seeing in the Whitehouse. These whataboutisms are pointless and disavowing the behavior literally does nothing unless the other side clearly disavows their leader (Trump) which they have yet to do.
I'll take Republicans/MAGAs seriously in their supposed effort to "drain the swamp" when he is held accountable.
Duh. What is so surprising here? Is there any serious machinery from any manufacturer that does not have said remote-access feature? For example Deere equipment looted by Russia was remotely disabled by Deere.
Non US as well. Life saving saving surgeries get denied, delayed and otherwise screwed all the time. Not sure where exactly it is worse since absolutely atrocious cases can be found in every G7 country never mind the rest
You can implement two-phase commit instead. It requires a bit of additional planning in terms of data management but I actually find it much more elegant and it scales better. DB transactions are expensive and unnecessarily complicated.
You can have a really simple two-phase commit system where you initially mark all records as 'pending' and then update them as 'settled' once all the necessary associated rows have been inserted into their respective tables. You can record a timestamp so that you know where to resume the settlement process from. I once had multiple processes doing settlement in parallel by hashing the ids to map to specific processes so it scales really well.
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