Trump is there a guy. Folks don't seem to understand that our entire news media has been consolidated into basically two companies, Sinclair media and nexstar.

Trump is a senile old fool and the heritage foundation with project 2025 are who is actually in charge.

It's not that they are bending the knee, I mean I think ABC did but I can't blame them for it since the people who control literally every TV station in the country told them that they either pull Kimmel or they're going to shut them down.

If you come to me and I've got a business with thousands of people employed and I've got to make the decision I'm not sure what I would do. It's Crystal clear that Sinclair media and nexstar are more than willing to pull ABC from the air. At that point I'm thinking about everybody's livelihoods...

If ABC had some watershed ultra hit show like game of thrones was back in the day they would have some leverage but without that they're just another Network. They've got popular shows sure but not enough that Sinclair media and the like wouldn't just say fuck it who cares if we lose money we will make it back when we have a dictatorship.

Basically this isn't one king making this happen this is the culmination of over 50 years of Republican policy that started with Barry Goldwater losing.

Can you give us the top 3 "conservative" books from the last 10 years you think kids should be exposed to?

You can ask Iraq about that. The ultimate UN Treaty is the Charter itself, whose main provision is "no war", i.e. Article II.4, no use of force against fellow members.

This would all be a bit overwrought and off-topic, except Trump has broadened the exception from international law from "if I have a story about a nuclear threat", to "If I feel that we signed a bad trade deal and I want to throw it in the garbage on a whim"...even for trade deals HE signed a few years ago.

"International Law" now means just about nothing. What's Canada going to do with that lawbreaking? Take it to a US court?
Iraq could theoretically have done that over the Iraq War, too ... hah. Americans are just finding out now how that feels, to have no appeal to justice.

No, just no. That's something an individual teacher can do with an individual parents but as a broad policy it fails, across the board and is also cruel to the kid whose parents don't care.

Great, so you do understand my point. You would rather some kids be hungry, spend money and time on pamphlets (that wont work) instead of food and if it doesn't work, well, fuck that kid right?

I am not interested in making the hungry kid my ideological warrior against slights I have with the culture. We are talking pennies on the dollar here but politics is more important the kids is your point. "Sorry pal, no lunch today, the school has to make a point about the conservative vision of the nuclear family". This is brain broken.

That's never been my point if you read what i wrote. Any language is a life skill and has positives into learning other things and life in general. This is really dense (as in not getting it) analysis, sorry.

Also Mandarin has 990 million native speakers, double Spanish and almost 3x English. Spanish is still #1 as a second language but they have utility

Yup, that's what weve been voting for for 40 years now

To talking to Trump voters in the wild unless they are family or close friends. They're just getting too much propaganda and any points of reality you get them to concede will get blasted out of their eye sockets the moment they step into their car and turn on talk radio or turn on basically any mass media now. Even local news channels are basically full on Fox News insanity after all the market consolidation. The last bastion of any sanity was late night comedy TV and the right wing knows that and they are shutting it down.

The problem Democrats have is the Republicans are actively sabotaging the country and holding us all hostage.

They aren't alienating there voters you're just eyeball deep in propaganda so you aren't aware what they're up against.

It's not your fault like I said right wing completely took over the news media and the media in general. They just bought everything over the last 50 years.

The sabotage and hostage taking started with newt Gingrich with a tricky call to contract with america. Basically you block everything positive to Democrats want to do for their voters and you continuously sabotage the government and the country in general. Then you use your control of the media to blame the Democrats.

The problem is understanding that is way too nuanced. You kind of have to be paying close attention to politics to see it happening and frankly that's not good for your health

Pretty much everything not big-name-brand that's on Walmart or Amazon is marked up 25% or more from the Aliexpress price for exactly the same product. If you're willing to wait for it to come from China, you can get the same crap for less. I've just placed an order for an item that's $200 on Amazon and was $150. I expect it to take maybe an extra week.

A civil war is more likely than maggots reading something.

Calc will generate pivot tables, but not with a live WYSIWYG interface where you can tweak it as you go. It creates a new tab in your sheet after you fill in a dialog which is static, so if you want a current one or want it to be slightly different, you have to create it all over again.

I hear that these days it handles very large files OK, so IMO this is the last major feature needed before it can really be taken seriously as an Excel replacement.

You mean like Teslas have done in incident after incident, including several where people have died?

Wow, someone with mod points is apparently unfamiliar with Zelenskyy's former occupation.

All people respond to incentives, for me the role of the state in the economy is recognizing market failures, externalities and perverse incentives and correct them.

The hodgepodge American system is just a basketcase of all of those. And it's the most expensive to boot!

Too little too late, and I've made my stance on charters clear.

It just might be the case that it's good for a society for it's people to be healthy.

The fact anyone in the USA wakes up sick or their kid is sick or they have a bad diagnosis and they might have the thought "can I afford this?" is a public failure.

Healthcare was what radicalized me out of libertarian-ism.

Necessitous men are not free men