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

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.

You can crash at your parent's place, but won't see them for quite a while.

Did a human write this?

Seems to me that Canada is a lot further down that path than the US. You did know that Fascism is basically just Socialism with a slightly different management structure, right? The systems behave in exactly the same way.

This is a proposed restriction on a program that lets people from a handful of countries come to the US without a visa. It doesn't impact people using a traditional visa.

And quite honestly, if someone has spent the last few years talking about killing Americans or Jews, I don't ever want them to come here.

Either that or terrorists. I don't know why you felt you had to assume the first.

Entrant: I don't have any "social media", but it doesn't matter because I applied for a regular visa like most of the world instead of using the ESTA program.

Border Guard: Enjoy your visit.

Look past the headline. Headlines lie.

I resent the people who pushed us into a corner and forced this outcome.

Does that mean you are too young to remember the AV converters every console needed for something like twenty years, or that you are old enough to be forgetting such things?

Why would you call it anti-competitive? It protects competition by reducing deception through ensuring unique IDs for each competitor.

...back when we had the story about Steam releasing a console. It didn't make any sense to me why a new device would only support HDMI 2.0, now I know why. Idiotic licensing.

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

Twitter did a much better job with the bots. It did have a tough time because you can't algorithmically police right wing extremism without having it go after American Republican politicians. So right we extremism had to be manually policed. In other words racism and Nazis and whatnot. Musk solution to that problem was to just let the racists and the Nazis take over.

Now ordinarily that would be the company would rapidly go out of business because of lost users. But musk has been pumping money into it, largely with the help of the Saudi royal family. Essentially turning it into a propaganda arm of American billionaires and the Saudi elites. At least if you are consuming content on the platform besides a handful very specific people posting to it.

The real problem is that computers are just too good at figuring out relationships. That's why you can't kick Nazis off your platform using algorithms. A computer will very quickly figure out that the dog whistles the Republicans or whatever your local equivalent is are saying are dog whistles referring to racist or Nazi stuff and it'll go after those dog whistles because the computer knows that when a republican talks about welfare Queens it's no different than a Nazi talking about rounding up black people and gays. The computer knows the dog whistle and you can't program an effective algorithm that doesn't figure it out right quick.

It's interesting that, unlike all of the posts criticizing Trump, it's the one that goes after Biden that gets marked as flamebait. Maybe it is, but then so are the majority of posts on this page. Why the discrepancy? The easy assumption is that Trump's defenders prefer to argue their points, and Biden's prefer to silence the other side instead. But is that a fair assumption? I don't know.

Did you just become my hero?