In either a great way or a horrifying dystopian way.

Either we get rid of billionaires and ruling classes and we rule together without demanding leaders control us or we let the billionaires take over and become trillionaires and then completely dismantle capitalism. Once that happens the economy collapses, all of us basically regress into feudal poverty and about 1% of the population will still have modern technological civilization and the other 99% will have basically nothing.

That's the plan anyway. People keep asking if none of us have any money who's going to buy the billionaires' products?

You think they haven't asked that same thing? You don't think Elon Musk and Bill Gates have noticed that they are completely dependent on you and your filthy little consumers and worker bees in order to have their wealth and prestige and power?

Of course they've noticed it and of course they don't like it. They are taking steps to eliminate the dependency.

That said I don't think they're clever enough to pull it off completely and I think eventually they will start world wars and go nuclear but time will tell.

Maybe when the raccoons take over as the next dominant species they'll be better off than we were. Or it could be beavers. They're pretty close to having opposable thumbs with a few mutations.

Ford made the news because they were complaining about not being able to find 5,000 Machinists but it turns out the reason they can't get those workers is they built the factory in the middle of nowhere and nobody wants to live out in the middle of nowhere for a job where they can be laid off at any time without any other jobs around. It's basically a company town at that point and you're fucked if you live there because it's only a matter of time.

Meanwhile even if the factories come back the jobs don't because the vast majority of the other work is automated. 5,000 machinists sounds great but that's for auto work. Most of the stuff we make these days as a species can be made by robots and machines. So you can do all the tariffs you want and you might get the factories back here but you aren't getting the jobs.

The only reason you see so many people in factories overseas is there paid slave labor wages and if they try to unionize their fascist government just kills them and harvests their organs.

They're all good reasons to use tariffs to force industries to come back even if we don't get the jobs. Not having semiconductors built here as a national security concern.

But we need to stop talking about bringing back jobs with tariffs because that's just not going to happen.

Getting dozens of vendors to start sourcing thousands of parts from the USA is going to take years. Because nobody in the USA makes most of these parts. Supply chains will have to be built to source the materials and factories will have to be built to do the manufacturing. And the whole thing will be an inefficient mess because the losers running GM don't understand that they need to vertically integrate to compete with the Chinese car companies that will inevitably open their awesome dark factories in the USA. What a bunch of clowns.

So the trouble is that they aren't really quite becoming Banks. Like the article says they aren't becoming consumer Banks like we are used to seeing they're becoming trust Banks which aren't regulated like you would expect.

However you can bet your ass that they are going to advertise that they are banks and heavily imply that your deposits are FDIC insured.

If a Democrat is in the White House at the time they implode some of them might go to jail but you're still not going to get your money back.

And eventually a republican will get control of the White House and pardon them so they'll do a few years in jail and walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars.

But everything I said was a fact. If that makes you uncomfortable what the hell does that say about you?

So apparently Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick and Vladimir Putin has the pictures.

Stop, read that again, Google it, and just Jesus fucking Christ what the hell is wrong with our world?

Anyway, I doubt Trump sucked Clinton's dick. Although given some of the freaky shit guys at ivy League schools do in those gentlemen's clubs who the hell knows? The point of something like that would be to have pictures so that both sides could use them for mutually assured destruction...

I think it's much more likely though that Epstein was exaggerating for effect but that Putin really does have some extremely damning compromat on Donald Trump.

MAGA could watch Donald Trump rape their own babies and they would somehow blame Obama.

When we say it's a cult that's what we mean.

They wouldn't have made very many of these so they could advertise they sold out.

The purpose of this is to get you angry at excess spending by idiots. Then you engage and become aware.

This is a marketing campaign and I'm participating in it and if you're reading this you're participating in it too.

Think critically and Google competently

I'm going to tell you right now there is no way this passes a background check unless the companies wanted it to.

It's just like how anytime we want to put a stop to illegal immigration you just throw a few businesses that hire them in jail.

But instead we brutalize the immigrants and look the other way 99% of the time when the businesses commit the crime.

Every now and then some small business owner gets raked over the coals but never any of the big ones. It's usually some shitty little Mexican restaurant somewhere.

Meanwhile it's impossible to have sensible immigration policies, like you know we get to have H1B doctors in rural towns where nobody will work but we don't bring in a limitless supply of JavaScript programmers...

That is way too much nuance for the American voter. Let alone having a discussion of taking the increased GDP from immigration and giving it to all citizens instead of shunting it up to the top as fast as we can.

In the last 40 years the top 1% have taken about 60 trillion with a t dollars out of the economy.

The guy running from our drug wars cutting your grass isn't the problem.

I was just a kid in the 80's but everything I watched had commerical in it. On a Google search I can find that a very small number of networks didn't have them when they launched at the very beginning of the decade but then switched to having them a few years in. The biggest of them being Nickelodeon.

Maybe you're remembering premium stations like HBO or something because the vast majority of regular cable TV channels had commercials and by the decades midpoint everything did. Or maybe as the above suggested you didn't live in the US in the 80's?

Oh yeah I agree that Putin is more dangerous than Kamala but it doesn't matter how dangerous he is as an individual if we just give Ukraine enough weapons then it's over for Russia they're going to have to back out.

However more and more it's looking like Putin has dirt on Trump involving the Epstein files and underaged girls. I don't mean girls who are like 17 and a half years old we're talking 12 and 13 year olds...

It's also extremely likely that Putin has pictures of trump in a variety of bizarre compromising positions because it's not uncommon for ultra-wealthy people to take those kind of pictures with other ultra wealthy people as a kind of dead man's switch in order to make sure nobody betrays anyone.

A while back one of the ivy League colleges had a bunch of it leak.

Russia would be finished. Jeffrey Epstein apparently expressed concern that Vladimir Putin might have a picture of Donald Trump giving Bill Clinton a blowjob.

Now I suspect that's an amusing exaggeration but the implication is that Putin absolutely has black male material on the US president. Probably pictures of him raping one of the eight women who have credibly accused him of it when they were under the age of 14.

Now with the supreme Court basically making Trump God that's not really going to change much I don't think. The Republican party is never going to remove him from office after all and the current Senate map favors the Republican party so the Democrats don't have a prayer in hell of getting a supermajority there.

still one thing I think this is going to do, Trump is absolutely going to do everything he can to remain in office after 2028. It's going to be painfully obvious that he committed very heinous acts that can be prosecuted. And there's going to be no shortage of people that want to prosecute him for it. As president he's basically immune but is a private citizen?

The problem with the stable coin is they aren't stable. It's basically a bank but without regulation.

You give them your money and they agree that they will hold on to it. That's a bank.

Multiple stable coin providers have been caught giving out the underlying assets when they're not supposed to. Often by taking extremely high risk bets with the money.

Because they aren't Banks you don't have any recourse when they do that and because they aren't Banks you aren't insured and because they aren't Banks there are reams and reams of regulations and paperwork they do not have to file with anyone so they can hide things on their books a bank can only dream of.

It's something that a functional civilization would nip in the bud by applying the same banking regulations but more and more we are a failed state.

Sports packages get really expensive really fast and often don't have all the games you want to watch. I'm not a sports fan but for those that are sometimes if you want to watch certain games the aren't in your area especially you're just going to have to pay for a package.

Sports streaming can be a bit of a mess and can often cost as much or more than cable.

How many times have people been told to use the Oxford comma and still get it wrong?

Even worse, the use of lists without the Oxford comma is showing up more and more in publications who should know better, creating wording or joins the author never intended.

If this software is just now getting punctuation correct after several years of trying, it's doing just as well as humans.