And is the law in most jurisdictions. You normally have to post a bond before appealing.

It's not that Donald Trump didn't get special treatment it's that she did. And the reason Trump didn't get the special treatment is that there's too many eyes on the case and it would look bad to give Trump the special treatment members of the ruling class normally get.

at least it'd be a relatively quick death for the kids, instead of living the world after boomers are done setting it on fire so they can putz around in RVs (excuse me, "Luxury Motor Coach").

This forum is full of old farts though, and the last thing boomers want is to be reminded of the mess they made. Boomers demand unearned respect at all times.

they're just trying to do stealth layoffs. The tech companies are colluding to bring us to heel. And we're too dumb to use collective bargaining to stop it.

I blame stupid end users. We here in IT get a *massive* big head because we talk to idiot end users all day. We think we're fucking geniuses because of it. So we think we can somehow negotiate with a multi-billion dollar corporation run by ivy league grads trained at Goldman Sach's and Mckinsey consulting. Literal members of the ruling class. Because Karen in accounting doesn't know how to change her password on the network....

And a long time ago when baby boomers were growing up as productivity Rose wages Rose to. Then the Boomer is decided to pull the ladder up behind them. The funny thing is a little more than half of those boomers haven't finished climbing the ladder there pulling up. And they're going to come tumbling down.

There's a phrase for it. Face eating leopards. I never thought the leopards would eat my face SOB's woman who voted for the leopards eating faces party....

But by the time you're a 55 and living out of a car that doesn't run anymore it's too late. It's the kind of thing you have to see coming but after decades of being told that fighting tooth and nail for every little scrap of everything is the way things should be it's too hard to let that go. So the number of senior citizens sleeping rough as it were keeps growing...

Because of baby boom means that they will outnumber young people until 2030. At least the young people who are allowed to vote. Texas for example has a wide variety of voter suppression laws that make it difficult for young people to vote but if you're over 65 you can vote by mail all day long. And the Supreme Court just upheld that.

Assuming we are still a democracy in 6 years I think the kids will fix this. But there is a very real possibility that the baby boomers are going to give up democracy on the way out because... Fuck I don't know why. I just know that there's a very real chance especially in 2028 that America's great experiment is going to end in failure. Whatever the reasons if it happens they're going to be incredibly stupid.

we can call it AI if we want but whatever the case every CEO on the planet is trying to kill your job. Maybe you'll retire or die or strike it rich before they do, but don't pretend they're not gunning for you.

And guess what, they've been doing it for 40 years now. If you didn't notice, well, that's called survivor's bias.

And while I haven't read newly as much as I used to I can tell you that is way the fuck more scathing than you realize. That is the bureaucratic equivalent of the FCC saying we ain't going to do nothing just yet but y'all better watch yourselves fuckers.

You are the product.

while (humans.exist()) { humans.selectRandom(10000).kill(); }

They're digging up tons of minor side effects reports and claiming the vaccine was pulled because of that, and not the real reason, which is that they can't compete with Moderna & Pfizer. Even some "journalist" outlets have got in on the act. I saw the Telegraph (a UK tabloid that occasionally dabbles in real journalism, sort of like Fox News in the early 2000s) pushing that nonsense.

Here's Jerome Powell, Chair of the federal reserve, telling Congress under oath he wants 3.5 million layoffs and has zero plans to stop the layoffs once they start.

And like I said, it's not working because inflation is caused by monopolies and price gouging, not Americans joining the middle class!

It's about layoffs. It was *always* about layoffs. They want you to lose your job, take a lower paying one and be forced into a lower standard of living.

They're balancing the books on your back. and it's so weird that you're OK with that...

"Side-effects include failure to understand statistics"

The entire point of raising interest rates is to reduce the creation of new jobs and with that comes the creation of new businesses. The idea is that we're all supposed to lose our jobs and be unable to find new jobs and be forced to take much lower paying jobs after blowing through all our savings and because of that we're going to spend so little money inflation just *has* to come down.

It's a pointless and cruel way to control inflation and it's not going to work because our current inflation is caused by monopolies price gouging. But for some damn fool reason every single American is absolutely convinced they're not going to be the one to lose their job or take a pay cut and so nobody really opposes it.

It's like the old saying, recession is one year neighbor loses their job and a depression is when you lose your job. We're a nation of psychopaths. Or at least every man for himself. Which is a terrible way to live

Jesus Christ!

When you’re stupid, you don’t know you’re stupid!

The Chinese are SMARTER than yankes; their average IQ is higher.

Do yankee really think the Chinese can’t do anything they do?

During the last 60 years, the Chinese have done a fantastic job of catching-up to the West. Why wouldn’t they pass us during the next 60 years?

Indeed. Having AI reinterpret photos to "clean" them could be a problem, introducing unwanted artifacts when it guesses wrong, and probably shouldn't do it in real time anyhow, but in a later edit stage if and when user wants to tweak them.