You do see how that was abusive 25 years ago, and how it's unrealistic now since you can't get an appointment before next month. You shouldn't have to go to the ER to get a note when you've got a migraine.

My employer recognizes that sometimes you just need a mental health day, and you can call in "just can't do it today". This helps immensely with retention. This was always a good idea, people always needed this, and only now is it being generally recognized.

The constitution wasn't designed not to have an elected King, since there don't seem to be any functional systems for preventing it. This might be a byproduct of it being designed to maintain the balance of power in favor of white male landowners.

On the political side? For sure. Trump still needs to escape the Epstein files and of all the gross mistakes he makes, some are becoming hard to ignore. Hence he is "flooding the zone with crap" (as I believe the full expression is).

But unless he totally wants to tank the economy, he would have to exclude all economic decisions and measures from that "flooding" and allow enterprises to still plan strategically. My guess is he is too uneducated and too dumb to understand that though, and as he has surrounded with excessively dumb but loyal people, nobody is going to explain that to him.

Maybe. However, let's not become a Chinese propaganda rag. Israel used the F-35 it when striking back at Iran just recently. It worked, degrading, then completely bypassing Russian air defenses of the exact types Chinese air defenses are copied from. Currently the F-35 can operate from 10 aircraft carriers whilst the J-35 had to do its first proper launch test on an EMALS launcher because they only have one CATOBAR ship and that's the launcher it has.

America's problem with China is not today, nor with current military technology vs the rest of the world. The problem is that China's volume of production of ships currently is far ahead of what America is producing. In order to keep ahead or even to guarantee a balance in the Pacific, America is going to have to make friends with and maintain friendship with allies both there and in the rest of the world.

That TLAs cannot actually break the TOR system itself? (Insecure servers accessed over TOR are a different thing ...)

Best guess is that in five years we still won't have level 5 autonomy you can trust. I don't mind being wrong, but I don't think I will be. I certainly don't think it's viable for that kind of money and also achieving the kind of safety I think we should be demanding. Not just "better than human" but essentially infallible. The car can have sensors we don't have, it should be able to be a lot better.

I think 20k is an optimistic price point, especially if you're hoping that it's going to deflect liability.

You are not looking for an answer. You just look for leverage to push the hallucination you have already decided on being the "truth".

Nice denial you have there. The whole thing is a little more complex than this one number and far worse.

Indeed. The problem is not that everything economic he orange criminal does is stupid. That would be survivable.

The massive, massive problem is that he is very unstable, has no strategy and changes things all the time with obviously no planning and no thinking ahead and no lead time. He just wants to keep his admirers enthralled so it is some new bad and disruptive idea every week, sometimes every day. Hence economic planning becomes completely impossible. There is no more reliable way to long-term kill a modern, optimized western economy than sabotaging all planning.

Enjoy the probably deepest recession ever that this will cause. For everybody that did vote for the other side, my condolences, what you can expect the next decade or two (or maybe longer) deeply sucks. For everybody that voted for this abject incompetence and everybody that did not vote when they could have: You did this to yourself and I have zero compassion for your suffering.

Indeed. But it is not AI or the same problems would happen in Europe. They do not. Yes, there is some stupid firings here as well, but companies still understand that young people are their future and that not hiring them is suicide.

Well, I guess the US has to go through a full Republican-caused collapse before the dumb masses get that the "leaders" there are not their friends. But beware, fascism can last a long time before it inevitably collapses.

Always the same fake excuse. THIS is what is causing the mess. People have complained in the same insightless fashion about the younger generations for thousands of years. All this serves is to elevate the complainers and make them feel good about themselves without any rational basis or actual accomplishment on their side.

Here is the actual reality: Hire young people and let them find out how things work and get better at things. If you do not, I really hope your organization just dies because it is nothing but a parasite.

Yes, the -gate habit comes from the Watergate scandal. Watergate was during Richard Nixon's second term as president, in 1972-4. He was a Republican, and resigned the presidency before he could be impeached. The name comes from an attempted break in at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington DC that ended up uncovering a whole pile of shady stuff Nixon had been up to.

Are Americans actually this ignorant of their own history?

It's the implication that Obama would have prevented Covid that gets me. Are you imagining him showing up at that Wuhan wet market with cans of Lysol or something? Also isn't Operation Warp Speed one of the things liberals think Trump did right?

Look, there's just so many things to complain about that you don't need "Trump didn't stop Covid enough". You can let that one go.

These two sounds quite similar to each other. And no, the world is not moving that fast. But some already far too rich megacorps profit immensely from creating that impression.

No need to be in denial, friend. That's literally how capitalism works. Did you think either "control" or "the means of production" was hyperbole?

It all but eliminated draftsmen, the drawing is done by the architects and engineers in the CAD software. The draftsmen mostly didn't become architects and engineers. Now take into account that everything becomes more complicated over time and yet also changes faster, and you can see where the problems are. Humans cannot keep up.