It's real annoyed when idiots pull in front of him because it takes him 3 football fields to come to a stop.

The economy is like that. Capitalism is like that. It's a big fucking thing that takes a long time to come to a stop. And you just pulled out in front of it. And your little Geo Metro...

Now my buddy is smart and he knows how to drive around idiots. But we didn't put smart people that the wheel in this economy we put the dumbest motherfuckers we could find for the dumbest motherfucker reasons we could come up with.

So when the economy needs to stop and can't because you're dumb ass pulled out in front of it it's going to go right through you.

Unfortunately this is where the analogy breaks down because it's not just your little car being splattered you're taking all of us with it

I wish those immigrants never founded my employer and about 1/2 of my entire industry!...not to mention bolstered us and made us superior to all the companies based in countries that were hostile towards immigrants. Not sure if you're American, but for all of our problems, we're one of the most accepting of immigrants in history. That's why we prevailed and our rivals fell short, especially the Soviet Union, post-war Japan, Korea, and China...and in the future it will be Israel and maybe some parts of Northern Europe. We produce a lot of talent locally and what we don't produce, we happily import.

Also, fuck off with the open borders bullshit. No one wants completely unregulated immigration. The far left in the USA and presumably everywhere else just wants lots of opportunities to move here...not let ANYONE without any sort of security checks whatsoever.

However, what has made the USA home of many of the greatest businesses and especially startups is that we not only welcome talented immigrants with open arms (at least we definitely did pre-Trump 47), we gave them loans and investors mentored them to succeed. This applies to Google, co-founded by an immigrant, as well as American-founded businesses like Facebook who filled their ranks with the best they could hire from around the globe.

Here's your choices...immigration as it is today with mild reforms, like better security checks or more legal pathways to citizenship...or...

We crack down on immigrants to the extent you and the Republican party says they want to and experience:

Food shortages, higher prices, the entire tech industry and every American multi-national literally decimated and relocating overseas to places that aren't hostile to immigrants. No good jobs, horrible inflation, bankrupt gov with no power to step in, Social Security running out of funds VERY abruptly, our entire economy and way of life wrecked...and like most failed states, like Russia, the very people with the talent needed to fix and rebuild will go somewhere else: Canada, Australia, maybe someplace crazy (except apparently Switzerland now?) and boost their economy....ensuring all American companies get killed on the international market.

All you MAGA folks...America is pretty great, especially compared to our rivals...and immigration is the main reason. We produce great talent and innovation...but more importantly, we attract immigrants who are talented and ambitious and ensure they start their companies HERE!...and not in their home countries. Most foreign economists bitch about this endlessly, the great American Brain Drain...where so many companies that would have been started in Europe, Asia, or India get started in the USA and we poach their top talent. So yeah, tolerate some people of different races and with funny accents and enjoy national prosperity?....or let those immigrants create jobs in their homeland at our national expense and see our economy much much worse....your pick!

Did you not read my post?

But just for you, I'll throw in this:

But hey, I'm sure you know more about trademark law than some legal professor or a practicing lawyer. /s

So you have so many people going into gig wars to try and keep a roof over their heads that all the incentives are rapidly going away not just electric car incentives.

The best part is that squeezing the bottom like this will inevitably increase crime and then the increase in crime will get used for more of the kind of economic policies that cause the squeeze and so on so on so forth.

Capitalism is falling apart and socialism isn't an option. I don't know what we do.

I'm talking specifically about the meat substitutes that try to taste like meat. There are ways to have a healthy vegan diet, but a lot of the plant-based burgers and fake meat tend to be loaded up with large amounts of sodium salt. So switching to those because you think they are healthier may actually be way worse than not doing so.

This isn't actually true. For screens with low resolution, because of the way scaling works, serifs can degrade legibility, but because of the way human brains and eyes do superresolution with micro-eye movements to compensate for poor visual acuity, serifs should not degrade readability even if your vision is blurry.

More to the point, I have to scale up sans-serif fonts a lot more than serif fonts to work well with my eyesight. So I'm saying this from personal experience.

You actually have it entirely backwards. Serifs require a higher resolution to render, or else thin lines can disappear entirely. That's why some people incorrectly think that sans-serif fonts are more readable on screen; their screens simply aren't good enough to render serifs properly. (Pedantically, this means that sans-serif fonts are more readable on crappy screens.)

But if you have a screen with a high enough resolution to render them properly, fonts with serifs significantly increase reading comprehension and speed of reading for large blocks of normal-sized text. (citation, original book) And while it is possible to reduce the difficulty of reading sans-serif fonts through careful design, IMO, there's no good reason to believe that a version of Calibri with serifs would not still be more readable.

To be fair, some serif fonts sometimes need 600 DPI to prevent lines from disappearing entirely because of poor font scaling software.

But the flip side is that assuming the serifs don't disappear because of scaling deficiencies, they are way more readable at small font sizes, particularly for people whose vision is not perfect. It is dramatically more legible to me than Calibri.

And one that you need to live. So it's no surprise people are trying to constrain competition for that limited resource.

Stopping immigration especially in countries where birth rates are below sustainability will create a permanent recession like Japan has. I don't think that's really up for debate we've seen it play out in Japan to the extreme and in South Korea to a lesser extent.

But the problem is if you do not have enough places in society for the people who are already here and can vote they are going to do terrible terrible things when they are not just left out in the cold but facing homelessness and starvation.

We could of course try to spread the wealth around but after a hundred years of Cold war era propaganda that's just not on the table and I refuse to pretend that it is anymore.

Capitalism is breaking down and socialism isn't on the table but we do not have a third option. The best you can do is buy time and if you're going to do that you need to constrain immigration. Even if your economy takes a hit even if people are doing worse off they at least have a place in society. They are at least needed enough that we can justify giving them food and enough shelter that they are informing roving bands of bandits

I'm not disagreeing, but I would still prefer to seek solutions.

Most of the time the paths to legitimate profitability are well known. Those paths can be presented as options from a list. In those cases where the google is involved in handling the money, then the google is also in a position to say more about what is going on. I specified that there should be room for "other", but pushing the developers to clarify their plans will at least make it easier for potential downloaders of the app to have a more informed judgement of the risks.

Seems to be a fairly typical response these days. No, your interpretation is not what I wrote or intended and you didn't ask for any clarification or help in understanding my poor writing. I also think your writing is not of the best, but my sadly too typical response is to discount your opinion. Or perhaps I should react defensively and try to explain what I was trying to say?

However I suspect you have some axe to grind (as do I) and therefore there is no reason for me to make so much effort--and the discussion will time out and die in a day or two anyway.

Billionaires control 90% of the media in america. No joke and no exaggeration. I don't get to define the terms. They have control of the media they get to define everything.

There is a government contract to go with this and it'll go to somebody well connected, probably Elon Musk. That was what Doge was all about. They caught a bunch of things and turned them into a juicy government contracts. The 250 million Elon spent on electing Trump was money well spent.

Everything is a grift now. Capitalism is collapsing and the only thing left is crooks trying to get the last bit of what you have out of you before the collapse.

We really need a third way. I get that nobody in this country is going to get behind socialism. Not after almost 100 years of propaganda.

But it's pretty obvious capitalism is collapsing too.

So we can't have capitalism and we can't have socialism so what's it going to be?

And we better figure out something fast because the clock's ticking and right now the third option is a total economic collapse. They're already talking about using AI to deny people Medicare and let the AI companies keep the savings. So even if you are retired you better start thinking about it