Three we are going to see a bump in immigration to the US as the Republican's have made immigration enforcement a total disaster...

Disaster?

I hardly think so....they have gotten the PR wrong in many cases, but I and lots of folks appreciate the efforts and accomplishments so far.

The main problem is, we're not rounding up and deporting illegals fast enough in large enough numbers.

But progress is progress and we're already starting to see some change in good numbers.

One nice side effect will be, hopefully, if we can deport enough NON citizens, they won't be counted in the next census and the reapportionment of house seats to more represent actual CITIZENS in states will come about....

Open up more housing to citizens with illegals gone out of places....and take huge fiscal burden off our government services (education, medical, etc)....with them off the roles being a burden.

You can suggest that, but you are saying "give up your close ties to family/friends/social life", and "move further from your job, or find a new one". Obviously if they really want kids they will make it work, but it's the ones who would like them but are not willing to give up so much of their lives, and limit themselves to one or zero.

Im saying exactly that....if need be, you MOVE to where life is better in general.

Grow up, be an adult make adult decisions.

When exactly did people start being such pussies and afraid to move out on their own...? This wasn't so unusual only a few decades back.

Hell in pioneer days....married couples would load up the wagon and head west often to never see family again.....

That's a bit extreme but is shows mankind often moves to where it is best to live.....when did people get so afraid to leave mommy and daddy? Can people not make friends in new places?

People act like it's a big deal.

Ever since I went out of state to college...I've almost never lived back in my home city or state....it's been great and no downside whatsoever....

I don't see what the big fucking problem ius with kids today.

I have a VERY tight loving family I grew up with, parents, cousins....I still have lifelong friends there and along the way in all states I've lived in.

Moving doesn't mean the end of relationships, just changes....

From observation and what I read...it seems that largely, at least in the US....it is liberal women/couples choosing to NOT have kids the most and birth rates amoung conservatives are rising in some cases....

Good deal that means over time...the liberals will self select themselves out of society....win win.

Really though, children are a huge commitment that, when done properly, requires you basically remake your life around what is best for a stable family unit for the next 20 years and really, once you have a kid, you'll always be a parent.

Err....well, that's been the common, well known NORMAL way of humans since the beginning till about...well, maybe 10-15 years ago when people went off the rails and norms went down the drain?

I mean, no one questioned this at all in all of humanity till just recently......

I think more than anything this is due to toxic feminism which has been fermenting to a head in recent years.....woman are going against what nature tells them and we have society backing that up.

But I get surprised to hear people today stating what you just did sounding like it is a foreign concept someone is newly trying to push on society?

it's hard to say if the Republicans will continue to lean into anti-immigration as hard as Trump did.

God I hope so.....we still have a LONG way to go to get rid of all the illegals that are currently here and need to go....

It's going to need a bit more than cheaper baby supplies. For example, a lot of people can't afford to buy a family sized home.

Suggestion to them...MOVE out of the fucking urban city areas....don't live in NYC....

The US is HUGE and there are tons of places with great jobs, MUCH lower costs of living and your housing dollar goes much further.....less crime, better education, etc.

There is plenty of good housing in you're willing to move out of the areas where it sucks.

Oh when I had an apartment there was no extra room to give someone. And 2 bed where I live now is $3700/month, which is more than my remaining mortgage.

GFC...where the fuck do you live where a 2 bedroom apt is $3700/mo?

I rent a 3 bedroom HOUSE for faaar less than that a month....

And those places with cheap rents have no jobs.

And no culture.

That's fine if you stay indoors all the time and are retired or can work from home...

That is absolutely NOT true.

The US is a very large country and there is SO much more to it than just NYC and LA....life and culture is not only at the extreme coasts.

There are plenty of jobs....GOOD paying jobs for areas with much lower costs of living....people are actually friendlier and easier to meet and make new friends with outside of those urban hell holes you seem to promote.

You could not drag me or pay me enough to live in NYC or CHicago or Los Angeles .....hell not even Houston.

Do you even live in the US?? For some reason I keep thinking you do not....and if not, you really don't know of what you speak.

There is a large breadth of cultures across the US and it's easy to find one that fits you and your lifestyle...especially if you want to have a family and raise them with proper values and education. You don't have to make $500K/yr to have a nice house, and all with very comfy living outside of the big urban cities.....especially when you outgrow clubbing every night, etc.

Who cares how many die, that's your problem. I also think it's naive to say that AI researchers "don't know" how modern AI, i.e. transformer models, work. They know, it's just impossible to predict results given the immense size of the models. What they don't know, because they don't care, is why models generate such catastrophic results at times. Once upon a time, AI research would consider this their highest priority, not anymore.

So who exactly has AI killed so far?

What catastrophic events has it caused?

Genuinely curious....

I've been experimenting running mistral small models locally on a M4 Mac mini 24GB....with ollama. So far that seems to work nicely for what I'm doing with it so far....

Is it just me?

I can't think of a single McD's item that I would be willing to pay $5 or more for.....?

Isn't 'Dots" just a commercial version of OpenClaw?

I"m working to set up OC myself and just use local models.....and try to retain some shred of privacy.

"Democracy" gave us Trump. Maybe we should try something else.

You seem to almost be saying that like it was a bad thing....?

If we only bought local there would be vast empty spaces at the grocery store and our choices would be limited.

I guess I'm a good bit older than you, but I remember growing up, even as a kid I knew what fruits/veggies were in what season of the year.

Sure, we might have not had 24/7/365 varieties , but the shelves were not anywhere close to being "empty".

We grew a lot move all over the US....we ate what was in season.....and nary a complaint was had as to "empty shelves"....