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.

Or if you're more cynical, it's like a Collateralized Debt Obligation

Thanks. I was thinking the same thing. And just like a CDO, what happens when someone doesn't, or can't, know the value of the underlying security?

Viruses that mutate frequently (influenza) are usually poor targets for vaccine development. At best, you're rotating in new vaccines to deal with strains that emerged months ago. Does Epstein-Barr mutate often? Are we seeing new strains all the time?

Okay but what if you already fired all your "shitty performers"?

Anyone who takes a lower division intro to economics class in college gets taught this. I might have even picked up on this before then but economists definitely say this when the topic comes up.

The term "cable" is regularly used by every company offering traditional TV packages for both old coaxial connections as well as fiber. This is incredibly common usage, no one says "I have fiber" when telling someone they subscribe to Comcast's TV offerings or any similiar service (they might for their internet service though).

They have an all-in-one package from Verizon. Phone, internet, and tv. It is well over $100/month. Cutting out tv would get them just below that amount.

When I gave up cable well over a decade ago price was the reason. I couldn't justify the yearly cost increases when I was only watching ten or so channels on a regular basis.

My parents still do though my dad keeps questioning if he wants it any longer. They don't watch much any more and the cost is out of hand.

What they do is spend two hours or so every night watching YT videos of places around the world or watching shows about this or that subject.