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Wow, that's pretty cheap compared to all the AI datacenters.
Note that it doesn't count the cost of second- or third- order effects (like the cost from the price of oil going up by 50%). Since February 28, crude oil prices increases cost $42 billion in the United States alone.
Does anyone have the number that would have been required to pay off all student loans that SCOTUS blocked?
I’d be okay with them forgiving student loans so long as they also pay me back for what I paid back. I think the best course is to allow students to default on their loans. With backed loans Unis know they’ll get their money one way or the other and keep ballooning their admin costs.
We can do both. We can help people already saddled with debt, and also do things to prevent future generations from being saddled with debt in the first place. People who managed to climb out of the hole (a demographic I am also part of) are the least in need of consideration.
The cost to operate the Federal government for one day is about $18 billion.
Meanwhile Trump also wants to increase the daily allocation of military spending by $1.3B per day, to go to useless and unproductive contractors such as his son, rather than truly effective defense spending.
Wow, that's pretty cheap compared to all the AI datacenters.
Note that it doesn't count the cost of second- or third- order effects (like the cost from the price of oil going up by 50%). Since February 28, crude oil prices increases cost $42 billion in the United States alone.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note that it doesn't count the cost of second- or third- order effects (like the cost from the price of oil going up by 50%). Since February 28, crude oil prices increases cost $42 billion in the United States alone.
to be fair US is net exporter now
I guess what matters is that the increase in revenue largely stays within the country, but that doesn’t help consumers directly.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are the second- and third order effects of the Marg Bar Amrika Society getting a nuclear device (and the missiles to deliver it)?
Probably comparable to North Korea getting a nuclear device and the missiles to deliver it.
I remember before the election I read a few people on HN say Trump is the most anti-war president they have ever seen and that all the talk about him letting Israel flatten Palestine was fearmongering. Wonder how they feel now.
Now I feel I was wrong and Trump is just averagely warmongering, as US presidents go.
* https://www.twz.com/air/here-is-what-trumps-gargantuan-1-5t-...
That's $500B more than last year's budget, and:
> > Trump’s budget proposal represents the largest yearly military spending plan in U.S. history, exceeding the previous record of $1.2 trillion during World War II, when adjusted for inflation. And records confirm the DNC’s characterization of the increase being the largest since WWII when inflation is factored in.
* https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/apr/20/democratic...