Isn't that illegal in Texas and Florida?

This is some racist ass bullshit and the people modding it up should be ashamed of themselves.

If you want to condemn India for something, condemn them for copying the worst parts of American capitalism.

Tell me, how many Indians do you see here? I count zero. You might be able to claim one, if you discount the fact that Ms. Amuluru is a natural born US citizen, about as Indian as I am German, but whatever, even if you include her I doubt very much she was a decision maker when it came to the aggressive cost cutting -- err, I mean "optimization" -- that lead to this, this, or this.

I don't really think it's incumbent on me to prove to you that the perspectives of myself and others are valid.

That said, have you tried to find a non-astroturfed product review for literally anything these days? Have you not noticed how Google -- who used to have the philosophy of getting you off their page as quickly as possible -- has plastered search results with "panels", using data stolen, err, I mean "borrowed", from actual webpages, and frequently directing you to other Google products and services? The last bit is the straw that broke the anti-trust camel's back on both sides of the Atlantic.

That's just Search. If you've worked with G-Suite/Workspace, you're well aware of the anti-consumer changes they've made to that product over the years. If you've come to rely on any Google products as part of your personal or professional workflow, you've probably had the discomforting experience of having the rug pulled out from under you. Is it really a wonder how they managed to go from being hip, cool, and disruptive, to the focus of so much ire?

I weirdly prefer working with Microsoft, despite their countless flaws/problems, and that's saying a lot. If you had told me 10 years ago that I'd feel that way I would have laughed in your face and asked how high you were. Hell, I became an Apple user because of a multitude of negative experiences with Nexus phones, specifically, the complete lack of QA/QC Google maintained over that flagship product line. Dismiss this as an anecdote if you want, it's not, the Nexus 6P ended in a class action lawsuit, countless people had the same lousy experience I did. Android had me for nearly a decade. If you had told me at any point prior to October 2016 I'd end up an iPhone user, again, I'd have laughed in your face.

If the products still work for you, great, but don't discount the multitude of voices saying they're inferior to yesterday's products and deeply frustrating to use.

3) It will undoubtedly be used to push ads nobody except the MBA asshats asked for.

Just because people are useless they won't lie down and die quietly.

Twice so in a country that has more guns than people.

No it's not. You're not wrong about Instagram and other platforms but even the Gen Z'ers who think those platforms == the Internet still use Google. With the possible exception of Reddit (always a toxic place and now that it's public it seems highly probable they'll add 'enshittification' to the toxicity) what platform can you use to find recipes, instructions to repair a broken appliance, swap a part on your car, reviews on some product you're looking for, experiences people have had with credit cards, airlines, etc.?

Google is still highly relevant, for better or worse, and the erosion of their core product is so commonly known that it has been covered by the MSM. Google Search is objectively less useful than it ever has been. Google (err, Alphabet) as a company lost its way a long time ago, probably around the time "Don't be evil" was removed, and it has been run by the same MBA asshats that ruined everything for at least the last decade if not longer.

I'll sign it without hesitation. Non-competes are illegal in my jurisdiction, and illegal clauses in contracts are void.

Startups around here get hoovered up including the former owners as "consultants". Basically that means you get money for doing nothing, at least as long as you don't try to start a competitor because guess what "consultation" is no longer needed should you try that...

C'mon. Please. When has the free market ever tied the hands of corporations? If that ever happens (and yes, there is indeed that nonzero chance that we're heading into an employer market, at least in some fields), rest assured that the game will be rigged some more in your disadvantage.

The only reason that corporations were fine with government letting "the market" sort it out was that until now, they had you by the balls. Let's wait what's gonna happen should this change.

Here's the thing, though: I am needed. But unfortunately, I'm one of the few.

But that's besides the point. What matters is that the replacement rate of young people vs. old people is only at about 80%. And that's not gonna change in the near future. For every 5 people leaving the workforce, only 4 will join it. Save immigration, of course, but let's face it, you only need so many goat-herders...

And that's the point. It's not just the burger flippers and shelf stockers that retire. It's also the researchers and doctors, the finance gurus and the engineers. Yes, there has never been a shortage of unskilled idiots. And that shortage sure isn't in any danger of growing, considering that the bar to enter the workforce sure rises yet again with AI taking over more and more unskilled jobs. So I don't fear for the low level jobs that they may go unfilled.

What I fear is that high level, senior positions will be hard to fill. For two reasons: First, the aforementioned 80% replacement rate. But even with 100% replacement rate, if we replace our juniors with AI, where should they get the experience to become those hard to find and highly sought seniors?

How about this one?

Wait, Pisgah is on the 40, but the power still routes from there and up to the 15 via powerline roads through the Cady Mountains. I should've clarified that.

Oh, I should also add, this is also tied to the Eldorado Lugo Mojave Series Capacitor project, since they'll need that power to run that route on fully-electric trains. There's a shitton of construction that's going to be competing against each other for movement and right of way and all other kinds of fun stuff, oh and that project has several issues that need to be addressed, like seismic mitigation (I've read the plans for the 220kV Pisgah substation, and while thorough are about 30-40% underspecced IMHO knowing the general geology of the area) and the insane winds that can hit out there which can readily cause line snap. If you think this is going to be done in even 20 years you're likely to lose that bet. I can't wait for them to come across that insane faulting section near Pisgah. I bet that's going to make for a fun challenge, because it is actively expanding, and you can tell where it is if you look at the 15 while crossing through the lava field. You'll see a nice weird row of lava, and right where it hits the interstate, you'll see the road cracking open. I want to watch them deal with that one.

You don't consider it serious that you're essentially indentured servants of corporations and that they can easily circumvent due process and force you into settling on their terms?

O... kay...

Bro you're on a train built on flat land with no mountain or desert terrain to compete with.

Come over here to Cali and drive the planned route. You'll be betting that track record of success is going to go right down the tubes.

They claim 200+ MPH. There might be maybe one stretch where they'll achieve that speed. I was discussing this last night in my geologist group. Anyone that's done driving up and down the 15 knows that there are so many turns barely sharp enough and spaced far enough apart that you aren't ever going to maintain much over 80MPH consistently, especially if you're following the Interstate 100%. If you think you're going through the Cajon Pass at 200 MPH you're fucking suicidal.

I even mapped the route after the Cajon Pass for the geology group last night. As you can see, most spots you could theoretically get to about half that speed before you'd need to slow down for one curve or another. You're certainly slowing down big at Barstow for the 15/40 split, and big around Mountain Pass/Primm. Oh let's not forget some parts of the 15 are close enough together that you're gonna have to move them to make way for the train, especially since you're gonna have to cut away mountain in many spots as that's the only thing separating the two directions of traffic (at different heights, even.) At best, the average might get close enough to 100MPH. Cars can't even safely do much more than that on the 15. There are plenty of crosses littering the sides of the roadway (not as many as the road to Ft Irwin) from high speed accidents.

Oh, did anyone bother to do the environmental impact studies of needing to move some sections of the Interstate? There's one spot where you might need to encroach into protected rattlesnake habitat. I don't think that was thought about.