Unless Trump is so completely senile that all the sane washing in the world can't hide it he will run. And you will vote for him unless you are not american. Which you might be we've got a lot of Russian trolls floating around here trying to lessen the immediate impact of the big beautiful bill so that people will forget it in time for the midterms.

But you won't make any comments. When you lose your house, again assuming you're American and not a foreign agent or asset, then you're not going to go to a McDonald's for the Wi-Fi in order to tell everyone how I was right. You will double down and you will blame Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden because that's what TV tells you to do.

If it's one thing I know about Trump voters they always do what TV tells them to do because they can't think of themselves. If they could they wouldn't have voted for a rapist with 34 felony convictions.

I mean you fuckers literally elected a businessman who couldn't pass a background check for a night shift at a 7-Eleven. There is no way you are thinking for yourself. You outsource that to TV. The only reason you haven't been destroyed already is because there was still some people on TV protecting you. Those guys are gone and now you've got about 4 years. The crash hits in 2028 shortly after the midterm and you will be mortgaging your houses. 2 years later the bank will come for them.

And Has completely stopped all law enforcement around cryptocurrency.

So yeah you're going to have a bubble. Nasty one. And pretty soon cryptocurrency will get integrated directly into the economy and Wall Street. You will eventually see the same kind of nasty little finance products that cause to 2008 market crash only backed by imaginary funny money instead of houses.

When that happens the resulting crash is going to make 2008 look like the good times of the .com bubble.

I know nobody believes this but mark my words in 4 years half of you will have lost your houses. Six if you're lucky.

Heck eventually Trump will get those 200% tariffs on medicine through and the the cost of keeping you alive it will double. I know damn well you're being kept alive with pills because all us old farts are. Statins and blood thinners. And I know that you're thinking well I take a generic. I guarantee you somebody else is already thinking that and working on getting more money out of the stuff that keeps you alive.

We have 2,000 people trying to be the first trillionaire in this country. The only way they can do that is by taking your property.

Like one that isn't expecting to have elections anymore. It's clearly expect one more round in the midterms but it's also clear that after the midterms they don't think that they need to care what any of us think.

I think the Trump voter is know they fucked up but they're in too deep. A lot of them have lost family and friends for trump. It's classic cult like behavior where the cult leader is trying to cut you off from the outside world. And it's working.

So midterms will still go maga and then Trump gets a third term in 2028. After that yeah, no more elections. We will go through the motions like Russia and North Korea do but those are really be a census used to keep track of dissidents and people fleeing the country.

But hey, how about those trans girls in sports?

Blah blah blah backseat pilot. Been covered elsewhere that the switches were installed without the protections on some planes, and there doesn't seem to be a record of Air India making the specified update to correct it.

Not that you might not be wrong, but you shouldn't be so certain.

Why in the hell would the pilot lie about his actions at that moment?

When Trump was President last time he couldn't do a lot of the really bad shit because he had hired competent people out of habit and they just wouldn't let him do all the crazy shit like try to end birthright citizenship or do a fuck ton of illegal tariffs using fake emergencies or firing everybody in the government so you can replace them with cronies that will let you crown yourself King

So in order to be able to do all the crazy crap in project 2025 that is just going to wreck the economy like it did in the 1800s where the policies came from he hired yes men the worst kind.

So you have lunatics like Robert f Kennedy Jr and completely incompetent buffoons like Christi Noem.

These people are evil. But they're also staggeringly incompetent. This means that no matter how much money corporations and lobbyists have the people they are lobbying are going to be so dumb that they can't even do the things they're being bribed to do.

I don't think anyone especially Trump voters have come to terms with just how badly we fucked up letting him get a second term.

People are calling him Taco because Trump always chickens out. But they're misunderstanding something.

First, Trump is a senile old man. He isn't doing anything it's a bunch of heritage foundation goons running the show.

and second they're not chickening out they are testing the limits of what they can get away with.

And all the while they're doing that they are completely fucking incompetent because they're a bunch of psychopathic nepo babies.

In 4 years about half the people reading this will have lost their houses like 2008 on steroids. Only this time they're on to cheap apartments for you guys to move into so you're going to be living down by the river. And I guarantee you anyone reading this has already convinced themselves they aren't going to be in that half. And I'll be voting for Trump in 2028.

The NES I played in the 90s had a terrible controller. Like, barely playable. D-pad not registering without some real muscle applied to it.

That was in Europe though. Not sure if they had different controllers there, or maybe the one I had was just worn out.

Yeah, I get the feeling that even if he tried to explain his position, he'd still sound like a bitter weirdo and/or dumbass. That tends to be why they don't. Easier to just throw out some edgelordy insinuations - shortcut straight to looking like (what they perceive as) a badass. Dude sounds like Grok.

I'm giving him a chance, I always love to be surprised, but I'm expecting silence.

Will they also never reach their full potential, learning in what is ultimately the inferior path?

Effectively applied protectionism would be great for America. However, the problem with America's (current lack of consistent and rational) trade policy is that it's being administered by utterly incompetent buffoons. Pay less attention to what they're saying, and more to what they're doing.

And by the time the first "warning" was raised- the girl's camp was under water. The "emergency" wasn't raised until hours later.

And the republican legislature (including the repp for Kerr County) voted down the flood siren warning system. He says now that he "might" have voted differently.

The emergency alerts on the phones do not discriminate. They play that incredibly nasty noise.
And they also play it for amber alerts--- for kids who were kidnapped over 100 miles away -- 24 hours a day.

One you get woken up for a watch or an amber alert at 3am out of a sound sleep, the alerts get turned off.

Is that even with all this solar, wind, etc.... China *still* must build more coal plants even tho we are finding out their population is smaller than we thought.

In time, alternative energy will destroy demand for coal but for now, the projections are still for more coal plant by 2045.

I'm hoping they are wrong and solar/wind comes online faster. It's cheaper than coal but they simply can't produce and build it out fast enough globally.

This kind of outcome doesn't surprise me at all. It reminds me of trying to fumble with speech-to-text, or the tab-complete "suggestions" I get adding notes in ServiceNow - these things might help people who aren't decent typists, but for me they just get in the way if I pay any attention to them.

The general public is being propagandized with stuff like "It's like having a doctor in your pocket", so there is definitely a need for people to hear how the stuff actually works.

Whether it belongs on Slashdot is another question, I would think the readers here already know, generally, how it works by now.

I'm not sure what ACM is, but "fairness" is generally a positive thing in any context. Insinuating otherwise would require a thorough exposition. Without that, you just sound like a bitter weirdo and/or dumbass.