"Yep, so much Californian money goes to supporting the inefficient red states. It's little wonder."

Seriously? That's your "go to"?

Just... wow.

CA is exhausted as being the 5th largest economy in the world if it were it's own country, yet we have the highest taxes in virtually every single catagory, among the highest unemployment, poverty, homelessness, lowest ranked student performance (most high schools in CA are opting out of the federal standard tests now) -- virtually every category such a "wealthy" state should do well.

Shall we talk about how CA went from bragging about surpluses to huge deficits at the drop of a hat? While bringing in record breaking state revenue? All these problems are NOT due to federal taxes but California's poor management and apathetic electorate. And, "oh". Federal taxes are collected from the people of CA -- not what CA deigns to provide to the fed.

BTW, I'm not a republican -- and I'm a "never trumper" (proud to have had the opportunity to *NOT* vote for him 6 times (3 primaries and 3 national elections).

Jeez...

One of the only areas our elected officials do excel.

That's been going on for ages. Used to be able to hit some of the sketchy parks and buy $100 worth of food stamps for $40. Buyer gets a huge savings on this weeks groceries and the addict gets another 2ish weeks of feeding their addiction.

EBT ATM cards kind of killed that market. Now they get full value on wasting their benefits.

Here's your citation:

https://slashdot.org/comments....

I'm an authority.

"The federal government is the least efficient method for dispersing the funds."

California is far more inefficient in dispersing funds.

Fuck the future, 2019 was fine with me.

Unless you feed it directly into the line, screaming into the phone, playing loud tones/music, or even a smoke alarm going off right by the phone isn't likely to cause damage on the other end.

Fine, same frequency as a smoke alarm. Good luck proving you weren't near a smoke alarm that happened to go off.

In civilized places (EU), one-click cancellation is pretty much required. This is a Unistatian problem.

Once you get the actual human, 1000Hz tone at max volume. Or play a "numbers station" just to confuse the shit out of them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People (at least in the US) have turned into utter asozials after the Great COVwardic Freakout of 2020.

I hope this will only mean that Google AI verminator numbers are blocked, not that businesses will give up their phone lines period. I much prefer calling up and e.g. ordering food to pick up for cash, not using Grubhub or Uber Shits. God damn technology. Ludd! Dudd! Luddududd!

The post-COVwardic freakout asozial economy ... Gerd forbid that you might have to talk to another human being. So gross. Life should be lived behind a screen, interacting with actual humans is so ... cheugy.

"or", not "and"

AI vermin crashing the economy in 3...2...1...