We have a language cop. Everybody watch your referents - it isn't enough that you demonstrate your compliance with their ideology, they are relentless.

No, I mean fucking unhoused, Angela Pickles.

I was pointing to the historically anomalous mercantile streak this regime has.

Explicitly taking stakes in private companies is a lot more problematic than a lot of people seem to think.

Republicans used to claim 'picking winners and losers' was a bad thing.

I 100% believe they won't bail out the industry as a whole.

I also 100% believe they would "take a stake" in particular companies in return for... certain considerations.

I am less worried about college kids' word choice than thug trash beating up people in the streets, the President subverting democracy and disease running rampant.

I don't share some of your concerns, but that's fine; I expect you don't share some of mine. But it does sound to me like you're much more familiar with Republican critiques of Democratic policy than actual Democratic policy. One such thing is you putting the words of activists into pols' mouths and pretending that's the official capital-D Democratic line. It isn't - activists are activists precisely because they want to change the current party line. This is literally

. None of which is to say I'm a rah-rah fan; only a few of them actually come anywhere near reflecting my policy preferences. But given a choice between a getting a cold and getting measles, I'll take the cold.

I see you've read my sig.

Goes back to the old joke

Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. It's a hardware problem.

Q: How many hardware engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. We'll just work around it in software.

Apparently, somebody remotely bricked the editors a long time ago.

Yo dawg, I heard you like dupes, so I duped your dupe, and put it in the dupe.

It is about denying a win.

It is also about the overall fascist project - they have sold themselves on the need to dominate and crush. Being forced to negotiate is a big power-balance setback for them.

And it is also about Trump's BFF. Right now Holy Mike is refusing to swear in a new (D) representative. That rep just happens to be the deciding vote on releasing lots of juicy Epstein documents. Documents that have already been confirms by members of this admin to mention Trump.

Just remember the phrase, "Everything Trump touches dies." It hasn't been wrong yet.

Data centers might end up looking like that empty mall you drive past, but at least they don't implicate you in a child rape gang including the US president.

Everyone else might want to think a little bit about their 401K allocation.

Right?

I've been saying this all along - why wait? They aren't getting any younger. Elon and Petey should gather up their most trusted minions and jet right off, the sooner the better.

Stop teasing, just fucking go Galt already. I promise to pretend to miss you if it'll help.

Firing people randomly has been sport there for decades.

Get used to it. Here is an easy rule of thumb to understand where you'll encounter robot puke:

Is the combined cost of (robot output + cost of remediating robot mistakes) less than (human output + cost of remediating human mistakes)?

Adjust the value of humans up a bit if the humans served have more money. Adjust up significantly if there are regulatory reasons why a human needs to be in the loop.

As far as ads, well, robots are tireless, very good at recycling striking images into attention-grabbing slop, and this is actually one area where concern for the truth is far lower than elsewhere. You already know where this is going.

Bookmark for reference.

There's a strange form of the class divide here. You say you can't be sure that kid can't feed themselves away from mommy, hiring them for an office job. But if you call someone to build a garage, you won't think twice about that 18 year old helper.

More generally, I find the Theil anti-college stuff to be a bit weird. On one hand, it is trivially true - well-adjusted smart kids can totally jump in to many fields without college. I dropped out after a year, and a year after that was working for a software company (And I'm not very well-adjusted.)

But on the other, this will not work for everyone. A lot of people do need a few more years of figuring themselves out, or shrugging off Mom's neuroses, or just getting their shit together.

So the Palin-tier strategy can work for them - cherry-picking the right kids early enough to mold the way you want them. But it probably also encourages kids who do need a little "life with training wheels" to jump in over their heads.

As a final point, I see people complaining about that last point, but I suspect that's one of the more acceptable things they do. Think about how kids are manipulated into life-altering choices by adults all the time - think how "abstinence-only ed" functions as a "trap kids with their own kids" program. Messing with someone via a job offer is small beans compared to saddling them with a kid at 18.