I thought about this a bit. So in 2018 his sharpies were all made abroad. He brought them back to a US factor without reducing the number of people who were working for him.

This implies he didn't hire factory workers to replace all those abroad. So....automation?

I think for space travel we should put all our eggs in one basket. Just pick one provider and stop funding all competitors. That way if anything happens to that one provider such as a failure of buiness practices, leadership passing away, failure to inovoate, etc we can really feel the pain of it.

In fact we should do this for everything. Why fund 5 companies to work on a cancer drug, just fund the one who is already closest. Just grow corn. It is the only crop we need and we should find a single strain of corn that grows best. Monocultures are the best cultures.

The market of health insurance is to pay as little as possible and collect as much money as possible. It is not to provide health care. This is working as intended and should be celebrated as captialism in action. As a share holder I'd expect the company to improve profit margins by strong arming healthcare providers and patients. Anything less would reduce shareholder value.

I was thinking "Wow, is there anything she can't do??"

Things someone who has never worked at a startup says.

I love the idea that they could score the game correctly, but it's more fun to make a human guess if another human is scoring the game incorrectly and challeng it.

So it's not about accurate scoring, it's about strategy on challenging inaccurate scores or taking one for the team.

I'm just an Oldthinker who wants to be in a distopia where at least I'm too high to notice.

You have to avoid language today if you want funding. There are words that can't be used as what they mean because politically they mean DEI. For exmaple:

The Education Department also was concerned about other words in the application, said Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in the state. He said he has talked with state officials about the discontinuation of the grant.

“I was told that apparently the administration is going through past grants and two words were flagged: One was transition and one was privilege,” Klenz said. “Transition — transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Privilege came up because a parent wrote a glowing review of staff that said what a privilege it was to work with them.”

I was hoping we would get brave new world, but we got 1984. It's sad.

I bought a hisense tv. On boot up I was asked if I would like google TV or not. I selected not. Now it is just a collection of HDMI ports that I can hook whatever I'd like to. In my case I use an AppleTV. Works great.

I was just thinking how I wish I could give more personal information to google. I'm glad they are helping me solve that problem.

I teach adjunct classes. 2 of them a week. 3 hours a class. I make $500 every 2 week. After grading, planning, etc I make $6.25 an hour. In only do it because surprise! The community college canâ(TM)t hire a full time teacher and I can afford to waste the time. Those kids are not getting a high quality education.

Let middle class students use vouchers for private school depriving public schools of funds. Then say they underperform.

I'm glad you are so informed. I'll believe what the actual fire department said was the cause. You live in whatever world fits you.

I'm glad that wasn't more disasturous. Sadly the cat in this story did not survive and the home was a total loss.

The stove was off when my aunt left. My sister fed the cat a few days and the stove was off. The fire department traced the fire to the elements on the stove and the assumption is the cat must have turned it on by accident while walking up there.