Read the thing. I clearly refers to its validity within the United States, it was never meant to be applied to extra-territorial domains. It was intended to apply to non-citizens though, since at the time new immigrants made up a large portion of the population. I really can't conceive of any reason why you wouldn't want the Constitution to apply to non-citizens within the US, unless you think that abusing people without your luck to be born in the right place is a good idea.

Just because people are useless they won't lie down and die quietly.

Twice so in a country that has more guns than people.

No, the only mention in the Constitution of "citizens" is in reference to the qualifications to hold certain offices. It applies to everyone here, citizen or not.

As I posted in another forum this morning:

The issue is that it's a propaganda conduit that they don't control. Google, Farcebook, Bing, etc. are infested with "former" intel agents of the US, Britain and Israel, everything that they present you is algorithmically calculated to support the Official Elite Narrative.

Tik Tok on the other hand is far more like the Internet in its original configuration, a free wheeling mess where users can run into pretty much any random thing. Our elites are disturbed that people are being presented with information contrary to the Narrative, which they are unable to control. For example support for Israel among the young collapsed when videos of the atrocities in Gaza started showing up in their Tik Tok feeds, and support for Biden among Tik Tok viewers followed the trend.

Perhaps almost as alarming to the Elite is that Tik Tok users are being presented with news sources that they don't control. When the NYT and WaPo were considered the only voices of authenticity and Hollyweird formed our view of the world it was easy for them to control the narrative, now people in the "West" are finding that their counterparts in the rest of the world aren't the monsters they've always been portrayed but just people like themselves. Third World countries are not necessarily crime-ridden hellholes, women in Islamic countries do not all live lives of miserable servitude, children in Africa play just like children in Iowa.

Everyone in Congress KNOWS very clearly why Tik Tok is a danger to their continued hold on power, this bill was pretty much inevitable.

I'll sign it without hesitation. Non-competes are illegal in my jurisdiction, and illegal clauses in contracts are void.

Startups around here get hoovered up including the former owners as "consultants". Basically that means you get money for doing nothing, at least as long as you don't try to start a competitor because guess what "consultation" is no longer needed should you try that...

C'mon. Please. When has the free market ever tied the hands of corporations? If that ever happens (and yes, there is indeed that nonzero chance that we're heading into an employer market, at least in some fields), rest assured that the game will be rigged some more in your disadvantage.

The only reason that corporations were fine with government letting "the market" sort it out was that until now, they had you by the balls. Let's wait what's gonna happen should this change.

Here's the thing, though: I am needed. But unfortunately, I'm one of the few.

But that's besides the point. What matters is that the replacement rate of young people vs. old people is only at about 80%. And that's not gonna change in the near future. For every 5 people leaving the workforce, only 4 will join it. Save immigration, of course, but let's face it, you only need so many goat-herders...

And that's the point. It's not just the burger flippers and shelf stockers that retire. It's also the researchers and doctors, the finance gurus and the engineers. Yes, there has never been a shortage of unskilled idiots. And that shortage sure isn't in any danger of growing, considering that the bar to enter the workforce sure rises yet again with AI taking over more and more unskilled jobs. So I don't fear for the low level jobs that they may go unfilled.

What I fear is that high level, senior positions will be hard to fill. For two reasons: First, the aforementioned 80% replacement rate. But even with 100% replacement rate, if we replace our juniors with AI, where should they get the experience to become those hard to find and highly sought seniors?

How about this one?

Nobody likes Georgia :D.
(I have never been to the USA, let alone Georgia :D)

As I said, the operation isn't what I take issue with. It is this matter of putting all the responsibility and thus consequences on the passengers' shoulders. If anything goes wrong with your ticket, you get to pay a fine. Almost no recourse. Even if it is their system that fucked up.

You don't consider it serious that you're essentially indentured servants of corporations and that they can easily circumvent due process and force you into settling on their terms?

O... kay...

Ukraine is not free, and never has been. Even before the conflict it was the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe, with a military second in size in Europe only to Russia (hence the poverty). The situation has only gotten dramatically worse since then, except of course for the political and economic elites in Kiev.

Israel has been claiming to be free and a democracy for 3/4 of a century, while enforcing living conditions on a very large portion of the people who live there even worse than the most miserable slaves in history. Now they've progressed to outright blatant genocide. Using our tax dollars to give them weapons to continue the genocide makes us all parties to their acts. The elites in Brainwashington convinced Americans to reelect an international war criminal in 2004, now only 20 years later they intend for us to do it again.

Taiwan is a tempest in a teapot. Neither China nor Taiwan want to change the status quo, all the noise from Taipei is just to get another influx of free US$. Bankers in Singapore are drooling at the graft that's about to be deposited in their coffers.

Yeah, there's a lot of lamenting, but face it, it's tantamount to complaining that the Beef Wellington isn't exactly medium on point where everyone around you is starving to death.

Compared to the problems you face, we're actually, I hate to say it, pretty well off.

You are aware that the replacement rate of young people is not up to what it used to be, yes? For every 5 people you fire, you can only hire 4 new ones.

"Everyone who understood how power grids work ..." except the people who actually run the grids?

I think you are mixing up people who are running the grid with the CEOs and owners.
E.g. as in power plant dispatchers, people cutting trees, people making prognoses, foreplaning of fossil fuel purchasing, setting up trades for surplus power or balancing power etc. p.p.
The people actually working in power production most certainly know how to run a grid. The CEOs, most certainly not.
In Germany one of the biggest power companies had a subsection that was run by an ex CEO of a vacuum cleaner company. With results reflecting that. Could tell you some interesting stories about that, but you would not believe them.
The main company was restored to profitability by Utz Classen, a "CEO" of soccer clubs. He simply sold everything off from the holding company that had nothing to do with energy production and forced the workers to a 4 day week, and cut the salary accordingly.

Bottom line that is only an anecdote. But the idea that a CEO knows the business and engineering or physics the business is based on is flawed. See Boing.