It’s only bizarre until you realize this isn’t a failure of the system. This is a success for the people getting the payout. They have lobbied and deeply infiltrated the government. The US government doesn’t serve the citizenry anymore. It serves the rich and powerful. The rest of us are just useful as consumers to funnel money to the corporations.
Don’t worry, I’m sure there will be a huge government bailout that the people have no say in. Remember 2008? I don’t remember voting to give away piles of money to the bankers.
You know what Iceland did when there was suspicious investing and they had bank failures? They put the bankers in jail! What did we do? We gave them a bonus!
God bless America, because we’ll need it!
What if I were to tell you the security risk was inside the OS all this time?
What’s your point? People that don’t like Biden don’t like Kamala either? I agree.
Kamala is so out of touch it’s outrageous. If you take things at face value and Kamala says “I wouldn’t do anything different from Biden” and you have Trump saying “Biden destroyed the USA” it seems to reason that voting for Kamala means you want more fails.
Of course, things are usually more nuanced than this, but do you think the average American voter is extremely savvy? If anything, the future of the country is determined by quips and sound bites.
Here’s a clue: if you need to hire “influence experts” to figure out how to “outreach” to younger voters, you’re out of touch. For several categories of voter, it seems that they are valued for what they pick in the voting booth instead of any kind of actual consideration.
Trump’s rhetoric and puffery makes some people believe he has their back. Kamala’s pitch seems to boil down to “I’m not that other guy”, which historically doesn’t get you very far.
It was frustrating to watch the election more or less be handed to Donald Trump, because the only segment of society the Democrats seemed to appeal to was the large corporations that hand over large amounts of donation money. The plight of the average citizen was nowhere near the top list of concerns.
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It should be also pointed out that he’s totally innocent of elder abuse, due to the age of the victims. Why are people refusing to see the bright side of this? There are scores of crimes he’s innocent of!
As your everyday, typical guy, I want nothing more than agentic synergy in my converged Windows Experience. I’m glad Microsoft is finally listening to what regular people want!
He really had the nerve to have a sticker that says “self control” on that vehicle???
I didn’t think Donald would fit in a bikini. Well, if he’s got the photos, who am I to disagree?
Ah, but all those states aren’t TRUE capitalist states. That’s why we can’t point to a successful example.
I think it’s pretty clear the “Rust experiment” has failed. You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to know how this plays out. The writing is on the wall: Rust faces a bleak future.
It’s time developers got serious and rewrote sudo-rs in a serious, tried-and-true systems language, potentially C or C++. Only then can system administrators sleep soundly at night, feeling safe from the type of bugs introducing Rust to a mature ecosystem can cause.
The Democrats don’t do shit except send me weekly texts from ActBlue begging for money. That’s the only time I hear from them or there is some outreach. I’ll never send a cent ever again. The state of our country is partially their fault for not even maintaining a functional party with candidates that don’t require holding your nose.
Don’t worry guys, even though Donald Trump promised to get consumer costs under control on DAY ONE he still has huge throngs of apologists saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day!” “You think you can fix this much stuff Biden broke so quickly?” “Actually, things ARE fixed already!”
For a con-man to flourish, he requires a steady stream of gullible people. Our country has a surplus and more are being manufactured every day. You might say ignorance is our #1 export.
“It’s worth the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths […] so that we can have the Second Amendment” - Charlie Kirk, 2023
Ah, but the cost of the miner with black lung is increasingly handled by that individual or their family.
If you are a coal miner and you think that a man that lives in a gilded apartment can relate to you and has your best interests at heart you are going to be sadly disappointed.
Easy, when foreign workers take the money, it leaves the USA. When it’s an American AI company getting that money instead of an American worker, the money stays in the country.
Plus, the administration hates foreigners and loves technology. Seems consistent, at least.
Sounds like COMMUNISM to me!
As an American, I’ll gladly support the world’s greatest economy by paying a few thousand to get checked out. Know why all these European countries are so poor? Because their health insurance and private health care companies barely make anything.
Do your part! Contribute to the economy!
God bless America!
There’s at least two possible outcomes when someone(s) receives aid:
Same problem with food stamps, etc. some people use it as a hand-out, some people use it as a hand-up. You can’t really help one group without helping the other, unfortunately.
They will have you believe the only two options are: a) Keep the DoE exactly as it is b) Shred the whole org
It’s a false dilemma. It could be overhauled instead of eliminated. The citizenry of the US has grown so foolish that some people will actually defend this as a great move!
I don’t find it as interesting that the DoE is being dismantled. I am more interested in what will replace it. In this case, I think it’ll be a bunch of hand-waving, like “states will step in”. Sure, but what about the grant monies the DoE used to provide? I guess that’ll just appear out of nowhere?